About 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies surveyed recently said they expect 15 percent or more of their applications to move to the cloud in the near future, Sarah Friar, managing director at Goldman Sachs, said Wednesday at ITSEF. That shift has even affected Goldman Sachs, “where we’re probably the most paranoid about letting go of these things,” she said. Cloud computing, mobile computing and social networking are reshaping the face of the information security […]
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Frank Modruson has a thing for better, faster, cheaper. As CIO of business and IT service provider Accenture, that’s what he wants to deliver to his internal customers and what they in turn promise to their clients. “I’m a big believer in technology and a big believer that technology helps the business in a lot of ways,” Modruson says. “But it needs to be better, faster or cheaper. If you hit all three, it starts […]
Governor Rick Perry has announced the state is investing $2.45 million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) in the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) for the creation of a corporate headquarters in Richardson, near Dallas. The Governor made the announcement while he gave the keynote address at the Richardson Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting. This investment is expected to create at least 434 local jobs and generate an estimated $35 million in capital investment. “Communities […]
Many IT departments have put off public cloud deployments in favor of private cloud virtualization projects under the guise of security concerns — but new findings show that these private cloud deployments may be no more secure than their public counterparts. That’s good news for managed service providers with the right security chops and infrastructure to support cloud deployments, some managed services experts say. Conducted by Unisphere Research on behalf of security vendor AppSec, the […]
David Fearon looks at the basic justifications for cloud computing in life at the sharp end of business. I’ll be covering some of the ins and outs of practical cloud deployments in later posts, but for this first one I wanted to make some points from my latest experiences starting up a small business project. From those experiences I can tell you it’s entirely possible to run an independent venture on a very small budget, […]
Desktop Virtualization Two cups and a piece of string won’t cut it in a virtual world. If you are virtualising your desktops, your network must be able to cope with the additional traffic load, and resilient enough to support users who require access to their desktops at all times. How can you ensure it measures up? A poorly configured network can lead to poor response times and service drop-outs. It can also worsen the bootstorm […]
The American dream is in peril from the confluence of sky rocketing deficits, high unemployment, and the ticking time bomb of an aging baby boomer generation, with its coincident increase in the burden of entitlements as a percentage of GDP. For the first time, the next generation of Americans, our grandchildren, risk having a lower standard of living than we enjoyed. It is not a problem that can be remedied with tax increases and budget […]
IT organisations are turning to public cloud computing services when they come to launch mobile applications designed for multiple devices. According to Mike Vizard, a columnist for IT Business Edge, there is a growing market for these apps, with the cloud being viewed by many as a good system for hosting them. “Because no one is actually sure how well or how popular a new mobile application is going to be, a lot of IT […]
An IT manager in Tokyo, Appirio’s Jason Park is accustomed to feeling the ground shake from time to time, but it was soon apparent to him that Friday’s Sendai earthquake was a big one. “Helicopter news footage on TV showed waves crushing cars, plowing through farms, and overturning buildings and houses,” Park wrote. “The northern areas of Japan are a mess, especially the eastern coastal regions. Disturbing…” From the 39th floor of a new office […]
More medium-sized companies are investing in the cloud, according to a report commissioned by IBM. Cloud computing was a priority for 70 per cent of businesses surveyed, which said they were either planning or currently deploying cloud-based technologies to improve their IT systems. The report found that medium-sized businesses are increasingly shifting emphasis from cost control to growth, with 62 per cent of businesses surveyed reporting that they expect their IT budgets to increase over […]