The Top Three Practical Use Cases for Cloud Brokerage

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In the last several months, interest in the concept of cloud brokerage has been growing and was recently punctuated by Accenture’s announced intention  to be the IT industry “cloud broker” as part of a larger $400 million cloud R&D investment.  While the concept of a cloud brokerage has been around awhile, enterprise adoption is finally catching [...]

Join Leverhawk Writers at Interop on May 7

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Dave Roberts and Scott Bils will both be speaking at Interop on Tuesday, May 7. Dave is organizing, speaking, and moderating the Enterprise Cloud Summit, Private Clouds Workshop. Scott will be doing a session titled When to Build Your Private Cloud in the Private Clouds Workshop. The workshop will include great sessions on: Cloud economics, [...]

What is a Private Cloud? — A Tutorial

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Many enterprises are starting their cloud computing journey with a private cloud. But what is a private cloud? Are they real or just “IT as we always knew it” ?

Seven Things We Learned at Cloud Connect

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It was an interesting week last week at Cloud Connect Silicon Valley. In addition to the keynotes and track sessions, we also saw the release of the summary results of the latest joint Cloud Connect / Everest Group survey on enterprise cloud adoption.  Here are the seven things we took away from the conference, the [...]

Five Takeaways from the JPMorgan Chase PaaS Announcement

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In one of the more eye-opening recent announcements in the world of enterprise cloud, JPMorgan Chase said last week that it has migrated nearly all of its internal .NET and Java applications to a PaaS model.  Over 430 development teams, 2,000 applications and 4 data centers are now in production in a PaaS  environment delivered by Apprenda.  It [...]

Private Clouds: Stepping Stones or Tar Pits?

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Many believe that private clouds are just a stepping stone for corporate IT on a path that will end at the public cloud.  Dedicated private clouds allow IT to have full control over the environment, though they don’t provide the cost efficiencies associated with multi-tenant, public cloud IaaS services.  This control is helpful for enterprises [...]