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DISA Chief Technologist States Plan for Cloud
In an interview reported on in this month’s Military Information Technology magazine, David Mihelcic, DISA Chief Technology Officer, has laid out his goal for the agency’s cloud computing initiative. As…
Google, GeoEye, Twitter. What a Combination!
On September 9th, Bob Lozano posted his kudos to GeoEye for a successful launch of GeoEye-1. (Hey Bob! Where’s that post on your “cloud failure” last week?) According to their…
RightScale goes Transcloud
Over the weekend, Maureen O’Gara of SYS-CON media reported that RightScale is now offering a “first in industry” capability to provide application management across multiple cloud infrastructures. It now offers…
A Bill to Outlaw Cloud Computing…..
… is what we may see if we don’t educate our lawmakers now! That seemed to be one of the main point at last week’s Google workshop in DC. Berin…
Military Information Technology Cloud Computing Collaboration
Today, we’re happy to announce what we believe to be an industry first. “Military Information Technology Magazine“, as the publication of record for the defense information technology community, is collaborating…
Is 99.999% reliability good enough?
According to Reuven Cohen in his recent post, Cloud Failure: The Myth of Nines , the whole concept of reliability may be meaningless. “In the case of a physical failure…
You Probably Use Cloud Computing Already.
56% of internet users use webmail services such as Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo! Mail. 34% store personal photos online. 29% use online applications such as Google Documents or Adobe Photoshop…
20 Real-Life Challenges of Cloud Computing
Nikita Ivanov of GridGain offers some excellent insight into the nuts and bolts of getting the cloud to work. Definitely worth a read. To summarize: Most likely you do NOT…
3Tera Announces Global Cloud Services
Last week, 3Tera has announced the availability of global cloud services, based on their AppLogic grid operating system. 3Tera is currently running data centers in seven countries (United States, Japan,…
- Train and educate your IT team on the cloud model and required business processes;
- Build much-neededrapport and collaboration between the business team and IT team;
- Accelerate attainment of the Hybrid Cloud/Hybrid IT target end state; and
- Effectively move the organization down the necessary digital transformation path.
- CarMax– a Fortune® 500 company with more than 175 stores across the US and over 6 million cars sold
- IHG – one of the world’s leading hotel companies, with more than 375,000 people working across almost 100 countries to deliver True Hospitality for everyone; and
- Smithfield Foods – the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer, committed to providing good food in a responsible way.
- Application response time drop from 600ms to 70 ms;
- No unplanned IT outages;
- Increased visibility into business key performance indicators;
- A transition from a reactive to a predictive decision making culture;
- A 60% reduction in required IT resources; and
- The desired enablement of business innovation.
To learn more about starting your company’s path towards the hybrid cloud, take a look at the Microsoft Office Modern Workplace episode on Hybrid Cloud. In it, Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing at Microsoft, Julia White, and Tim Crawford from AVOA address how organizations can build the right cloud strategy for the business and its impact on digital transformation.
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