Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author:  Jenny Williams.

Hewlett-Packard’s CIO, Randy Mott, has left the company amid an organisational restructure.

HP said its organisational changes will more closely align its corporate structure with its overall strategy to build its cloud and software services portfolio for customers.

As a result, HP has scrapped the chief administration officer role and plans to extend the role of the CIO.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Jenny Williams.

As ERP systems near the end of a current lifecycle, CIOs are assessing upgrades or replacements. With firms such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and RightNow offering alternative software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP systems, should businesses move to the cloud?

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Michael Kassner.

Homomorphic what? My Oxford English Dictionary suggests the following definition: "Pertaining to two sets that are related by a homomorphism."

Come on. Let’s try homomorphism: "A transformation of one set into another that preserves in the second set the relations between elements of the first."

Put homomorphic with encryption and thankfully Wikipedia provides something useful: "A form of encryption where a specific algebraic operation performed on the plain text is equivalent to another (possibly different) algebraic operation performed on the cipher text."

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

One of the most effective tools for managing increased data loads to have emerged over the past 10 years is deduplication. Figures vary, but it’s not hard to imagine redundant data rates at some enterprises hitting the 50 percent mark, particularly in email systems.

But just because dedupe is good technology, does it follow that it is also good policy? Increasingly, flags are being waved that dedupe can produce a number of unintended consequences, particularly of the regulatory and legal variety.

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

While one can argue that cloud computing from a technical perspective is evolutionary, from the perspective of the business, cloud computing is nothing short of a full-boat revolution in terms of how the business will come to view IT.

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Ellen Messmer.

Too often, organizations aren’t getting as much out of virtualization and hybrid cloud computing as they first thought they would, according to a Symantec survey of 3,700 information technology managers in 35 countries that was published today.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

I’d like to coin a new industry term: "cloud coupling". This noun (and also a verb) describes the conjoining of two or more (generally large) data sets across various applications, cloud services and social media streams.

So, "cloud coupling", say it with us now ☺

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

IBM has announced two new cloud services that enable users to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes—versus days—in the event of a disaster.  

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Colleen Taylor.