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HP revs up 'Formula One' enterprise Clouds

The pragmatic view of the Cloud for large enterprises is far from straight forward. In practice these businesses will need to manage a wide range of different supply models so that they can co-exist with each other. There will, for example, still be dedicated on-premise resources, there may be some outsourcing, some shared services, and some services from the Cloud that probably contribute to a mixed internal/external private Cloud. In this model, the role of IT management is to be the broker of efficient IT services needed to meet business requirements.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

Business Cloud Summit 2010- the Business Cloud one year on!

We said that 2009 was the Year of the Cloud. We were wrong. In reality it was a year of the Cloud, albeit an important year. It was the year that Cloud Computing adoption gained sufficient traction that even if your organisation hadn't begun to roll out Cloud-based technologies, it needed at least to put them on the corporate agenda for consideration. 

It was against this backdrop that the first Business Cloud Summit was held. Reflecting the greater and more mainstream take-up of Cloud Computing, this year's Business Cloud Summit is very much The Business Cloud – One Year On! We're going to be hearing from even more of the increasingly established and experienced practitioners of Cloud Computing in both the private and public sectors.  You really won't want to miss this... Read more.