What would it take for you to jump into cloud computing?
does data’s “mission critical” status give you pause in moving over? – Absolutely. But that said, moving to the cloud is not simply a technical decision. Its a business decision. Technically, the move to the cloud is easy. Pick a fairly reliable vendor, put in SLA requirements and test out the functionality and off you [...]
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| November 19, 2009 6:26 AM
Cloud Computing, Data center consolidation, Google, Open IT Forum, Storage
does data’s “mission critical” status give you pause in moving over? – Absolutely. But that said, moving to the cloud is not simply a technical decision. Its a business decision. Technically, the move to the cloud is easy. Pick a fairly reliable vendor, put in SLA requirements and test out the functionality and off you [...]
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| November 19, 2009 6:26 AM
Cloud Computing, Data center consolidation, Google, Open IT Forum, Storage
Will cloud applications be certified by IT audit? What kind of applications can we safely offload to the cloud?
This whole “cloud computing” thing has been completely blown out of proportion. By and large, security risks that exist outside the “cloud” are the very same inside the cloud. The big difference that management – and the lawyers – like is the fact that the risk can now be pushed onto someone else. Here are [...]
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| September 30, 2009 3:33 PM
Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Cloud computing security, Cloud-Based Services
This whole “cloud computing” thing has been completely blown out of proportion. By and large, security risks that exist outside the “cloud” are the very same inside the cloud. The big difference that management – and the lawyers – like is the fact that the risk can now be pushed onto someone else. Here are [...]
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| September 30, 2009 3:33 PM
Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Cloud computing security, Cloud-Based Services
AS400 Web applications with RPG
There is not a right or wrong place to put it. It could all go into the same source file, but for ease of use most shops create seperate files. QRPGSRC and/or QRPGLESRC QDDSSRC QTXTSRC QCLSRC (Sometimes QCLPSRC or QCLLESRC) QMODSRC QMNUSRC QSRVSRC QCPYSRC etc. It is up to yo to set your standards. The [...]
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| August 25, 2009 3:38 PM
AS/400, ILE RPG, SaaS
There is not a right or wrong place to put it. It could all go into the same source file, but for ease of use most shops create seperate files. QRPGSRC and/or QRPGLESRC QDDSSRC QTXTSRC QCLSRC (Sometimes QCLPSRC or QCLLESRC) QMODSRC QMNUSRC QSRVSRC QCPYSRC etc. It is up to yo to set your standards. The [...]
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| August 25, 2009 3:38 PM
AS/400, ILE RPG, SaaS
secure mail vendors
<a href=”http://www.google.com/postini/”>Google’s Postini service</a> meets most of your criteria but an Outlook plugin is not required. Messages are quarantined on Postini servers and users can manage their own quarantines through a web browser. Notifications can be configured to tell users that messages have been quarantined. The false positive quarantine rate is very low and my [...]
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| August 19, 2009 5:07 PM
Email security, Email security management, SaaS
<a href=”http://www.google.com/postini/”>Google’s Postini service</a> meets most of your criteria but an Outlook plugin is not required. Messages are quarantined on Postini servers and users can manage their own quarantines through a web browser. Notifications can be configured to tell users that messages have been quarantined. The false positive quarantine rate is very low and my [...]
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| August 19, 2009 5:07 PM
Email security, Email security management, SaaS
How do you think Cloud Computing solutions (Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine) will change the life of software developers?
Life of a software engineer in one perspective when he is working for an organization, and this organization opts for the cloud computing as a servicer, will remain unchanged. Organization will opt for servers, storage, backup, application maintenance, OS, Server software, security, data replication etc. as outsourced to a company offering cloud computing services. Software [...]
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| July 29, 2009 12:49 PM
Amazon Web services, ASP (application service providers), cloud, Cloud Computing, Google App Engine, SaaS
Life of a software engineer in one perspective when he is working for an organization, and this organization opts for the cloud computing as a servicer, will remain unchanged. Organization will opt for servers, storage, backup, application maintenance, OS, Server software, security, data replication etc. as outsourced to a company offering cloud computing services. Software [...]
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| July 29, 2009 12:49 PM
Amazon Web services, ASP (application service providers), cloud, Cloud Computing, Google App Engine, SaaS
What is the future of cloud computing?
Unfortunately for this one, the answer is up in the clouds. To me, cloud computing is a privacy issue. I can’t help but think that as soon as everything gets up into the cloud, it’s going to be indexed and searched by the government, or various other organizations for that matter. It’s a principle of [...]
