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First Steps to Creating a Cloud Computing Strategy for 2013

First Steps to Creating a Cloud Computing Strategy for 2013

By Louis Columbus on December 18, 2012

2013 will be one of the most pivotal years for cloud computing because trust in these technologies is on the line. Expectations are high regarding these technologies’ ability to deliver business value while reducing operating costs.  Enterprises’ experiences have at times met these high expectations, yet too often are getting mixed results.  Managing cloud expectations […]

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Policy and the cloud

Policy and the cloud

By Phil Wainewright on July 7, 2010

Every time I get into a discussion about security and trust in cloud computing these days, I end up talking about service level agreements. People considering cloud computing rightly worry about whether their data is going to be secure, and private, and accessible when they need it. The umbrella term they use for that is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, SaaS, security, Service level agreement, sla

Enterprise Cloud Cross-Currents

Enterprise Cloud Cross-Currents

By Phil Wainewright on January 15, 2010

The new year has kicked off with some contrasting cross-currents for enterprise cloud aficianados and neophytes alike. On the positive side of the balance sheet, there’s a new and surprising Gartner prediction that a fifth of enterprises will have migrated…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, EC2, heroku, latency, network latency, salesforce.com, Service level agreement

2010 Watchlist: Mining the Off-Peak Cloud

2010 Watchlist: Mining the Off-Peak Cloud

By Phil Wainewright on December 28, 2009

Over the next week or so, I’m going to highlight several emerging trends in computing that I believe will be very much worth watching in the coming year as important sources of innovation and competitive advantage for those who harness…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Business Model, Cloud Computing, commoditization, Competitive advantage, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management, pricing, Service level agreement, software as a service

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