The Top Three Practical Use Cases for Cloud Brokerage

cloud brokerage

In the last several months, interest in the concept of cloud brokerage has been growing and was recently punctuated by Accenture’s announced intention  to be the IT industry “cloud broker” as part of a larger $400 million cloud R&D investment.  While the concept of a cloud brokerage has been around awhile, enterprise adoption is finally catching [...]

Which Cloud Service Should I Use?

Blueprint and Gears

Assuming you have a good knowledge of what cloud computing is all about, the next question is, “Which cloud service should I use?” The answer depends on many factors, including the size of your enterprise, what cloud characteristics are most important for you (security vs. reliability vs. cost, for instance), and whether you have developer [...]

Why is Cloud Integration Still an Adoption Barrier?

Integration

One of the more puzzling topics in enterprise cloud these days is the market gap that seems to exist around cloud integration.  In survey after survey, integration is named as one of the top barriers to cloud adoption in the enterprise (see here, here and here). The strange thing is that there’s no shortage of [...]