LEF Reports examine key technologies, best practices and the work of clients, CSC technologists and alliance partners.
Cloud rEvolution: The Art of Abstraction (Volume 2)
Abstraction, long used in IT to mask complexity, is an essential ingredient for cloud computing. It's the secret sauce that sets up hardware and software to be delivered as services from the cloud. Cloud rEvolution: The Art of Abstraction shows clients how to mix that sauce for their specific needs.
Abstraction includes the many variations of virtualization, as well as services and multitenancy. In addition to enabling new combinations of IT components, abstraction helps the enterprise reduce cycle times. With abstraction, we can do in minutes what used to take days or weeks. Further, we can match IT demand to supply far more accurately, doing away with excess IT inventory.
The Art of Abstraction is the second volume in the four-volume Cloud rEvolution series. The first volume was released last month, and the remaining volumes will be released over the next few months. The series is as follows:
Volume 1: Cloud rEvolution: Laying the Foundation
Volume 2: Cloud rEvolution: The Art of Abstraction
Volume 3: Cloud rEvolution: The Cloud Effect
Volume 4: Cloud rEvolution: A Workbook for Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
Previous Reports:
Digital Disruptions: Technology Innovations Powering 21st Century Business identifies seven disruptions companies need to prepare for: new media, augmented reality, social power, information transparency, digital spectrum, new platforms and a smart(er) world. These disruptions represent a wholesale change to business practices and a wealth of opportunities for innovation. Forewarned is forearmed; read the report and don't be caught unprepared. Also, read the executive summary and the feature story. And check out the Digital Disruptions blog.
Digital Trust examines IT security as a technology strategy that plays both offense and defense, recognizing enhanced business value and cost savings, while minimizing information risk exposure. The Digital Trust report features eight volumes covering six key areas: identity management, intellectual property protection, compliance management, liquid security, ethreats and countermeasures, and transparency and assurance.
Digital Trust Adjuncts (new)
"Digital Trust in the Cloud" - Examines security and trust in cloud computing; presages the LEF's upcoming Cloud rEvolution report series.
"Digital Trust for Life" - Targets the life and annuity (insurance) industry
Digital Trust report series:
- Volume 8: "Digital Trust: Epilogue and Strategic Roadmap"
[Article #8] - Volume 7: "Transparency and Assurance: Putting a Measure on Digital Trust"
[Article #7] - Volume 6: "eThreats and Countermeasures: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Out"
[Article #6] - Volume 5: "Liquid Security: Digital Trust When Time, Place and Platform Don't Matter"
[Article #5] - Volume 4: "Compliance Management: The Business of Keeping the Business in Business"
[Article #3 & #4] - Volume 3: "Intellectual Property Protection: Minding Your Mind Power"
[Article #3 & #4] - Volume 2: "Identity Management: Digitizing Your DNA"
- Volume 1: "Digital Trust: Shaking Hands with the Digital Enterprise"
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Connected World - Redefining the geography of business and how we work and play examines eight connectedness trends supercharging business opportunity. The report helps organizations understand connected world technologies and business changes and how they might apply in their industry. The report also provides a roadmap for assessing an organization's business connectedness. Read the following feature stories on the report.
Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT report explores four dimensions of extreme data-data everywhere, time and place, social connections and meaning-and urges organizations to leverage the opportunities presented by extreme data. Read the feature story summarizing the report.
Open Source: Open for Business examines 10 trends defining the open source movement, the legal and business issues, and recommendations for getting started on an open source journey. Read the following feature story on the report.
The Architecture rEvolution: Exploring the Network Effect on Infrastructure, Applications and Business Process explores the three levels of the Architecture rEvolution, examining each level's array of drivers, strategies, technologies and standards.