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Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
Enterprise Cloud Computing
 Organizations today rely heavily on their IT software to drive the business objectives to meet the needs of the market. There are a number of sophisticated software applications that have grown in demand and complexity to support an organization’s value chain such as Customer Relations...Feb. 29, 2012 12:53 PM EST Reads: 246 |
 For all that global business has embraced cloud computing – welcoming its low cost, low barrier to entry and reduced IT burden – not everything about this architectural sea change is working out perfectly. Limitations in security and customization are a growing source of discontent for...Feb. 29, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 514 |
 Virtualization vs. private cloud has confused many IT pros. Are they the same? Or different? In what way and how? We have already virtualized most of my computing resources, is a private cloud still relevant to us? This 2-part series is to answer these quesstions.
Lately, many IT shop...Feb. 29, 2012 06:15 AM EST Reads: 1,928 |
 I speak to a lot of enterprise IT organizations about their desire to move toward a private cloud paradigm within their own data center. In fact, I’d say roughly 20–30 percent of those organizations are serious about not waiting, but starting such a transformation this very year.
Why ...Feb. 28, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 921 |
 Back in 2009, Gartner estimated that data growth would happen at a rate of 650% over the next 5 years with 80% of this growth coming from unstructured data. We can get lost in the weeds with facts and figures but most IT managers I’ve spoken with have all said the same thing: their use...Feb. 28, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 466 |
 A private cloud is to strategically build a go-to-market vehicle, such that enterprise IT can fulfill business needs and exceed user expectations. With a private cloud, IT can leverage business opportunities generated by market dynamics and offer a user experience with anytime, anywher...Feb. 28, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 552 |
 Remember the early days of the cloud? Outsourced application hosting seemed so…alluring. Public-cloud providers like Google, Heroku, EngineYard and DotCloud seduced us with promises of cost-efficiency, scalability and convenience. Early adopters spun off a few VMs, connected the users ...Feb. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 978 |
 While the adoption is a good sign, it also brings with it the risks as some of the early cloud projects have started to fail. Up until now we have only hear good things about Cloud, but now we are getting data on how Cloud did not lived up to expectations. This kind of information may ...Feb. 25, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 782 |
 Open Group experts discuss relationship of enterprise architecture to enterprise transformation. Do you need EA to succeed in transforming your business or do you risk conflating two distinct concepts?
For some, if you want enterprise transformation, you really need the organizing ben...Feb. 24, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 657 |
 Enterprise app stores help companies manage the thousands of applications they have across numerous users and devices.
There's a huge productivity gap between modern software and the aging manner in which most enterprises still distribute and manage applications on personal computers....Feb. 24, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 651 |
 The term cloud computing was first coined in 2007. Enterprise Cloud Computing seems to have emerged as a term in 2009. It’s now 2012 and many are trying to ride the wave of Enterprise cloud computing or private cloud into the future. In a short four years, we’ve seen this phenomena of ...Feb. 23, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,301 |
 We have to be careful that we don’t make change an end in itself. We have to remember that change is a means to the end of getting something we want that is different from what we have.
In the enterprise context, that something has been labeled in different ways. One is “alignment,” ...Feb. 22, 2012 10:20 AM EST Reads: 634 |
 In my last article, I called on providers to find a unique Viewpoint,
"Viewpoint is a framing of the market in the context of your uniqueness. The uniqueness of your team, your capabilities, and your vision. Some call viewpoint thought leadership, some vision with a capital V, and ...Feb. 22, 2012 10:19 AM EST Reads: 685 |
 If you're like me, you rely on a host of cloud applications to get your job done each day. While the convenience and familiarity of apps built for the web is great, I can't help but notice the difference between each user interface (UI) I use. Currently, all cloud-based ERP software ve...Feb. 22, 2012 09:23 AM EST Reads: 865 |
 Led by cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) pioneer Eric Maass, Lighthouse Security Group on Wednesday announced expanded operations to support the launch of the next generation of its Lighthouse Gateway platform.
According to Maass, CTO, Lighthouse Security Group, “Light...Feb. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 579 |
 What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are multi-tenant software as a service leaders - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.
The implications this year: API Strategy in 2012 cuts across mobile, social, and cloud. Winning with API's tran...Feb. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,199 |
 Coach Kevin Kelley has figured it out, don't punt. Since 2007, he's won three Arkansas State Championships and over 90% of his games, and he's never punted. Every day, sales and marketing teams in Cloud organizations, that could easily move the trial or experience to the front of the m...Feb. 10, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 692 |
 Designing an enterprise architecture is much like building a house. It's better not to leave things to chance.
To build a house right, you need a blueprint that details what is to be built, where, why and how based on the home owner's requirements (including cost). As the story goes, ...Feb. 9, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 733 |
 Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch offices, remote sites and enabling mobile users. Simultaneously, they are decreasing the IT administrative footprint, boosting productivity, working with greater efficiency, and improving the bottom line. IT init...Feb. 9, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 903 |
 Is cloud a positive or negative when it comes to cyber security? And what of hybrid models that combine public and private cloud activities, how is security impacted in those cases?
