Software companies must embark on clear-cut, long-term plans for the cloud era in order to play a role in business computing during the next decade.
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Integration — the hidden requirement in SAAS deployments
Two cloud-based companies working to streamline the integration process:
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| Cast Iron SystemsHow well such off the shelf integration efforts work is unclear. If it’s more than a case of connecting one well known cloud service to another then the integration effort can be a major source of complexity, expense and risk.
distinguishing…
* Distinguishing between types of Cloud Computing
* Distinguishing between different Cloud Computing Services
* Distinguishing between Organizational Perspectives on Cloud Computing (SMB versus the enterprise)
Eucalyptus
Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.
via Eucalyptus.
By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets
From the Gartner Newsroom, “Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks.”
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