In May there was an AFCEA conference that addressed computing strategies in the cloud environment. Following comments were attributed to DoD senior speakers: * "If we're doing cloud purely to save money, we're going to fail.""You've got to look at it as a large investment in resources, and that will be the challenge.""IT leaders can [...]

As IT infrastructures become more complex close to 70% of a typical IT operating budget will be spent on maintenance. This will leave only limited money available for new development and for capital purchases. What is needed is a method how to extract systems from existing inefficiencies. A way must be found how to place [...]

The consolidation of data centers into service clouds will reduce the capital and operating costs in data centers. However, cloud solutions do not cut all of the total life cycle costs of IT. They do not improve interoperability across different clouds. They do not increase the rate of innovation of applications.  They do not strengthen [...]

2011 global IT spending is expected to reach $3.4 trillion.  DoD has a $36.3 billion IT budget, plus an estimated spending for 150,000 military and civilian personnel of $15 billion. Consequently, the DoD has by far the single largest IT budget in the world. It consumes 1.5% of total global costs. The 2010 DoD Operations [...]

CISCO has just published a global view of the Internet, 2010-2015. These forecasts are of sufficient interest to warrant a summary review. Consumer Internet traffic (70,000 petabytes/month) will overwhelm business traffic (10,000 petabytes/month). Consequently firms that concentrate exclusively on the consumer segment, such as Apple, will have a marketing advantage. The overwhelming amount of traffic, [...]