Woz Wary of Cloud

Who are Cloud Providers and Cloud Consumers? Depends on Whom You Ask

The cloud is forcing enterprises and vendors alike to reconsider what business they are in. And for many enterprises, the growth of private cloud capabilities puts them only a step away from becoming cloud solutions providers themselves.

forbes.com (10 days ago)

In the Rush to Cloud Computing, Here's One Question Not Enough People are Asking

Many business and IT leaders get consumed in many questions: Should we go with private cloud? Public cloud? Hybrid model? What about our legacy systems? Where do we find the skills to make cloud happen?

forbes.com (3 months and 3 days ago)

Fujitsu Launches FUJITSU Cloud Initiative to Systematize Its Cloud Products and Services

Fujitsu today announced its FUJITSU Cloud Initiative to develop the Company's cloud business by providing various cloud-related products and services in a new systematic way to meet the cloud needs of customers.

japancorp.net (9 days ago)

From the Woz to Some Intern, These Are the Mayors of Silicon Valley

wired.com (1 month and 17 days ago)

CenturyLinkVoice: Public, Private, Hybrid: Why it Takes All Types to Answer 'What is Cloud?'

Ask anyone in technology circles, “What is cloud?” and you’ll get a handful of different answers. But the responses will likely all relate back to three key models: Public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud.   Businesses need to be aware of how these models can fit into their strategies.

forbes.com (14 hours ago)

RightScale sees uptick in cloud adoption and multi-cloud use

A survey from cloud-management player RightScale has released results of a survey showing a rise in both cloud computing and multi-cloud adoption. That bodes well for the company and its competitors.    

gigaom.com (27 days ago)

Accenture's Cloud Business Already at $1 Billion-a-year, Aims to Become Industry's Cloud Broker

I was just reading an interesting post over at Information Age which outlines Accenture’s ambitious plan to position itself as the IT industry’s “cloud broker.”  The strategy is part of a broader plan that sees the consulting company investing upwards of $400 million in new cloud computing capabilities. According to the story, the Accenture Cloud Platform will be part of...

forbes.com (24 days ago)

OracleVoice: The Oracle Cloud Chronicles: Simplifying IT and Driving Innovation

Over the past several months, we’ve published a number of pieces in this space about Oracle’s adventures in the wild, wild world of cloud computing. We’ve touched in the business value the cloud can create, the profound impact the cloud is having within companies and across entire industries, and the vast potential the cloud offers for liberating IT dollars to fund innovation.

forbes.com (17 days ago)

Cloud adoption growing, but how big depends on who you ask

Is cloud computing really catching on in the enterprise? Well, that depends on who you talk to, recent surveys have found. RightScale, a company that acts as a broker between end users and public cloud service providers, released the most recent results of its annual State of the Cloud report and found that about 75 percent of respondents surveyed were using the cloud in...

pcworld.com (26 days ago)

The Game of Cloud Chicken

NEW YORK (TheStreet) --There is a great game of "cloud chicken" now taking place among vendors and in the press of which investors need to be aware. The game is to report a huge "cloud" contract and make it appear that some vendor has a customer locked up. In fact, most of the contracts being signed today are either for cloud services -- the kind you'd get in any public...

thestreet.com (2 months ago)