Business Computing: Past, Present and Future

We can learn from the past. We can act in the present. We can speculate about the future. With the 20th anniversary of the world wide web only just behind us, the mainframe’s 45th anniversary two years ago, and the iPhone’s 5th anniversary coming up next year, a brief discussion on the past, present, and […] Read more »

Four Hybrid IT Environments: It Is Not Just About Hybrid Cloud!

There is more than just private, public, and hybrid cloud. Many IT customers will need to orchestrate a hybrid mix of cloud and non-cloud IT resources for some time. The METISfiles defines eight different IT environments that will coexist in the foreseeable future. Four of these environments are homogeneous: private cloud, public cloud, legacy IT, […] Read more »

Data Centers and the Cloud

The METISfiles presented at the DatacenterWorks BICSI Conference in The Open, Tiel, on April 15. Pim Bilderbeek, Principal Analyst, wrapped up the event with a presentation on how Data Centers are changing under influence of the Cloud. The METISfiles argues that data centers are changing from vertical application oriented infrastructure pipes to horizontally connected layers. […] Read more »

Four Public Cloud Computing Scenarios: Planning For The Cloud

Scenario planning is used by business strategists to prepare their companies for different futures. Why is this necessary? Simply because predicting the future is not an exact science. If the future cannot be known it is only prudent to be prepared for several permutations of possible futures. A popular way of scenario planning is sketching […] Read more »