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Seneca – Cloud Collaboration for Musty Old Boardrooms

August 28, 2013

Business

Board of directors, Business, Business and Economy, Chief executive officer, cloud computing, Information technology, Technology, Xero

I like to see cloud technologies being applied to sectors where they’ve not generally been prevalent. Want an example of an old world part of business that is still steeped in traditional ways of doing things? Look no further…

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On the Stackholm Syndrome – And in Defense of Traditional IT Vendors

July 19, 2013

Business

Alan Trefler, Business, Chief technology officer, Information technology, Jonathan Murray, Om Malik, Stockholm Syndrome, Warner Music Group

Now I’m the first to criticize traditional IT vendors – for too long I’ve heard the horror stories of failed deployments, time and cost over runs, massive maintenance fees and the like. There’s no denying that traditional vendors can,…

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On Cloud Brokers

June 10, 2013

Business

Business, cloud computing, Customer, e-commerce, Information technology, John Cowan, San Antonio, Software as a Service

For a few years now the punditry has been discussing the need, or otherwise, of a financial intermediary layer that sits between cloud vendors and customers. Those who deny the validity of the space point to the fact that,…

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New Zealand Defies International Pressure and Makes Software Non-Patentable

May 8, 2013

Business

David Lange, Information technology, Intellectual Ventures, New Zealand, Oxford Union, Patent, Patent troll, United States

I’m immensely proud to be a New Zealand. Despite being a tiny country at the end of the earth we have historically shown the fortitude to make the big calls before others were willing to do so. The first…

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Want an Irrefutable Example of the Value of Cloud? Here Goes

April 22, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, e-commerce, Information technology, Multi-core processor, Opscode

While the pundits debate the minutiae of cloud computing, and spend hours in detailed and complex arguments of what should and shouldn’t be moved to the cloud, other people are simply going out and doing stuff on the cloud…

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Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption

April 3, 2013

Business

Amazon.com, Business, cloud computing, Information technology, Netflix, Servers, Technology, Zynga

Cross posted from the Cloudability blog… I spend my life doing a bunch of different things – but whether I’m investing, commentating on the technology industry, advising a startup or consulting to a large vendor, there are some common…

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The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology

February 13, 2013

Business

BigData, Business, Frankfurt, Future, Information technology, London, Machine learning, Technology

While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off…

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Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

January 17, 2013

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, enStratus, Information technology, Salesforce.com, Solution, Strategic business unit, yammer

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set…

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The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators – Part One

January 10, 2013

Business

adoption, Business, cloud computing, dropbox, Information technology, Krishnan Subramanian, Server Message Block, VMware

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part I – Infrastructure & Operational Services

December 12, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Forrester Research, Geoffrey Moore, Information technology, platform services, Salesforce.com

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and…

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