Different Cloud Survey, Same Cloud Adoption Concerns
The Uptime Institute, a well-known and -respected organization that focuses on data center best practices and economics, recently released its 2012 Data Center Survey. full story
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The More Executives Collaborate via Cloud, the More They Appreciate Its Power
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With Experience Comes Wisdom in Cloud Computing, Survey Shows
If only experience could be bottled and sold, rather than having to be earned. Actually, cloud computing is, in a way, the bottling and packaging of information technology experience. But still, even with something so nicely pre-packaged as cloud, there is still a learning curve that must be climbed. The good news is that cloud has been around long enough that there is now a...
forbes.com (29 days ago)
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