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2012 promises to be a turbulent year for IT leaders. Users are increasingly active in establishing how they wish to use new technology, with tablets and social media top of mind. There can be significant benefits when organizations move to...

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

The cloud represents both significant opportunity for solution providers to grow revenue streams and profits, as well as a fundamental threat to their existing business models. As vendors continue to ramp up their cloud offerings, their partners...

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.

Solution Set

Adoption of the cloud has seen incredible growth in the last year, and has passed a tipping point. The impact of adoption will be experienced throughout IT.

Video

Each year there are numerous technology developments that provide IT with opportunities to offer extended value to the organization. Some simplify IT's work. Others are just plain cool. And some create challenges for IT in its traditional role...

Video

There is real and growing interest in cloud computing despite the overuse and overhype of the term cloud. One of the fastest growing areas of the cloud is cloud-based development. Enterprises of all sizes are evalutating the potential of...

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There is real and growing interest in cloud computing despite the overuse and overhype of the term cloud. One of the fastest growing areas of the cloud is cloud-based development. Enterprises of all sizes are evalutating the potential of...

Template/Policy

This template will help you build a business plan for the enterprise as well as document business justifications and cautions for developing in the cloud.

Tool

A key advantage of the cloud is that there are no up front capital costs. There is also a significant time savings, as there is no need to acquire, configure, test, and deploy servers. However, be aware that the cumulative TCO will approach (and...

Tool

Enterprises must take care to assess the right fit of any new technology. Platform as a Service is one such technology that has garnered a lot of interest and excitement, but care should be taken not to move too quickly.

Solution Set

"The Cloud" has become major hype area as cost conscious enterprises explore the potential of renting IT services (infrastructure, applications, development platforms) to save costs over internal provisioning (i.e. buying and maintaining...

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

Take virtualization to the next level (internal cloud). Bring the management and resiliency of server virtualization to 80 to 100% of server workloads by building and managing appropriate compute, network, and storage capacity.

Note

Most enterprises have already seen success in virtualizing the low-hanging fruit in the data center. As the percentage of the data center that is virtualized increases, IT must focus on building an internal cloud that leverages virtualization...

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Lead Analyst John Sloan and Info-Tech client George Neill of Organic Valley Family of Farms talk about the strategic and practical implications of building an internal cloud.

How will cloud computing impact enterprise IT? In answering this question, references to water wheels and modern electric utilities will sometimes come up. This is a useful, though deeply flawed, historical analogy. Don't think hydro turbines....

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...