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A profound change in the way we think about and ultimately manage enterprise IT is well underway. Unfortunately, the real significance of these changes in terms of the impact they have on IT and the business world is obscured by a raft of catch phrases and buzzwords.

Those terms range from the ubiquitous "cloud computing" marketing slogan to the even more opaque "data center convergence" moniker. But if you take a giant step back from all the marketing terminology, what we're actually witnessing is nothing short of the reinvention of enterprise IT.

The most popular buzz word in computing circles today is “the cloud”, as in cloud computing. You’d have to living in a cave not to hear it, and even then you might get gist of it. The key to connecting to the cloud is your network. It’s really pretty simple: no network, no...

Before discussing how to ready a network to make it ready for the cloud, it would be helpful to go over the cloud service and deployment models. The service models detail the kind of service the cloud is offering, and the deployment model describes how the cloud will be deployed.

Everybody seems to be excited about Cloud Computing these days. You hear about “the Cloud” just about everywhere, from television to printed ads to the Internet. It seems as if every company is moving to the cloud in some way. Why is this? What are the new benefits of cloud computing ...

Before we dive into the benefits of using the cloud, let’s take a moment to define it.