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Join Now! We have tackled this fundamental question in The New CIO Agenda, a brochure aimed at helping you advance your cloud innovation strategies. Whether your business needs to transform the supply chain or go deeper into so... If you’re in a sophisticated IT shop, you are already familiar with the outsourcing of IT services. Your knowledge and familiarity with the market gives you a leg up when you’re shopping for a service prov... The reality is that hybrid clouds are in your future – like it or not. And, you will WANT to have IaaS resources from multiple providers. In some cases for geographic support, in other cases to have access to di... I’ve been attending Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing this week. At the beginning of the week, we also held our second PRC “Day in the Cloud” event. This particular post will be on the D... Do we really need Gartner to remind us that believing the hype can lead to bad decisions? If so, then we should thank Gartner for reminding us that cloud, OpenStack and many other topics come with a lot of hype and we... Through the Intel ® Cloud Builders program we have been documenting how to build a cloud to address specific usage models. To date, there are 92 of these reference architectures. Getting the cloud software install... Got integration headaches? Try this cloud-bridging solution. When one company acquires another, an IT organization is left with the unenviable job of quickly integrating two existing IT infrastructures. This i... This post originally apeared as an Industry Perspective on Cloud Computing on Data Center Knowledge. I had a chance this week to speak with the CEOs of a number of small companies. One of the things tha... When it comes to protecting the security of your assets in a cloud environment, the core questions are: What do I need to know and what do I need to do? &nb... 1. OSPC for OpenStack We demonstrated OpenStack with Intel ® TXT and Node Manager integration along with an Intel IT developed user interface and portal. We ultimately offer the user interface and portal t... By now you’ve heard from a LOT of us on building a cloud. You have probably heard us talk about performance, efficiency, and trust. But have you ever seen it done? If not, you should take a look at this new vide... As engineers we are fascinated by technology and can ramble and gesticulate for hours on end. But, unless we are buying the drinks, our poor IT customer just gets lost. In reality, the IT customer is having to map the... Maybe you’ve finally figured out why you need to incorporate clouds into your thinking. Let’s see: agility, flexibility, cost savings, new business models, etc. Any one of those is likely enough to warrant... Back in the old days, when the horses escaped from the barn it was a bad thing since they tended to just wander off. Often: no horses meant no food. But, what if the horses ‘wandered off’ to ... If you’ve taken any psychology, you’re probably come across Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This landmark model, often illustrated with a pyramid, explores human needs, from the most basic physiological... In enterprise environments, people are getting serious about cloud computing. An IDC survey found that 44 percent of respondents were considering private clouds. So what’s holding people back? In a word: securit... Anymore, everybody is talking about cloud computing and its potential to drive gains in IT efficiency and flexibility. So why aren’t more organizations actually moving applications to cloud environments? In a wo... Heading to the Cloud Hotel? Consider your security issues. Here is an analogy for looking at security in the cloud: a multi-tenant hotel. I’m sure the analogy will break down at some point, but it seems ... Hopefully you saw the Intel and ODCA announcements today. The formation of an end-user organization to drive requirements into the industry through usage models is a long overdue development. Also, I hope you&... In my last employment life, we documented reference architectures for the part of the IT infrastructure that we impacted (server systems management). But even then, we could only provide an example knowing that there ...
