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Video Interview: Balancing Cloud Decisions between Executive Team and Business Unit | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 24, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Omesh Piryani, Consultant, Everest Group

At CloudConnect 2012, Everest Group’s Marvin Newell moderated a lively panel discussion on next generation IT governance. The panelists included Thomas Barton, Global Enterprise Architect at Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Jeromy Carriere, Chief Architect at X.commerce; and Erik Sebesta, Chief Architect and Technology Officer at CloudTP. The panel focused on the governance concept of holding on loosely [...]

Video Interview: Simon Wardley on Cloud Adoption Inertia | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Posted on February 23, 2012, in Gaining Altitude in the Cloud, by Omesh Piryani, Consultant, Everest Group

In my last blog, you watched Francesco Paola’s response to CIOs’ willingness to fund a “cloud account team.” Another resistance an enterprise could face is the agnostic feeling towards the cloud promise and the resulting reluctance to move to the public cloud at the opportune time because of its perceived insecurity compared to the private [...]

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 [...]

Successful Captives: Thinking Beyond Implementation | Sherpas in Blue Shirts

Posted on February 15, 2012, in Sherpas in Blue Shirts, by Gaurav Gupta, Managing Partner, and Kavitha Murali, Senior Consultant

Setting up a captive in India is much easier now than it was ever before. While an abundant and diverse talent pool, appropriate real estate, and much-needed regulatory support and incentive structure have contributed in no small measure to this, a robust ecosystem of recruiters, consultants, transition specialists and law firms have been able to [...]

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