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| July 29, 2009 12:44 PM
Cloud Computing
Unfortunately for this one, the answer is up in the clouds. To me, cloud computing is a privacy issue. I can’t help but think that as soon as everything gets up into the cloud, it’s going to be indexed and searched by the government, or various other organizations for that matter. It’s a principle of [...]
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| July 29, 2009 12:44 PM
Cloud Computing
Building Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos
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| July 9, 2009 1:18 PM
CIO, Cloud Computing, Jonathan Sapir, Meghan-Kiffer Press, Virtualization
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| July 9, 2009 1:18 PM
CIO, Cloud Computing, Jonathan Sapir, Meghan-Kiffer Press, Virtualization
Free Chapter – Power in the Cloud: Why we need a new approach
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| July 9, 2009 12:10 PM
CIO, Cloud Computing, Free Chapters, Jonathan Sapir, Meghan-Kiffer Press, Virtualization
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| July 9, 2009 12:10 PM
CIO, Cloud Computing, Free Chapters, Jonathan Sapir, Meghan-Kiffer Press, Virtualization
vSphere memory and CPU hot plug
The caveats are well documented in <a href=”http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/10/vsphere-memorycpu-hotplug-hot-add/”>this site</a>
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| June 19, 2009 9:34 PM
Cloud Operating System, Private Cloud, Virtual Machine Hot Add, VMware, VMware vSphere, Windows Server 2008
The caveats are well documented in <a href=”http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/10/vsphere-memorycpu-hotplug-hot-add/”>this site</a>
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| June 19, 2009 9:34 PM
Cloud Operating System, Private Cloud, Virtual Machine Hot Add, VMware, VMware vSphere, Windows Server 2008
Data security in the cloud
My organization has briefly entertained the idea of cloud storage, hosting, applications, etc…but we have determined that keeping our information on the physical premises is the way to go about it. Our outfit is at a size where the cost savings (if any) for cloud implementation would not be enough to justify moving away from [...]
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| June 18, 2009 9:12 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud storage, Data Center, Data Center Cost, Data Center Security
My organization has briefly entertained the idea of cloud storage, hosting, applications, etc…but we have determined that keeping our information on the physical premises is the way to go about it. Our outfit is at a size where the cost savings (if any) for cloud implementation would not be enough to justify moving away from [...]
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| June 18, 2009 9:12 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud storage, Data Center, Data Center Cost, Data Center Security
Cloud Computing set to change roles in IT
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| June 8, 2009 3:24 PM
CIO, Cloud Computing, From the Authors, Peter Fingar
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| June 8, 2009 3:24 PM
CIO, Cloud Computing, From the Authors, Peter Fingar
Is there any information available about creating an `internal cloud` based on Hyper-V?
There is nothing specific on cloud but Hyper-V can be a part of an integrated internal cloud, with services and control with products like the SCVMM self-service portal.
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| April 23, 2009 2:53 PM
Cloud Computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization
There is nothing specific on cloud but Hyper-V can be a part of an integrated internal cloud, with services and control with products like the SCVMM self-service portal.
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| April 23, 2009 2:53 PM
Cloud Computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization
How will Microsoft’s upcoming cloud computing technology benefit hyper-v users?
For the Azure cloud computing platform, we have committed to allow the running of Hyper-V systems on that platform, allowing the transfer of those VMs.
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| April 23, 2009 2:53 PM
Cloud Computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization
For the Azure cloud computing platform, we have committed to allow the running of Hyper-V systems on that platform, allowing the transfer of those VMs.
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| April 23, 2009 2:53 PM
Cloud Computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization
What are best practices for selling Software as a Service (SaaS)?
SaaS is for the most part, still a big bet if you will, so I think that we are getting a little ahead of ourselves in thinking that there are “best practices” for its monetiziation. I do think that the ideas presented in the article make sense. The truth is that these principles have been [...]
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| April 23, 2008 1:02 PM
Channel, SaaS, SaaS market trends, Systems Channel
SaaS is for the most part, still a big bet if you will, so I think that we are getting a little ahead of ourselves in thinking that there are “best practices” for its monetiziation. I do think that the ideas presented in the article make sense. The truth is that these principles have been [...]
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| April 23, 2008 1:02 PM
Channel, SaaS, SaaS market trends, Systems Channel
