Tag: cloud
Automation overdrive: from IaaS to Blueprint engine
"Automation is the lifeblood of cloud," according to David Shacochis. "It’s like liquidity in the financial sphere — if we had to barter and...
Building support for cloud adoption
For users of IT, cloud entails new ways of thinking about the acquisition and consumption of technology. But if properly understood and managed, cloud’s...
CTS managed services now "cloudified"
Is ‘IT-as-a-service’ a creature of vendor marketing departments or reality for consumers of IT today? As with most definitional questions in the world of...
Calculating the human cost of cloud
Cloud business value has become axiom in the discourse around new computing models. Beyond the potential cost savings associated with more efficient use of...
Enterprise cloud adoption
Fact or fiction: enterprises are spending more than ten percent of their IT budgets on the cloud.
That's fact for almost 60 percent of the...
CenturyLink Technology Solutions moving "up the stack"
A way to separate the providers from the players, solutions focus enables vendor organizations to move up the value chain to client conversations around...
AtmanCo adopts Azure to support growth
Background
Founded in 2003 by psychologist and president Michel Guay, AtmanCo is a provider of multilingual personality testing services to HR departments on a global...
InsightaaS and TechConnex talk cloud tactics and tools
What is the current state of cloud adoption, how are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS evolving and what steps can users take to maximize the...
Savvis now CenturyLink Technology Solutions
What’s in a name? Savvis changed its name today to CenturyLink Technology Solutions, building on an integration with the global network services provider that...
A budget-friendly approach to flash storage
A mathematics and IT management specialist from the University of Calgary, John Schouten embarked on his career in the IT industry through work to...
Savvis Canada acting on "aggressive growth plans"
Savvis has been doing its homework - and executing on plans that have emerged from this study. The Missouri-based cloud and colocation specialist is...
Eric Gales on building VMware opportunity
VMware has undergone significant transformation over the past year. Under the leadership of Pat Gelsinger, appointed CEO in September, 2012, the company has streamlined...
vCloud Hybrid Services lift off
To cloud or not to cloud? That has been the question dogging the global leader in virtualization software for some time now. But at...
SAP and UST explore hybrid cloud
Consensus has built in market research around the notion that for most organizations hybrid implementation is a long-term stop on the journey to the...
VMworld 2013 forum for SDDC
SAN FRANCISCO - VMware celebrated its tenth annual user conference by enjoining attendees to "Defy Convention." Broadly recognized as the creative deployment of IT...