The Enterprise Cloud

Archive: 12-2012

• Comparing cloud to on-premise CRM: Choosing a solution

  Is your organization best suited for cloud or on-premise CRM? Guest contributor Kate Webster lists some of the issues you need to consider before making a decision.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | December 31, 2012, 11:54 AM PST

• Cloud revolution has borne fruit, along with a few bad apples

  Nick Hardiman considers the results, so far, of the cloud revolution in IT. What are the main benefits, and what are the accompanying problems?

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | December 28, 2012, 6:00 AM PST

• Top 10 Enterprise Cloud posts for 2012

  Here are the most-read posts of the year in Enterprise Cloud. Readers wanted to know which cloud services are best and how cloud tech will change IT.

  Posted by Selena Frye | December 21, 2012, 6:00 AM PST

• Deploy an on-premise VM to Windows Azure with App Controller

  John Joyner shows the steps to deploying an on-premise VM to Windows Azure as a cloud service using App Controller. This feature is new with System Center 2012 SP1.

  Posted by John Joyner | December 19, 2012, 11:54 AM PST

• Survey: Cloud developers prefer Amazon EC2 platform

  Nick Heath reports on the results of the recent Global Cloud Developer Online Survey.

  Posted by Nick Heath | December 19, 2012, 7:51 AM PST

• Infographic: Security and the Cloud 2012

  CloudPassage provides this infographic reflecting the answers of IT pros to its survey about cloud uses and security issues.

  Posted by Selena Frye | December 17, 2012, 11:15 AM PST

• The high-volume, low-margin cloud

  Thoran Rodrigues examines Amazon’s strategy in the cloud marketplace and how it puts pressure on other cloud providers to position themselves in regards to pricing and service claims.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | December 13, 2012, 10:20 AM PST

• How much is an IaaS VM worth?

  John Joyner offers some tips for deciding if a public cloud IaaS solution is right for your organization.

  Posted by John Joyner | December 11, 2012, 11:02 AM PST

• Will the Internet of Things be the end of cloud computing?

  Nick Hardiman peers into the future of the Internet of Things. What changes will this evolving model bring?

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | December 7, 2012, 6:00 AM PST

• Migrating from a relational to a NoSQL cloud database

  Matt Asay describes the approach one needs to take in migrating a standard relational database to an open source NoSQL cloud database.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | December 6, 2012, 12:01 PM PST