IT's Attitude Problem

May 13, 2013

Few of our 446 respondents will change their IT strategies as result of the cloud. That spells lost opportunity.

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Strategy: 3 Steps to a Hands-Free Cloud

April 17, 2013

Virtualization let IT automate the entire life cycle of a server, from provisioning and initialization through steady-state and change management to termination. But this is only the first step on the path to fully coordinated, automated and managed systems. The ultimate goal: orchestration, where business needs can be defined and executed without human intervention. We'll examine the essential elements of orchestration, focusing on public and private clouds.

Why PaaS Is The Future

April 17, 2013

Platform-as-a-service will become standard for Web applications. It's time to evaluate your options and plan a migration strategy.

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How Netflix Is Ruining Cloud Computing

March 26, 2013

A laser focus on Amazon Web Services and seeming disregard for next-gen best practices could spell lock-in, and derail real IaaS competition.

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Informed CIO: Cloud Standards

February 05, 2013

IT has good reason to demand standardization in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS offerings. But what’s interesting is that vendors themselves are just as interested and, in many cases, are driving standards efforts. In a market this fast-moving, the old top-down model is being turned on its head.

Cloud Standards: Bottom Up, Not Top Down

January 23, 2013

IT has good reason to demand standardization in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS offerings. But what's interesting is that vendors themselves are just as interested, and in many cases, are driving standards efforts.

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Research: IaaS Buyer's Guide

November 15, 2012

Infrastructure-as-a-service lets companies focus on their core competencies, instead of on installing and maintaining computer hardware. But with so many vendors in the market, how do you know which one is the best fit for your company? We look at 9 IaaS providers and 10 services categories to help IT pros answer that question.

Infrastructure-As-A-Service Options

October 31, 2012

Our latest Buyer's Guide looks at 8 top IaaS offerings in a range of categories.

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9 Vital Questions On Moving Apps To the Cloud

October 18, 2012

The decision to move an application from in-house into the public cloud is a significant one. Organizations have to consider a range of issues, from business drivers to application availability to compliance and security to user adoption. We have nine questions you should ask and answer to help you pick the right course of action.

Answers To 9 Questions About Public Cloud Migration

September 10, 2012

Be sure you have good answers for the business case, security, availability, and more.

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Google IaaS Vs. Amazon EC2: New Benchmarks

July 24, 2012

Zencoder's new benchmarks find that Google Compute Engine offers a powerful and competitive infrastructure-as-a-service option to Amazon.

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Google Compute Engine: Hands-On Review

June 28, 2012

Google Compute Engine is a stable, reliable, and fast provider of on-demand computing resources. But it offers fewer features than rival Amazon Web Services.

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Fundamentals: Amazon S3: Web Hosting on the Cheap

June 18, 2012

Want in on the cloud ROI deal of the year? Follow Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' lead and host static websites without a server. Here are three ways to save big using this innovative model.

IaaS A Bad Deal? Not So Fast

April 30, 2012

The calculation as to whether infrastructure services make sense involves more than just sunk data center costs.

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