Business Case For Cloud Adoption

"If you're worried about safety, I'll ask: Would you hide the money under the mattress?" We put money in the bank because it's safer, not just physical. A lot of security comes from the insurance coverage of bank deposits. -Alexander Pasik, IEEE chief information officer, compares cloud service providers and banks. When evaluating cloud technology platforms, CIOs increasingly need insurance coverage for potential losses in the event of a failure, in addition to conventional features such as security, flexibility, reliability, and accessibility. Cloud Insurance is one of the methods of enterprise risk management, which promises cloud service ...

When an enterprise migrates its core IT systems to a private cloud or public cloud network, the work is not over. 　　Now there is a different set of technical issues that need to be addressed: how to manage the cloud to ensure that the enterprise's investment returns, providing the desired efficiency and return on investment. Cloud management and cloud monitoring have become more important as the Amazon EC2 (Flex Computing Cloud) Service outage occurred this April. In that incident, the IT field saw what would happen when the cloud environment encountered a failure ...

The author will detail how to apply the cloud adoption pattern, each of which outlines its specific characteristics, to support the business and technical requirements of the Enterprise's cloud implementation. These examples show how cloud solution vendors build private and public clouds, hosting client applications all in a cloud environment (for example, IBM® cloud services offerings), or partially hosted in the cloud, partially hosted locally. Patterns include best practices and expertise that are repeatedly extracted from customers and partner activities for complex tasks. Patterns help users define good solutions in a clear format ...

Author: Wu Shifu American Road Nasgrov City CIO This June, I had the honor to attend the "China Excellent CIO Decade Summit" held in Sanya, China. As can be seen from the two-day meeting, cloud computing is a hot topic in the current domestic it field. I work in the United States, obviously not in the ranks of the Chinese CIO. But to see the domestic peers in it and professional level of enthusiasm for the development of China's it happy. 　　Close-up of an article to join in the fun. The purpose of this article is to provide a practical for our domestic counterparts by comparing the application and implementation of cloud computing in China and America.

Cloud Computing (Cloud computing) is a super computing model based on the Internet. The pooling of information and processor resources stored on PCs, mobile phones and other devices to work together. The Gmail we see (Google's free email service) can be used on a variety of terminal browsers, such as PCs, Smartphones, and is an example of a cloud computing application. However, for cloud computing to the end of the requirements of the Smart or fool, the two major interest groups--intel and arm launched a confrontation. Intel chief High ...

To some extent, it seems that now we have stepped into an impetuous era of "someone stands up to take the stage." From the arts and sports to leisure and entertainment projects, anything that is fancy enough to attract propaganda can always attract the attention of the crowd of spectators who do not know the truth. But cloud technology is a special case, its unique complexity contains too many variables, if companies are blindly engaged in this, it will inevitably pay for their own reckless behavior. We often choose to be vigorous and resolute in the face of the latest and greatest technological developments without thinking about these new ...

Introduction Cloud application developers and DevOps have successfully developed tens of thousands of applications for IaaS (Amazon AWS, Rackspace, etc.) and PAAs (Azure, Google App Engine, Cloud Foundry, etc.) platforms. These platforms provide basic security mechanisms such as authentication, Dos attack defense, firewall policy Management, logging, basic user and account management, but security concerns remain the primary obstacle to enterprise cloud implementations. Security concerns for the cloud, deploying from a secure configuration ...

Moderator: The General Assembly into the next plate, Silicon Valley cloud world, please host. Joe Golden, a partner in broadband capital: I'm a partner in broadband capital, and I'm going to welcome this part of the discussion, which is called the cloud world of Silicon Valley. Or we can say that the guests of our invitation, are guests from all over the world, today dedicated to participate in the 2011 Cloud World Congress, we have about one hours, a brief introduction to our guests. They will then give each of them a brief introduction of their own company. Then there will be a topic discussion about the cloud. First of all, Jane ...

A day ago by the BMC Software Cloud Management technology conference held in Shanghai, the experts will be on the cloud computing vision, cloud computing applications, cloud management, Business Services Management (BSM) and other topics to launch a fascinating discussion. The following is a wonderful speech by the BMC China Senior Software Advisor, Mr. Chui: In fact, compared to the service portal or monitoring tools, automation in the cloud is a disadvantage, because automation technology is hidden behind the cloud computing platform, to the customer that is not see the service interface, Operators are also unable to see the very beautiful monitoring interface. But it's like when people pick cars ...

Cloud computing is still one of the hottest terms in the IT field, in various technical forums or seminars, you can hear everyone in the discussion cloud, the participants include hardware vendors, software vendors, enterprise users. Unlike the idea of just talking about the cloud, and looking at the future of cloud computing, the words that are now being talked about are cloud devices, cloud platforms and cloud applications, from waiting to wait for the practice of cloud computing. Some people say that cloud computing is a big technological revolution, bringing great technological innovation. Some people say that cloud computing is a kind of market concept, is a packaging of the original technology, but ...