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7 Digital Strategies of Top-Performing Companies

January 31, 2012
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Growing a multimillion dollar corporation during a recession is no small feat and it’s no accident. Companies that are swimming against the economic tide are doing things differently than those that are treading water, or worse, drowning. So, what exactly separates the best from the rest? In a world of tech-empowered consumers and employees, companies that are bucking the economic trend exhibit key behaviors that allow them to exploit technology and weave it into their ...

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Selecting Public Cloud Services – Focus on What’s Different

June 1, 2011
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I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion last week with a few of my PwC colleagues, Cara Beston and Greg Dupier, during which we talked about both private clouds and also what it takes for businesses to offer public cloud services.  What made this discussion unique for me was that the audience was largely made up of U.S. government contractors, so they were particularly focused on the federal direction and mandates about ...

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Why We Need Cloud Integration Architecture

February 3, 2011
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A few years ago, a consumer products company I’m familiar with committed to outsourcing its infrastructure and as much of its application portfolio as possible. Its strategic application decisions were heavily influenced by outsourced and SaaS offering, placing its CRM and several customer community sites in the cloud. With a stable set of hosted, cloud and SaaS apps, they were shocked to find that they didn’t talk to one another to provide a single view ...

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The Private Cloud: Who Will Stop the Rain?

January 27, 2011
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Guest post by Nick Macey As some companies move towards a virtualized, private cloud infrastructure, they get caught in a downpour of problems. The additional layer of virtualization requires significant expertise to manage and support, can substantially decrease overall stability and makes diagnosing and resolving incidents more complex. Operations teams are faced with an incredible challenge, as they often are not responsible for building the cloud, but are ultimately responsible for maintaining and supporting business ...

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Why Aren’t CIOs Using Cloud Storage?

September 2, 2010
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I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to speak at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony last week, with an audience of so many IT leaders who are driving business growth through innovation. As we all have witnessed, the early results from enterprise cloud computing initiatives have been mixed. During my presentation, we conducted a real-time survey via text messaging and I’d like to thank the 50+ CIOs and IT leaders who participated, as well as ...

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You Aren’t Using a Cloud Platform

August 11, 2010
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I’m pretty sure that in larger companies, aside from the internal use of virtual machines that are mis-labeled as cloud computing, the cloud wave is a wave of talk. Instead of telling us how they are using (or want to use) the cloud, many of our clients are still asking us to help them survey the market so that they can evaluate it as part of their overall sourcing approach and technology architecture. One insurance ...

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CIO Guide to Cloud Computing

April 8, 2010
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As with any new IT buzzword, IT leaders must figure out what is really new and what is an old concept with a new name. Many argue that cloud computing is a truly new concept while others explain it as clever packaging of outsourcing, web accessible tools and a few pricing models. What is clear is that it has taken us by storm and promises to simplify large chunks of IT budgets across infrastructure and ...

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Why Cloud Computing Has Legs

February 2, 2010

For those who have been around IT for a while, the cloud computing wave has many of the same characteristics of any other fad: huge vendor investment, scads of new start-ups, a lot of media coverage and a few high-profile cases that you hear about over and over.  After talking this through with Diamond’s CEO Adam Gutstein and our colleague John Sviokla, I think there is one thing that makes the cloud phenomenon different.  It ...

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The Biggest Barrier to Cloud Adoption

November 10, 2009

Last week, I had the privilege of presenting alongside Dr. David Reed, one of the best thinkers in the future of computing, and Steve Russell, an innovative leader at Morgan Stanley, who has led the implementation of the largest and most successful private cloud I’ve heard of – very impressive. The event was part of our on-going Diamond Exchange program. David shared his ideas about “3 clouds.”  The first cloud is connectivity, embodied by the ...

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Public Cloud Adoption – Where Are You?

October 7, 2009

by Chris Curran, Nalneesh Gaur and Rob Warren In distilling perspectives from our clients for two upcoming events on cloud computing (Diamond Exchange, InfoWorld), we have developed an informal categorization that captures where companies are in adopting public cloud computing offerings.  “Not Interested/Not Applicable” could have been an option for our list but we don’t know anyone not at least looking into applying the cloud. Our clients fall into one of six categories in their ...

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