IT organisations need to embrace mobile development, deliver private application stores, and embrace their deployment on consumer devices. But in doing so, they need to manage security, ownership and deployment.

Set the foundations - virtualize Set the base hardware of your no downtime infrastructure: This can be achieved in a number of ways but essentially comes down to one key ingredient – being able to create a fluid pool of hardware resources that can easily accessed and switched on and off.

The secret recipe of cloud computing Businesses are becoming less and less tolerant of downtime with IT systems today. Businesses expect fault tolerance to be a standard feature of systems and zero downtime is required at many levels.