Organizations should consider SaaS and Cloud if they don’t want to be the ‘Polar Bear on the Melting Glacier of IT’

A recent survey from Gartner has suggested that from April through to July 2010, Cloud-Computing services consumed from external service providers was estimated to be 10.2% of the spending on external IT services.

The reality is that the cloud market, and that includes Software as a Service (SaaS) is evolving rapidly, with 39% of survey respondents worldwide indicating they allocated IT budget to Cloud Computing as a …

A recent post by Shirley Lacy of Connectsphere in the Vital Online Magazine suggests that the move to the Cloud will fundamentally depend on how individuals and organizations adapt their thinking to the new opportunities and ways of working.

What might help is ITIL, which provides best practices and models for managing services in the era of the cloud that will help people and organizations to adapt accordingly.

Cloud service providers offer the prospect of cost savings, improved productivity, easier implementations, less administration overhead …

A recent blog post by Praecipio Consulting had some interesting thoughts about the link between two of the most important areas for businesses: IT Service Management (ITSM) and Cloud Computing. OK, they may not always appear together in the same discussion – but the reality is that one can’t be done well without the other. Integrating the two is especially important as we move further into what is likely to be a fundamental shift toward Cloud Computing.

There is an array of definitions and services evolving around Cloud …