Shared services catch on, but need to scale to digital proportions
At the IT level, services are shared more than ever, thanks to cloud.
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Will enterprises all soon be relying on the same few hyperscale data centers?
Cisco projects that a mere 485 data centers will be handling close to half of the world's workloads and data in a few years.
Government IT managers say their systems are still stuck in the 1990s
Survey finds the vast majority of U.S. federal IT managers feel their systems are not capable of meeting the challenges ahead.
The data center is now an API: what does that mean?
Thanks to cloud, a massive shakeup of the enterprise IT market has only begun. However, it remains to be seen how far enterprises will go in entrusting their infrastructures to outside parties.
Software defined data center, defined
A brief explanation of what a software defined data center means, and what it means to IT.
Something to ponder: a data center-free enterprise
Pharmaceutical CIO ditches the data center, takes advantage of cloud buyer's market: 'Our business continuity plan is now one bullet: go home.'
Failure is not an option for Netflix's service-oriented architecture
A Netflix software engineer describes how the world's largest pure cloud service keeps on delivering.
Top 10 countries in which to locate a data center
The safest and cheapest place to open a data center? The United States.
Linked data: next frontier for the service-oriented enterprise
Service oriented architecture and XML address transactional services, but enterprises still need a way to manage, digest and share information to complement these services.
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS: three cloud models; three very different risks
Software as a Service has password issues. Platform as a Service has encryption issues. Infrastructure as a Service has rogue user issues.