Where to start with public cloud computing
The first step is to evaluate your workloads, says Mark White, CTO for Deloitte Consulting’s technology practice.
"That’s step one, and the conversation is really about the services catalog," he says. "If the company already has an IT services catalog, those entries represent various workloads. If not, you’d look literally at IT services less formally and their workloads."
What’s in a Title for Enterprise Architects?
To avoid appearing any more ignorant than I normally do, I regularly quiz my fellow staffers on the finer points of IT. My question yesterday to fellow blogger Loraine Lawson has started a discussion about enterprise architects.
Apixio Is Bringing Big Data to Medical Records in the Cloud
Salesforce.com applications ‘to be improved by Radian6 purchase’
Salesforce.com applications are set to improve as a result of the company’s purchase of social media monitoring organisation Radian6.
This is according to Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer of Salesforce.com, who said the deal represents a "huge opportunity" for the cloud computing business to expand its operations.
"Not only will this acquisition accelerate our growth, it will extend the value of all of our offerings," he stated.
HP adds support for Google Cloud Print service
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Thursday enhanced its mobile printing service by adding support for Google’s Cloud Print, which will enable smartphones and tablet users to print documents from applications such as Gmail and Google Docs.
Users will be able to remotely print documents from applications on select HP printers with the EPrint capability, in which an email with print instructions is sent directly to the printer. The mobile application needs to have Google’s Cloud Print extensions.
Microsoft tops cloud service table
Microsoft Windows Azure has topped a cloud service table analysing the four months to January.
According to the table, produced by Compuware, the Google App Engine is narrowly beaten into second place, followed by GoGrid.
In January alone, average response times globally on Windows Azure were 10.229 seconds, according to the data, followed by 10.263 on Google App Engine.
Cloud and Efficiency Are Driving Data Center Decisions
Why Hollywood isn’t afraid of Amazon’s cloud
On Monday evening, Amazon announced the Cloud Drive, which enables users to upload e-books, songs, films, and any other digital media to Amazon’s servers. Users can then access their content from any Web-connected devices. Among the major Internet companies delivering digital entertainment, Amazon is first to make good on the promise of ubiquitous access to content.
Five Tips for Effective Backup and Recovery in Virtual Environments
Virtualisation is being rapidly adopted, particularly in small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) where time and money are always at a premium. It brings significant time, money and labour savings in a variety of areas, including procurement, administration, deployment, operation, reliability and recoverability. Virtualisation can radically simplify management of the entire environment and enable the SMB administrator to – do more with less.
Moreover, disaster recovery becomes significantly easier once a business has virtualized, provided the administrator adopts newer, more efficient technologies that are designed to work with the virtual infrastructure.