Jean-Marc Seguin's Most Recent Posts

In our last installment on the benefits of private cloud computing, we discussed the importance of determining where you are today on your road to private cloud and how you got there. Once your IT team has determined this, you can begin examining areas specific to your virtual infrastructure to ensure that you architect it for success.

To get to the private cloud, organizations need to focus on three main areas: people, process and technology. Before we get started transforming each area, it's important to understand where you are today so that you can plot the right trajectory, and as you progress toward your goal, you can make course corrections as needed.

Last time we met in this space, we talked about the importance of management and resource optimization planning in the path toward private cloud computing (see my last blog: Moving Forward Toward Private Cloud). Today, I want to examine two other important areas for consideration as you plan for more mature processes and technology: service catalogs and controls, compliance and governance functionality.

Before you start making changes in the organization steam rolling toward the goal of a private cloud, it's important that you understand where you are today so that you can plot the right trajectory, and as you progress toward your goal, make course corrections as needed.

In the last installment on the benefits of cloud computing, we started focusing on the private cloud. But on this path to the private cloud, as we transform the data center from its traditional form to a more dynamic one that provides services to customers, is it really a question of technology?

A recap of cloud computing benefits and reasons why enterprises and IT shops choose public over private cloud options.

We are on the cusp of a transformative change in how we deliver services in the datacenter – Cloud Computing. This blog details my perspective.

We are on the cusp of "cloudification" -- cloud computing for the masses -- but to get to that state there are many things to consider, such as people, processes and technology, before cloud computing becomes as mainstream as virtualization technology.