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  • Oracle Pitches Federal CIOs Secure Cloud Services

    Oracle is working to position itself as a leading cloud service provider to federal government clients tasked with major IT initiatives that include moving to the cloud with tight or declining budgets.

    Written by Kenneth Corbin24 Oct. 12 13:34
  • Strategies for pruning data in the Cloud

    Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it's often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.

    Written by David Taber10 Nov. 11 08:49
  • US CIO: Changing the culture of federal IT

    In his first public appearance as CIO of the US federal government, Steven VanRoekel talked about his strategy for tackling the biggest IT bureaucracy in the country.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige28 Oct. 11 03:28
  • What your Cloud consultant is trying to tell you

    Cloud consultants aren't that much different from the consulting and contracting firms that IT has used over the years. But the economics of cloud consulting are a whole bunch different from what the Big 5 firms were doing with SAP and Siebel. Thanks to the price points of cloud solutions (typically, a monthly fee) and the expectation of Web open systems (all I do is point and click, right?), behemoth consulting gigs are few and far between.

    Written by David Taber27 Oct. 11 00:49
  • Windows Intune 2.0: Four new features

    Windows Intune, Microsoft's Web-based PC management and security platform, may not get the same level of attention as cloud services like Office 365 or Windows Azure, but Microsoft is betting big on Intune to be the cloud service that will facilitate IT's evolving job of remotely managing PCs.

    Written by Shane O'Neill18 Oct. 11 08:04
  • How to support Cloud applications

    Cloud computing gives user organisations and IT alike the freedom of maneuvering and long-run flexibility that was never possible with traditional enterprise applications. However, that freedom makes for new levels of unpredictability when it comes to big deployments, and some new requirements for support.

    Written by David Taber01 Oct. 11 00:32
  • How to build a turnkey private and hybrid cloud

    The hype around cloud computing is hard to ignore and as each vendor is trying to put the word "cloud" in front of all its products, enterprises are finding it extremely difficult to sift through the noise and really find which products work best specifically for their data center.

    Written by Garima Thockchom22 Sept. 11 00:00
  • Apple iCloud draws CIO concerns

    Last week, Apple unveiled its iCloud service to cheers at its WWDC in San Francisco. CIOs, though, weren't so thrilled. How will iCloud impact the enterprise? This question needs to be answered, hopefully before Apple launches iCloud this fall.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige15 June 11 04:29
  • Survey: CIOs are putting the Cloud first

    Cloud computing is practically mainstream, according to the latest CIO Economic Impact survey of 291 IT leaders. In fact, nearly half (48 per cent) of the CIOs surveyed said they have adopted the government's Cloud First policy, which requires agencies to evaluate cloud options first, over traditional IT approaches, before making any new IT investments.

    Written by Lauren Brousell15 June 11 05:26
  • How the Cloud changes the CIO-CFO conversation

    In the final analysis, cloud computing may not actually save your company any money. I've heard that point argued convincingly by many CIOs in recent months, even those making big investments in cloud technologies. "It's really just a different way of sourcing IT," as one put it. "Everybody still gets paid."

    Written by Maryfran Johnson15 June 11 05:27
  • IT roles shift with move to cloud

    When Jim Honerkamp was hired as CIO of Steel Technologies last summer, he immediately identified a major problem on the company's IT org chart. Of the 34 technology professionals employed by the $1.6 billion processor of flat-rolled steel, nearly half were working in IT infrastructure. The anemic business-analysis group had a staff of three.

    Written by Stephanie Overby27 May 11 04:23
  • Why we chose Exchange Online, not Google Apps

    The City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has never owned an Exchange server, but starting on Memorial Day it will roll out Exchange and Outlook e-mail for 2,700 of its workers.

    Written by Shane O'Neill21 May 11 01:14
  • The trouble with coding across the Clouds, part 2

    The best cloud applications have development (or at least scripting) capabilities for creating and extending the platform's database and computational capabilities. But even the best of the cloud applications must put in limiters for their platform/development environments: an app isn't a general purpose run-time or generic object container. For example, the development language must be made safe for a multi-tenant deployment, and must be well-behaved so that user code can't take down the virtual machine, database, or overall application.

    Written by David Taber11 May 11 00:45
  • How to plan now for hybrid cloud management

    There's no question that cloud computing will be the trend to alter organizations' infrastructure the most over the next few years, especially as firms transition from basic server virtualization to the private cloud. But today these environments are still relatively immature, acting as two distinct entities; applications are deployed in one or the other. But private cloud will not be the end of the road for cloud computing. Over the next three years, leading edge IT shops will start blurring the boundaries between public and private IaaS environments, so that applications can move between them based on immediate needs and economics-known as hybrid cloud. Enterprise architects can begin planning for this now by creating a road map that lays out the necessary capabilities for a hybrid cloud and using these to evaluate the capabilities provided by today's vendors and products.

    Written by Galen Schreck04 May 11 02:19
  • Office 365 tips: Adding a registered domain name

    If you are a professional or small business currently beta testing Microsoft's cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, Office 365, you will want to add your registered domain name to the service.

    Written by Shane O'Neill23 April 11 03:30
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