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Keith Tilley (UK) - Why UK CIOs Remain Wary of Cloud Hype – Part 2
Posted byKeith Tilley CompanySunGard Availability Services 08/24/2011
No technological concept has elicited more hype, and in turn more confusion, than cloud computing - Gartner recently declared the volume of noise being generated around the cloud as ‘deafening' in its latest hype cycle. If you believe everything you hear, 2011 is set to be the year that will define... Read more
Keith Tilley (UK) - Why UK CIOs Remain Wary of Cloud Hype – Part I
Posted byKeith Tilley CompanySunGard Availability Services 08/21/2011
Cloud computing has positioned itself as something of a new frontier for technology: a game-changing revolution in how IT is delivered to businesses. Gartner, for example, predicts the worldwide cloud services market for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to reach as much as $10 billion in 2014. So,... Read more
Bernard Geoghegan (UK) - Data Centre Innovation: What is Driving Modular Demand?
Posted byBernard Geoghegan CompanyColt Data Centre Services 08/16/2011
Today's data creation, processing and storage is growing at an unfathomable rate and is more critical to organisations than it has ever been before. Demand for data centre capacity is outstripping supply significantly due to the need for more storage, security, disaster recovery and application hosting.... Read more
Smitha Murthy (India) - Cloud Computing and Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) Adoption in India
Posted bySmitha Murthy Company McAfee India 08/02/2011
I often get asked whether SaaS adoption is really happening in businesses, and whether cloud computing, one of the hottest topics on most CIOs’ minds, is transitioning to the implementation of cloud-based services. The short answer is YES! For most CIOs and SMBs in India, like the rest of the world,... Read more
Klaus Holse Andersen (Europe) - How Cloud is Engineering a New Breed of CIOs
Posted byKlaus Holse Andersen CompanyMicrosoft 07/31/2011
Once exclusively a technology expert, the CIO’s job has morphed into a hybrid role, combining technology knowledge and business acumen. Until now some executive boards have seen IT investment as only a cost rather than a source of added value and a key competitive asset. Now, as IT becomes increasingly... Read more
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Douglas Cohen (South Africa) - Connecting Rural Areas (Part 1)
I think there has been some real progress in the cities but it's true that there's still much work to be done on the outskirts and rural areas and there...
Gordon05-21-2012
Malhar Barai (Global) - The Content Conundrum : Redefining the Content Strategy
Malhar, thanks for identifying key requirements in redefining the content strategy. I'd like to add an additional challenge to be addressed by the content...
Ram Dixit05-18-2012
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Global: Exploring hidden costs in the cloud http://t.co/DkO6uUxE
