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Compliance Under a Cloud
Cloud services buyers beware: vendors must address security regulationsHow-To
Connecting Points: Takeaways from CIO Executive Council Workshops
While the cloud computing buzz continues to grow, CIOs are taking a measured approach to make the move effectively and safelyFeature
Cloud Servers Help Hospital Reach Doctor Office with Digital Records
With a cloud infrastructure, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's electronic health records and practice management system makes it easier to ship medical records from one office to another.Opinion
Clearing the Cloud Part II | A Ray of Sunshine On A Cloudy Day || Cloud Computing Security (3)
Continuing with my article of last month, let's continue discussion of Controls in Cloud Security:Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Cloud Computing's Three Revolutions: Part 2
How will the pay-as-you-go aspect of cloud computing change the relationship — and balance of power — between IT and business units? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains.Opinion
Private Cloud Deployments: Top 8 Planning Requirements
A private cloud arrangement can help your IT staff reinvent how they think about management. Consider these eight key requirements for a successful private cloud deployment, says CA's Stephen Elliot.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Cloud Computing Will Cause Three IT Revolutions
During the next two to five years, you'll see enormous conflict about the technical pros and cons of cloud computing. Three of cloud's key characteristics will create three IT revolutions, each with supporters and detractors. CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains the first of these, involving scalability and IT operations.News
Microsoft SharePoint: Three Sleek Social Networking Alternatives
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 promises more enterprise social networking tools, but if you're still questioning the cost and complexity, here's a look at some lean and mean alternatives.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Data Center Employment Down: Bad for the Private Cloud?
Despite the fact that data center staffing and budgets face plenty of pressure, IT shops say they want to build out private clouds. CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains the truth about these two trends.Feature
ERP: How and Why You Need to Manage It Differently
Enterprise Resource Planning has become a legacy system. That means simpler implementation, reduced maintenance costs and integrating new technologies.Feature
Questions You Need Answered Before Going Cloud
Cloud computing offers tempting affordability, but legal quandaries abound surrounding e-discovery. Experts advise CIOs to ask questions of their vendors up front.Feature
Cloud, Virtualization Gurus: What Title Should You Have?
What do you call cloud computing and virtualization experts? Job titles for IT people with these hot skill sets remain in flux, making it harder for specialists and employers to hook up, recruiters say.Opinion
Cloud Security: Ten Questions to Ask Before You Jump In
From regulations to liability, CA cloud security expert Tim Brown outlines the key security issues you should explore while preparing for a cloud deployment.Feature
5 Things You Need to Know about Platform as a service
Tips for understanding how it works and why it's needed.News
Virtualization Shines in Cautious IT Hiring Picture
Who will IT managers call first when they can hire new staffers again? Virtualization and cloud skills will serve you well, new research says.Feature
Oracle and SAP Are Big: Too Big for Their Own Good?
The billion-dollar behemoths are top dogs in enterprise software. But they just might be too big to manage the change that's happening all around them.News
Wipro Brings Cloud Computing to Retail Industry
Cloud computing is here to stay and Wipro is focused on tapping this lucrative industry. The company has announced the launch of two new solutions–digital customer experience platform and loss prevention platform–for the retail industry.Feature
Cloud Software Vendors See Stocks Hit Stratosphere
SaaS companies have ridden the cloud applications trend to huge stock gains since December 2008. Who's in the most money?Feature
New Year's Resolutions at Work: Broken All-Too-Soon
Already behind on your New Year's resolutions with regards to work: Haven't asked for that raise yet? Still reading Maxim, not The Economist? We completely understand.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Cloud Computing: IT Operations Changes Are Mandatory
Take a peek at the cloud's role in the web pages of the future: built on the fly from a portfolio of high-volume applications. CIO.com's Bernard Golden takes you inside the next wave of application scale and what it means for IT ops.Feature
Legacy Apps in the Cloud: Six Details Worth Sweating
Forget the big-picture cloud worries. Small details could wreak havoc in the cloud for companies porting legacy apps, analysts say.Feature
What CIOs Get Wrong About Emerging Technology
Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School and expert on disruptive innovation, talks about how new technologies such as cloud computing mean big changes for the CIO role and why they still don't get alignment.Feature
Why the Cloud Should Have Your Back-Up
Hard drives die, computers get stolen, and storage media becomes obsolete. Here's why and how you should back up your personal data in the cloud.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
What Cloud Computing Can Do for Higher Education
Higher education IT organizations need to perform application triage, finding lower-cost places — like the cloud — to move low-value software.Feature
5 Ways to Get More from LinkedIn in 2010
Do you understand everything LinkedIn can do for you? Start the new year off right with these five tips to help you get even more from the business networking service.News
VeriSign Ensures Security in the Cloud
VeriSign has been chosen to provide cloud-based security and authentication for the Windows Azure platform.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Why Benchmarking Cloud vs. Current IT Costs is So Hard
Cloud providers make their services' costs quite transparent, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. The trouble is, for most companies, current data center costs remain opaque. Will new tools help?News
CIOs Talk Google Apps Migration
Chief information officers heard first-hand accounts from their colleagues about moving to Google Apps at a recent roundtable, with New Zealand Postal Services, AAPT and Mortgage Choice all migrating to the cloud applications.Feature
Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?
