5 questions you must answer before choosing your IaaS cloud strategy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has enabled organizations to rent IT infrastructure from a service provider rather than purchasing the technology and hosting it internally. IaaS cloud has moved ahead of the general cost-benefit upsides and has allowed organizations to develop and host highly voluminous consumer-facing and B2B content.

According to Gartner, using IaaS cloud, we can also develop enterprise applications, enable disaster recovery and create high-performance computation solutions. source: www.blogs.msdn.microsoft.com Implementing IaaS cloud can be a challenging task….

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Constructing an effective Hybrid IT model CIOs have been the gatekeepers of infrastructure, controlling end-to-end IT decision-making. These days, many organizations have their IT infrastructure operated by multiple external service providers. As a result, CIOs are finding themselves managing and monitoring much more complicated IT environments. The hybrid IT model presents a very different landscape.

The rapid introduction of evolved and pervasive technology is fundamentally changing how organizations go to market with products and services, interact with their customers, innovate and achieve competitive advantage. CIOs…

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5 benefits of Cloud IaaS Cloud infrastructure has enabled business units, teams and individuals to make IT buying decisions outside the control of the IT department. But it is also bringing in new business risks. Business leaders should hence be informed clearly about the benefits of cloud so that they can make better decisions.

The last thing an organization leader wants to worry about when improving processes is whether the infrastructure can keep up with the need to innovate and respond to competitive pressures….

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Why do businesses prefer Public Cloud IaaS?  Only 2% of all virtual machines (VMs) were delivered through public cloud providers in 2009 and 2010. By 2011, about 3% of all VMs were running within public IaaS cloud providers. The number of VMs in public cloud have grown by a factor of nearly twenty since then.

Although it is not unusual for large chunks of VM capacity that is being paid for to go unused or underutilized, the public cloud IaaS is far larger now than…

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Private cloud or virtualization automation? The private cloud trend started around six years ago when virtualization deployments were growing rapidly and maturing. During such time, virtualization automation became the goal in larger deployments for many organizations.

The majority of private cloud projects have been experiencing problems because of the transformational nature of cloud computing on both the provider and the user. Hence, most organizations have shifted…

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Evaluating existing systems for Cloud IaaS  More and more enterprises today have begun to rely on cloud providers for hosting mission-critical applications. This has raised the stakes for selecting the right cloud service. We discuss here a few key factors for evaluating cloud IaaS services.

The cloud computing market is exploding with possibilities as new players emerge and take the market forward with them. Hence, organizations need to evaluate their existing cloud IaaS systems to…

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What is context aware business computing? Context awareness is a property of mobile devices which is complementary to location awareness. Location, as we know, may determine how some processes around a contributing device operate. Context, on the other hand, may be applied more flexibly with mobile users, especially with smart phones. We here look at some of its business use cases.

Originating from ubiquitous computing, which sought to deal with linking changes in the environment with static computer systems, context computing is also applied to contextual application design and business process…

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