Paul Miller

Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalface in adopting various Cloud (mainly SaaS) [...]

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I just published a piece over on CloudAve, reporting the results of a Cloud Computing survey commissioned from Kelton Research by Avanade. The survey of over 500 senior executives from companies in seventeen countries appears to suggest that cost savings and efficiency gains are being sacrificed because of significant concerns about security issues [...]

I am increasingly concerned by the extent to which the tech sector’s current and future behemoths squander finite effort on reinventing ‘context’ at the expense of excelling in delivery of their ‘core’ proposition. The post explores some of the reasons for this reinvention of wheels, and asks whether previously sound reasoning is increasingly becoming a thinly disguised excuse for lack of change.