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• From the Editor: Forget the Tech

  Added 17th May 2013

  Indian companies no longer invest in technology, rather they fund business outcomes. Forget the tech, focus on your clients’ business drivers.

• Software Licensing In The Cloud

  Added 19th Apr 2013

  Third-party software shall be exclusively subject to the terms and conditions between the third-party software provider and Customer. The vendor shall have no liability for third-party software.

• What Cloud Computing Means For The Future Of IT Organizations

  Added 10th Apr 2013

  One thing is safe to predict: Cloud computing is going to look much different than the common IT vision of faster service desk support.

• Is Your Cloud System a Mess? Our Self-Assessment Tool Will Tell You

  Added 21st Feb 2013

  Although it's difficult to provide an assessment tool for every kind of cloud platform or application, you can tailor the following framework to the specific cloud services in your organization.

• From the Editor : A Brave New Year

  Added 22nd Jan 2013

  The most significant trend in 2012 that impacted Indian enterprise IT was the slowdown in the economy. The brakes on growth caused enterprises of all sizes to relook IT investments.

• The Amazon Outage in Perspective: Failure Is Inevitable, So Manage Risk

  Added 8th Nov 2012

  An in-depth analysis of what happened during October's Amazon Web Services outage and how IT leaders should prepare for such incidents in the future.

• Different Cloud Survey, Same Cloud Adoption Concerns

  Added 2nd Aug 2012

  Projects teams will individually choose to implement their application in a cloud environment—because of the agility and economic benefits and despite the security concerns.

• Floating Customer Master Data into the Clouds

  Added 15th Jun 2012

  If you are lucky enough to already have an ESB and customer master database, and everyone's already using them, congratulations. The other 99.9 percent of you should read on.

• How to Address Cloud Application Lifecycle Challenges

  Added 18th May 2012

  Earlier, I wrote about the fact that IT organizations are now executing an "and" cloud computing strategy, in the sense that their future plans include (most likely) an internal cloud based on VMware and an external cloud.

• Is Your Cloud Provider Exposing Remnants of Your Data?

  Added 16th May 2012

  If your organization uses a multi-tenant managed hosting service or IaaS cloud for some or all of your data and you aren't following best practices by encrypting that data you may be inadvertently exposing it.

• Careers in the Cloud

  Added 8th May 2012

  There are two sides to the cloud computing coin: the buy and the sell. I surmise from your question that your friends are moving to sell-side consultancy and delivery firms. If you're at a traditional company, now is your moment to step up and lead the charge. You can really distinguish yourself as the cloud expert in your firm.

• CIOs' Cloud Strategy Must Include Public Cloud

  Added 27th Apr 2012

  It is true that many developers embraced Amazon Web Services for its easy resource availability and low cost -- a.k.a. its "agility." However, to presume that the issue is caused by individuals offered (or coerced into using) a private cloud is to fundamentally misunderstand the phenomenon of "shadow IT."

• From the Editor: Dump Incentives

  Added 24th Apr 2012

  I’ve typically seen that in more organizations than not, it’s incentives or compensation that’s expected to drive employees to deliver more, better and faster. But is this a good way to keep a team going forward?

• 12 Tips to Avoid Gridlock in the Cloud

  Added 4th Apr 2012

  Science fiction is fine, but cloud vendors are innovating like mad and it's early days for deployment infrastructure and discipline. The best cloud vendors do a good job for their direct customers, but there's not much they can do for other vendors' technology, let alone open source services.

• Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs

  Added 25th Jan 2012

  Having sat through a number of discussions on the topic of Cloud Computing and SLAs, the following truth is inescapable: SLAs are not about increasing availability; their purpose is to provide the basis for post-incident legal combat.

• Is Your Cloud Support Agile?

  Added 18th Jan 2012

  But agile really is focused on development —all the agile manifesto authors came from the development discipline — and not on the ongoing obligations of system support. Where agile optimizes speed and business value of innovation, it doesn't have much to say about MTTR or cost optimization. Do agile principles help in support organizations? You bet! Do they pan out in your support team? You be the judge!

• 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012

  Added 6th Jan 2012

  While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out to us for their potential to deliver game-changing innovations in a wide array of fields, including cloud computing, enterprise search and mobile application development.

• Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud

  Added 5th Jan 2012

  With all the talk about cloud, it can be easy to forget that there are risks that go beyond security. Users, by now accustomed to LAN-like speed and quality, could rebel if they experience performance or latency issues.

• Changing Cloudscape

  Added 23rd Dec 2011

  Cloud computing. Over the past many months and years it’s not been possible to escape the deluge of technical treatises, media articles, and marketing messages on this subject, has it?

• Cloud UI design mistakes to avoid

  Added 16th Dec 2011

  I've written for years that it is impossible to make a product too easy to use. But the industry has proved me wrong, by making products that are so focused on easy that they encourage sloppy, unmaintainable system configurations. In the pursuit of something easy enough for mortals to use (and sales reps to demo), some cloud vendors are paving the way for a big mess a few months after deployment.