Cloud Computing

Andrea on October 24th, 2011

At a recent Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, introduced what he sees to be 10 key topics for next year’s CIO and business agendas: 1 Virtualization: nothing new here 2 Big data, patterns and analytics: ability to make sense of large unstructured [...]

Continue reading about 10 key IT trends for 2012 according to Gartner
Andrea on September 4th, 2011

While browsing I came across the NIST definition of Cloud computing. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (part of the U.S. Department of Commerce) has proposed this: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) [...]

Continue reading about Cloud computing definition
Andrea on April 26th, 2011

One of the best joke I have seen on Cloud Computing. It symbolizes the current management knowledge, a lot of potential is seen, but it remains mostly a big question mark. To the skeptics, it is another to make you pay Virtualization services more than they should, o a marketing reminiscence of SaaS or, worse, ASP…

Continue reading about Let the clouds make your life easier
Andrea on March 23rd, 2010

On Friday I will participate to the 1st summit on Cloud Computing and Virtualization strategies organised by Business International at the Enterprise Hotel in Milan. It’s going to be a bunch of CIOs giving talks all day long on actual business cases, I hope it’s not going to be just a sales pitching exercise…

Continue reading about A cloudy and virtualized Friday is coming…
Andrea on March 8th, 2010

Pam Baker’s article from CIO Update on the new skills needed by CIOs to succeed in this age Cloud Computing and software-as–a-service (SaaS).  http://bit.ly/aqymJj

Continue reading about IT Leadership – The Rise of the New CIO