Posts Tagged ‘Randy Arthur’

Working At Both Ends Of The Cloud IT Stack

March 21st, 2010 By Randy Arthur
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Along with my colleague, Lori Salow Marshall, I’ve been working at both ends of the IT stack, so to speak — working on building out CSC Trusted Cloud Services offerings in the realm of infrastructure at the bottom, and orchestration at the top.

With cloud infrastructure, we’re trying to develop a point-click-and-buy service for virtual machines. Not every enterprise client can take advantage of this type of service from, say, Amazon or other public cloud providers of virtualization because of security or regulatory compliance mandates.

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Video: Cloud Offerings For The Enterprise

January 4th, 2010 By Randy Arthur
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Any implementation of cloud services for the enterprise must strike a balance between rapidly implementing a solution and a solution of increasing complexity and cost.
I like Sreedhar’s observation that the established enterprise would need to leverage cloud IT services differently than a larger enterprise. I do agree that there is probably a well-defined set of startup services that can shorten the time necessary to both establish an development environment and get useful functionality out of the other end.

I think that the assertion that cloud will result in a reduction of complexity is arguable.

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