Keynote Speech: How Much Of Your Future Will Be In The Cloud? Strategies For Embracing Cloud Computing Services, James Staten, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Cloud computing has shifted from being a question of “if” to one of “when” and “where” in your IT future and portfolio. Is it best to stick with SaaS, or should you be deploying new services directly to the public clouds like Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure? What applications are candidates for the cloud, and which should remain in-house? And for how long? This session will explore the enterprise uses of cloud computing thus far and synthesize the thinking across Forrester on this issue to present you with a road map and a strategy for embracing the cloud that benefits both your business and the IT function. Cloud can be a catalyst for the IT-to-BT transition so long as you harness it effectively.
Session attendees can expect to learn:
- How to tell a true cloud solution and its relative maturity from simple cloud washing.
- The truth behind the economics of cloud computing.
- The best places to start and strategies to build your own path to cloud efficiency.
Prior to the conference, James wrote a positioning/discussion piece, which is published on ZDNet. From what I saw on Twitter, the most controversial idea was the “Pay per use or metered consumption” requirement to be consider cloud computing.
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