IT Resolutions Revolve Around the Cloud

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:00:00 EST

We won’t be that far into 2012 before most people’s New Year’s resolutions start to fall apart. That new running routine sounded great on January 1, but the reality is that getting up early to jog in the cold, dark dawn is no fun. And that diet? It’s easy to maintain until doughnuts start showing up in the staff lunchroom or “happy hour” is reintroduced to build morale. For IT, though, the resolutions for 2012 cannot be so easily abandoned. In the coming year, many chief information officers have resolved to bring the private cloud to their enterprises. Their success, which will affect the overall success of their businesses, hinges on three tasks: getting clarity, getting specific, and getting buy-in. For more than a year, it seems everyone has been talking about “the cloud,” but what is understood by that term differs depending on whether the person saying it works in IT or sits in the corner office. It’s time to get some clarity. If IT administrators are to fulfill their cloud resolutions in 2012, they need to make sure that the executives with whom they work understand this term.

A Four-Stage Journey to Cloud Computing

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EDT

For almost a decade now, organizations of all sizes have been leveraging server virtualization, but few have fully gained the flexibility and efficiencies it promised. The emergence of cloud computing and the promise of delivering on-demand resources has introduced new challenges and opportunities. A company’s level of virtualization adoption maturity correlates to its readiness to deliver an on-demand, real-time infrastructure through a private cloud. An effective virtualization and cloud management solution can ease the journey toward that end.

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