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Who needs cloud sales partners? How can they add value?

Cloud computing is supposed to be ‘totally self-service’, or so the naïve reading of the standard NIST definition goes. If it is not self-service, it is not cloud. With self-service, who needs partners standing in the way between the consumer and the cloud provider? Well, it is a little more complex than that. The 5 […]

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Infographic on hacking statistics

Unfortunately, the article I linked to is no longer available. Here is an interesting graphic with statistics on hacking and other misfortune in the cloud that I received from OnlineCollegeCourses.com. If you need to know more about how to protect yourself and your company in the cloud, you may want to look at Cloud Security.

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Remove barriers to the adoption of virtualization

Virtualization technology has great promises for IT applications to run better, faster, cheaper, and more flexible. But that won’t happen by just buying the latest and greatest product. Today’s digital infrastructures consists of dozens or even hundreds of servers, Terabytes if not Petabytes of storage spread over multiple storage arrays, and potentially thousands of desktops, […]

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Cloud in the Gulf region

What a ride it has been over the past weeks! I delivered a cloud training almost every week, cloud security as well as cloud essentials. I was out of the office a lot: locations in the Netherlands, France and Dubai. And as I write this I am at the Vienna airport after an interesting EuroCMG […]

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Can we simplify cloud security?

Last week, the Cloud Security Alliance had its EMEA congress in Amsterdam. The day before, I got a chance to be the instructor on a CCSK workshop (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge). The lineup of industry experts at the congress was awesome, it included people directly involved in the security of the biggest cloud computing […]

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Three steps to a private cloud

So you want to run a private cloud? Here are a few steps to take for you to make this a success. The first step is to answer the question: why? Which business benefits of cloud computing are you after and why can’t you use public cloud solutions to fulfill them? If you want to […]

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Strong industry backing for Cloud Essentials training

Here are two brief videos shot at the recent CloudExpo. They demonstrate the strong industry backing for the Cloud Essentials training that ITpreneurs and I developed. These videos feature, amongst others, Cazzy Jordan and Allen Ureta, who were in my first Train the Trainer program in Baltimore last year. First video Here is the second video.

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