...on using it instead of the expensive CRM package, violating IT’s desktop lockdown policies. (The sales professionals had the temerity to want something that helped them, for example, sell.) Salesforce.com...…
Xcel Energy has asked the Minnesota Public Utilities commission to approve a 10% rate increase. This matters to everyone interested in cloud computing (I think). Here’s why: A major reason...…
...out a form. Private cloud: A retail hosting solution, where IT can provision and de-provision virtual computing resources quickly and easily by just filling out a form, so long as...…
...principle of don’t-tell-outright-lies-about-your-product. Start with what’s been promoted as What Makes the Cloud So Incredible: It’s cheap. You can get it up and running faster. It scales up instantly when...…
...you’re looking for simplicity inside all of this complexity, good luck with that. You’re unlikely to find it for the simplest of reasons: An organization’s applications portfolio and its integration...…
...owned infrastructure. IT could ignore Cloud 1.0 and Cloud 2.0. Cloud 3.0? IT will be neck-deep in Cloud 3.0 projects whether it takes the lead or is dragged into them,...…
Fog is just a cloud you can touch. So instead of “Private Cloud,” wouldn’t “Fog” be a better choice? You can, interestingly enough, build ITIL-compatible Fogs. The Cloud? Far less...…
...come from companies migrating their computing infrastructures to it, for two reasons. The first: It’s unlikely. The second: It’s undesirable. It’s unlikely because migrating your company’s computing to The Cloud...…
...something goes wrong and you staff the function internally, you have an employee responsible for troubleshooting your multi-vendor environment. If you take it to the Cloud, the opportunities for mutual...…
...business analysis to determine how to configure the solution we decide on to fit the company’s sales process, and to integrate it into whatever other systems it has to integrate...…