Cloud Computing

Is Cloud Computing a technology driven wave or a business lead wave of change?

Energy

Green IT

Scalability

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6 hours 28 minutes ago

Art van Bodegraven and 10 other people answered this question

The technology-led vs. business-led question is one of a delicate balance. The deserts are littered with the bones of technologies that arrived before their time. There is little as sad as an earnest salesperson promoting wonders that are obvious, but of uncertain business viability.
Some ... more

How do you create a multi-tenanted cloud based architecture?

May 25, 2012

Andrew Baker answered this question

Julian,
In all likelihood, to obtain the most benefits and ensure the least risks, the application in question would need to be redesigned to support cloud computing. There are some tools out there that help with various aspects of migrations, but there will still be ... more

How does cloud computing change an organization?

May 23, 2012

Stephney McMohan and 5 other people answered this question

With cloud computing services, an organization can remain fully focused on its core job. By using applications hosted on cloud, a small or medium size enterprise or a SME makes use of information technology or IT department of the cloud hosting service provider. This allows ... more

Enterprise Resource Planning

CRM

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May 20, 2012

Brian McCallion and 6 other people answered this question

What is the future of Cloud Computing?

In terms of the technology industry, my assertions are as follows:
1. Cloud computing will benefit firms that move quickly, or have already embraced SOA architecture. Firms that attempt to extend their enterprise infrastructure to the Cloud over VPNs, MPLS, or multi-mode fiber miss a ... more

What are your experiences with Coupa? What differentiates them from their competitors?

May 17, 2012

John Hatton and 1 other person answered this question

New answer to an old post (but with no bias!) -
On the plus side, Coupa is reputed to have a great front end and good reporting capability. On the minus side - unless things have changed - the word on the street has been ... more

How has cloud computing impacted the creativity of IT departments?

Cloud Spend Management

Coupa

Saas

May 16, 2012

Contador Harrison and 6 other people answered this question

With every new product release or social network launch, chief information officers are getting pressure from their employees, including senior executives, to open the corporate network to consumer devices and allow access to more of the Web.
This migration of consumer devices like smartphones and ... more

Cloud Computing Models: Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid

Development

Innovation

May 16, 2012

james watson and 1 other person commented on a brief

Public clouds are those clouds that have been designed to be billed in a pay as you grow model. Public clouds are run by the third party or the external cloud service providers, which offers resources such as computing power, storage as a service, super ... more

What are the top 10 legacy business applications ripe for Cloud migration?

Focusiccs

Hybrid Cloud Computing

Leslie O'neill

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May 12, 2012

Dennis Morgan and 3 other people answered this question

Michael's answer was very good. Let me add that you (business, consumer) need to understand what makes sense in regards to sensitive data and plain ordinary data. It may be moot but think a bit before moving there. more

Business Applications

Cloud Computing Applications

May 12, 2012

Stephney McMohan and 1 other person answered this question

How do you evaluate IaaS providers?

When considering IaaS providers, one should consider these parameters – How much secure is its service? Does the provider offers robust, prompt, and dedicated 24/7 support? How reliable is its service? What is the uptime offered? Is the provider able to scale up or scale ... more

Infrastructure as a Service

Iaas

May 10, 2012

Andrew Baker answered this question at this roundtable

Navigating the Torturous Tension Between IT and the Business When Moving to the Cloud [4/30 @ 1 pm]

How big of a barrier does the application architecture present in the migration to cloud today?

It all depends on what the proposed migration to the cloud looks like.
If one is intent on a wholesale migration to the cloud, then all sorts of factors in the existing application and infrastructure architecture come into play. A more measured approach to cloud ... more

Is IT worried that the business side will use the cloud to cut them out of the picture?

IT Management

May 9, 2012

Mike Watson and 7 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Navigating the Torturous Tension Between IT and the Business When Moving to the Cloud [4/30 @ 1 pm]

It depends on the IT department. Some are excellent, most are good and a few are staffed by rigid idiots. Only the last category has cause to fear, but yes they will eventually be replaced.
Here is a true life example of why the business ... more

What do you think the next big trend will be after cloud computing?

IT Management

May 8, 2012

Bill McChesney and 17 other people answered this question

Aside from “sending your clone to work” or “outsourcing your exercise” I think that cloud will shift to infrastructure transparency in which I trust it enough to not think about servers and storage. When you make a phone call do you think about the inter-carrier ... more

What is keeping you from making the leap to a private cloud?

May 7, 2012

Andrew Baker and 3 other people answered this question

I would say that cost and complexity are two of the things that can keep organizations from making the move from a robust virtualization infrastructure to a private cloud. There's a lot more involved in creating a private cloud than just virtualization (which is among ... more

Benefits of deploying a "private" cloud computing environment?

Private Cloud

Private Cloud Computing

Private Clouds

May 7, 2012

Andrew Baker and 3 other people answered this question

The deployment of a private cloud is almost always about control and security, but the costs will restrict this option to larger organizations, for most cases.
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Private Cloud Computing Servies

Focusiccs

Private Cloud Service

May 3, 2012

Stephney McMohan commented on a brief

How Cloud Computing is Changing the Way We Do Business

Cloud computing technology is making doing business easier. Cloud computing technology provisions all of the infrastructure and hardware equipments that are required to run an application program. In house Information Technology team or IT staff of a company becomes free to focus on their core ... more

Cloud Computing Consultants

Cloud Computing Costs

Rebecca

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May 3, 2012

Christian Buckley and 4 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Navigating the Torturous Tension Between IT and the Business When Moving to the Cloud [4/30 @ 1 pm]

Who drives the fear of moving off of legacy systems? Business or IT?

I don't agree with the premise of the question. Because i can point to business reasons to stay on legacy systems does not mean I am driving fear. There are legitimate reasons for moving to the cloud -- and legitimate reasons (performance, lack of functional ... more