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The Cloud and SMBs

Before I talk about the issues and aspects of migrating to enterprise cloud services, we should first appreciate the fact that the cloud is here to stay. Gartner recently released a survey where they predict that the PC will be replaced by Personal Cloud by 2014. Add the already existing cloud-based services like Chrome books and iCloud, and you soon realize that Cloud Computing is not going away; in fact, it is the already crashing wave of the future.

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Cloud Service Catalog

Posted by: Steve Currie

A comment I heard a few weeks ago made me chuckle: “We don’t use any cloud services in our organization.” Yeah…right. The reality of most organizations is that cloud services are being sponsored by business teams and often times without IT involvement or awareness. This highlights both the significant advantages of cloud services (e.g., low initial costs, ease of deployment, speed to market) as well as current issues (e.g., a wild-wild-west of application deployment, lack of integration to existing ...

Risks in the Cloud

Posted by: Sean Wessman

Recently an IT leader shared one of his IT objectives with me, establish a variable cost model that correlates to definable IT characteristics, for example, membership. As membership decreases, so too should operational expense. It sounds like cloud computing to me: buy a service when you need it, use exactly what you need and use it right away.

We have all heard that cloud computing is risky, but why?

About a year ago I met with a local cloud provider who took ...

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