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The cloud is a set of services and technologies that enable the delivery of computing services over the Internet in real-time, allowing end-users instant access to data and applications from any device with Internet access.

さて、まえのエントリでは東京開催を紹介しましたが、大阪開催の方も紹介しておきます。
といっても内容は同じです。
東京と変わらず大阪でもID管理の需要やセミナーの要望が多いので、今回は近い日時で東京も大阪も開催することにしました。
第3回目は大阪で9月9日ということになります。内容は東京と同じ、

Sam Rolens of HostedEM explains some technical details about the new Hosted Enterprise Mail solution. If you're looking for GroupWise in the cloud, this one's for you.

No more IT and Business - 2011 IT powers the Business!

Start of a new year and just 2 weeks into what will be the year of The Cloud and service providers and I am already tiring of To The Cloud. I would say I'm adding a 5th prediction to my previous post, however, if you keep up with IT Management news, the topic of this also being a year of IT Transformation is pervasive. As with most things IT, we require some marketing and a clever IT rally cry for the year. I'll have to think on that one and come up with something clever. Read on for a quick snapshot of the year of IT transformation discussion.

Are you leading your organizations cloud roll-out or are you reacting to it? It is happening, better to lead than follow!

The WorkloadIQ post and the article Richard references on the Stealth Cloud from a CIO article reminds me of a previous artilce about the Accidental Cloud Leader from a Networkworld article. Both of these articles point to the cloud is coming, the choice facing IT organizations is whether to lead, control costs, mitigate risk, deliver quality service and manage costs or to follow with rising costs, reactive IT, high risk and poor service quality. Richard hits the nail on the head, IT is traditionally change averse and insecure with the concept of outsourcing services. Technology is evolving faster and faster and the very organization that should adopt, deploy and lead with technology continues to lag.

In Ray Ozzie's final memo to Microsoft employees, he told them the company must go to the cloud and innovate or face irrelevancy.

Virtualization offers a way to run a cleaner, leaner data center, and that means you could help save the planet, while saving money and increasing profits. Those are ideas we should all be able to get behind.

Guest Post by Brett Waldman, Analyst, IDC

Everyone seems be talking about how easy it is to move to the cloud. Using the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, it’s a two-step process:

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