New Report Measures Success Factors in Cloud Computing
November 15, 2012
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Why do some cloud projects succeed and others fail? That’s a question undoubtedly on the minds of many IT admins and business executives. And it’s also the focus of a recent IT Process Institute (ITPI) report. I recently chatted with ITPI Managing Director Kurt Milne, who helped prepare the report, to get his views on how to deploy cloud computing effectively in the business environment. Here’s what he had to say.
Milne, who has 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and co-authored a book on building private clouds, knows this subject well. Meanwhile, the ITPI, founded in 2005, is also well-established as a consulting resource for the IT community, counting VMware (NYSE: VMW), Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) among its customers…
The ITPI’s full report on success factors in cloud computing, which was released publicly Nov. 14, is based on a survey of a 143 organizations in a number of channels that have created cloud environments. A few, according to Milne, were large Fortune 50 enterprises, but most were smaller companies or startups…
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