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Cloud CIO: The Two Biggest Lies About Cloud Security

Treating the cloud security discussion as a black-and-white issue, where public clouds are insecure and private cloud are secure, is overly simplistic and leaves organizations that pursue either type of cloud environment vulnerable.

27 mei 2011 9 mins

Cloud Computing Private Cloud Virtualization

The CIO of 2014: Venture Capitalist, Orchestra Conductor, Contract Negotiator

Managing technology is becoming less important to the CIO role than managing change. You can already see it happening.

25 mei 2011 4 mins

Business Intelligence CIO Cloud Computing

IT Roles Shift with Move to Cloud

When Steel Technologies outsourced its back-office systems, a business-focused IT team emerged

25 mei 2011 3 mins

Cloud Computing IT Leadership

Cloud CIO: How IT Can Become a Cloud Service Provider

Operating as a cloud service provider (CSP) requires acting like a business, not a cost center, and marrying infrastructure agility with operational capability. Here, CIO.com's Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Bernard Golden outlines the core co

20 mei 2011 7 mins

CIO Private Cloud Virtualization

Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps

How did Microsoft win over the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina for an Office 365 migration? Better license packaging on a bigger ecosystem of apps at an affordable price u2014 an advantage Microsoft can often wield over cloud rival Google.

20 mei 2011 5 mins

Microsoft Office Office Suites SaaS

Calculating Virtualization and Cloud Costs: 4 Approaches

For IT departments wanting to do chargebacks or cost-justification, figuring virtualization and cloud services ROI is tricky, at best. Experts outline four methods you can use to break down costs and returns.

19 mei 2011 5 mins

Cloud Computing Virtualization

Chromebook: Are You Really Ready to Marry Google?

It's not a laptop. It's not a netbook. Exactly what is a mobile device based on Google's Chrome OS? Bill Snyder breaks down the pros and cons of this cloud-minded groundbreaker.n

16 mei 2011 5 mins

Cloud Computing Mobile Small and Medium Business

Microsoft Office Alternatives: Many are Trying, Few are Buying

Enterprises are intrigued by Office alternatives such as Google Apps, Zoho and OpenOffice.org, but not as a replacement for Microsoft's cash cow. At least not yet, writes Forrester.

12 mei 2011 4 mins

Microsoft Office Office Suites Social Networking Apps

Disaster Recovery is Everyone’s Job

I was discussing my article on the Amazon EC2 Cloud failure, and a related blog (as well as reaction from the Twittersphere) with my editor, and the issue came up of cloud-related disaster recovery falling under the responsibility of IT. Having cover

11 mei 2011 2 mins

Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery

Cloud CIO: Like Open Source, Cloud Hides in Plain Sight

Open source caused many embarrassing conversations for CIOs: A CIO would say we have no open source software -- then walk the halls and find it in use. This same scenario is playing out with cloud services, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

11 mei 2011 7 mins

Cloud Computing Virtualization

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