
Advice for any business looking to appreciate the values of Cloud Computing? Successful Cloud strategies are journeys that evolve WITH the business.
Asses the needs before jumping in…….
"Creativity, the process of taking ideas and making them into ‘real things’."
Enterprise that are contemplating a purchase of one or more cloud solution need to value that cloud is strategic and long-term, not a shareholder driven quarter-by-quarter independent product offering!

Moving and building a ‘right’ cloud view is eighty percent driven relevance in supporting an agile business environment, proficient to change paths at the speed of need. Today, alas this statistic is very much to the contrary.
— thinking of all value gained from cloud computing rather than a single view of IT improvements?
— aware of the goals and benefits cloud adoption can bring?
— aware to how cloud computing COULD deliver greater and faster strategic and tactical objectives?
…… most don’t
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
"Outline → Discover → Organize →Verify → Perform → Observe →Adjust → Complete"
“There’s no fu%^ing way I’m putting any company data in any public arena. It’s way too dangerous!”
“Calm down dear, it’s only progression.”
So, let’s start with the standard bloggers template of a Wiki definition: “Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime.”
Talking with enterprises daily, reassurance of a secure environment is close to the top of everyones ‘need to know’ when conversation turns to Cloud, be it Big Data, Social Collaboration, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS or whatever todays ill-educated marketers have conjured up in their cauldron of hysteria.
Today’s my final day at Accenture. It’s time to move onward and upward. Accenture have a fantastic pool of brilliant individuals and to these I openly wish them all best in everything they do.

From Monday morning, new exciting challenges lie ahead.
“Cloud computing is significantly more than merely saving on IT expenses. It offers a titanic chance to innovate.”
“Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not? ~ Robert Kennedy”
Fantastic IBM video, it really drives home all that’s exciting about the Cloud revolution. Ousting traditional zilch value-add procedures, empowering businesses to concentrate on more electrifyingly new and pioneering stuff. Offering employees the opportunity to do, and be part of, ideas that were never possible a few years back. This is what energizes me about Cloud; this is what gets me out of bed in the morning. Everything and anything’s possible. In today’s world ideas are only limited by our own creativeness.
