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Gartner Cloud Prediction Places US Top In Public Deployment

by John on March 4, 2013

in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Technology, Trends

Gartner Cloud Prediction Places US Top in Public Deployment Trying to predict the cloud market can easily be likened to attempting to look for sufficient, clean drinking water in the Atacama Desert. All the same Gartner tries its best to tear through the numbers and somehow comes up with facts and figures that shape up the kind of predictions that business professionals and leaders can rely on to position their strategies. For 2013, Gartner has come out, this time round focusing its lofty analytical eyes on the public cloud segment and concluding that it will scale up with a growth

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Would A Cloud By Any Other Name Sell As Well?

by simon on January 26, 2011

in Amazon, Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Guest Writers, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology

Would a cloud by any other name sell as well? By Simon Ellis My last blog entry ‘Does Gartner understand cloud computing’ generated a lot of interest, especially in the twitter-o-sphere. This was no surprise, as opinions about this space tend to be very mixed. More so, I suspect that there is frustration with vendors, as your average ‘web application’ gets re-branded as a ‘cloud application’ and pitched to IT managers as the coolest thing since SOA, Agile Progamming, UML, <other technology hype>. Senior IT professionals really just want to understand what the cloud is, without the hype and without

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