As with any new exciting technology, companies commonly look towards creating a “strategy” around the movement in order to ensure their investments achieve the greatest ROI. In the 1990s, it was all about how companies needed a “Linux” strategy; the last decade has been dominated with companies needing a “virtualization” strategy; and the trend I’m seeing today is everyone talking about needing a “cloud computing” strategy. While this new saying is good news for large […]
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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 […]
The big industry event about virtualization is VMworld, usually held in late Summer / early Fall. You don’t have to wait for VMware’s conference, however, to find yourself in VM World. We now live in it, every day. It’s really quite amazing how quickly virtualization has swept through, and become ensconced in, IT. Data centers have–for decades–been famously conservative when it comes to introducing changes that might threaten to disrupt production applications. For years, whenever […]
For years we’ve heard cloud computing vendors pushing the message that cloud computing will reduce IT expenditure. It’s not a surprising tactic, as vendors often aim their pitches at the area most important to organizations: expenditure. But, as Knowledge Center analyst Ben Kepes discusses here, by focusing only on the cost side of the equation, we miss so much of what cloud computing can truly offer. I recently wrote a paper looking at the economics […]