IT costs

ISACA issues 6 principles for effective cloud computing

Aiming to help companies manage the challenges faced when adopting cloud computing, ISACA's newly issued "Guiding Principles for Cloud Computing Adoption and Use" cover enablement, cost and benefit, enterprise risk, capability, accountability, and trust.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 28-Feb-2012

Study: Cloud to cut $12.3b energy savings by 2020

By 2020, large US companies that use cloud computing can achieve annual energy savings of $12.3 billion, and annual carbon reductions equivalent to 200 million barrels of oil -- enough to power 5.7 million cars for one year.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 21-Jul-2011

New cloud calculator measures VM-to-cloud costs

The new VM-to-Cloud Calculator compares the costs of running VMs on Amazon EC2, Windows Azure and Rackspace Cloud Servers. It inventories one's VMs, captures the description, CPU, memory, storage, and count, and refine the estimates as the virtualized environment changes.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 19-Jul-2011

Five simple rules for the cloud move

The five simple rules are: 1) Design IT as a supply chain; 2) Use a portfolio approach for deciding what to move to the cloud; 3) Make service costing a core competency; 4) Treat security as a service; and 5) Start with an exit strategy.
by: Anna Gong, CA Technologies 14-Jul-2011
VMware to buy Digital Fuel to measure cloud costs
Digital Fuel provides enterprises with tools to measure the cost of their infrastructure and applications across a combination of public clouds, private clouds, or traditional environments. Business units can then be charged for their actual usage of IT applications and resources.
by: John Ribeiro, IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau) 15-Jun-2011

Cutting the hype and cost of cloud computing

Cloud computing aims to drive business improvement by addressing much of the day-to-day data processing activities. Rather than changing these fundamental processes, the 'cloud effect' looks toward the method of creation, delivery, consumption and accounting of core data.
by: Simon Elisha, Cisco 27-May-2011
Gartner: CIOs need to manage cloud computing risks
As cloud computing and offshoring become mainstream, CIOs should take steps to manage inherent risks and unexpected costs of cloud services. In the next few years, market dynamics will determine whether cloud-enabled outsourcing will be the demise of traditional outsourcing.
by: Staff writer, TelecomAsia.net 20-May-2011

IT manager admits harsh cloud realities

Cloud usage can go out of hand and lead to higher costs for all. Ernie Neuman once bailed his cloud services as the costs quickly overran the budget, a victim of what he calls cloud sprawl -- when developers set up virtual servers at will, then abandoned them without shutting them.
by: Tim Greene, IDG News Service 13-May-2011

CFOs: beware of cloud financial 'tipping point'

Arguably the CFO has got a new role as Chief Risk Officer. With the turbulent economic climate and increasing penalties imposed on companies, the CFO has to be the board member who says "hang on a minute" and provides an alternative perspective to corporate decisions.
by: Harry Pun, Symantec.Cloud 06-May-2011

Survey: 53% of SMBs hindered by limited funding

While almost half of the respondents in eight APAC markets are planning a cloud implementation within the next 18 months, 53% of SMB respondents said that cloud is a priority but were concerned that limited funding may hinder cloud computing implementation.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 04-May-2011