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Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Loraine Lawson.

The point of enterprise architecture is to look beyond the silos and create a blueprint for the business’ big-picture strategy.

 

As I’ve shared before, I’m somewhat confused about why, exactly, a discipline that originated in IT expects to be accepted as a sort of mastermind for designing business strategy. Isn’t that what CIOs were supposed to be doing?

 

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Jenny Williams.

Twitter has launched a new developer community site using open source content management system (CMS) Drupal, provided by Acquia.

Twitter used Acquia’s products, cloud infrastructure and support services with the free Drupal CMS to create a new site to support 750,000 developers.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Mike Laverick.

How to set up VMware PXE Manager and its additional features. VMware expert Mike Laverick tells of his favourite ‘fling’ – Massimiliano Daneri’s PXE Manager.

VMware Labs serves as a portal for various engineers and enthusiasts to let their virtualisation pet projects out into the wild. These "Flings" as they call them are generally not supported by VMware officially, but you might find some of them very useful.

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Rachel King.

VMware has upgraded its vSphere platform and introduce a new complex cloud infrastructure suite to its already burgeoning catalog of virtualization and cloud computing solutions.

Speaking at a media event in San Francisco on Tuesday morning, VMware CEO Paul Maritz spoke broadly about the evolution of virtualization, noting that his company is “taking the next step in the journey to this more automated world.” However, to continue on this path, Maritz said that cloud computing needs to “become easier to manage” and “less costly to operate.”

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: James Staten.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

More than 30 percent of enterprises worldwide are deploying at least one cloud solution, according to a new survey by Visiongain. The IT analytics and media specialist’s latest report, titled "Cloud: Moving into the Realm of an Essential IT Strategy," examines the fast-growing cloud services market and looks at the state of enterprise cloud market and how businesses can leverage cloud services to cut costs, improve efficiency and drive innovation within their organization.

Grazed from Dark Reading.  Aurhor: Robert Lemos.

The market for cloud security services will continue to grow as companies strive to secure mobile systems and keep up with fast-moving threats, according to a new study.

In a report released this month, the Radicati Group, a market analysis firm, projects that the worldwide market for security-as-a-service will double during the next four years, reaching more than $2 billion in 2014. Companies’ problems in securing their mobile workforce is a major factor in the demand for cloud security services, says Sara Radicati, president and principal analyst for the firm.

Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Cliff Saran.

Grazed from IT Web Business.  Author: Nadine Arendse and Admire Moyo.

Once cloud computing reaches the stage of maturity, it will probably eat into managed services revenues.

So says Julian Liebenberg, Business Connexion’s GM for services, who, however, notes that despite the advent of cloud computing, traditional methods of installing and customising software on an organisation’s own data centre are still popular among local businesses.

Grazed from Cloud Computing Best Practices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

With President Obama recently having to report dismal job creation stats, it’s clear just how important it is that programs like Startup America are supported to succeed. As this article reports the bulk of net new job growth comes from new startups.

So our key question is what role can Cloud Computing play in supporting the initiative?