Analyst Outlines How IT Organizations Will Control the Cloud
December 13, 2012
An intriguing report from Forrester Research, Cloud Keys an Era Of New IT Responsiveness and Efficiency, outlines how IT organizations will adopt and control cloud computing going forward. It presents a number of recommendations that every IT shop should take to heart.
The report breaks down into two areas:
While there is some sobering news-that application developers love cloud computing and have no plans to go back-there are also some practical solutions for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) departments…
Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
The capabilities of cloud computing are now the benchmark for what software engineers expect. Public cloud computing-which, in this context, essentially means Amazon Web Services-enable rapid resource access, high productivity and inexpensive development. Developers will avoid or evade anything that doesn’t deliver that. In particular, this means many IT organization’s plans to implement a private cloud need to be evaluated (or re-evaluated) in light of whether they meet the competition…
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