Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data » Nick Carr http://cloudofdata.com Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ paul.miller@cloudofdata.com (Paul Miller) paul.miller@cloudofdata.com (Paul Miller) posts 1440 http://cloudofdata.com/logo144x144.jpg Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data » Nick Carr http://cloudofdata.com 144 144 conversations with the executives shaping Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web. Linked Data, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, SaaS, PaaS, more Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Open Data, SaaS, PaaS Paul Miller Paul Miller paul.miller@cloudofdata.com no no Keep your Executive Assistant happy if moving to the Cloud http://cloudofdata.com/2009/11/keep-your-executive-assistant-happy-if-moving-to-the-cloud/ http://cloudofdata.com/2009/11/keep-your-executive-assistant-happy-if-moving-to-the-cloud/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:17:08 +0000 Paul Miller http://cloudofdata.com/?p=855 Google AtmosphereGoogle 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) solutions.

Carr blogged on Friday, noting that video from the event has been made available on YouTube, and I’ve been steadily working through the material ever since.

Krish followed up on CloudAve with his take, flagging Carr’s presentation as of particular interest. I liked Carr’s presentation too (although prefer our podcast, as I think he went deeper there), and found much to value in most of the other talks as well.

My particular highlights, I think, were three sessions later in the day;

Paul Cheesbrough (CIO at Telegraph Media Group), Francois Blanc (CIO at Valeo), Todd Pierce (SVP & CIO at Genentech) and Andy Beale (CIO at Guardian Media Group) participated in a panel session (embedded below) to discuss their real-world experiences of rolling Google Apps out across large organisations. The key take-aways? Benefit won’t be recognised across the board until six months in, and Executive Assistants need to be kept on-side as their day-to-day work inside people’s calendars is disrupted… and they’re both ‘loud’ and ‘influential.’

Google’s Dave Girouard covered similar issues from the company’s perspective, and is clearly someone to add to my list of podcast targets.

My final highlight was Geoffrey Moore (he of Core, Context, and Chasms), applying some of his broader business ideas to the Cloud. I’d certainly like to explore some of his arguments a little further another day…

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]]> http://cloudofdata.com/2009/11/keep-your-executive-assistant-happy-if-moving-to-the-cloud/feed/ 1 My podcast conversation about Cloud Computing with Nick Carr http://cloudofdata.com/2009/02/my-podcast-conversation-with-about-cloud-computing-with-nick-carr/ http://cloudofdata.com/2009/02/my-podcast-conversation-with-about-cloud-computing-with-nick-carr/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:44:39 +0000 Paul Miller http://cloudofdata.com/?p=303 bigswitch-coverNick Carr’s most recent book, The Big Switch [UK, US], was published in January of 2008. Whether by luck or judgement, he caught the meme of the moment and became closely associated with growing interest in the notion of ‘Cloud Computing‘ throughout last year.

The paperback edition of Nick’s book has just been published, and includes an additional chapter that introduces ‘The Cloud 20′; representative examples of the different ways in which companies big and small, new and old are engaging with the Cloud Computing phenomenon.

I was delighted when Nick agreed to speak with me over the weekend, and the resulting podcast has just been released so you can listen in on our conversation.

As well as talking about the book, which most readers of this blog have doubtless already read, we looked more broadly at some of the trends shaping consumer and corporate attitudes to the Cloud. How does the current economic climate, for example, affect the rate of adoption of utility computing or of Cloud-based applications such as those from Google?

Have a listen, and let us know what you think…

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