Jack Santos

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Entries Tagged as 'Cloud'


Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t

by Jack Santos  |  November 12, 2010  |  Comments Off

Yesterday I cancelled my home PC backup contract. It was with a leading online (cloud based) provider of backup services. It’s not that I wasn’t happy with them.  In fact, when I signed up 4 years ago, it was one of the things that made me realize cloud services were players – not only for [...]

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Category: Cloud Externalization management Managment Outsourcing security     Tags: , , ,

Word for the Weekend Wordsmith: Value

by Jack Santos  |  September 24, 2010  |  Comments Off

“He who controls vocabulary controls thought.” Ludwig Wittgenstein As a CIO, often times a final decision for a product or service gets framed in these terms: “What value are we getting?”; or “Is it worth the value?”.  Vendors will often flip this around and base their sell on their “value” , as in “we give [...]

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