Publication: Silicon, 24 Nov 2011
Though the hype may suggest otherwise, it's still early days for adoption of cloud computing.
Much of current take-up is coming from smaller organisations who don't have the IT skills to run their own applications inhouse, while most of what's being bought in involves stand-alone applications, such as email.
CA Technologies may have got its start managing mainframes 35 years ago, but today it has its sights on cloud management
However, as more organisations decide to move key applications outside the boundaries of their own firewall, the question of how to manage and secure this growing number of cloud applications - which could be hosted anywhere in the world, on any type of hardware, by a third party or parties - is set to become a headache for CIOs.
IT management company CA Technologies may have got its start managing mainframes 35 years ago, but today it also has its sights on providing services to manage organisations' cloud sprawl.