For some, any move to the cloud -- at least the public cloud -- means a higher risk for security.
For ...Feb. 9, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 803 |
 In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being the neutral supplier of choice for all things cloud.
Last week, HP delivered HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) Content Pack 10, bringing with the ability to better manage cloud instances across t...Feb. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,011 |
 This week, I've been at The Open Group Conference in San Francisco. The theme was Enterprise Transformation which, in simple terms, means changing how your business works to take advantage of the latest developments in IT.
Evidence of these developments is all around. For example, whe...Feb. 8, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 1,197 |
 CumuLogic is a cloud computing company founded by Sun Microsystems’ alumni. The company has developed a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software that makes it easier and faster to develop and deploy Java applications (apps) in the cloud. By automating the management of the runtime en...Feb. 7, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,511 |
 There was a time in the data center when we dedicated specific infrastructure and specific administrators to specific projects. This was a period of tremendous inefficiency and underutilization. This approach created a huge overhead in terms of administration, and project cycles tha... Feb. 7, 2012 04:30 AM EST Reads: 1,003 |
 Enterprises AND software companies seeking competitive advantage through IT innovation should be aware of this technology shift and actively defining strategies for capitalizing on it.
The principles behind Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) were established long before the Internet...Feb. 6, 2012 06:15 AM EST Reads: 2,109 |
 Good data management, analytics, and helping to shape the goals of the business are keys to transforming the enterprise through impactful enterprise architecture (EA).
Coming from the siloed past in IT, companies are now moving to business service-driven processes across various resou...Feb. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 885 |
 As companies increasingly adopt more and more SaaS/Cloud based applications, as more and more data are cloud-based, and as social networking data becomes increasingly critical to sales, marketing and customer satisfaction applications, the "old style" integration stacks that were origi...Jan. 31, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 2,449 |
 You want the ability to deploy, update, and repair your entire application infrastructure using nothing but pre-defined, automated procedures. Ideally, you want to automatically provision your entire environment from bare-metal (hardware with no operating systems – or anything else – i...Jan. 30, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,155 |
 A new report says there's little stopping Europe catching up to the US in cloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economics and Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smart...Jan. 30, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,411 |
 Most CEOs I talk to have a jaded, if not skeptical view of marketing. While they recognize the importance of marketing to their long term success, they have a hard time understanding and measuring how well marketing is doing. And while more mature organizations have a good handle on ve...Jan. 27, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 986 |
 “How resilient are the cloud computing solutions being sold today?” This appears to be a question not asked often enough by those who are immediately lured by the hyped positives of the concept before there is enough data to substantiate the claims made by the vendors as well as the do...Jan. 25, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,175 |
 Service Oriented Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture is the first attempt in aligning the IT with the business and this is now almost a default architecture for all the new applications created in today's enterprise. Definition of SOA emphasizes the following, Service-Oriented ...Jan. 24, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,198 |
 fast-moving industry discussion panel at the 9th International Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, November 7-10, Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan was joined by Dr. Rich Wolski, CTO and Co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems Inc.; Sheng Liang, CTO Clo...Jan. 24, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 1,857 |
 Advanced and pervasive virtualization and cloud computing trends are driving the need for a better, holistic approach to IT support and remediation.
Virtualization isn’t just server-by-server, but really impacts the entire data center. You need to think about it more holistically, par...Jan. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,147 |
 The SaaS/on-premises tension sets up a complex series of challenges for the ISV including questions of business models, maintenance of multiple product versions, and updating of software to name a few issues. With apologies to last century’s poet Robert Frost, smart money may rest on t...Jan. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,095 |
 The topic of performance management in information technology circles has, by and large, been a relatively thorny issue at times. Part of the problem with post-deployment solutions is that code may be buggy and troublesome, functionality may not be close enough to original requirements...Jan. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 962 |
 If you consider the CNN Money survey it is IBM which has beaten Microsoft by a whisker. They did not consider Facebook as it is not publically traded.
If you listen to Eric Schmidt, it is off course Facebook. Off course anybody from Google will consider Facebook in the list because La...Jan. 13, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,168 |
 These days, activity streams seem to be popping up everywhere in enterprise tech as vendors rush to add social features to their software. Twitter and Facebook-like streams are even starting to gain traction in manufacturing software. Two of the most prominent examples of vendors incor...Jan. 13, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 900 |
 Jeanne Ross, Director and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research says adoption of enterprise architecture (EA) leads to greater efficiencies and better business agility. Ross explains how enterprise architects have helped lead the way to success...Jan. 13, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,163 |
 The latest BriefingsDirect case study podcast discussion centers on how Nottingham Trent University gained strategic operational efficiency and improved IT management.
We were very, very good at moving forward and doing lots and lots of things, but delivering products at the end of th...Jan. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 988 |
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