Mike Vizard, talks with Kent Christensen of Datalink about Cloud Sprawl and what companies can do about it. Christensen’s recommendation is to start with a private cloud. One of the issues that many IT organizations are soon going to find themselves dealing with is “cloud sprawl.” Because it’s relatively easy to set up an account…
Category: Cloud computing
Buffett Goes in “Big” on Blue
Stating that IBM is now a services company, Warren Buffet has made his first investment in a computer manufacturer or what many may still call a technology company. Richard Waters of FT believe it is brand and a bet on the changing landscape of where computing power is located. Warren Buffett has famously steered clear…
Teaching an old dog an old trick – Mainframes in the Clouds
According to Bruce Hoard more and more x86 workloads are returning to the big box. And with good reason. In his Mainframe Clouds Roll In article, Hoard talks about the factors that make mainframes great hardware for the cloud. From their time-sharing beginnings, mainframes were built from the ground up to perform work for different…
Microsoft Open Day in Jordan focuses on Cloud Computing.
(MENAFN – Jordan Times) More than 1,500 IT professionals and experts will convene in the capital next month to explore the latest innovations in cloud computing technology at the 2011 Microsoft Open Day. The two-day event, which starts November 1, provides an opportunity to showcase advanced innovations and IT business solutions and exchange views on…
BLOG: Cloud computing – Why semantics matter
By Andrew Milroy, Computerworld In earlier posts, I have written about how the term, private cloud, offers little value and is arguably a term that is used by legacy IT suppliers to exploit concerns about their customers migrating computing resources to the (public) cloud. Is the private cloud simply a data centre with lipstick? In other…
Gartner’s Top 10 IT challenges include exiting baby boomers, Big Data
ORLANDO — In Gartner’s list of the top 10 trends in IT infrastructure and operations are multiple threats and opportunities for data center operations. Among the threats is the exodus of baby boomers and the emergence of a younger generation that’s been less loyal to corporate employers and are more likely to move to another…