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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 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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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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5 Questions to Explore True Cloud Costs

September 24, 2009

A compelling cost proposition is just the ante for providers of cloud computing services.  When considering costs for cloud services, it’s tempting to look only at the cost per drink.  However, as cloud offerings become more sophisticated and more robust enterprise and industry applications become available, the cost of the hosted service will become much less important and replaced by discussions we in the enterprise IT management realm are already very familiar with concerning people, ...

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Is the Open Source Conversation Dead?

May 15, 2009

One of my partners was asked by the Chief Information Officer of a major financial services organization for some help thinking through his open source strategy.  Honestly, the open source conversation has not come up much lately. Is open source in the enterprise a dead issue? Have companies already tapped into the open source apps and tools and exhausted the options?  Or, maybe consideration of open source software is fully integrated into companies’ software selection ...

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The OpenCloud is Hazy

March 31, 2009

The Open Cloud Manifesto effort is admirable.  It seems like a lofty goal but one centered on making this cloud thing better for all (ok, maybe not the vendors).  It also shows most of the major old school players in support – although Dell is not on the list.  As far as the newer players – Google, Amazon, Yahoo – cue the crickets.  However, before they get some serious traction, the Manifesto authors (who are they, ...

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