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Is this a sign of growing Maturity in Cloud Computing?

Cost Is No Longer Main Driver for Cloud Adoption By Anh Nguyen, computerworlduk.com Apr 11, 2011 Just 16 percent of UK firms consider cost to be the main driver for initial cloud adoption, a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has found. The majority of respondents (53 percent) said that the flexibility that […]

Think Before You Build

Timeless insight: “Think Before You Build”- architecture is about thinking. Slate’s new post on “Have computers made architects less disciplined?” Think Before You Build Have computers made architects less disciplined? Witold Rybczynski considers architecture before computers: Rigor was equally a part of the Renaissance architect’s working method. This period not only lacked Xeroxes and blueprint […]