From Silos to Services: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: December, 2012 archives

Be Aware of Your Cloud Computing Costs

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Brian Gracely

Budgeting

Cloud Computing

Cloud Management

Costs

Data Center

Shadow IT

Several years ago, it wasn't unusual to hear people say that public cloud computing was significantly cheaper that trying to build a private cloud computing environment. This was mostly because people would see the cost/hour (in USD pennies) and immediately think this was significantly less than...

December 17, 2012 10:31 PM

Is IT the Last Major Open-Source Project?

Posted by: Brian Gracely

Big Data, Budgeting, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Concierge, Consumerization of IT, Costs, Data Scientist, DevOps, Licensing, Open Source, Shadow IT

Traditionally, internal IT organizations have leveraged proprietary software and public Internet services have been built using open-source software. Some of this behavior was driven by legacy...

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December 11, 2012 12:06 AM

Enterprise Cloud Management – Still a Wide-Open Game

Posted by: Brian Gracely

Cisco, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, CloudStack, Data Center, DevOps, Gartner, Open Source, OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Center, VMware

Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the Twitter echo chamber , believing that whatever is good for Google, Facebook or NetFlix must also be good for your Enterprise environment. All new applications, built to scale and running on commodity hardware. But the other end of the spectrum is the...

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December 3, 2012 10:00 AM

Enterprise IT: The 80/20 Budget Dilemma (Part II)

Posted by: Brian Gracely

Budgeting, Cloud Computing, Concierge, Costs, Shadow IT

[This is the second in a series of blogs focused on strategies to address the 80/20 Budget Dilemma in Enterprise IT] Last week, I talked about the challenge of demand outpacing capacity and how IT departments could push

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