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Video Interview: How Willing are CIOs to Fund a “Cloud Adoption Team”? | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 22, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Omesh Piryani, Consultant, Everest Group

Last week, Everest Group was in Santa Clara at CloudConnect 2012, the defining event of the cloud computing industry. Produced by UBM TechWeb, Cloud Connect brought together IT professionals, developers, infrastructure and service providers, and cloud computing innovators at the Santa Clara Convention Center for a three-day conference. Our Next Generation IT Practice Leader Scott [...]

Lessons for Procuring Cloud Services at the Enterprise Level: Part 2 | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 16, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Alejandro Salomon, Engagement Manager, Everest Group

In Part 1 of this blog series on lessons to help you avoid potential challenges and surprises while on the road to the cloud, we looked at procuring cloud services, application and workload analysis, evaluating cloud services, the end-state environment, and making TCO work. Following are our final five lessons 6. Active Management of the Environment [...]

Grief Counseling for the CIO | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 9, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Peter Bendor-Samuel, Chief Executive Officer, Everest Group

The accommodation and integration of disruptive technologies into the enterprise IT ecosystem is a significant issue for IT executives. And just as distributed computing did 20 years ago, successful adoption of cloud computing in its many forms requires substantial change across the IT enterprise. The rapid pace of innovation and ability of business users to [...]

Lessons for Procuring Cloud Services at the Enterprise Level: Part 1 | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 9, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Alejandro Salomon, Engagement Manager, Everest Group

So you’ve read tomes of information on the benefits cloud computing can deliver to your enterprise, are sold, and have already defined a cloud computing strategy and adoption approach. Great. But breaking away from your existing IT environment is far from a trivial exercise and will prove time consuming and costly. To help you avoid [...]

Cloud Beyond the Borders – Part 2: Europe | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 6, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by David Radin, Senior Consultant, Everest Group

In Part 1 of this blog series, we talked about cloud computing drivers and challenges in Asia. This time Europe is our beyond the borders cloud viewing destination. Europe does not face many of the hindrances to cloud adoption that developing countries do. European power supplies are reliable, it has excellent data connectivity to the [...]

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