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Capacity Planning Equals Budget Planning

July 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

To quote from my Gartner colleague Lydia Leong’s recent post on cloud computing: “Capacity planning equals budget planning, so it’s rarely an, “eh, because we can scale quickly, it doesn’t matter.”
I read this three times before it sunk in.  Capacity = budget?  Yes!
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A Clear Trend for Trends

May 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Lately, news in my feed reader (Google), people/entities I follow on Twitter (Twitterfon), and even good old paper newspapers (NY Times, Washington Post) seem to be doing more with trends.  You can get trends on Twitter search terms (http://www.twitscoop.com/), trends on searches on Google (http://www.google.com/trends), even trends on American Idol futures.  Gartner’s own web site [...]

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