Traditional views on IaaS and PaaS are already outmoded. They present a view of the universe that delineates based on a particular software element called a hypervisor. However, these terms do nothing more than continue to promote a stratified IT organization. As I discussed in my previous blog, stratification of IT has become a primary

Referring to the IT Transformation Puzzle which we discussed in my previous blog post IT Transformation – Where to Start?, most IT organizations will start their transformation journey with the Infrastructure Layer as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Infrastructure Transformation This is because Infrastructure is the foundation that everything else ‘rides’ on top of.

Cloud computing is one of the high tech industry’s most significant and disruptive developments of the past few decades, changing the way organizations build, operate, and consume IT. Businesses are eagerly adopting cloud as a means to make enormous gains in the efficiency and agility of their IT, and to enable aggressive exploration of opportunities

Transforming IT continues as our topic of focus this week with answers to many questions about IT as a Service. Once you’ve bought into transforming IT to ITaaS, you need to answer a key question: “Where do we start?” Wayne Pauley shares his thoughts on the business skills needed by Cloud developers and explains “Why do

IT Transformation has become a popular topic lately and has been closely associated with recent technology innovation and evolution, namely virtualization, mobile computing and cloud computing. Why does IT need to transform and why now? We can look at this from several perspectives. Global Economy Recent spates of global financial crisis and recessions reinforce the