by Daryl Plummer | February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
The Gartner Cool Vendors process happens at the beginning of each year and terminates in the April timeframe with the publication of our annual list of relatively un-known but interesting IT vendors. In early January, we launched the internal nominations process for identifying Cool Vendors candidates. After a month of interaction, we finally reviewed and [...]
Category: Applications Broker Business Process Management Cloud Cool Vendors Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | December 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
In 2011, Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) has grown from a minor curiosity into a major point of interest for cloud providers and consumers alike. The issues of aggregating, integrating, customizing, and governing cloud services have become serious ones for small, medium, and large Enterprises who need help getting their cloud services to be the solutions [...]
Category: Bill of Rights Broker Cloud Cloud Broker Cloud Services Brokerage Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Virtualization Tags: Broker, Brokerage, Cloud Broker, Cloud Brokerage, Cloud Sevices Brokerage
by Daryl Plummer | October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
by Daryl Plummer | October 26, 2011 | Comments Off
Your motto shold be: If you assume Public Cloud CAN work for you, you will soon discover what it CANNOT do. If you assume Public cloud CANNOT work for you then you will NEVER discover what it CAN do! Back your way into the appropriate choices or lock yourself out of them – its your [...]
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by Daryl Plummer | August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
All of a sudden, everyone is interested in cloud services brokerage. Well, by everyone, I mean end customers looking for an easier way to integrate cloud computing into their plans and vendors seeking a new set of markets to mine. But no matter the interested party, one thing is clear. The options for doing cloud [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Trends SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Virtualization Tags: Billing, Cloud, Cloud computing, Commoditization, Elasticity, Enterprise, Pay as you go, private cloud, Services, SOA, Telecom enabled, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | November 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
I’m about to introduce a term to describe a solid trend in cloud computing integration – Cloudstreams. It will come as no surprise to those of you who have spoken to me that this trend lays in the domain of cloud services brokerage. I have said, and will continue to say, that cloud services brokerage [...]
Category: Cloud EA ERP Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google IAM IT Governance SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Virtualization Windows 7 Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, hype, IBM, Inrastructure, IT, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Telecommunications, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
I recently wrote a prediction stating that “Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) is the single largest revenue growth opportunity in Cloud Computing”. Of course, not everyone agrees with that. So, I had to go out an try to provide more evidence. And to do that, I finished rewriting the definition of cloud services brokerage. Benoit Lheruex [...]
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by Daryl Plummer | July 11, 2010 | 5 Comments
It has long been apparent to me that Cloud Computing represents a significant change in the relationships between providers of solutions based on technology and the consumers who use those solutions. Whether you are talking about how computing solutions are paid for, who delivers them, or what the contracts for those services look like, you [...]
Category: Applications BPM Bill of Rights Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends IT Governance Responsibilities Service Orientation Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Tags: Bill of Rights, Cloud computing, Cloud Rights, Cloud Services, consumers, Gartner's Global IT Council On Cloud Computing, Global IT Council, providers, Responsibilities, Rights and responsibilities, trust
by Daryl Plummer | March 30, 2010 | 5 Comments
I posed an interesting question in our cloud council meeting last month. Since then, I have been trying to get more detail on the issue. The question was, when will cloud services providers begin to acquire bulk licenses of popular software products to deploy on behalf of cloud services consumers? The essential issue here is [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services
by Daryl Plummer | February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
In the last three months, I seem to be spending a lot of time with legal staff at large enterprises talking about cloud computing. I knew the lawyers would wake and get in this game in a big way, but what has surprised me is the amount of glee these lawyers seem to have re [...]
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