Nick Gall

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Why Public Cloud Will Be Vastly Better Than Private Cloud

by Nick Gall  |  December 1, 2010  |  4 Comments

Image via Wikipedia It’s not just about size. Public cloud is someone’s front office, but private cloud is someone’s back office. I’ve seen only a relative few good back offices, even fewer great back offices. I’ve never seen a back office that was world class, Type A, game changer, best of breed, etc. Your back [...]

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Private Cloud Computing: The Only Thing Real so Far is the Desire

by Nick Gall  |  February 9, 2009  |  3 Comments

My colleague, Tom Bittman, recently wrote this provocative post: Private Cloud Computing is Real – Get Over It. While I roughly agree with the body of the post — "internal IT providers want to make fundamental changes so that they behave and provide similar benefits (on smaller scale) as cloud computing providers" [emphasis added] — [...]

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