Leap Of Cloud Faith
>> IT's diving in with too much custom code and too little planning
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EMBRACING CLOUD: Facing declining revenues and increasing pressure on capital expenditures, many Wall Street organizations are warming up to semi-public cloud offerings.
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Don't break out the party hats just yet, but the business technology professionals we surveyed about their plans for the year ahead are showing some positive signs. Cloud computing as well as customer-facing and sales-support projects will get increased attention and investment as companies and their IT organizations position themselves to kick back into growth mode.
Laptops pulled the proverbial rug out from under desktop sales. Now, sub-$400 netbooks look poised to return the favor. Should enterprise IT embrace this trend? What do we stand to gain? What must we give up? And more importantly, how do these mini-mights fit into our overall vision of cloud computing, virtualization, remote workers, even Win 7?
Kundra is driving change in the U.S. government's far-reaching IT operations. His priorities include cloud computing, IT project management, cybersecurity, and engaging the public over the Web. Here's his plan for executing on those goals, as well as the many challenges ahead.
With Amazon's EC2, Google's AppEngine, and now Microsoft's Azure, cloud computing looks a lot less like some catch-all concept in the distance and more like a very real architecture that your data center has a good chance of being connected to in the near future.
NewScale shined in our test of four service catalog offerings: portfolios of services that an IT organization offers its end users. But the competitors--CA, PMG, and Service-now.com--also have compelling strengths.
Web application development is moving to online platforms. This report, by InformationWeek and Dr. Dobbs, explores the leading vendors and development environments for online development, and some of the trade-offs that are required. It???s also part four in our Anatomy Of The Cloud series.
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