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As the market for cloud computing matures, there is growing awareness of its potential among chief executives and finance directors. However, that awareness tends to be based on three misconceptions.

Assessing and Understanding Cloud-based Models

Gartner Research tells us that cloud-based service revenue is projected to touch $148.8B by 2014. Yet, not many people-apart from the consultants- understand what the cloud is and what are its implications?

Public Cloud Revenue to Rise 21.6 percent by 2014

Cloud computing revenue in the US public sector is expected to grow by 21.6 percent over the next few years, according to the latest survey by International Data Corporation (IDC)

Considering What, When and How to Move to the Cloud

Cloud computing has been the hot topic in enterprise IT for a while. Any quick web news search will reveal thousands of news releases announcing the arrival of new cloud applications designed for businesses and consumers. In fact, a major Gartner CIO survey has cloud computing as the number two technology priority for CIOs.

Operations: Getting Cloud Computing Right

Few technologies have received as much hype in the past couple of years as cloud computing. Virtually every major IT provider such as Amazon, Google, HP, Intel and IBM is now aggressively promoting their new CC services

Services Cloud Big Opportunity for Indian IT

Indian IT firms are likely to extend their services focus to the fast-evolving cloud economy as well, said panelists at the Cloud Computing track of the Bangalore IT.biz 2010.

Cloud Computing Outsourcing is On the Rise

It appears this trend towards the cloud will continue with almost half of the respondents reporting that they intend to spend more on their cloud infrastructures in future

IT Outsourcing Profiles And Why They Matter

Organizations can benefit greatly from determining what their current IT Infrastructure Outsourcing (ITO) profile is, which IT services to outsource, and which functions should remain in-house to realize savings on capital expenses and reduced total cost of ownership

Catching The Cloud: Managing Risk When Utilizing Cloud Computing

The term cloud computing refers to the practice of outsourcing a portion of a companys technology environment to a shared third-party environment. Although the terminology is relatively new, cloud computing is not an entirely new concept. In the past, similar offerings were known as application service providers.

Seeding the Cloud

Cloud technologies are evolving at a very fast pace and it may take a couple of years before they fully mature. So, like most emerging technologies, the current hype may shortly give way to disillusionment before it becomes a mainstream technology

IT Departments Move Low-Risk Services to the Cloud

Most IT decision makers polled by outsourcing consultancy TPI say moving ERP and vertical industry applications into the cloud is too risky, but they remain interested in testing the viability of cloud computing through pilot projects or with low-risk IT services

Managed Print Services Drive Value for Businesses

The economic climate raised the profile for print/document output as the last unmanaged frontier when it comes to optimizing IT infrastructure. Now more than ever, companies are calling on managed print services (MPS) to save money and spur growth

Cloud Services as Strategy for Data Center Companies and Outsourcing

BroadGroup has recently released a new data center report revealing that hybrid cloud is seen as the next major opportunity where efficiencies can be gained by using public cloud for non-critical applications

Virtual NY's Life on the Cloud

Startups lead the way, using cloud computing to reap savings and boost speed to market

How To Make Hosted Web Security Services Work

Outsourcing web security functions sounds good on paper, but how do you make hosted services work in your organization? A new Dark Reading report offers some answers

Hybrid Cloud Computing Security: Real Life Tales

Industry experts say that despite the well-publicized worries about security, the mixed IT environment will likely appeal to many organizations, particularly global enterprises

Next Generation Data Centers

Traditional data center designs are proving too rigid for supporting the evolving needs of enterprises- private and public

Dealing with The Top 10 Risks in Public Cloud Computing

Public cloud computing risks are numerous enough to field a top 10 -- or even more. Professional organizations and CIOs are developing threat lists to help them come to grips with the public cloud, an entity that will continue to seep into the enterprise IT environment whether they like it or not.

Cloud Dominates IT Priority List

New research shows that IT professionals have identified cloud computing as their top priority this year. Enabling mobile and end-user devices came in a distant second

EquaTerra Reports Cloud Computing to Dominate Outsourcing Market

According to EquaTerras 4Q10 Advisor and Business/IT Service Provider Pulse Survey.* Demand for outsourcing and third-party services is expected to grow moderately in 2011, but the pie will be divvied up differently as the industry continues to evolve. Buyers are doing more multiple small deals in a range of sub-process areas, outsourcing new types of work and experimenting with a range of cloud-based offerings.

Business Processes can be Outsourced with SaaS

With many businesses looking to trim a little off their IT budget in recent years, in response to a global economic downturn, cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) have both grown in popularity in contrast to traditional, in-house IT

Cloud Turning Outsourcing 'Upside Down'

Cloud computing is set for a bright future and will turn traditional outsourcing "upside down", but the latter is not likely to disappear for "many years yet", according to an industry analyst

Cloud Computing: An Opportunity to Cut Costs

Cloud computing has arrived on the scene at a time when the search for efficiencies is at its peak

Outsourcing: Cloud is Changing the Rules

Something we've speculated here on these pages for some time is what service orientation (aka cloud) will do to outsourcing

Ex-US GCIO Warns on Cloud Security

Former United States cabinet-level government CIO Hord Tipton says that policymakers in Asia are right to be cautious about cloud computing, and should think carefully about the risks they are taking before they take the plunge

From Silos to Systems Management Towards a Holistic Virtual Infrastructure

The argument is as old as the datacenter itself: should I buy infrastructure management tools from multiple, best-of-breed vendors or should I invest in a platform with integrated solutions?

SaaS: Time to Jump-in?

What are the options in SaaS and how is it changing the delivery of outsourced IT?

H-P's Services Story: More about Cost Cutting, Less about Expansion

Outsourcing advisory Pace Harmon feels that H-Ps foray into global outsourcing services is not yet significant.

Putting Applications into the Cloud Not so Clear-cut a Process

The enabling technologies of cloud computing -- the Internet, service-oriented architecture and virtualization -- have orbited IT for years, but experts say a convergence has reached escape velocity: The time is right for applications in the cloud. But how do CIOs choose which applications to deploy?

Will the Cloud Kill Data Centers?

We are in the midst of an overwhelming wave of cloud computing being the next big game changer in IT. Some even say that companies will stop building their own data centers and completely move over to cloud, while others believe that data centers will continue to have their place under the sun