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Structure Europe – On Cloud Brokerage

October 11, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud Options, John Cowan, London, Om Malik, San Francisco, Structure 2010, Zimory

Last month I had the pleasure of visiting one of my favorite cities, London, for GigaOm‘s Structure event. While there I moderated a panel with two very smart individuals, John Cowan, CEO of 6Fusion and James Mitchell, CEO of…

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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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When Does Co-Opetition Flip to War? On Competing with AWS

June 6, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, competition, Om Malik, OpenStack, rackspace, Screenlight, SendGrid, Zencoder

Recently Chris Potter from Screenlight wrote a guest post on GigaOm looking at the growing trend of Amazon Web Services (AWS) introducing services that compete with its own customers. As Potter pointed out, it’s been a continuing trend, from…

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Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?

January 21, 2013

Business

Cloud storage, Data loss, dropbox, iPad, iphone, Nasuni, Om Malik, Shadow IT

It’s summertime down in my neck of the woods and that’s a good time to go out on a limb with a statement that might get people a little fired up. Bear with me on this one though… Over…

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Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

October 31, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Las Vegas, Mark Thiele, Om Malik, Organization, 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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Can Google go Enterprise?

July 2, 2008

SaaS

google, Microsoft, Om Malik, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The…

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Blog Archives

Structure Europe – On Cloud Brokerage

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

When Does Co-Opetition Flip to War? On Competing with AWS

Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?

Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

Can Google go Enterprise?