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Today, business survival depends on IT innovation. Enterprise cloud computingpresents CIOs with tremendous opportunities to deliver that innovation—by thinkinglike CEOs in order to play a strategic role in driving new revenue and reducing costs.To help CIOs plan their cloud strategies, we’ve collected expert guidance fromorganizations with keen insights into cloud computing:
•DianeBryant,Intel’sCIO,describeshowIntelIT’senterpriseprivatecloudhelps
deliver business innovation and has saved USD 17 million to date.Page 5 »
•ManagementconsultingrmBain&Companyexplainshowtotacklethebiggest
cloud challenge that enterprises face: changing organizational culture.Page 10 »
•NYSETechnologies’cutting-edgeextendedprivatecloudhelpsfinancial
firms develop new products faster and incur less risk.Page 11 »We also include stories about how Intel, industry, and academia are workingtogether to solve cloud challenges and create groundbreaking new capabilities:
•Intel’sUSD30millioninvestmentinnewresearchcentersisdesignedtomakeclouds
dramatically faster, increasingly scalable, and more secure in the future.Page 4 »
•TheOpenDataCenterAlliance—anindependentorganizationofglobalITleaders—
isdeningaroadmapofthecapabilitiesneededforinteroperableclouds.
Page 8 »Intel recognizes that cloud computing is the future of enterprise IT, and our goal isto spur innovations that empower companies to achieve ongoing business success.
Client-aware Computing
Services that intelligently take advantage of client capabilitiesto deliver the best user experience anytime, anywhere.
Hybrid Cloud
Utilizes both public and privatecloud services.
Private Cloud
Operated by enterprise IT
behindthecorporaterewall.
SaaSPaaSIaaS
Public Cloud
Operated by a service provider.
SaaSPaaSIaaS
Automation
Enables cloud computing services
andresourcestobespecied,located,and
securely provisioned with little orno human interaction.
Federation
Allows communications, data, andservices to move securely within and acrosscloud computing infrastructures.
Cloud Taxonomy
Cloud Computing:
Scalable IT services delivered to customers on demand, typically usingInternet technologies in a pay-as-you-go business model. Includes software as a service(SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Introduction