The path to the virtual cloud Enterprise is paved by the Digital evolution
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Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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According to Gartner
“By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Toda…
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The evolution toward the virtual cloud Enterprise and the need to architect it upfront (viii)
The Virtual Enterprise and the Cloud merge to form the virtual cloud Enterp
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The Virtual Enterprise and the Cloud merge to form the virtual cloud Enterprise (vii)
How does the Cloud benefit the enterprise (vi)
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How does the Cloud benefit the enterprise (vi)
The rise of the Cloud that moves the IT out of the enterprise (v)
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The rise of the Cloud that moves the IT out of the enterprise (v)
Still, most enterprises are not in the business of IT (iv)
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“Customer-centricity” is one of the biggest tags in the tag cloud to the right. My first post this year was “Is 2016 the Year for Customer-Focused IT?”. It’s a concept that I find vitally important to IT for the simple reason that to the extent that IT is not fit for purpose, it’s a waste […]
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