Basic Checklist For Cloud Computing Customers
Transition to the cloud could be one of the most important decisions you make in your IT infrastructure management. Thus, it is important that you do it the right way. I have collected a list of the basic things you should consider, before signing a contract with your cloud service provider:
- What is the initial setup fee?
- What are the ongoing fees?
- Are there any usage fees (charged according to bandwidth used or number of users)?
- Is there a cap on how much the provider can increase the rates by? If the provider increases the rates beyond the cap, does it provide valid grounds for service termination?
- What is the total cost of your existing IT infrastructure discounted to the present value? Is it higher than the total cost of the cloud infrastructure?…
Cloud Computing Experts Weigh In On Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud Technology
The truth is that most everyone is confused about cloud computing, including users and vendors alike! Understanding cloud computing is really quite simple once you know the basics. More importantly, once you comprehend the basics, you will be able to design and implement a cloud strategy well suited for your business, while addressing efficiency, scalability, reliability and budget.
Tarrytech Computer Consultants are cloud experts, and have implemented a wide array of cloud solutions for our clients. While working with our clients to design the perfect cloud solution for their business, the first items we review with them are the cloud model options: Public, Private, and Hybrid…
Proper security and protection measures enable rapid cloud adoption, say HP experts on discussion panel
It now falls to CIOs to not only rapidly adapt to cloud computing, but to find the ways to protect their employees and customers as they adopt cloud models – even as security threats grow. This is a serious — but not insurmountable challenge.
Cloud computing has clearly sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages — with or without traditional IT’s consent.
This simply now means that the center of gravity for IT services is shifting toward the enterprise’s boundaries – moving increasingly outside their firewalls. And so how can companies have it both ways — exploit cloud’s promise but also provide enough security to make the risks acceptable? How can organizations retain rigor and control while pursuing cloud benefits?…
Career advice: Careers in the cloud
My friends in the IT field seem to be moving toward jobs at cloud computing firms. I’m in IT operations at a traditional company. Am I missing the boat? There are two sides to the cloud computing coin: the buy and the sell. I surmise from your question that your friends are moving to sell-side consultancy and delivery firms. This is a fast-growing industry, and as a result, there’s a willingness [among employers] to make attractive offers to find talent. But don’t lose sight of the fact that in due course the buy side will be a much larger employer of cloud talent by orders of magnitude. If you’re at a traditional company, now is your moment to step up and lead the charge. You can really distinguish yourself as the cloud expert in your company (as opposed to being one of many at a cloud vendor or consultancy)…
Wyse Shines Spotlight on Cloud Client Computing at Citrix Synergy 2012
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will exhibit, demo and lead discussions on cloud client computing at Citrix Synergy(TM) 2012 in San Francisco, May 9th – 11th. Wyse, a Platinum Sponsor, will demonstrate its complete line of solutions, including the Wyse Xenith — the award-winning zero client for Citrix XenDesktop(R) and Citrix HDX(TM) technology, as well as reveal its next game changing solution — in Booth #206 at Moscone Center…
Cloudscaling Joins Open Data Center Alliance
Cloudscaling has joined the more than 300 member companies of the Open Data Center Alliance. The Alliance works to speed the migration to cloud computing by enabling the solution and service systems to address IT requirements with the highest level of interoperability and standards.
Cloudscaling joined the Alliance as a Contributor member and will participate with the Alliance’s Infrastructure Technical Workgroup to further the development of usage models developed by the Alliance. Contributor members are selected and approved by the organization’s Steering Committee.
Participation in the ODCA contributes to Cloudscaling’s development of hardware blueprints. The blueprints comprise a layer of the recently announced Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) that defines production-grade server and networking combinations that deliver predictable technical and economic performance to meet specific design requirements. Blueprints show how to implement cloud resource block designs in physical hardware to meet design requirements for security, availability and subscription rates…
Cloud Computing: Huawei Showcases Industry’s Highest-Performance Data Center Switch at Interop Las Vegas 2012
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider will be showcasing its next-generation data center switches, CloudEngine 12800, at Interop Las Vegas. With the industry’s largest switching capacity and highest performance, the CloudEngine series provide a better way for global enterprises to tap into the opportunities presented by the rise of cloud computing and ICT convergence. In addition to showcasing its latest innovations, Huawei will leverage its industry-leading, high reliability and high security campus solutions to power networking connectivity for Interop attendees and exhibitors at the event venue as one of two core network providers selected by the organizer.
"As one of the leading business technology events, Interop is an important platform for us to showcase our advanced products and expand our business globally," said William Xu, CEO of Huawei Enterprise Business Group. "We are excited to introduce the CloudEngine 12800, Huawei’s latest data center switches that provide the industry’s highest performance and help customers build scalable, virtualized and converged data canter networks in the cloud computing era."…
Governance Meets Cloud: Top Misconceptions
The biggest fact that organizations building out cloud environments don’t understand about governance in the new world of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is that, despite the handoff of certain IT functions, the responsibility around governance still remains at home.
Within the structure of traditional IT, companies could skirt some of the real governance challenges by clamping down on certain deployment scenarios and keeping anything questionable within the four walls and security controls of internal IT. That’s not so easy with a true cloud environment, which mixes it up between private and public clouds, ultimately with applications running between the two, depending on demand and use case.
"What’s great about cloud computing is that it offers a great deal of agility, but that poses a governance challenge," said Bernard Golden, VP of enterprise solutions at EnStratus, a provider of cloud management and governance tools. "In the past, even if you didn’t do governance quite right, everyone and everything was still in the same sandbox. But now you can’t rely on that."…
Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference to Feature Acquia CEO in Application Development Panel
Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced that CEO Tom Erickson will participate in a panel discussion on application development in cloud computing during the invitation-only Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference on May 8 at Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park, CA. This year, the event will focus on the next stage of cloud development and global opportunities the cloud presents.
Goldman’s second annual conference provides a forum for industry leaders to network, discuss and debate the important trends driving this tectonic shift in the technology landscape. The event brings together some of the most influential individuals in cloud computing with leading industry executives in panel discussions, fireside chats, and keynote presentations. Erickson will join CEOs from other leading cloud application companies to discuss and share insights and examples on the "Developing Applications in the Cloud" panel…
Demand For Standards—Interoperability To Fuel Converged Cloud Growth
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Joseph Walker.
According to cloud computing experts at IEEE, the biggest barrier to cloud services adoption is not cloud security or privacy fears, but concerns about service interoperability.
According to Dr. Alexander Pasik, CIO at IEEE and a former Gartner analyst:
Security is certainly a very important consideration, but it’s not what will inhibit further adoption. To achieve the economies of scale that will make cloud computing successful, common platforms are needed to ensure users can easily navigate between services and applications, regardless of where they’re coming from.
IT decision makers from corporate CIOs to SMB owners want to know that their cloud services—both software and infrastructure—will be able to communicate with one another, and that they will be able to easily migrate from one service to another. They’re also concerned about service integration, cross-platform support and the ability of new cloud solutions to integrate with their existing on-premises infrastructure…