Virtualization on Double Duty

Here’s how virtualization and replication technologies protect data from disaster, while keeping business services humming.

Easy Integration With the Cloud

CIOs say integration with existing systems is a big worry about going cloud. Fine Papers used cloud-based integration partner—and saved millions.

Cloud DR: Sending Mixed Signals

When it comes to DR, the cloud is a mixed bag. Here’s how it has both lowered the entry barriers for DR and given businesses a dangerous sense of false security.

Red Hat Releases OpenShift Source Code

Developers can now run the OpenShift PaaS behind their own firewalls

From the Editor-in-Chief : Underprepared!

This degree of unpreparedness is scary, specially when CIOs are beginning to shift processes to the cloud.

Challenges Facing Global CIOs

The cultural differences they talk of go beyond mastering local etiquettes like handing over visiting cards with both your hands in Singapore or cheek kissing in parts of Europe.

The Ideal Cloud: Amalgamation of Cost and Agility

Are cloud services attractive because they are less expensive or are IT professionals drawn by greater agility It’s not an ‘either-or’ debate.

Amazon Hails Era of 'Utility Supercomputing'

High performance computing on-demand will revolutionise scientific research, claims AWS.

Taking Cloud Advice with a Pinch of Salt

If you understood how IT research firms worked you would take the cloud advice of some of its researchers with a pinch of salt.

Do You Know Where Your Cloud Data Is?

Contracts aren’t fail-safe. Here’s how to guard your data as it travels among cloud providers and their subcontractors.

How to Protect Your Intellectual Property in the Cloud

Around this time last year, the cloud computing contract signings were coming fast and furious -- not just for commodity work like IT management or email, but for software and infrastructure closer to the core of corporate value. Not long after that, the calls started to come in to Greg Bell, principal and the Americas service leader for information protection at KPMG.

Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It's All About Hyper-Hybrid

Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.

How to Make IT Irreplaceable

We all know that, given the availability of hosted software and cloud options, going around IT is easier than ever.

The Private Cloud Power

Why is the concept of the private cloud attractive in the first place? And in the most practical sense, what real-life components do we need to put together to fully deliver on its promise? 

Your Route to the Perfect Private Cloud