Caption contest challenges entrants to capture the lighter side of cloud computing. CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies has unveiled a new monthly video chat as part of its cloud thought leadership programme, called CloudViews. With this move,…
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10 Ways IT Can Own Cloud Decisions
How IT leaders can bring the true value of cloud computing to their organizations. Much of the hype surrounding cloud computing is causing confusion among enterprise IT looking to cloud to solve problems and hoping not to introduce more. Unfortunately several…
The Hype About Gartner’s Cloud Computing Hype Cycle
And musings on the actual state of cloud computing If anyone wasn’t wondering about the cloud’s readiness for enterprise computing, they are now, thanks to several stories in the news recently. Some of these reports question cloud computing’s business value,…
CloudViews Unplugged: October 2012
In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies wrap up the month’s cloud news in 10 minutes. Topics for this month’s episode include rogue enterprise IT spending, schools using cloud for collaboration, Amazon’s EC2…
The CMO doesn’t want to be in charge of IT either
Over at GigaOm last week, the excellent Barb Darrow (@gigabarb) put out a short and provocative article, “Do you really want your CMO in charge of IT?” In it, Barb cites research from Gartner, as well as interesting insight from…
Conversations with CIOs: Leaving Technology Behind
The Wall Street Journal recently poked fun at “innovation” as an empty marketing buzzword. They might be on to something, according to the latest research from CA Technologies. Our study of 800 global business and IT leaders found a gap between…
Do you really want your CMO in charge of IT? — Cloud Computing News
Over at GigaOm today, the excellent Barb Darrow (@GigaBarb) put out a very interesting article on the changing role of IT pruchasing, especially in the age of consumerization and cloud. We had a chat on Twitter and email and she…
CloudViews Unplugged: September 2012
In the September episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss what happens when cloud providers go out of business, SMEs benefit from cloud, CFOs see cloud benefits, Google Science Fair, AWS gathers Mars images,…
Public Cloud Saves The Day – Not That You’d Know
The hue and cry when public cloud services fail – which they do with some frequency – is almost deafening. What we rarely hear about is when the public cloud works the way we hope it will. To be fair,…
Recent cloud critics, including Wozniak, intensify debate
Brandon Butler has penned another interesting article about the recent cloud failures, and some of the backlash from tech legend Steve Wozniak. It was nice to be able to speak with him about it and share some of my views,…
CloudViews Unplugged: August 2012
In the August episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss emerging cloud markets, big data, 7 common cloud challenges, cloud-based farming, Netflix Chaos Monkey, Amazon cloud outages and the Olympics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R2mFwGBJVk To read the…