This document discusses six key questions that business executives should ask about cloud computing. The questions are: 1) What is it, and how does it work? 2) What specific benefits can clouds bring to my organization? 3) Can I depend on clouds to save my organization money? 4) How will clouds affect the way my organization competes? 5) What risks must my organization manage? By focusing on these questions, executives can evaluate cloud computing's opportunities and risks for their own organization in a timely and productive way.
Cloud Computing Contracts and Services: What's Really Happening Out There? T...Cloud Legal Project
Slides for talk by Prof Christopher Millard on "Cloud Computing Contracts and Services:
What's Really Happening Out There?", at the Sixth bi-annual conference on the economics of intellectual property, software and the Internet – Toulouse, Jan 2011
Slides for talk by Prof Christopher Millard on "Cloud computing: identifying and managing legal risks" at Google's Oxford Internet Institute Learned Lunches, Brussel, February 2011
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Issue analysis on Cloud Computing
- Related stanardization activities
- Standardization issue from ISO/IEC JTC 1 Perspectives
- Recommendation to JTC 1 for standardization
Cloud Computing Contracts and Services: What's Really Happening Out There? T...Cloud Legal Project
Slides for talk by Prof Christopher Millard on "Cloud Computing Contracts and Services:
What's Really Happening Out There?", at the Sixth bi-annual conference on the economics of intellectual property, software and the Internet – Toulouse, Jan 2011
Slides for talk by Prof Christopher Millard on "Cloud computing: identifying and managing legal risks" at Google's Oxford Internet Institute Learned Lunches, Brussel, February 2011
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Issue analysis on Cloud Computing
- Related stanardization activities
- Standardization issue from ISO/IEC JTC 1 Perspectives
- Recommendation to JTC 1 for standardization
The enterprise landscape is rapidly changing. Data is ubiquitous. Information is flowing into an organization’s applications from more sources than ever before. Business expec-tations are also changing. Corporations today demand speed and flexibility from their applications. Enterprise want services that allow them to make better business decisions, create more satisfied customers, and react ever more quickly to evolving market condi-tions. Current economic circumstances and increased competition are also driving the demand for a more effective model to deliver applications and services.
This relentless push for a faster, better and more cost-effective technology delivery model has set the stage for new approaches to application development, deployment and management. Several technologies such as grid computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have offered partial solutions for enterprises that require applications with greater scalability, agility and easier management capabilities. However, these alone have not been enough.
Enter cloud computing, an innovative model for delivering IT infrastructure, applications and data that shifts the emphasis from static, stand-alone application silos to dynamic, shared environments, dynamically allocated among various tasks and accessed via a network.
Today, many forward-thinking enterprises are using cloud environments to take advan-tage of the increased scalability, agility, automation, and efficiency that this technology can deliver. Yet, because cloud computing has evolved so quickly, there are still many questions surrounding it. To understand the promise of cloud computing, decision makers and IT professionals must examine its development and benefits from an enterprise perspective.
Beginning with the origins of cloud computing, this paper will help define exactly what cloud computing is and how the enterprise can benefit from it. In doing so, the paper outlines a number of “cloud characteristics” which together illustrate the true potential of cloud computing and provide a framework for assessing current and future cloud offerings. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between infrastructure-oriented clouds and platform-oriented clouds and explains how cloud platforms allow end-user applica-tions to unlock the true promise of cloud computing.
Imagine yourself in the world where the users of the computer of today’s internet world don’t have to run, install or store their application or data on their own computers, imagine the world where every piece of your information or data would reside on the Cloud (Internet).
Cloud Computing Contracts and Services: What’s Really Happening Out There?Cloud Legal Project
Slides for talk by Prof Christopher Millard on "Cloud Computing Contracts and Services: What’s Really Happening Out There?" at The University of Sheffield: School of Law, November 2010
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
The enterprise landscape is rapidly changing. Data is ubiquitous. Information is flowing into an organization’s applications from more sources than ever before. Business expec-tations are also changing. Corporations today demand speed and flexibility from their applications. Enterprise want services that allow them to make better business decisions, create more satisfied customers, and react ever more quickly to evolving market condi-tions. Current economic circumstances and increased competition are also driving the demand for a more effective model to deliver applications and services.
This relentless push for a faster, better and more cost-effective technology delivery model has set the stage for new approaches to application development, deployment and management. Several technologies such as grid computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have offered partial solutions for enterprises that require applications with greater scalability, agility and easier management capabilities. However, these alone have not been enough.
Enter cloud computing, an innovative model for delivering IT infrastructure, applications and data that shifts the emphasis from static, stand-alone application silos to dynamic, shared environments, dynamically allocated among various tasks and accessed via a network.
Today, many forward-thinking enterprises are using cloud environments to take advan-tage of the increased scalability, agility, automation, and efficiency that this technology can deliver. Yet, because cloud computing has evolved so quickly, there are still many questions surrounding it. To understand the promise of cloud computing, decision makers and IT professionals must examine its development and benefits from an enterprise perspective.
Beginning with the origins of cloud computing, this paper will help define exactly what cloud computing is and how the enterprise can benefit from it. In doing so, the paper outlines a number of “cloud characteristics” which together illustrate the true potential of cloud computing and provide a framework for assessing current and future cloud offerings. Finally, the paper draws a distinction between infrastructure-oriented clouds and platform-oriented clouds and explains how cloud platforms allow end-user applica-tions to unlock the true promise of cloud computing.
Imagine yourself in the world where the users of the computer of today’s internet world don’t have to run, install or store their application or data on their own computers, imagine the world where every piece of your information or data would reside on the Cloud (Internet).
Cloud Computing Contracts and Services: What’s Really Happening Out There?Cloud Legal Project
Slides for talk by Prof Christopher Millard on "Cloud Computing Contracts and Services: What’s Really Happening Out There?" at The University of Sheffield: School of Law, November 2010
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
There are many misconceptions surrounding Cloud Computing and what it has to offer.
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Faced with depressing predictions of looming budget cuts cloud computing has come to the fore of discussions to uncover relatively short-term economies in IT functions within the public sector. But how much of the cloud story is hype? How different are cloud architectures to the web-server farms that organizations have had the means to access for well over a decade? And how realistic is it that core business systems will move out of the data centre to the cloud?
It has always been a challenge to explain and convince top management including the Chief Financial Officers to embark into Cloud Computing. Predominantly because many still unclear or not so very sure what is cloud computing. Is it managed hosting, co-location or managed services? While technology providers and vendors continue to confuse management technology jargon, the need to embark into cloud computing seems inevitable...just like any others before such as the need to have emails, websites, online transactions, web based applications etc.
This presentation provides layman's, easy to understand meaning of cloud computing, why is it important for management,especially the CFO to seriously consider embarking into and some statistics and trend of how the world will move toward cloud.
Sample of workshop given at CloudAsia 2012. Workshop is 700 slides, so this is just a small sample to give a feel for the content, depth and independent approach.