For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong About Cloud IaaS

Enterprises Lead SMB; Cloud Services Trump Internal Cloud Build-Outs And More

by Frank E. Gillett, May 29, 2009

...Survey results confirm strong interest in cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) but debunk several stereotypes. Large firms are...

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Market Overview Of Cloud Service Strategies From Global IT Providers

by Paul Roehrig, Ph.D., June 9, 2009

...clients, while interested, have not yet made the decision to start including cloud services in their sourcing strategies. IT sourcing decision-makers should understand and...

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Market Overview Of Current Cloud Service Offerings From Global IT Providers

by Paul Roehrig, Ph.D., June 9, 2009

...that are more standardized, scalable, and billed based on consumption. Known as cloud-based IT services, ,there are new signs that this sourcing model is...

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis

Cloud-Based Email Is Often Cheaper Than On-Premise Email

by Ted Schadler, January 5, 2009

...calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or...

For Security & Risk Professionals

How Secure Is Your Cloud?

A Close Look At Cloud Computing Security Issues

by Chenxi Wang, Ph.D., May 8, 2009

...Amid a downturn economy, organizations increasingly look to cloud computing to improve operational efficiency, reduce headcounts, and help with the bottom...

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Market Overview Of Cloud IT Services From Major Telcos

by Paul Roehrig, Ph.D., September 1, 2009

...Interest and hype around cloud IT services is at an all-time high, but most enterprise decision...

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Yet Another Cloud

Forrester's First Proposal Of A Cloud Taxonomy

by Stefan Ried, Ph.D., July 30, 2009

...Despite the current crisis, the demand for cloud computing is growing at enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q3 2009

As Much Diversity Of Maturity Across Categories As Confusion Among Them

by James Staten, October 2, 2009

...The No. 1 challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is. What categories of services...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Should Your Windows Apps Move To The Cloud?

New Cloud Computing Options Are Worth Your Consideration

by James Staten, December 10, 2008

...Conference, new attention has been focused on Windows and its fit with cloud computing. But this interest may be misdirected, as Azure is more interesting...

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Clouds Appearing In The Sky Of Outsourcing

How Outsourcing Providers Can Turn Cloud Computing And SaaS From Threats Into Opportunities

by Stefan Ried, Ph.D., May 13, 2009

...While cloudy vendor marketing is creating customer confusion, cloud computing represents a powerful force that will change the IT services landscape...

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

The Personal Cloud

How Individual Computing Will Shift From Being Device-Centric To Information-Centric

by Frank E. Gillett, July 6, 2009

...believes that digital devices and services will combine to create the personal cloud, an integrated resource for organizing, preserving, sharing, and orchestrating personal information and...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? An Infrastructure And Operations Analysis

Rethinking Where Your Email Lives And Who's Managing It

by Christopher Voce, January 5, 2009

...look inward at their situation and then outside at the hosted and cloud offerings. Companies are looking at upcoming email migrations, consolidations, and upgrades as...

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Major Hurdles Remain In Enterprise Cloud Services

IT Service Providers Are Addressing The Technical And Business Challenges For End Users

by Paul Roehrig, Ph.D., June 29, 2009

...Even though cloud services delivered by major IT service providers hold potential promise for long...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Taking The Fog Out Of Cloud Computing: Platform-As-A-Service

Begin Building PaaS Into Your Application Platform Strategy

by Randy Heffner, February 10, 2009

...offerings that fly under the vague and often ill-used banner of "cloud computing." If nothing more, architects need a basic understanding of PaaS so...

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

There Are Two Types Of Compute Clouds

Server Clouds And Scale-Out Clouds Serve Very Different Customer Needs

by Frank E. Gillett, November 21, 2008

...Cloud computing is a confusing topic for vendor strategists. One reason? Most of...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Case Study: Learning From GlaxoSmithKline's Cloud-Based Email Decision Process

How GlaxoSmithKline Decided To Move To Microsoft Online Services

by Christopher Voce, June 16, 2009

...moving approximately 90,000 email users to Microsoft's Exchange Online, a cloud-delivered service. To make the decision, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) went through a rigorous...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Protecting Email With The Cloud

How Cloud Services Can Play A Role In Message Continuity And Recovery

by Stephanie Balaouras, Christopher Voce, June 8, 2009

...and personnel requirements, and the capital and operating expenditures can be significant. Cloud-based message continuity offerings are a compelling alternative because they offload cost...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Inquiry Spotlight: Cloud Computing, Q2 2009

by James Staten, April 21, 2009

...the economy hasn't been the only hot topic in these conversations; cloud computing has evolved from being just a buzz word to becoming one...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Deliver Cloud Benefits Inside Your Walls

Economic And Self-Service Gains Are Within Reach

by James Staten, April 13, 2009

...While the excitement about cloud computing centers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other public infrastructure...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: Licensing Microsoft Cloud Services

How Sending Your Infrastructure Into The Cloud Impacts Microsoft Licensing

by Christopher Voce, February 9, 2009

...of hosted service providers? Microsoft has made a huge push into the cloud arena and offers hosted Exchange, SharePoint, and other supporting services. Moving from...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

IBM Delivers On Its Cloud Marketing

Smart Business Solutions For Cloud Deliver True Enterprise Value

by James Staten, June 18, 2009

...two years of concerted effort to engage enterprises in a dialogue about cloud computing, IBM has delivered substantive solutions based on these discussions. Its offerings...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Which Cloud Computing Platform Is Right For You?

Understanding The Difference Between Public, Hosted, And Internal Clouds

by James Staten, April 13, 2009

...Cloud computing platforms are more than just shared, multitenant infrastructures on the public...

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Behind "Cloud" Is Your Future Application Environment: Ultra Modular Computing

Shift Cloud Excitement To Your Own Data Centers

by Charles Brett, Jeffrey S. Hammond, April 6, 2009

...Cloud computing is all the rage, but its greatest benefit may be to...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Case Study: What Enterprises Can Learn From Universities' Cloud-Based Hybrid Email

by Christopher Voce, June 10, 2009

...Community College have moved tens of thousands of student mailboxes to the cloud while keeping their existing faculty and staff mailboxes on-premise — a hybrid...

For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals

Making Cloud-Based Music Services Fulfill Their Destiny

by Sonal Gandhi, September 4, 2009

...become available on the iPhone. This marks a giant step forward for cloud-based music. Services that aspire to provide a true cloud-based music...