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Cloud Computing is different to many other models of computing in so far as its introduction to an organisation is often driven by line of business executives rather than IT management. For that reason, Cloud Computing can be seen as helping to bridge the divide between IT and the business and its adoption is often driven by business or management drivers rather than technology concerns.

These drivers include organisational agility, total cost of ownership (TCO), budget concerns, the need more business-responsive IT systems and a desire to achieve more flexible and scalable computing resource.

View from the Cloud: Establishing ROI from Cloud Computing

2010-09-02 11:21
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Capgemini's Mark Skilton says there's more to Cloud Computing than a technological change brought about by the convergence of a number of new and existing technologies.

View from the Cloud: Beyond the hype to Cloud's future

2010-08-30 12:36
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Christoph Reichert of Platform Computing discusses the growth of Cloud Computing and outlines why private cloud remains the number one priority for the time being.

CSC expands VCE collaboration

2010-08-30 12:27
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Services giant CSC is expanding its alliance with the Virtual Computing Environment coalition (VCE), the collaboration of Cisco and EMC with Vmware.

Cloud Computing – the logistic fundament of Future Networked Care

2010-08-25 13:36
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Is Cloud Computing the answer to the demands of healthcare organisations in a tough economic climate? Dr Christophe Thuemller thinks it might be.

View from the Cloud: Cloud services - build or buy?

2010-08-25 13:15
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For many organisations, moving to a Cloud-services model has become a holy grail in terms of their future IT vision, says Mark Lewis of Riverbed Technology.

View from the Cloud: SMEs still missing a trick

2010-08-19 10:29
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Cloud vendors are failing to make an impression on SMEs and missing out on a lucrative market, says Steve Holford Marketing Director of Rise.

RightNow's Jason Mittelstaedt on customer experience and the Cloud

2010-08-16 10:57
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With a new Cloud customer experience platform, RightNow CMO Jason Mittelstaedt explains why his company repositioned itself away from the $13bn CRM industry.

Gartner's five roles for government in the Cloud

2010-07-30 11:22
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Government has Cloudy ambitions. If these are genuine, then there are five key roles to be fulfilled, says research firm Gartner.

Royal Mail gives Capgemini stamp of approval

2010-07-27 11:25
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The post box in the Cloud is getting busier as Royal Mail signs a Cloud Computing deal with Capgemini to sit alongside its existing CSC relationship.

Business cloud market more than double by 2015

2010-07-23 15:00
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A survey by Analysys Mason suggests the enterprise cloud market will be worth over $35bn by 2015, particularly if service providers target the SME sector.
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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.