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Forrester survey from Q3 2010 shows cloud adoption will pick up significantly in 2011, particularly among large large enterprises and high-tech companies.

Gartner Executive Programs Worldwide Survey of More Than 2,000 CIOs Identifies Cloud Computing as Top Technology Priority for CIOs in 2011 According to Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive…

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A credible follow-on to Steve Ballmer’s bubbly “we’re all in” speech at the University of Washington in March has finally landed in the form of a very comprehensive white paper from Microsoft’s Corporate Strategy Group.…

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“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.” John Maynard Keynes

It’s also worth remembering the US housing market collapsed when it took 4.6 times the average income to buy the average home. Today in Canada the number’s 5.1. In Toronto, 5.5. In Vancouver, 9.3. via…

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“CIOs are the last to know,” meaning, IT organizational decisions are actually made bottom up (i.e., by developers), and that senior management perception lags reality by a significant margin. via Cloud Computing: The Truth About…

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From the Gartner Newsroom, “Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks.”