Cloud

5 Steps to Optimizing Your Operations for the Cloud
April 19, 2012

Cloud is one way to respond to business needs faster. But unless you’ve prepped the underlying infrastructure launching services will still require manual work from your staff. Whether you’re just setting up your first private cloud or expanding your hybrid model, follow these steps to ensure your cloud initiative is primed for success ...

Looking for a Single Vendor to Help Lead You Into Cloud?
April 10, 2012

A strong core alignment with the right vendor can potentially help to prepare you for both the cultural and the technical challenges inherent in cloud with some level of cohesiveness. So here are a few things — in a master check list – if you are seeking a Virgil to lead you through Dante's Cloudy Inferno ...

Move to the Cloud or Stay Home?
April 06, 2012

Moving to cloud computing does not have to be a leap of faith. Doing your homework can also prevent a bad decision, because moving an application into the cloud – while technically feasible and fairly easy – may not always reap the benefits you expect. Here are some items to consider before, during and after migrating an application to the cloud ...

The Democratization of Analytics in the Cloud
April 05, 2012

"We've really graduated from the spreadsheet. Today's organizations need to respond much more quickly to market conditions. That means putting more information in the hands of more people in a organization. It's not just an issue of getting information to a few data analysts who are going to interact with the data warehouse." Sound familiar?

Cloud and Bandwidth Demands Challenge IT Teams, Study Finds
March 14, 2012

Network Instruments, a provider of network and application performance monitoring, released its Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study. The results suggest a potential management storm as IT teams face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially increased bandwidth demands.

Infrastructure Management - Do You Still Care?
March 12, 2012

Infrastructure Management is so 1990s. Everyone has it. Could there be anything interesting left to say? Yes -- that it is more critical than ever. It may still be just the plumbing but the demands on it are only growing and yesterday’s point solutions won't do the job ...

Analytics at the Center of the Cloud
March 12, 2012

Today's Cloud services are enabling organizations of all sizes across a rapidly expanding array of industries to capture data, analyze its implications and disseminate timely insight so end-users and executives can act more effectively ...

Q&A Part Two: Insight from Forrester on APM
February 28, 2012

Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester, provides valuable insight into the present state and future of APM ...

The CMDB/CMS Market in Transition
February 22, 2012

On the one hand, many in the industry have begun to dismiss the CMDB as well past its prime, at least in terms of industry hype and attention. For this rather significant population, the CMDB has evolved into a complex and demanding data store with tangible but difficult-to-justify benefits, with questionable relationships to cloud computing and other more dynamic technologies and trends. On the other hand, there have been some significant improvements over the last three to four years ...

7 APM Requirements for Cloud-Readiness
February 21, 2012

It’s no secret that the cloud has forever changed IT. IT is evolving into more distributed, modular, complex architectures. Moving services to the cloud to take advantage of increased agility at a lower cost means taking some risks as there are greater complexities to manage and applications may or may not be in your control. Cloud has essentially changed the game for what’s needed in an enterprise APM solution for today’s modern businesses ...