February 3, 2011
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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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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