5 Things Accenture's CIO Has Learned About Cloud Computing

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	5 Things Accenture's CIO Has Learned About Cloud Computing Cloud has already taken Accenture IT beyond better, faster and cheaper, says CIO Frank Modruson. As he prepares to move further into IaaS plans, he shares 5 cloud computing lessons learned. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver - April 28, 2011 IT Roadmap Denver returns April 28 to the Colorado Convention Center! Through executive keynotes, ROI workshops, technical tutorials, strategy sessions, networking opportunities and a private IT expo, attendees will gain insights into the latest IT issues, trends, challenges and solutions from top IT analysts and practitioners. Register now to attend! In this Issue Cloud Computing: A Sustaining or Disruptive Innovation? VMware Makes Cloud Jumping Easy CloudConnect Debrief: Real Life Cloud Computing Lessons HP's Leo Apotheker: We're Heading to the Cloud Network Features Make Amazon's Private Clouds More Useful Moving to Cloud to Gain Agility: 5 Lessons Cisco-EMC Joint Venture Lured to Texas with Incentives WEBCAST: Cognizant Enable Green IT with Cloud Computing Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 2:30 PM EDT This webinar will review the benefits and challenges of enabling Green IT with Cloud Computing. The session will include a roadmap discussion, which will help your organization evolve on-premise Cloud Computing deployments into greener IT solutions. Register Now Cloud Computing: A Sustaining or Disruptive Innovation? Is cloud computing a disruptive innovation, as defined by Clayton Christensen? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores whether internal data centers will go the way of companies that are innovated out of business. Read More VMware Makes Cloud Jumping Easy VMware's vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines, templates and vApps between clouds. Read More CloudConnect Debrief: Real Life Cloud Computing Lessons At this week's CloudConnect conference, many attendees showed that they've moved from studying to implementing, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. He shares some interesting lessons learned on cloud economics, IT organization and privacy issues. Read More WEBCAST: Deloitte IT organizations reveal how they're really using SAP What are SAP users saying about how they're using their investments? Find out in this live webinar, April 13th at 2 PM EDT, in which Deloitte experts will review the results of a global survey among SAP users. You'll hear about trends in IT strategy, challenge areas, and progression plans. Learn More HP's Leo Apotheker: We're Heading to the Cloud In an exclusive interview, HP's new CEO expands on his strategy and offers frank assessments of his competition Read More Network Features Make Amazon's Private Clouds More Useful Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a number of networking features to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering, allowing users to build data centers in the cloud that can be private, accessed from the Internet or both, the company said on Tuesday. Read More Moving to Cloud to Gain Agility: 5 Lessons Drug-maker Biogen Idec's IT team used cloud infrastructure to give the company's research scientists new flexibility. Consider these key lessons learned as they adopted CloudSwitch and Amazon technology. Read More Cisco-EMC Joint Venture Lured to Texas with Incentives The Virtual Computing Environment Co. (VCE), formed from the joint venture of Cisco and EMC, this week said it is establishing headquarters in Richardson, Texas, and hiring 434 people. Read More
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