In keeping with the tradition of the last three to five years, 2012 is being touted by analysts and vendors alike as "the year for VDI." This year there is a slightly new twist to the hype and marketing, and that’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). It’s a simple concept: Employees own devices that they like to use and are most productive on; IT should support the apps and services used to run the business on the employees’ devices. To see the full post visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/232300473.
Why You’re Ready to Create a Private Cloud
I’m catching up on my reading and ran into David Linthicum’s ‘Why you’re not ready to create a private cloud’ (http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/why-youre-not-ready-create-private-cloud-458.) It’s a great article and points out a major issue with private-cloud adoption – internal expertise. The majority of data center teams don’t have the internal expertise required to…
Disaster Recovery and the Cloud
It goes without saying that modern business relies on information technology. As a result, it is essential that operations personnel consider the business impact of outages and plan accordingly. As an illustration, Virgin Blue recently experienced a twenty-hour outage in its reservation system that resulted in losses of up to…
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What Product Management, Sales, and Job Candidates Have in Common
Pop quiz hot-shot. What do the following three people all have in common? A product manager responsible for defining a product, driving engineering, and taking that product to market. Anyone working a sales job for any product, in any place. A candidate applying for any job, or requesting a promotion/raise at any…