Which apps should you move to the cloud?
To most people, 'Ocean Services' probably conjures visions of boogie boards, sun umbrellas and bringing the drinks without getting sand in the glass. To Matson Navigation CIO Peter Weis, it means...
View ArticleVirtualisation management: Five tools that matter most
Long ago, when servers still came one to a box, "sysadmins" spent all their time running from one machine to another, with boxes of tools and utilities designed to squeeze out every bit of performance...
View ArticleMany apps flunk security check before move to cloud
CEOs and the technologists who work for them like to say the applications they rely on -- especially the kind custom-written by specialists at banks and investment companies with fortunes behind them...
View ArticleCloud computing's current woe: Analysis paralysis
A recent study from application integration/app hosting company Hubspan added to the pile of research showing that a significant percentage of corporate IT people are "confused" about both cloud...
View ArticleMicrosoft vs. Amazon clouds
How quickly are end-user companies adopting public cloud computing platforms as a key part of their IT strategies and infrastructures? That depends on who you ask. Spending on public cloud services is...
View ArticleVirtualisation on mobile devices: What's taking so long?
Despite years of marketing pressure and products that are simpler to use and more widely available, desktop virtualisation hasn't taken off to the extent that vendors and analysts expected even a few...
View ArticleNeed to get off that cloud?
Cloud computing platforms aim to improve IT's ability to be agile. For instance, cloud platforms let you quickly build and install applications, and change the resources underneath later to make them...
View Article5 Ways You Waste Money on Virtualisation
More than three quarters of U.S. companies virtualize at least some of their x86-based servers, but few get their full money's worth out of virtualization efforts--due to management blunders, analysts...
View ArticleVirtualisation management tips that will never go out of style
Neither cloud computing nor virtual servers were intended as agents that would change traditional IT organisations, says Rachel Dines, a researcher at Forrester Research who specializes in IT...
View ArticleVM Stall: How to avoid a sneaky virtualisation project enemy
Virtualizing and consolidating data-center servers provides such clear a financial benefit that there are few companies of any size, in any industry that shouldn't virtualize at least some of their...
View ArticleCalculating virtualisation and cloud costs
Until recently, almost no IT industry vendor or analyst questioned the assumption that nearly all kinds of virtualisation deliver quick, significant cost savings compared to computing only in the...
View ArticleDesktop virtualisation and consummer devices
If two technology trends were ever made for each other, at least in vendor marketing materials and generically simple diagrams of IT infrastructure, they are the consumerisation of IT and desktop...
View ArticleVMware licensing change opens doors for competing providers
When VMware announced last week that it would loosen the radical change in price structure it announced only a month ago, it was doing more than mollifying a few disgruntled customers. It was...
View ArticleIf you use it, mobile malware will come
IT people who try to secure mobile devices in a big company face three big conceptual problems.
View ArticleMac desktop security: The landscape is changing
Only about 20 percent of Americans think Macs are vulnerable to viruses, compared to more than half who describe PCs as "vulnerable" or "very vulnerable" to attack by viruses, according to Alex Stamos,...
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