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Migrating to the cloud means more work than you think

Tue, 08/07/2012 - 16:26

Remember that survey that concluded that moving to the cloud took a long time and was very hard? Well, it looks like it takes a lot of work as well. Geeze, isn't all this stuff suppoosed to make life easier? Taking advantage of the cloud -- IaaS and PaaS, in particular -- requires a lot more work than most IT departments realize. And before you roll your eyes at yet another column about the cloud, it gets worse: I'm going to do something we geezers in training do a lot of.

Forecast for systems administrators: Cloudy

Fri, 08/03/2012 - 09:14

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), jobs in the network and systems administration field will grow 28% from 2010 to 2020, compared with an average of 14% for all occupations. Computerworld's annual Salary Survey defines a system administrator as someone who "installs new software releases and system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches, resolves software-related problems, performs system backups and recovery, maintains data files, and monitors system configuration."

Cloud monitoring

Sun, 07/29/2012 - 11:07

Today's monitoring tools are also casting a wider net, supplementing their site testing with additional data. Some tools integrate data gathered from the Web server, application server, and the network. Others search out data from third-party partners that can reveal how the website is performing. If the external data reveals problems, the monitoring tool can deploy more tests that probe the website to explain why the numbers aren't adding up.

Will Tech Industry Ever Fix Passwords?

Thu, 07/26/2012 - 19:31

Wait too long to address known security holes, and CIOs should worry about seeing their companies targeted, hacked and eventually vilified in the press. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 189 known breaches from Jan. 1 of this year through the beginning of June. Those breaches have exposed approximately 13.7 million records.

The death of the Lapdock: The post-PC future that won't be

Sun, 07/22/2012 - 11:14

The Lapdock is now essentially dead. The new Motorola Atrix HD smartphone revealed yesterday doesn't support the Lapdock or the WebTop software that tied it and Android together. Motorola isn't saying that the Lapdock is dead (nor that it is alive), but of course it is dead. The Atrix 4G ushered in the Lapdock, and the Atrix HD is ushering it out.

How IT Leaders Can Negotiate a SaaS Partner Contract

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 15:53

You can never glean too much advice and infomation about negotiating your SaaS contract. All companies great and small will eventually work with a SaaS provider. In most cases, the standard contract should suffice, but CIOs will never know what they can add (or subtract) if they don't ask. ALways ask - what's the worse that can happen?

3 ways to prep for a move to the cloud

Mon, 07/16/2012 - 13:37

A move to the cloud requires a certain amount of prep work in the enterprise. If you listen to the spin from those who provide cloud services and technology, it's no big deal. I'm here to tell you it is. To ready your enterprise for public and private cloud adoption, you need to focus on three key areas:

Becoming service-aware
Dealing with distributed security
Upgrading skills

Severe weather intensifies focus on disaster planning

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 14:43

Severe thunderstorms knocked out power to 1.2 million homes in the D.C. area. Wildfires ravaged more than 2 million acres in the Rockies. Two-thirds of the country is in drought conditions, and flooding is expected to get worse as the time between rainstorms lengthen and, in turn, grow more intense. Intensifying weather patterns threaten businesses as global warming raises the temperatures of the oceans. Disaster recovery plans that include only backing up data regionally may need to be rethought, experts say.

Addressing security in a cloud-enabled organization

Mon, 07/09/2012 - 17:57

The adoption of cloud computing is rapidly gathering momentum, as more companies use this technology to store data and access applications online. However as cloud computing becomes more mainstream, security concerns are being raised. A recent survey of 150 CIOs and CTOs in Asia Pacific revealed that security was the most prevalent concern among the respondents when migrating their technology functions to the cloud. In fact 44% of those surveyed in Hong Kong were concerned most about security.

Should Cloud Contracts Cover Client Responsibilities?

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 14:41

THere are many areas that the client can appropriately take responsibility for in a cloud computing contract. Understanding which client responsibilities are appropriate to include in the contract, as well as how the client can most effectively fulfill those responsibilities, remains an important element in the effective adoption of a cloud computing service. Here are a few of those area:

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