IBM Life Cycle as a Service (LCaaS) for SAP Solutions, a new service offering is a game-changing proposition in this direction. IBM’s long standing partnership with SAP, since SAP’s inception, would play great role in delivering this transformative service to large and small and medium enterprise (SME) customers. Read full post

The cloud destination requires a journey that allows you to bring along and transform your existing infrastructure and applications while developing new applications for the cloud. Read full post

If you have several on-premises applications that need to be integrated, an on-premises integration platform might suit your needs; but if your focus (today and in future) is on cloud applications, a logical conclusion is to do your integration in the cloud too. Read full post

For many service providers, cloud computing seems to be disruptive for their business model. Especially in the outsourcing business, many service providers are reluctant to offer cloud-based services to their clients. There are two main reasons behind this skepticism. Read full post

When forward-thinking business leaders view the cloud as opportunities, hackers also shift their attention to the cloud service provider websites. The reason is obvious. They can potentially gain access to data of multiple companies if they break into major cloud vendor sites, because of the multi-tenant nature of such websites. Read full post

This blog entry is about managing risks and issues when providing cloud services to commercial customers. Managing service provider internal risks when using cloud technology is out of scope of this blog entry. Also any risk evaluation whether or not to migrate information assets or applications to cloud solutions is not regarded here. Read full post