Cloud Adoption from the Bottom Up
It may come as a surprise to some that the CIO of a company is often the last to know about cloud adoption in the organization. According to industry experts, cloud adoption rates are showing bottom up trends. Surveys of CIOs reveal significantly lower cloud adoption than similar surveys of developers. This article takes a [...]
DMTF & Cloud Management Standards
Over the last few years, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, formerly known as the Desktop Management Task Force), has developed a number of cloud management standards aimed at enterprise IT managers to better deliver cloud services, reduce IT costs and improve operational efficiencies. This article takes a look at the progress the DMTF has [...]
Cloud Computing Manifesto
The Cloud Computing Manifesto is a document describing the principles and intentions guiding cloud computing providers and vendors. While it touts itself as “a call to action for the worldwide cloud community” under the “dedicated believe that the cloud should be open,” there are some detractors who point out that there are significant problems with [...]
Managing Virtualization & Cloud Interoperability
Virtualization is an attractive option for enterprises and other organizations as it allows IT managers to increase usage of existing physical resources, while reducing the number of systems being deployed and managed. It facilitates consolidation of an IT infrastructure, thus reducing IT costs overall. This article takes a look at how proper management of virtualization [...]
