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Cloud Infographic: Cloud Drivers For Adoption

Cloud Infographic: Cloud Drivers For Adoption

Cloud Infographic: Cloud Drivers For Adoption Informative infographic found over at Dell illustrating why cloud computing has recently grown in relevance to IT managers and business leaders. Source: Dell

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The Social Cloud: Facebook IPO – Is This MySpace 2.0?

The Social Cloud: Facebook IPO –  Is This MySpace 2.0? History repeating: 2000 Bubble, Myspace, 2012 Facebook IPO, NBT (Next Big Thing…)  Investors are expected to sink $5 billion into the Facebook IPO. Wow. Well, from a pure spreadsheet perspective it makes some sense. If you take the 800 million Facebook users multiplied by a value [...]

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How Cloud Computing is Like Transforming a ’68 Dodge Dart

How Cloud Computing is Like Transforming a ’68 Dodge Dart

How Cloud Computing is Like Transforming a ’68 Dodge Dart I’ve spent a lot of time lately in front of customers trying to help them understand what cloud technology means and, more important, how it can help their businesses be more efficient, effective and better able to meet or exceed their goals and objectives. In [...]

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Cloud Infographic: Why Do SMEs Choose The Cloud?

Cloud Infographic: Why Do SMEs Choose The Cloud?

Cloud Infographic: Why Do SMEs Choose The Cloud? Source: UkFast.co.uk

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Overcoming Complexity and Dynamics to Move Data Centers to the Cloud

Overcoming Complexity and Dynamics to Move Data Centers to the Cloud IT will never be the same.  Analysts expect that IT budgets will not be growing in 2012. Since the last financial crisis an ongoing volatile economy has been pushing IT professionals to do more with less, increasing the amount of delivered business projects with [...]

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Cloud Economics and Moore’s Law

Cloud Economics and Moore’s Law

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HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 3

HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 3

HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 3 Continued from: Part 1 , Part 2 It had been a whirlwind day, folks. I’d like to thank Laura Mackey (@HPsoftware) for hosting us bloggers, and Rebecca Pallister (@HPenterpriseCA) for putting it all together. You two deserve a round of applause all your own. It takes [...]

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Infographic: The Benefits of Virtualizing Applications

Infographic: The Benefits of Virtualizing Applications

Infographic: The Benefits of Virtualizing Applications Many misconceptions are associated with virtualizing applications—from added expense to negative impact on performance. Application virtualization, however, has been proven to drastically reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase quality of service. Source: EMC

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Cloud Computing: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Cloud Computing: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility The cloud delivery model gives vendors a great amount of power. It is easier to create, deploy, maintain and enhance a service than it has been at any other point in computing history. Just look at Facebook, which grew to 500 million members in a very short [...]

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HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 2

HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 2

HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 2 HP Breakout Session How to accelerate the journey to private or hybrid cloud   With Chris Christianopoulos CloudStrike and CloudSystem Lead, HP Canada “You recognize the power of the cloud. Deploy new applications and services in hours instead of months. Match IT resources to demand with unprecedented efficiency. [...]

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HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 1

HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 1

HP ‘Master The Cloud’ Event (Montreal) – Part 1 It’s a cold, bright day in Montreal, Quebec, where HP has chosen to present their day long Master the Cloud event this 26th of January, 2012. Le Palais de Congrés, or Convention Centre, is packed with Canadian HP customers, vendors, press, bloggers, and staff. Promptly at 9, Dave Frederickson, VP [...]

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Cloud Computing: A Cloudy World

Cloud Computing: A Cloudy World There has been a thunderstorm of growing noise surrounding Cloud Computing in the past 24 months. Vendors, analysts, journalists and membership groups have all rushed to cover the Cloud medium – although everyone seems to have their own opinion and differing definition of cloud computing. According to the most common [...]

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Firehost’s European-Based Secure Cloud Hosting Services Go Live

Firehost’s European-Based Secure Cloud Hosting Services Go Live Ultra-secure, scalable, contract-free services now available at European data centers Cloud Expo Europe, London, UK – January 25, 2012 – Secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has today announced the expansion into Europe, with news that its secure hosting services are now available at data centers in London [...]

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Infographic: Private Cloud Projected Revenue By 2015

Infographic: Private Cloud Projected Revenue By 2015

Infographic: Private Cloud Projected Revenue By 2015 Source: Microsoft

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Infographic:What are the barriers to cloud computing?

Infographic:What are the barriers to cloud computing?

What are the barriers to cloud computing? The top issue overall was a perceived lack of security and service level agreements (SLAs), with 45% of respondents referring to it. Lock-in to a specific infrastructure vendor was revealed to be the second biggest barrier (cited by 40% of respondents) — and a bigger issue for small [...]

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Cloud Video: Dispelling the Hype Around Private Storage Cloud Environments

  Cloud Video: Dispelling the Hype Around Private Storage Cloud Environments Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner Speakers: Stanley Zaffos, Dan Galvan Type: Video (26 minutes) Discover how Cloud Storage can help you manage your business more efficiently. Companies are constantly battling two equally important yet seemingly contradictory objectives: data growth and constrained budgets. In addition, businesses [...]

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