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  There are many reasons for government agencies to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing platforms. One of the most cited benefit is the economic model  of  Cloud Computing. Four distinct mechanisms can generate cost savings for govenment agency and organization: Lowering the opportunity cost of running technology The aibility to shift from capital expenditure to operating expenditure Lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of technology Giving organizations the ability to add business value by renewed focus on core activities Cost saving is the hot topic for most government since the global economic situation around the world. Historically, there were two discssions that focused on cloud computing cost saving.       The first was focused on server virtualization and application consolidation on under-utilized resources. Reducing spend on rackspace,network,infrastructure,pooling, powera and datacenter can ...

What caracterizes the Australia cloud computing strategy when I was studying it; is the risk-based approche followed by the government to define the cloud strategic direction paper. Many governments are interested to know the potential risks and issues of cloud computing. Government agencies were designed to operate in a secure environment,so they need to fully understand the risks associated with cloud computing both from end-user and agency prespective. Cloud computing is a new ICT sourcing and delivery model not a new technology, many of the risks and issues associated with cloud are also not new. Depending upon the cloud model adopted, bellow some issue that shoud be understand and mitigate: Issue Explanation Application design ·          There may be less opportunity for customization of applications and services. This may increase complexity when integrating cloud services with existing le...

When I was reading some topics about cloud computing technology, a smart and important post had brought my attention : Government Cloud. In reality, regarding Arabic summer movements, I was thinking how to accelerate IT development in my country and why not in all the Arabic region. Governments ,now, are searching effectiveness and efficient on their programs, reducing costs and bring with them an innovative systems to encourage investment  and improve quality of services. Majority of citizens are asking now for more transparency,  open platforms and agility on Government projects. In other hand, Public sector organizations are increasingly driven to improve operational efficiency, information share and service delivery to satisfy demanding citizens seeking seamless, while significantly reducing the cost of delivery. Recently, Cloud computing has captured significant attention as both a busines...

I found  these animated descriptions for VPLEX   simple and helpful to understand how VPLEX changes things about  Active/Active Datacenter solutions. VPLEX for VMware VPLEX for Oracle VPLEX for Migration   VPLEX for continuous Data Availability

Some of the hot discussion in my organization is about IT Governance and cloud computing. What is the  impact of the cloud on IT Governance? What effect does the emergence of the cloud have on IT strategic investements? It's important when talking about such topics to take a deep time and understand the principals element of IT Governance. This post will talk about the definition of IT Governance, its principales and processes. From a definition point of view, you can resume IT Governance to important questions: What decisions to be made ? Who is accoutable for making decisions? How will the decisions be made? IT Governance aims  to align IT investment with the hole entreprise strategy and works to ensure few principales: Ensure IT is aligned with business. Ensure IT delivers value to the business. Ensure IT manages risks. Ensure IT manages resources. Ensure IT manages performances. So your IT decisions should be aligned to the Entrepr...

When I was working on the first part of disaster recovery project in my organization and in order to develop our Business continuity strategy, I used to read some books and posts about business continuity and DR topics. Some of the very important web site was http://www.iso27001standard.com/en . I was subscribed to the newsletter and I was received 6 important posts about how to start your business continuity project. In this post I will share with you these 6 steps which I believe they are very important and efficient. For sure, if you want additional information, I suggest to do the inscription to the newsletter.  Below the 6 steps to follow in order to lunch your Business continuity project. Step #1 - Define scope and objectives Step #2 - Decide which framework you'll use Step #3 - Determine the necessary resources Step #4 - Get your management buy-in Step #5 - Decide how to approach the imple...

After dialing with Business Impact Assessment and defined your right RTO and RPO value for each critical applications, you can have a very well view about the right failover site for your organization. In this post I will present the different type of failover site which can be right for your disaster recovery site. We can define  four type of failover site : 1- Mirrored site 2- Hot site 3-  Warm site 4-  Cold site 1- Mirrored site     Instantaneously recovers a company’s mission critical applications from a disaster.     Site resides in a geographically distinct data center.     Maintain identical pairs of servers, networks, storage devices.     Most expensive. 2- Hot site     All infrastructure components are prepared, running and ready.       Full duplication of all data and systems.       System configuration a...