Monday, October 4, 2010

James Urquhart helps us find the Cloud’s silver lining

The perennial search for innovation serves as the greatest threat to traditional IT: Has the cloud - with its nebulous definition (pun not intended but appreciated) - simply become the face to blame?

James Urquhart, Market Strategist for Cloud Computing and Data Center Virtualization at Cisco, was recently traveling in Australia. What struck him the most, he said, was how they were equating cloud computing with outsourcing. “They’re not the same thing,” he assured me. “Though they do have a loose relationship with one another. They have the same concerns: service levels, security, liability, legal concerns and all that. They’re still there.”


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