Making Cloud Achievable: The Cloud Transition Checklist
On February 9, the White House unveiled its Federal Cloud Computing Strategy– outlining a three-step decision-making process for agency Chief Information Officers (CIOs). In order to comply with the federal mandate, 70 agencies across the government will begin their cloud transitions.
In this session, our expert panel will cover the process transformation, resource evaluations, and the key role federal IT leadership plays in ensuring successful cloud adoption.
Attendees will also learn:
Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?
A survey of 127 of cloud computing providers suggests many regard security as being mainly their customer’s problem, and indeed, see their own proficiencies in low cost and speed of deployment services.
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5 Reasons Why the Cloud Should Be More Secure Than Your Data Center
Services Marketplace Gets Cloudy
Everybody is talking this week about HP’s most recent service offering announcement, HP Strategic IT Advisory Services, which the company says is designed to "help CIOs use IT as a key driver of innovation, growth and profitability." That’s because what this new offering provides sounds a lot like what channel partners provide to end customers, leaving many to wonder if HP is competing with its partners.
Governing Third-party Application Development
How to reduce the risk of cloud service failure
How an IP address can reveal your location
A team of researchers from Northwestern University and Microsoft Research recently announced a new method by which a computer’s IP address can be used to pinpoint a user’s location within a half-mile, a geolocation accuracy that is 50 times more accurate than current systems used.
The human cost of cloud – what does it mean for tech jobs?
The main drivers pushing businesses towards the adoption of some form of cloud computing are frequently expressed in terms of reducing capital and operating costs while simplifying the ongoing management of IT systems. The arguments for cloud computing have become familiar and well-rehearsed in recent years: it’s cost-effective, quick and easy to implement, gives businesses the ability to run the latest and greatest software and to scale upwards (and downwards) as required.
Embracing IT Service Management in the Cloud
There’s a lot of pressure these days on IT organizations to come up with more efficient ways of managing IT environments. A lot of that effort seems to focus on revamping the internal help desk by embracing new processes such as those defined by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) specification.