Modern IT is all about being able to spin up computing and storage on demand, and then tear it down once the need is gone. And for that, private, public and hosted cloud infrastructures are proving invaluable. But choosing the best cloud strategy means understanding the promises and pitfalls of each approach. In these articles, Network World and its sister publications CIO, Computerworld and InfoWorld explore cloud computing, explain the nuances between the different approaches and examine enterprise concerns in this 23-page eGuide.

Sections

• FAQ: Cloud Computing, Demystified
• How to Build a Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
• Can IT Manage the Cloud?
• Cloud Computing: Don’t Get Caught Without An Exit Strategy
• Cloud Computing Needs Better Security, Interoperability to Live Up to the Hype
• Cloud Computing Resources

FAQ: Cloud Computing, Demystified

• What is cloud computing, and can it be trusted? Key questions answered

Everyone in the IT industry is talking about cloud computing, but there is still confusion about what the cloud is, how it should be used and what problems and challenges it might introduce. This FAQ will answer some of the key questions enterprises are asking about cloud computing

How to Build a Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy

• Consider bringing together public, internal and hosted cloud infrastructures
• Public Clouds
• Internal Clouds
• Hosted Clouds

How to Buy Cloud Computing Services

Five key questions to ask any prospective cloud provider:

1. Are your applications ready?

2. Where is your data?

3. How is data being protected?

4. What’s customer support like?

5. What’s my exit strategy?

Can IT Manage the Cloud?

• These CTOs Can Virtualization and open source monitoring tools offer reasonable ways to monitor and manage virtual machines in the cloud

• Cloud vendors tell IT: Trust but verify

Cloud Computing: Don’t Get Caught Without An Exit Strategy

• Before you trust your business to the cloud, be sure you know how to get out

Cloud Computing Needs Better Security, Interoperability to Live Up to the Hype

• New vendor groups tackle lingering issues related to cloud computing

Cloud Computing Resources

• White Paper: Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure

• Audio/Podcast: Cloud Computing: What does the Network need to do?

• Audio/Podcast: Gaining Network Visibility Into Virtualized Infrastructure

• White Paper: Power and Cooling Power and Cooling

• White Paper: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Center Architectures

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23-page eGuide.

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