Monthly Archives for September 2009

We’ve discussed ITIL and Cloud Computing and the role of trust as a differentiator for service providers. Yes, we see the evidence that IT Hosting companies and managed service providers are closer to their customers and we see that their differentiation is their commitment to serving the customer. But Amazon, Google, and Microsoft aren’t going

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If you’re a service provider, the threat from the cloud just got bigger – with Amazon’s Virtual Public Cloud. The VPC announcement from Amazon suggests (as we have been stating all along) that the Amazon is now seriously targeting the enterprise – initially with EC2, but soon with S3 as well. So where does this

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With all due respect to Cory Doctorow, he’s wrong. In his article Not every cloud has a silver lining (Guardian) he states: There’s something you won’t see mentioned by too many advocates of cloud computing – the main attraction is making money from you. And I suppose all the vendors of physical storage, the hard

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