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Clouds Are Still On-Premise (For Somebody)
Author: Ashish C. Morzaria Time: 8:00 am In: Conferences| General
23
Jun
2009
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference last night, Google showed the picture of a “Real Google Cloud” below. There was no mention of where it is physically located, but the sheer size and scale makes the “Google Cloud” seem really, really heavy (once you think about how many datacenters Google really has).
The Google presentation showed that while the company is routinely knocked for “not reaching the enterprise” as some of the other industry players, they really understand Cloud. What will become a larger reality is that as more and more enterprises enter the Cloud computing world, Google’s “Cloud-Cred” starts to tip the scales. As we’ve seen time and time again, the Internet (and therefore the Cloud) is the ultimate level playing field and nobody understands this better than Google.
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Enterprises and Cloud Computing - Where do we start?
Author: Ashish C. Morzaria Time: 10:00 am In: General
22
Jun
2009
Say “Cloud Computing” to any random group of people at your organization and you will have enough definitions, interpretations, and expectations to ensure that no one is really sure what it means anymore. Is it just “Web 2.0” technologies, hosted environments, virtualization, community and “crowdsourcing”, or just the next step in the continual evolution of the computing?
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference June 22-25, 2009
Author: Ashish C. Morzaria Time: 9:55 am In: Conferences| News
22
Jun
2009
This week Boston hosts the “Enterprise 2.0 Conference” at the Westin Boston Waterfront. It should be an exciting time for Cloud Computing and “Enterprise 2.0″ products and technologies as the attendance will reportedly be three times larger than last year.
You can read about my findings and opinions right here at QuestfortheCloud.com and you may want to check out the E2 Conference’s Blog site for some up to date info.
If you are attending the conference, you can ping me: ashish (at) questforthecloud.com
See you there!
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Ashish C. Morzaria is a Senior Product Manager at SAP, Business Objects Division. He is responsible for an enterprise product line that leverages emerging strategies such as Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, and decision making. This blog is not endorsed by SAP nor does it constitute any official communication of SAP.
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