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    Commodity Clouds, the 'Tuning Tax' and What Cloud Users Really Need

    23 May, 2013 14:21
    Application-tuning capabilities coupled with today's commodity cloud offerings are more than many users need. Just like broadband Internet, though, it's only a matter of time before these 'overserved' users turn to the commodity cloud to meet 'unserved' needs. Will this leave enterprise cloud deployments in the cold?
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    How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics

    09 May, 2013 15:27
    The rapid rise of cloud computing means corporate IT may no longer be the cheapest purveyor of application hosting, infrastructure, storage and other services. The sooner IT leaders come to terms with this, the better.
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    Amazon Web Services Will Continue to Disrupt Enterprises, IT Vendors

    01 May, 2013 13:55
    Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market--and if current trends hold, the competition may not even be close.
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    How OpenStack should prepare itself for the enterprise

    22 April, 2013 14:15
    With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there.
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    VMware Tantrum Shows It's Not Connecting With Cloud Buyers or Sellers

    07 March, 2013 15:25
    At a recent partner conference, VMware executives threw a fit about the firm's inability to 'own corporate workload' and its partners' inability to beat a 'bookseller' at the cloud computing game. The outbursts show is that VMware isn't connecting with application groups, who are increasingly driving cloud buying decisions.
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    Ensure Cloud Application Resilience the Netflix Way

    19 February, 2013 14:37
    These days, there's no such thing as a stable system, especially in the cloud. But most outages can be blamed on application architecture, not infrastructure. To combat this, do what Netflix does: Put your apps through a ringer that breaks them and fix your software before your customers suddenly can't use it.
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    How Cloud Computing Is Driven by Mobile, Media and Marketing

    07 February, 2013 17:02
    Defenders of enterprise computing are in for a rude awakening. Mobile, media and marketing applications are poised to flock to the cloud, which is far better suited to handle load variability, latency and change management. As end users and executives demand more flexibly business applications, they will soon follow suit.
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    Gartner Cloud Computing Magic Quadrant Pits AWS Against the World

    14 January, 2013 14:21
    Say what you will about Gartner Magic Quadrants, but there's little doubt that IT organizations use them to evaluate technology. The firm's last two analyses of the cloud service provider place Amazon Web Services head and shoulders about the rest. Will other CSPs adapt--or die?
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    5 Cloud Computing Trends That Will Be Big in 2013

    19 December, 2012 14:23
    Will 2013 finally be the year executives stop worrying about cloud security and actually start looking at their bills from cloud service providers? Columnist Bernard Golden thinks so. He has four other cloud computing predictions for 2013, too.
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    Forrester Outlines How IT Organizations Will Control the Cloud

    13 December, 2012 14:13
    Developers love the cloud because it makes their jobs easier. Rather than fight this trend, and risk obsolescence, Infrastructure and Operations should accept it. A recent Forrester Research report offers five hints for controlling the cloud without stifling developer innovation.
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    Amazon Goes All In With Data Warehousing at AWS Conference

    29 November, 2012 19:00
    The first day of the first Amazon Web Services user conference, known as re: Invent, focused on the way customers are using services such as S3 and CloudFront. Meanwhile, the company unveiled RedShift, which CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden thinks will disrupt the data warehousing market and challenge IBM, Oracle and Teradata.
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    The Amazon Outage in Perspective: Failure Is Inevitable, So Manage Risk

    01 November, 2012 13:13
    The most recent Amazon Web Services outage left customers (and rival cloud providers) blaming Amazon. Instead, CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden says, everyone needs to accept that cloud computing is not immune to failure. Fortunately, a key advantage of the cloud -- cheap, easy redundancy -- will help mitigate the risk of an outage.
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    As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing

    23 October, 2012 14:04
    As PC sales decline and smartphone and tablet sales climb, the world of computing is poised for a dramatic shift. While mobile users do, in fact, 'compute' with their devices, application data and functionality actually reside in the cloud. To accommodate this, columnist Bernard Golden says, the cloud will have to grow in ways that few can currently comprehend.
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    Cloud computing pushes vendors to seek new roles in IT value chain

    11 October, 2012 13:03
    Cloud adoption means that companies are increasingly signing pay-as-you-go SLAs and renting servers. This means traditional software and hardware vendors must dramatically reconsider their business models, columnist Bernard Golden says.
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    History, IT innovation and the pace of change

    06 September, 2012 12:39
    A visit to the English countryside gave CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden the chance to see Roman ruins, a medieval church and a replica of the first supercomputer. It wasn't until he returned home and saw a driverless car on a California freeway that the scale of innovation he witnessed while sightseeing became clear.
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    'Big security' a natural, necessary extension of big data

    23 August, 2012 18:40
    Big data is poised to grow well beyond the enterprise - and anything we can imagine today. Think of how the assembly line changed the automobile and, consequently, our lives. Keeping big data secure will require an equally innovative approach. CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden calls it 'big security,' and he doesn't think the industry is ready for it yet.
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    How the Cloud Brings Developers into Business Process

    07 August, 2012 13:11
    The disruptive innovation that is the cloud has given developers significantly more influence than they, and their organizations, are used to having. This means the agile, sometimes unstructured world of the developer is increasingly coming into contact with more rigid business groups. Making everyone happy may mean reengineering IT processes.
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    Olympics website leans on open source, Akamai for winning results

    26 June, 2012 20:10
    Like the athletes themselves, the official website of the London 2012 Olympics gets only one chance to reach peak performance under intense pressure. To meet that demand, the site has been load tested to handle a million unique visitors per hour. Read what else CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden learned from his conversation with the operations consultant behind the site.
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    Five ways Cloud computing is like open source

    14 June, 2012 18:38
    A decade ago, most IT departments denounced open-source software. Now they embrace the way that open source encourages innovation while saving money. The furor over cloud computing shows that history is repeating itself. The outcome should be the same, columnist Bernard Golden says.
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    What happened to not sharing my information?

    07 April, 2011 07:47
    One of the big questions I have after the Epsilon breach is "who the hell is Epsilon and why did they have my email address?"
    The notifications are still trickling in from companies impacted by the data breach at Epsilon. I have received two. My wife has received four. I have heard some people have received notifications from as many as six different companies letting them know their personal data might have been exposed in the Epsilon breach. The inevitable question is: why did Epsilon have your data in the first place?
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