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This Week in Cloud Computing #33 with R “Ray” Wang of Altimeter Group
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This week Amanda and Dave are joined by Ray Wang, partner of Enterprise Strategy at Altimeter Group and author of the popular enterprise blog, A Software Insider’s Point of View.
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News Highlights
1) Novell sees fast rise in private cloud buys
Article: http://bit.ly/cscI3E
Q: If these survey numbers are close to reality, does this represents a “tectonic shift” in the perception of enterprise IT management around cloud computing?
2) MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer is making headlines w a speech he just gave at the London School of Economics.
Article: http://bit.ly/9Aooco
Q: Does Ballmer have his head in the clouds? Will MSFT find a silver lining on the cloud?
Q: Will the cloud-to-cloud bickering continue as the market continues to emerge?
4) Salesforce is partnering with NTT to open a data center in Tokyo for its growing customer base in Japan.
Article: http://bit.ly/b80E8I
Q: Does this indicate a trend that larger cloud providers are expanding their points of presence in other countries in other to address compliance issues?
5) IT Budgets Rising Despite Lower Spending on Hardware and Software, with the Rise of Cloud Computing, according to the WSJ
Article: http://bit.ly/c9mrel
Q: Will the increase in IT spending also mean more expectations around return on investment, considering the impact of cloud computing?
Altimeter is a research-based advisory firm helping companies leverage disruption to their advantage.
- Prior to joining Altimeter, Ray was VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, where he was recognized in both 2008 and 2009 by the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as the Analyst of the Year and in 2009 he was recognized as one of the most important analysts for Enterprise, SMB, and Software.
- Focused on enterprise strategy and disruptive technologies: business process transformation, next generation software, SaaS/Cloud solutions, social CRM, analytics, and ERP.
- Author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View,” providing insight into how disruptive technologies and business models impact the CXO, enterprise apps strategy, and emerging business and technology trends.
- Ray works with organizations to provide strategic guidance in a variety of business scenarios including designing go-to-market strategies; reviewing and designing software licensing, pricing, support, and maintenance policies; delivering competitive assessments; evaluating software partner ecosystems, and researching business processes such as the perfect order and continuous customer management for the enterprise and SMB markets.
- News outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Inc., CIO Magazine, Information Week, ComputerWorld, Financial Times, eWeek, IDG News, ZDNet, and CNBC frequently seek his point of view.
- How are you seeing businesses adapt to cloud computing? What’s the most efficient path to the cloud right now?
- How is the cloud impacting the structure of our businesses?
- What are some strategies you’ve seen work for safeguarding digital assets in the cloud?
- What are the four main layers of the cloud as you see them?
- In your opinion, what are the direct business benefits of the public/private/hybrid cloud? When does it make sense to use each one?
- Who SHOULDN’T use the cloud?
- What emerging trends will we see in the cloud in the next few months?
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