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Guest post – Death of a cloud provider – 5 practical ways to avoid becoming a SaaS refugee

August 11, 2014

Business

Big data, Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, JSON, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Springpad

A guest post from Paul Muller – Paul Muller leads global strategic marketing within the Software business at HP responsible for building awareness and implementation of best practices across all elements of the IT value chain as well as…

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IT: Cost Center or Strategic Enabler?

August 2, 2013

Business

Arab Spring, Business, Business agility, Business transformation, Chief information officer, Commonwealth Bank, Innovation, Middle East

Cross posted from the Salesforce blog As I talk and write about business transformation generally, and IT transformation in particular, I often meet technologists who sit within traditional businesses, frustrated at the lack of progressive attitude towards IT that CIOs often…

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Tying Cloud Costs to Return – The Hunt for ROI

July 2, 2013

Business

Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, Organization, Pivot, Return on investment, Silicon Valley, Software as a Service

Cross posted from the Cloudability blog In difficult economic times, every manager within an organization is feeling the pressure to reduce budgets. Given this fact, it is unsurprising that customers are often looking to cloud cost savings as the…

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On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

April 30, 2013

Business

BYOD, Chief information officer, Computer file, dropbox, Filesharing, Network Time Protocol, NTP, Solution

The enterprise world is split between those who believe bottom-up approaches to file sharing (as typified by vendors like Box and Dropbox) will be the future of large organizations. On the other hand a number of people point to…

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Good Reading–On What an Enterprise REALLY Needs

February 6, 2013

Business

Business, Chief information officer, Enterprise software, google, Market share, Microsoft, Search Engines, Searching

Another chance to share an article that provides an alternative view from one you normally read here – in this case an opinion piece from an enterprise CIO on why he doesn’t believe Google is a credible enterprise vendor.…

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Drivers for Cloud Adoption–CIO Research

December 18, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Business, Business-to-Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, e-commerce, Software as a Service, Technical support

Interesting survey results just released that indicate cost isn’t the highest factor in cloud adoption (yay – at last people are talking more about non-cost impacts of cloud) – Respondents believe compliance requirements, value and competitive advantage are the…

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Private Clouds Must Be Agile

October 12, 2012

Business

Chief information officer, cloud, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Infrastructure, Scalability, Self-service, twitter

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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More on the IT Business Boiling Point

April 19, 2012

Business

Appirio, Asia-Pacific, BMC, Chief information officer, cloudcomputing, IBM, Information technology operations, netsuite

Over the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but…

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Cloud Computing is Changing YOUR Job!

February 1, 2012

Business

Business, CA Technologies, Chief information officer, cloud computing, EMC Corporation, Forbes, management, Strategic management

Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes it is going to undergo over…

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Freemium – A Word of Caution

April 14, 2010

Design

Bob Warfield, Business, Chief information officer, freemium, Freemium Summit, HelpStream, Lincoln Murphy, service

I’ve been harkening back to the good old days recently – the days when real companies made real products for real customers who paid real cold hard cash for said products. Call me old-fashioned but I still see value…

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