Wednesday - July 1, 2009
When the economic crisis hit last year, much of the government response was targeted at shoring up public faith in what once had been perceived as rock solid institutions. We all are now highly aware that these foundations were not as sturdy as once believed, and as a result, many are justifiably skeptical when being asked to trust the same organizations with their now-diminished portfolios. Yet it doesn't take much historical digging to realize that bank failures and financial panics are nothing new -- they have occurred numerous times in the past.
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Monday - June 29, 2009
Our topic this week centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We're going to talk not just about IT governance, or service-oriented architecture governance. It's really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance.
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Thursday - June 25, 2009
When Microsoft rolled out its beta version of Hohm on Wednesday -- a Web site that helps consumers save electricity -- it pulled off a veritable hat-trick. First comes the good publicity from positioning itself as a public benefactor. Second is a live test of its Azure cloud service.
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Monday - June 22, 2009
Let's discuss cloud computing in the context of the real-world enterprise. We've certainly heard a lot about the vision for cloud computing and what it can do for the delivery of applications, services, infrastructure, and even development and deployment. What's less clear is how we take the vision and apply it to today's enterprise concerns and requirements.
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Monday - June 22, 2009
Cloud computing is remaking just about every software category -- and project management is no exception. In the on-premise software era, collaboration was limited by the technology of a particular firm, as well as the security requirements of a particular industry. That was then, of course.
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Monday - June 15, 2009
IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools with built-in service management.
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Monday - June 15, 2009
The economy is still broken, and businesses are scampering to save money and entice back lost customers. Don't remind Brett Caine, though. As president of Citrix Online, he's too busy growing the company's customer base into a $100 million business that a few years ago didn't exist. As a young startup in 1997, Expertcity was a provider of Web-based desktop access and help-desk services.
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Monday - June 15, 2009
Let's talk about the next era of information technology. We seem to be in it, but we don't have a name for it yet. Suddenly, "cloud computing" is the dominant buzzword of the day, but the current confluence of trends includes much more. There is business process modeling, business intelligence, complex event processing, service-oriented architecture, Software as a Service and Web-oriented architecture.
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Friday - June 12, 2009
I'm increasingly convinced that today's technology is making it possible to make cloud computing and SaaS solutions location-independent. The idea of private clouds, as well as deploying "hybrid" SaaS solutions behind the firewall, has become controversial among many cloud computing and SaaS zealots who believe that this approach compromises the fundamental value of today's cloud computing and SaaS capabilities.
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Wednesday - June 10, 2009
Google released on Tuesday a plug-in to its Google Apps arsenal that could be the last push needed to nudge some businesses into fully adopting its cloud computing services. The product, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, works with the Premier version of Google apps, which costs $50 per business user per year, as well as the free educational version, which is limited to 50 user accounts.
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Wednesday - June 10, 2009
The traditional model of providing software and services to customers through locally managed servers and storage is fast becoming obsolete. It is not only expensive -- the cost of buying and maintaining an ever-growing cadre of servers alone is prohibitive -- but also counterproductive.
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