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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 […]

Five hot business technology trends to watch in 2011

By Jason Hiner | January 3, 2011, 4:30am PST 5. The enterprise warms to Apple and Android 4. The shrinking private data center 3. IT consumerization marches on 2. Desktop thinning 1. Business units absorb more IT The biggest trend of 2011 will be the continued decline of the traditional centralized IT department. More companies […]

Should IT leaders be rotated into other business roles?

Howard Anderson’s new post titled “Michael Bloomberg And The CIO Hall of Fame” @ InformationWeek.com. Building on the success of NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg who’s a former Salomon trader and its computer chief, Anderson used it as a testament to why IT leaders should be rotated into other business roles. http://goo.gl/ViPDj New York City Mayor […]

KPMG survey: Executives have their “heads in the Cloud”

by Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter February 20th, 2011 According to results of a survey by KPMG LLP, business and government executives expect their organizations to use Cloud computing within the next two years. In fact, 79 percent of executives, middle managers and staff said the Cloud is an option to make enterprises more agile […]