Daryl Plummer

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Cloud Brokerage Has a “Green” Future – The Color of Money

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 [...]

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Back Your Way Into The Right Cloud Choices

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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Cloud Brokerage is Gaining Ground

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 [...]

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Cloudstreams: The Next Cloud Integration Challenge

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 [...]

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Cloud Services Brokerage is Built on Markets Near 1 Trillion in Spend!

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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Gartner’s Global IT Council on Cloud Computing: Do You Have Rights?

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 [...]

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Can Bulk Licenses in the Cloud Save Software Vendor Revenues?

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 [...]

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Legal Eagles And The Cloud: What Would Denny Crane Do?

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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To Paraphrase Spock – Eat Well, and Prosper!

by Daryl Plummer  |  November 25, 2009  |  Comments Off

The days of thanks begin at birth. For the few things we adults see as thankful-giving are echoed in the heart of the giving that came when we were put together as children. So conceive again the child… Conceive every day the living breath… Conceive again the joy of light seen through eyes not blinded [...]

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Fly “Clear” through the Cloud and Learn a Lesson about Fear

by Daryl Plummer  |  November 25, 2009  |  Comments Off

Lots of questions are starting to come in about whether or not information in the cloud will be safe. We all worry from time to time about some level of privacy of our information. But here is a real-world non-cloud example that illustrates exactly the nightmare scenario of fear and what has been done about [...]

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