Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing: Early Adopters Share Five Key Lessons

Look, Ma, no data center. Many of today's start-up companies find cloud services such as Amazon EC2 essential to their business model. You can benefit from the lessons already learned by these early cloud adopters.nn

5 Ways IT Outsourcing Customers Can Test Cloud Computing

Traditional IT outsourcing customers have hesitated to jump into cloud computing because of the security and control risks. But the risk of not trying out cloud computing may be even greater. Here are five low-risk ways IT outsourcing customers can t

How Not to Build a Cloud

Here are six no-no's for cloud computing planning in your enterprise. From legacy software to outdated metrics, these potential pitfalls deserve careful consideration.

Cloud Computing Doesn’t Equal Hosting 2.0

Build cloud apps, not apps in the cloud, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's a look at why if you treat cloud computing like hosting 2.0, you'll suffer.

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Gartner Explores DevOps

CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses the growing "movement" addressing the need to make IT I&O more efficient and how it will be reformed.

Cloud Computing Shakes Up Traditional IT Outsourcing

Cloud computing has potential to unlock tremendous value for IT outsourcing customers--and undo the traditional IT services business. Here's how the outsourcing industry is responding to the rise of the cloud.

Virtualization: How to Get Your Power Company to Pay

Utilities across the U.S. are offering financial incentives to companies for their virtualization projects and other efforts that make their data centers more energy efficient.

IT Operations: Beware the Cloud Boomerang

Test applications created in the cloud will subtly migrate from development through trial to production. Then the developers will move on and IT Ops will be stuck caring for the apps. You'd better get ahead of the problem and get your cloud stra

What Does The Cloud Really Look Like?

As it turns out, "the cloud" is a bunch of smaller clouds. And rival cloud computing vendors share some of the same infrastructure. Here's a peek inside.