Cloud

Ecosystem Cloud: Predicting the Outcome Before the Data Is In
May 16, 2013

With its just-launched “Ecosystem Cloud” research, EMA is trying to understand how different sized IT organizations are managing applications and other services with options for internal cloud, external cloud, hybrid, and traditional infrastructure ...

Operational Siloes Hinder Effectiveness of Cloud Applications, Survey Says
May 15, 2013

Operational silos are often preventing organizations from realizing the promise of improved business performance and highlighted the need for a broad set of integrated cloud applications, according to Oracle's Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly report ...

Cloud Value Expanding With Greater Adoption, Survey Says
May 08, 2013

Companies are reporting more benefits and fewer challenges with expanded adoption of cloud computing, according to
RightScale's second annual State of the Cloud survey ...

Don't Let Perishable Apps Go Bad
April 24, 2013

What if your mission-critical app is not designed to last? What if your app is perishable with a shelf life of only a few hours or days? With these apps, traditional monitoring and remediation become irrelevant. The app will expire before it can be fixed. But, that doesn't mean that perishable apps are fated to be poor performing and unsatisfying. Proper planning, testing, and additional resources can keep your perishable apps from going bad ...

Q&A: EMA Talks About ITIL and Cloud
April 22, 2013

EMA VP Dennis Drogseth and EMA Director Torsten Volk discuss recent EMA research such as The Service Desk in the Age of Cloud and Agile and Demystifying Cloud as well as prior EMA research on cloud adoptions as they impact strategic management requirements ...

Service Assurance Key to Realizing the Benefits of Cloud and Big Data
April 16, 2013

Innovative business models and services such as cloud and big data analytics aren’t possible without a strategic Service Assurance portfolio underpinned by infrastructure management, according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CA Technologies ...

40% of IT Managers Experience Cloud Outage, Survey Says
April 01, 2013

Delivering services through cloud computing is a high priority objective for many IT departments, even though nearly 4 of 10 IT managers say they’ve experienced a cloud outage, according to a survey from Kelton Research, commissioned by TeamQuest Corporation ...

Q&A Part Three: TRAC Research Talks About the APM Spectrum
March 27, 2013

Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, talks about the APM Spectrum report, APM in the cloud, mobility, APM/NPM convergence and more ...

Infographic: Average of 7.5 Hours to Recover from Outages
March 19, 2013

Average downtime per outage across clouds, private data centers and traditional hosting providers is 7.5 hours, according to a new infographic created by RightScale ...

EMA Recognizes Leading Private Cloud Management Platform Solutions from the End-User Perspective
February 28, 2013

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) announced the release of its newest EMA Radar Report titled: EMA Radar Report for Private Cloud Management Platforms.