RentTheCloud.com Debuts to Help CIOs Adopt Cloud Computing
Real Estate-Inspired Methodology Matches Buyers with Cloud Properties
RentTheCloud.com Debuts to Help CIOs Adopt Cloud
A-Frame Technology Services on Thursday announced the availability of
RentTheCloud.com, a brokerage service that matches companies seeking cloud
services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) with cloud vendors. Unlike the uncertainties and
risks of conventional approaches to evaluating, selecting, and implementing a
cloud service, RentTheCloud.com is 100% success-based, like a realtor. Fees
are based on a "cloud brokerage agreement" modeled after a standard realtor
agreement and equal to one or two months of the cloud rental fee.
The RentTheCloud.com website currently lists the profiles of more than 100
cloud vendors, like a realty website lists properties. IT executives can
quickly search the market of quality... (more)
There was a time when application developers worried only about the hardware
they were developing the application for. Those days passed a good long while
ago, and then AppDev’s big concern was the OS the application was being
developed for. But the burgeoning growth of the World Wide Web combined with
the growth of Java and Linux to drive development out of the OS and into the
JVM. Then, the developer focused on the JVM in question, or in many cases on
the interpreted language interfaces – but not the OS or hardware. For our
purposes I have lumped .NET in with JVMs as a simple h... (more)
As with motherhood and apple pie, who can argue with data governance?
Business users like it because it assures critical business decisions are
made based on sound data.
IT likes data governance because as the organization's data stewards, it
shows they are doing a good job.
Compliance officers and risk managers like data governance because it lets
them sleep at night.
Data Governance Is Challenging
Liking it is one thing. Doing it is another.
Enterprises are struggling to turn the concept of data governance into a
reality due to significantly growing data volumes, variety and va... (more)
Project Insight, online project management software, is assisting teams with
keeping their projects on track during vacation season. With schools out for
summer, many resources decide to take some time away from work. Project
Insight's powerful resource management capabilities are helping organizations
balance their resources' workloads while others are away on holiday.
The graphical displays within the project management software make it easy
for to effectively monitor the available resources' workloads and balance
them accordingly. Many project teams have resources that span acr... (more)
The Hype-Cycle for Emerging Technologies for the year 2011 has been released
by Gartner. As has been the trend from the past less than 60% of the
technologies listed last year find a place in this year’s report. Unlike
last year, there are not many glaring omissions. (Here is an analysis of last
year’s report). However, as is the case like last year, few technologies
appear from nowhere on:
Climbing the Slope
Consumerization The trend for new information technology to emerge first in
the consumer market and then spread into business organizations (see this)
QR/Color Code Quick ... (more)
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