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Maybe google just knows me too well, but searching for “cloud” points me to answers about “cloud computing” before the fluffy stuff in the sky. Does this order apply to how our clients think as well? I don’t expect so, though I’ll be glad enough to stand corrected. Some definitions of “Cloud” that may prevail for many ...

Much of the resistance to cloud computing is by operational IT staff. Some of this resistance is based on real concerns; most of it is because of the fear of loss of control. IT Pros seem to fear that the moment the physical, on site datacentre disappears that they will lose their power base and jobs. Service rather than server The constant ...

Large enterprise databases that form the backbone of business are not going to move out to a cloud computing platform any time soon, but more and more data will be processed in and originate the cloud and data professionals need to understand how to work with data in the cloud. Non Transactional Data Processing The delay between transactions ...

At first you would think that in a world cloud computing applications would look and behave the same as any other web application – after all it is the financial model for computing that has changed, not what is served up, right? For many of the large websites that we use today that is generally true – cloud computing doesn’t change much. What ...

Testers, who are normally derided as the poor cousins in IT, have an opportunity in cloud computing to assert their value to the development and operation of solutions. Any cloud computing project that implements the standard non-cloud test strategy (that may be working well for traditional systems) is in for a big surprise as they approach the go ...

As cloud computing projects get under way, the demand for cloud savvy business analysts is going to outstrip demand. Cloud computing introduces more than just technical changes as it forces changes to IT processes and alters the way that the business interacts with its customers. Compliance The most obvious areas are in compliance, risk and ...

At first glance there would seem to be little that creatives need to know about cloud computing – after all, it is just another hosting platform right? But there are some key things that creatives need to think about. I don’t wear the right clothes to know enough about the creative processes or roles, so I will, for the sake of convenience lump ...

Whether software development or infrastructure, the manner in which cloud computing projects are delivered is different enough to require a slightly different approach to project management. So while the same elements exist on cloud computing projects as any other, the sequence that they need to be done in is a bit jumbled up, the focus is higher ...

As much as cloud computing is getting media attention and is being hyped as the way that IT is going to be done in future, it seems that many people within the IT industry are ignoring it for now. While technologists, CIO’s and data centre professionals are giving cloud computing a look, other important roles within the IT chain seem to feel that ...

There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not Amazon EC2 is oversubscribed and as Reuven Cohen points out, oversubscription is used across a variety of services and industries.  The most widely accepted and understood oversubscription model is that of airlines, where it is common practice to overbook flights by as much as 50%.  ...