In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt discuss government savings from cloud, cloud bill shock, solar cloud, Google Chrome, Facebook, Siri and more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyE6pYFpbw0 To read the show notes for this episode and for more cloud…
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Why the Public Cloud is a Big Fat Enterprise #Fail
Simultaneously meeting the needs of consumers, while addressing the needs of IT leaders, is exactly how a small With the advent of the consumer driven enterprise, there are now two ways to define the success of a platform. One is…
CloudViews Unplugged: May 2012
In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt discuss open vs. proprietary cloud, evaluating the clouds environmental impact, the benefits of cloud for the Australian economy, U.S. Army’s cloud-in-a-box, image sharing via the cloud for the healthcare…
Survivor: CIO Edition CeBIT Australia
I was thinking about the issues I will present at CeBIT Australia, and thought I would jot some thoughts down. The people at CeBIT thought it was interestign enough to publish in its entirety. How cool is that!? So here…
Survivor: CIO Edition – Will Cloud Computing Kill The CIO Role?
Today I published a new blog post on CA.com in the ‘Perspectives’ section of our community site – you can see the whole blog here. In this post, I discuss whether the CIO role is dead – and if it…
CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together
I was interviewed for a great article published today in CRN titled, “CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together”. In it, Jack McCarthy writes:
Do Amazon AWS and Eucalyptus Now Have “Enterprise Cloud Appeal”?
I saw a fantastic article from Nancy Gohring of InfoWorld yesterday, on how “Amazon said that it would back Eucalyptus’ efforts to support Amazon Web Services’ APIs”. Great article, well worth reading in full. For me, however, it was the…
Are community cloud services the next hot thing?
I was interviewed recently for a great article on community cloud services published today in NetworkWorld, by Brandon Butler. Here is just a short excerpt: From a vendor perspective, community clouds let service providers distinguish themselves in a growingly-crowded cloud…
As Cloud Becomes a Teenager, It Is Time for Adult Supervision!
James Staten at Forrester recently published his Top 10 Cloud Predictions for 2012. In it, James talks about how cloud is maturing, and warns of the challenges as cloud enters, as he describes it, “the awkward teenage years” …
Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week
While travelling back from VMworld EMEA last week, I stopped at London and visited with a fantastic CA Technologies customer and partner, Logicalis UK. Logicalis UK is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services,…
A Service Taxonomy for Cloud Choices
I have been talking with many CIOs for some time about strategic adoption of cloud solutions. A key step in these conversations is always the review of the portfolio of services they provide to business users, so they can choose…