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Natural Cloud Salespeople
by Daryl Plummer | October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
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 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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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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: Cartoon, Cloud, Cloud Services, Comic, Enterprise, Infrastructure, Pay as you go, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Social Networking, Trends
In the Cloud, the Unthinkable is Just Mission Difficult, Not Mission Impossible
by Daryl Plummer | November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Wow. A great article by Mike Elgan on the impermanence of the web and the cloud was a treat to read and an eye opener to anyone who forgets that all things go through cycles of maturity (See The Wikipedia Exodus Is the Least of Our Worries). Mike correctly notes that we are all relying [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: caution, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, Opportunity, private cloud
G-Men #6 and #7: Cloud Deadbeats are not Welcome!
by Daryl Plummer | April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
G-Men #s 6 and 7. Click images to see larger view.
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Billing, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Pay as you go
Cloud Elasticity Could Make You Go Broke
by Daryl Plummer | March 11, 2009 | 13 Comments
Ever had a mobile phone and get a bill that was way, way more than you expected? You know what I mean. The day that bill for 700 dollars comes in and your eyes bug out of your head because you could swear (and in fact you do swear – at the customer service rep) [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, Cloud Price, Elasticity, Hosting, IT, Mobile phone, Pay per use
Telecom Companies: The Cloud Clock is Ticking!
by Daryl Plummer | March 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
I state up front that I am not a primary telecommunications analyst – but I have friends who are (give me or Bob Hafner a call to discuss). But, in the last 6 months, I think I have either met with, or spoken with every major telecom provider in the world. They all have the [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Service Orientation Uncategorized Tags: Billing, Cloud, Inrastructure, private cloud, Telecom enabled, Telecommunications
G-Men #5 : If it’s shiny, it must be new!
by Daryl Plummer | February 22, 2009 | 5 Comments
G-men #5: click the image for a larger view.
Category: Cloud Emergin Trends Emerging Phenomena Uncategorized Tags: Cartoon, Comic
