Virtualized and dynamic cloud infrastructures present operational challenges to IT teams whether in enterprise organizations or cloud-based service providers. Not only are these virtual infrastructures transient and dynamic – making them harder to monitor and control, they also compel IT organizational silos and processes to interplay in ways that were never required in traditional data [...]

While interest in Cloud Computing and related technologies run high, one area that has received little attention so far is the requirements for chargeback and metering. After all, when Enterprises deploy IT systems they need to know which business unit or cost center uses it and pays for it. IT cost allocation is needed to [...]

The news of the week has certainly been the announcement by Oracle of its agreement to purchase Sun for $7.4B. After the much publicized negotiations with IBM that fell through last week, this was surprising - yet, much in the character of Oracle’s bold and big acquisition style. Oracle has acquired around 50 technology companies worth more than $40B [...]

I attended the Cloud Computing Interoperability Workshop in Arlington, VA this week. This was put together by Bob Marcus under the auspices of OMG (Object Management Group). The goal was to bring together the different standard bodies and key commercial vendor participants to jump-start a common approach to the building of cloud standards.
The diversity of the speakers [...]

As Cloud-based delivery models start to make their presence felt, a host of monitoring and management players are making their moves. The Cloud computing industry cannot realize it’s potential, without this important piece of the puzzle taken care of. After all, enterprise customers need the comfort and visibility into their applications and business services on the [...]

Cloud Computing has taken center stage in 2008 as one of the promising new technologies that will drive the next level of innovation in enterprise datacenters and infrastructure outsourcing. In 2008 we saw many players inlcuding the Internet heavyweights – Google (Apps), Amazon (EC2 and S3) and SalesForce (Force.com); and the traditional infrastructure players -  IBM (Blue Cloud), [...]