In my last blog entry I pointed out that market research that I recently conducted indicated that in the majority of instances (62%) in which the performance of a business critical application is performing poorly, the company loses money. That metric on its own tells quite a story about the business value of ensuring acceptable [...]
The Role of Network Services in IaaS Solutions
Feb 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In my last blog I discussed the expanding set of cloud-based IaaS solutions. I also used the results of a survey that I recently gave to roughly 200 IT professionals as the basis for a discussion of the factors that are driving and inhibiting the adoption of IaaS solutions. I am going to use this [...]
The Future of Careers in IT
Jan 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Call it ‘cloud’ if you like, but looked at from the high level, more and more of the IT infrastructure that businesses rely on is being managed by third parties. This ranges from the use of co-location data centers to house private infrastructure, through to full blown software-as-a-service where the users provide nothing but the [...]
Seven Tools That Quantify Cloud ROI
Jan 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
“Going to the Cloud” may have implicitly meant saving money for many in 2012, but increasingly, IT has to provide deeper fiscal justification for its cloud strategy if it’s to get buy-in from the business. Matters are only made more complicated by the emergence of different types of clouds. As I point out in my [...]
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