Solution Set

A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud. A range of emerging solutions offer to pave that last mile to full-function IaaS cloud services.

The cloud market has seen tremendous growth in the last year and can offer great value to IT organizations. Info-Tech's research will help your organization navigate through the waters of cloud storage.

Solution Set

The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market is still in its nascent form with a large and diverse set of vendors. This size ensures that there is an IaaS option for all sizes and types of enterprise.

Vendor Research

This agenda discussion document positions Info-Tech Indaba's upcoming cloud research. By uncovering the keys to cloud success, the research will help vendors ensure their channel's willingness to sell their cloud offerings, rather than their...

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of 13 Cloud IaaS solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the company's requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor demonstrations.

Note

The Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market is still in its nascent form with a large and diverse set of vendors. This size ensures that there is an IaaS option for all sizes and types of enterprise.

Vendor Research

Most enterprises are in the early stages of evaluating various cloud-based options including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. IaaS involves the direct rental of abstracted compute services, such as processing and storage.

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An internal cloud requires capacity management to cost effectively match business requirements with infrastructure. Develop a capacity management plan that optimizes infrastructure as a service by inventorying current capacity while planning for...

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Use this capacity tiering workbook to keep track of applications and infrastructure, and introduce tiers of service that deliver "good enough" performance for cost effective capacity management.

Template/Policy

In an internal cloud, careful assessment of applications is needed in order to make efficient use of current capacity and plan for hardware upgrades to capacity. Use this assessment checklist can be used to gather the requirements of new and...

Template/Policy

Having an internal cloud strategy can control costs and improve efficiency of a consolidated infrastructure. Use this process checklist to track your organization's progress in developing your internal cloud.

Note

An internal cloud requires capacity management to cost effectively match business requirements with infrastructure. Develop a capacity management plan that optimizes infrastructure as a service by inventorying current capacity while planning for...

Solution Set

Provisioning an app or service in a consolidated environment is less about acquiring and deploying technology than it is carving resources out of an existing pool of capacity. Server and storage consolidation breaks a neat 1-to-1 connection that...

Template/Policy

Having an internal cloud strategy can control costs and improve efficiency of a consolidated infrastructure. Use this business plan to demonstrate how ongoing capacity assessment and planning will help deliver service goals at the lowest...

While cloud computing hype can be overblown, actual benefits are out there. Start by understanding the types of cloud service and what they can do for you. This note cuts through the cloud hype so you can start reaping tangible results.

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Info-Tech developed these three rules of utility infrastructure investment as a way of establishing what matters to the business in increasingly abstracted infrastructures. Though cloud buzz calls both internal and external utility...

Note

Info-Tech's recent survey on cloud computing has revealed that although it is still early days, the external cloud is taking hold in small enterprises. And it appears to be more than just a fad: IT decision makers expect the external cloud to...

Solution Set

Cloud computing offers a compelling opportunity for small businesses to reduce IT costs. Cloud costs are orders of magnitude lower than the per unit costs of internally developed IT resources.

Video

Virtualization heavyweights, such as VMware and Citrix, would like their software to be the foundation for both internal and external compute clouds. In vCloud Express, VMware and hosting partners are tackling the fast and inexpensive...

The internal cloud - a term increasingly used by datacenter infrastructure vendors - is only the most recent name for a converged utility infrastructure. Understanding private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake, with hardware layers...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. As the icing on the cake,...

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Think of private cloud infrastructure as a kind of birthday cake with hardware layers and virtualization icing. This will be critical in evaluating emerging server, storage, network and virtualization offerings. Blades, and particularly blades...

For hype alone, 2008 will be the year of "the cloud." Among those jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon will be the major players in enterprise infrastructure virtualization. But making the cloud an external extension of internal utility...