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Survey: Can ‘Comprehensive’ Cloud Strategy Ease Tensions Between Business and IT?
A just-released survey suggests that a “comprehensive” cloud strategy could help relieve tensions between business users and IT. The study, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, found a growing number of CIOs embracing clouds as part of a “comprehensive, unified environment” to connect all enterprise resources.
Full Story >Survey: IT Increasing Use of Multiple Clouds, Multiple Flavors
More evidence that once a firm embarks on a cloud strategy, it doesn’t take too long for multiple cloud projects to crop up throughout the company. A recent survey by cloud management firm RightScale sheds more light on the ‘bet you can’t deploy just one’ trend in cloud adoption.
Full Story >Cloud Connect Presents Lifecycle Solutions for Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud
At last week’s UBM TechWeb Cloud Connect conference in California, attendees found a wave of insight, product releases and demos of soon-to-be-released technologies for all parts of the cloud design-test-deploy-manage lifecycle. IDN takes a quick virtual tour of some of the highlights.
Full Story >Cloud in 2012: Cloud, ALM Combine for New Software Lifecycle Models, CollabNet
More companies will adopt cloud development practices in 2012 as IT organizations build and deploy software in the cloud, according to CollabNet. The result will be new lifecycle models for software design, development and deployment.
Full Story >Cloud Experts Make Recommendations To Spur Government Cloud Adoption
A commission of 71 top cloud computing experts has released IT and policy recommendations to help governments adopt cloud computing. IDN looks at core recommendations from the “Cloud First Buyer’s Guide for Government” with commission member Sanjay Poonen, president of SAP’s global solutions unit.
Full Story >Opscode Ships Infrastructure Automation for Public, Private Clouds
Opscode Inc. has released to GA its Hosted Chef cloud infrastructure automation solution and announced a new Private Chef, which bundles Hosted Chef components into an appliance for on-premise enterprise private clouds. Both products are based on Opscode’s open-source systems integration framework for automating critical cloud operations.
Full Story >Survey: Cloud Expansion Drives Need for Management in 2011
As 2011 begins, cloud computing is gathering momentum for mid-sized and large firms. A recent survey found 80% of organizations with at least 1,000 employees have a cloud service; and more than half report using at least six cloud services.
Full Story >Morphlabs Management Controls Public Cloud Deployments
Morphlabs, a provider of private and public cloud infrastructure, is rolling out a cloud management platform called mCloud On-Demand, an operational management environment that uses Amazon’s EC2 to deliver enterprise-class applications over the public cloud.
Full Story >Evans 2010 Cloud Developer Survey Reveals Top Requirements, Trends
Developers looking for private or public cloud solutions have top two requirements -- security and reliability, according to the just-released 2010 Cloud Development Survey from Evans Data Corp. IDN speaks with Evans’ CEO Janel Garvin about other key survey findings.
Full Story >Yankee Group Warns Enterprises on Public Cloud Risks
For CIOs, enterprise architects and other IT professionals looking to exploit resources from the public cloud, Yankee Group researchers have two words for you: Caveat Emptor. In its first-of-its-kind report, Yankee Group evaluated more than 40 top providers of cloud-based software, infrastructure and PaaS providers, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and Rackspace.
Full Story >IBM, Cast Iron Deal Opens New Chapter in Cloud Integration
IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron Systems will bring a new level of automation and accuracy to cloud integration, and in so doing open a new chapter in IBM’s plan for enterprise-caliber cloud integration for public, private and hybrid models. Integration Developer News spoke with many key execs involved in the deal.
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