Adopt the cloud, kill your IT career

	Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs | In defense of the private cloud -- sorta
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	Adopt the cloud, kill your IT career You might be eager to relinquish responsibility of a cranky infrastructure component to a cloud vendor, but the end result of a catastrophic failure or data loss event is exactly the same whether you own the service or contract it out. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cloud Leadership Forum Cloud economics workshop Come to the Cloud Leadership Forum to evaluate the financial benefits--and challenges--of migrating to cloud. Includes a free cloud economics workshop led by IDC analysts using IDC's online Cloud Decision Framework to help you quantify cloud costs. Learn more. In this Issue Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs In defense of the private cloud -- sorta Mobile devices bring cloud storage -- and security risks -- to work Researcher: Interdependencies could lead to cloud meltdowns RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Final Week to Register! IT Roadmap only comes to Denver once a year so don't miss this opportunity to join hundreds of local colleagues who will gain a year's worth of enterprise-ready ideas, answers, best practices, and key contacts all in one day – in one place. Attend Free. IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 - Colorado Convention Center. Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs Spot Instances allow users to bid on spare Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) capacity and run those instances, or virtual servers, for as long as their bid exceeds the current price. Read More In defense of the private cloud -- sorta Private clouds have their time and place. It's typically in enterprises that need to migrate their processes and data to new, more scalable systems. Read More Mobile devices bring cloud storage -- and security risks -- to work As the BYOD trend accelerates, companies are struggling to deal with employees who now use cloud storage services while at work. Read More Researcher: Interdependencies could lead to cloud meltdowns As the use of cloud computing becomes more and more mainstream, serious operational "meltdowns" could arise as end-users and vendors mix, match, and bundle services for various means. Read More
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