Even the most steadfast division-level IT managers are beginning to recognize the futility in trying to maintain their own closet “data center” in a world of virtualization, cloud computing, and drive to increase both data center economics and data security.
Data center consolidation, virtualization, PUE, green everything, and infrastructure flexibility. All current IT conversation topics, all are important management considerations for organizations stepping into the age of complete business integration with information and communications technologies (ICT). Cool and challenging topics. But “cool” does not carry your business goals. A solid ICT strategy encompassing all your
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One of the greatest moments a cloud evangelist indulges in occurs at that point a listener experiences an intuitive leap of understanding following your explanation of cloud computing. No greater joy and intrinsic sense of accomplishment.
In the 1990s community of interest networks (COINs) emerged to take advantage of rapidly developing Internet protocol technologies. Cloud computing supports the idea of a COIN, as companies can not only build their “virtual data center” within a Platform as a Service/PaaS model, but also develop secure virtual interconnections among companies within a business community – not only within the same cloud service provider (CSP), but also among cloud service providers.
How often have we considered the challenges of meeting service level expectations to a global marketplace, in a global economy, with a very demanding customer? Every day?
Have to admit, some of the news recently concerning drag and drop clouds is kind of exciting. Yes, we’ve dreamed about cloud bridges for a while now, and it is something the cloud user community finds very attractive, if not essential, for the future of cloud computing.
What if you had more than 700 ministries, provincial governments, local governments, and government agencies all running separate servers located everywhere from small data centers, to closets, to old computers crammed under a desk?
The reluctance of a VC to support CAPEX in the data center is a vision into the future of startup investments. While IT managers love to have a “hands-on” approach to equipment, it is becoming apparent the economics and utility of public cloud-enabled applications and resources are a factor which cannot be ignored.
At the Digital Africa Summit 2010 in Kampala, Uganda, discussion is rightly focused on both telecommunications policy and economic development. Cloud computing is a topic heard among sidebar discussions, although it has yet to hit the mainstream of conference programming. Kicked off by Dr. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya, Vice President of Uganda, the conference also included ministers of communications from Uganda, Niger, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso.
Disaster recovery and business continuity. Recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. Backing up data to offsite locations, and potentially running mirrored processing sites – it is an expensive business requirement to fulfill. Particularly for budget conscious small and medium-sized companies.
