RocketSpace - San Francisco Incubator Shared Office Space 10 Cloud Predictions for 2011 from Forrester's James Staten - ReadWriteCloud Forrester analyst James Staten has compiled his list of ten cloud computing (or, more specifically, infrastructure-as-a-service) predictions for 2011. Staten sees hosted private clouds and community clouds being increasingly important, cloud computing costs being driven down, and a widening gap between those that take advantage of cloud computing and those that don't. IaaS is one of the 15 technologies listed in the Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch_2011 To 2013 report released last month, and this blog post by Staten drills deeper into the subject. And The Empowered Shall Lead UsYou will build a private cloud, and it will fail. That first one is a reference to Forrester's empowerment meme. Staten emphasizes that as IaaS becomes commoditized, tools that help customers compare costs of different providers and optimize spending will be increasingly helpful. I'm interested in ways for IT to become a profit center, so I find prediction eight particularly interesting.
Nexway, leader de la diffusion digitale vous aide à développer vos ventes en ligne. 40 percent of companies have no cloud computing plans November 16, 2010, 2:31 PM — Forty percent of companies are still to be convinced of the benefits of cloud and have no plans to adopt such a service. That's according to a survey from Quest Software, which also found that the need to reduce costs was still the main driver for those companies that have adopted cloud services. When it comes to which virtualisation platform is being employed, Quest found that VMware is still the dominant vendor with 93% (of IT managers surveyed using it - Microsoft's Hyper-V is yet to penetrate in a big way with just 27% of IT organisations opting for it. Citrix is lagging behind in third place with 21% of organisations using it. Quest Software has used the results of its survey to make 11 predictions on the way that the cloud market will shape up in 2011. According to Quest, the market will coalesce around the three main providers - Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services - with none of them proving to be dominant.
Seesmic - Seesmic connects you wherever you are. Four ways cloud computing can make your business better now Andy McLoughlin is the cofounder and EVP of strategy of Huddle, a provider of cloud-based collaboration tools. Huddle is sponsoring VentureBeat’s first-ever webinar on cloud computing on Nov. 17. McLoughlin contributed this column to VentureBeat. A day doesn’t seem to go by without a mention of cloud computing in the press: the facts and figures, pros and cons, reasons why you should or shouldn’t roll out a cloud computing initiative. But, facts and figures, jargon and hype aside, what are the benefits of cloud computing for your business and where should you start when it comes to rolling out a cloud initiative? When you start hiring people and go from 2 people to 20 staff and then up to 60 in a relatively short space of time, having the ability to pay solely for the services you need significantly reduces your upfront costs. The second benefit of moving into the cloud is universal access. Hand-in-hand with universal access is business continuity.
Go West Tours Cloud Management Could Change the CIO's Role It's no secret that cloud computing has been on the minds of a lot of IT executives. Conference agendas are filled with cloud talk and the Internet is abuzz with it. As more enterprise IT departments move to the cloud, it begs the question: How will it affect the traditional role of the CIO. It's fair to say that there will be changes if the department shifts from a service provider to utility model with usage-based metering. This will cause a shift in core tasks from developing applications and user interfaces and so forth, to a new set of tasks involving defining service-level agreements, selecting cloud management tools and understanding customer service. Your role could shift to be more like an independent business manager running a public service (not unlike Salesforce.com). Usage-basedBefore cloud computing came along, the CIO was involved in strategic technology planning for the organization.
Awesome cloud computing infographic Cloud computing spending will account for 25% of annual IT expenditure growth by 2012 and nearly a third of the growth the following year. “The battle for Cloud dominance is heating up, with the release of Office 365, it will be very interesting to see where the next big play comes from.” The Cloud has been around for a little while now. The competition has been growing with more and more Cloud providers flooding the market in various guises. As the infographic shows, Google Apps currently has a strong hold in the marketplace but any betting man would be a fool to think that was going to last with Microsoft having a multi million pound UK TV advertising campaign in the pipeline. Think the launch of Windows 95 all over again but this time aimed directly at business. ‘Cloud Power’ is targeted differently as it is aimed directly at business rather than at individuals who like to stay up to date with their software.
Cloud computing Cloud computing metaphor: For a user, the network elements representing the provider-rendered services are invisible, as if obscured by a cloud. Cloud computing is a computing term or metaphor that evolved in the late 1990s, based on utility and consumption of computer resources. Cloud computing involves application systems which are executed within the cloud and operated through internet enabled devices. Purely cloud computing does not rely on the use of cloud storage as it will be removed upon users download action. Overview[edit] Cloud computing[3] relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network.[2] At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services. Cloud computing, or in simpler shorthand just "the cloud", also focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of the shared resources. History of cloud computing[edit] Origin of the term[edit]
Who will build the next enterprise architects? Network World - Bringing the next generation of enterprise architects up to speed won't be an easy task. While most experts agree that the job is a critical one, given the corporate emphasis building business infrastructure in the most technically efficient way, training these future experts has proven difficult. "There is clearly a shortage of qualified enterprise architects and other with a similar perspective in the labor market…even in an economy with high unemployment," noted R. 15 genius algorithms that aren't boring There is help on the way though. The program has been in development for over a year and has involved some 70 companies -- including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell -- and professional associations such as The Open Group as part of the advisory group behind the Penn State program, says Brian Cameron, a Penn State professor and the director of the Enterprise Architecture Initiative. So will other universities begin offering such programs?