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Comment on What the CIO Needs to Know About BYOD by The Difference Between CoIT and BYOD: And the Impact for IT « IT's Evolutionary Transition

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:54:19 +0000

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Comment on Leveling the Playing Field for the Startup and SMB by Cloud Computing for SMB: 2012 Update « IT's Evolutionary Transition

Cloud Computing for SMB: 2012 Update « IT's Evolutionary Transition — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:39:28 +0000

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Comment on What the CIO Needs to Know About BYOD by Tim Crawford

Tim Crawford — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:52:45 +0000

Thanks Spencer!

Comment on What the CIO Needs to Know About BYOD by BYOD in quotes, 20 januari 2012 « Bring your own device

BYOD in quotes, 20 januari 2012 « Bring your own device — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:08:24 +0000

[...] BYOD presents a significant cultural shift for the CIO and their organization. On one hand, it presents increased complexity to management of data. On the other hand, it improves flexibility, capital exposure and employee moral. Even with the challenges, there are tools available today to manage BYOD effectively. In addition, organizational culture changes are needed to understand and engage a BYOD model within the company. BYOD is just one of many significant shifts in the IT world today…with many more to come. Tim Crawford [...]

Comment on What the CIO Needs to Know About BYOD by spencerparkinson

spencerparkinson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:06:52 +0000

Tim, your bottom line is right on.

Spencer Parkinson
Symantec

Comment on Clouds, Failure and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night by badler13

badler13 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:06:32 +0000

A common misconception of the cloud is that it is a panacea for everything that ails IT, but it is important to remember that regardless of where your infrastructure is, “everything fails all the time”, and as such, you need to plan for it. While contracts, SLAs, and partnerships all play a vital role in achieving successful implementations in the cloud, it is important to remember that best practices can oftentimes alleviate the need to dust off those contracts.
– Brian Adler, PS Architect, RightScale

Comment on Leveling the Playing Field for the Startup and SMB by badler13

badler13 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:58:28 +0000

It has been interesting over the last several years to witness the evolution of both the cloud as well as the use cases and customer profiles of those that utilize it. While the enterprise has been somewhat slower to adopt the cloud for many of the reasons mentioned, the one constant has been the entrepreneurs and SMB organizations. Two guys in a garage with a “credit card and a dream” continues to be a perfect fit for the cloud, which assists in leveling the playing field between those with resources those without.
– Brian Adler, PS Architect, RightScale

Comment on Servers Purchased Today Will Not Be Replaced by Leo Pellerin

Leo Pellerin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:41:24 +0000

Very thought provoking point, but I still think that the big companies will be buying servers in 3 more years. There is still that pesky security issue which although has gotten better in the last couple of years, is still not solved and may never be. As Tim pointed out in the post above, it is an economies of scale issue. If you run a virtualized environment that is large enough, it will always be less expensive to run it in house. Today, large banks and financial organizations, defense contractors, and insurance companies are holding on to their internal servers and have no plans to migrate to the cloud.

Comment on Servers Purchased Today Will Not Be Replaced by Tim Crawford

Tim Crawford — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:29:57 +0000

It depends on the service, provider and your internal cost structure. But the short answer for many is yes. When you reach critical mass where the economies of scale for your operation reach that of a public provider, you are limited in options. In those cases (and others), private clouds make sense.

Comment on Servers Purchased Today Will Not Be Replaced by kaiyen

kaiyen — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:01:02 +0000

has external cloud computing reached a price point that it’s affordable to move that many services away from even an internal cloud? I haven’t done the math yet across our entire infrastructure, comparing our bandwidth with transaction needs, etc, but doesn’t using EC2, for instance, eventually reach a point where it’s the same price to run them yourself vs. via the cloud? Even considering headcount (or perhaps at least change in jobs that come from reduced overhead from a shift to the cloud)?

Has there been research on how all of these variables come together or case studies out there?