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In mid-February, I have the opportunity to join a great group of executives to debate how cloud computing will – nay IS – changing the way we need to think about IT governance. As you may know, Everest Group is chairing a track at CloudConnect in Santa Clara, CA, on Organizational Readiness. One of the [...]
In September 2011, Dutch Security and Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten told the parliament that U.S. companies will be excluded from bidding for IT services contracts because of fears that the U.S. Patriot Act may allow data to be compromised. Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company and one of Microsoft’s biggest clients in the [...]
Most enterprise cloud offering conversations to date have focused on the horizontal benefits…flexibility, scalability, auto scaling, cost savings, reliability, security, self provisioning, etc. Advantageous as these are, CIOs are increasingly interested in learning more about cloud benefits that are specific to the industry in which their organizations operate. For example, latency requirements, failover mechanism and [...]
This blog originally appeared on Cloud Connect Blog. Read the original post. “The technology is the easy part. It’s the cultural issues that are hard.” This quote from a recent conversation with a Fortune 500 CIO perfectly summarizes why we’re holding the first-of-its-kind Organizational Readiness track at Cloud Connect. As enterprise adoption of public and private [...]
There’s a lot of noise in the industry today about whether or not infrastructure appliances, engineered systems, datacenter-in-a-box, and other similar solutions can be labeled “cloud.” The basis for this debate is rooted in assertions that the public cloud model, or more aptly Amazon’s, is the only cloud model. There’s no doubt that Amazon is [...]