Is a data center near the North Pole naughty or nice? With cheap energy, cheap cooling and incentives to spur its ailing economy, Iceland has growing appeal to data-intensive companies running scads of servers.Feature
Drowning in Passwords: Tips and Tools to Stay Safe and Sane
Another day, another password: Thanks to Web-based apps, we're all acquiring passwords at quite a clip. How do you remember them all while staying secure? Here are some helpful tools and strategies — that don't involve writing your passwords on sticky notes.nVirtualization and Cloud Advisor
The State of Cloud Computing in Japan
What can you learn from a conversation with Japan's second-largest telco, which is also a cloud service provider? Plenty, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.Opinion
Beware Cloud Computing's Hidden Costs
Companies need to explore a multitude of related cloud expenses to ensure that costs don't ultimately outweigh the technology's benefits. Chris Curran shares some key questions regarding architecture, process and flexibility.Feature
5 Questions with NetSuite's CFO
A high-tech CFO who makes sales calls? It's all in a day's work for NetSuite CFO Jim McGeever. Here's his take on how SaaS is beating big vendor FUD, the Larry Ellison effect, and the future of business apps.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right
CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains how to improve your dev/test operations using cloud computing. Consider these practical steps to take as you meld, not replace, your existing environment with the cloud.nFeature
Inside One Firm's Private Cloud Journey
Travel booking and expense firm Concur Technologies uses virtualization and an infrastructure-as-a-service model to slash costs and deployment times for internal business groups. Bonus benefit: Improved compliance tracking.nnVirtualization and Cloud Advisor
Your First Cloud App: Dev/Test a Smart Choice
A cloud environment can serve a company's dev/test needs better than the traditional, internal option, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's a breakdown of the key issues, from spiky usage to budget concerns, to consider.nNews
New App Store Rules Good News for iPhone Users
Apple has made it easier for developers to offer trial versions of iPhone apps — free versions that users can upgrade later to the full version, without a trip back to the App Store. Here's why this "in-app purchasing" move benefits users and software developers.Opinion
How to Plan Your Cloud Computing Mix
As a first step in sorting through the cloud hype, an IT group needs to gain a clear view of its systems portfolio in the context of business needs and pain points. Chris Curran shares some practical advice as you identify your first candidates for cloud services.Opinion
3 Keys to Using IaaS Public Clouds Wisely
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platforms can give IT groups flexibility and instant capacity, at compelling prices. But the promise won't become reality unless you pick the right kind of applications and use cases, says Forrester's James Staten.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Microsoft Sidekick Debacle and the Cloud: Lessons Learned
When Microsoft's storage service for Sidekick users broke down, cloud computing questions sprang up — both fair and unfair. CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses what can be learned from this outage and looks at the likely outcomes for Microsoft, users and the cloud ecosystem.Feature
Five Problems Keeping Legacy Apps Out of the Cloud
Did you think all those legacy apps would just float up into someone else's cloud infrastructure? Management, licensing and migration concerns highlight the list of troubles that vendors are now trying to address.Feature
Why Security Matters Now
Social networking and cloud computing threats abound, our annual Global Information Security Survey finds, making information security important once again to business leaders.Feature
Behind Enemy Lines: Salesforce.com and Rimini Street at Oracle OpenWorld
Both tech vendors are aiming to change the rules of game for enterprise software. And while they're going about it with two different business models, the companies share some things in common.Feature
5 Things You Need to Know about Software-as-a-Service Contracts
How CIOs can guarantee secure SaaS contracts.Tip
Cloud Computing: How TransUnion Makes Money from Its Private Cloud
Credit reporting giant TransUnion replaced custom-developed services with cloud computer capabilities for its customers.Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Cloud Computing Moves Fast Over the Potomac
U.S. federal government IT groups could easily stall cloud computing efforts because of security concerns, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Instead, they are pushing for the benefits of cloud at a rapid pace — accompanied by appropriate security measures.News
Microsoft's New Mixology: Cloud and Desktop Must Be Balanced
As the Google Apps threat grows, Microsoft Business division president Stephen Elop says his message to customers is clear: You need a mix of on-premise and Web apps. But aren't some customers looking to the cloud to get away from Microsoft?Virtualization and Cloud Advisor
Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?
New analysis of how much work companies are doing in the cloud via Amazon Web Services proves that cloud is already viable for much more than startup needs or "toy" applications, CIO.com's Bernard Golden argues.nFeature
Cloud Computing: Is it Time to Invest in Cloud Storage?
Cloud vendors are touting their storage offerings. IT leaders are intrigued, but wary.-
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