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SOA-R!! Another Hit !!
Yesterday’s SOA-R event coverage by TECH Bisnow Washington was yet another indication that cloud computing is real in the Federal space. Thanks goes to Mr. Dave Stegon from Bisnow on Business and Pauline Healy from Apptis. Thanks…
World Summit of Cloud Computing, December 1-2, 2008, Wohl Centre, Ramat Gan, Israel
I am proud to announce that I’ve been invited to speak at the “World Summit of Cloud Computing“, December 1-2, 2008, at the Wohl Centre in Ramat Gan, Israel. As…
MIT Survey: What A Response !!
We’ve been quite surprised by the number of survey responses we’ve received. THANK YOU !! That subset of the cloud computing community interested in national security and public sector applications…
Cloud Auction Business Model
The other day I talked about how cloud computing could change the government’s budgeting process. Well what about this! Last week, Google filed a patent application that describes a system…
Oracle: To Cloud or Not To Cloud …
First Oracle’s Larry Ellison bashes cloud computing as nothing but hype and then his company announces that it will let customers run Oracle 10g and 11g databases and its Fusion…
Capacity planning in a cloud environment
In her post “Cloud computing killed the capacity star“, Ivanka Menken brings up some good points. Just think what changes this could bring to the government budgeting process. The trends…
Cloud Databases
Joab Jackson, in his “Cloud computing leaving relational databases behind” article, makes some pretty interesting points on the incompatibility of relational databases with cloud-based infrastructures. He first list the various…
The 6 layers of the Cloud Computing Stack
From Sam Johnston’s Taxonomy post Clients (examples) are computer hardware and/or computer software which rely on The Cloud for application delivery, or which is specifically designed for delivery of cloud…
Thank You KMI Media Group
In this month’s Editor’s Perspective, Mr. Harrison Donnelly announced the new KMI Media Group collaborative effort. Military Information Technology will be using the blogosphere to get their government and industry…
VMware, Cisco and the Virtual Datacenter
Last week, VMware and Cisco announced their latest collaboration for the virtual datacenter of the future. The Cisco Nexus® 1000V distributed virtual software switch is expected to be an integrated…
- Financial changes designed to minimize CAPEX and maximize OPEX.
- Acquisition changes that prioritize as-a-service IT consumption and multisource procurement.
- Operational changes that shift from data center ownership and physical management toward the virtual management of IT services from data centers owned by AWS, Azure, IBM and Hosted VMware providers.
What’s Driving Innovation?
- Monolithic designs, toward designs that aggregate the use of microservices.
- Agile and Waterfall management models, toward fully automated DevOps.
- Physical infrastructures and virtual servers, toward containerized environments.
- How to design and build new apps.
- How to modernize existing apps with cloud services.
- How to optimize the IT owned and operated by the enterprise.
Pursue Multipath Digital Transformation
- How IT service consumption is changing into a commerce-like transaction similar to buying songs from multiple online streaming music vendors;
- How IT service delivery is changing from service requests that initiate workflows towards fully automated functions governed by IT corporate policies;
- How IT service governance is changing from incident keyed governance after-the-fact to the proactive setting and enforcement of policies that control consumption based on individual business unit usage models and cloud adoption strategies.
- Run a strategic portfolio analysis: Prioritized based on importance to customer experience, focus on high priority apps.
- Develop your app-by-app migration plan: For priority, application create a focused SWT Team for each application.
- Create a customer-obsessed cloud team: Think products and not projects (short iterations with quick customer feedback).
- Pursue relentless automation: This requires standardization.
- Re-engage with your trusted partners: External advice in the early change of a cloud migration can kick off the required culture change.
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