Betting on Cloud? Voice Your Opinion.
The Cloud Council of 7 (CCO7) is proud to announce that we have joined other industry leaders in order to compile information regarding how the Cloud is currently being used. Under the direction of North Bridge Venture Partners, nearly forty Cloud Computing organizations will survey what you have to say about [...]
Cloud Computing Will Create 14 Million New Jobs by 2015
A new study, conducted by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft, shows that spending on public and private IT Cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015. The research also found that, across the countries studied, IT innovation created by Cloud computing could produce $1.1 trillion a year in [...]
Expanding the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
This week, Joe McKendrick of ZDNet wrote a great article entitled “NIST definition of cloud computing doesn’t go far enough.”
For those who don’t know, NIST is the National Institute of Science and Technology. Founded in 1901, NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Their mission is [...]
Members of the Cloud Council of 7 are business users, policy makers, technology and service providers, and academics who are working with Cloud Technology today. Our community evaluates both emerging and existing Cloud technologies and standards based on The 7 Core Characteristics of Cloud Transformation.
Ken Wilkins is an IT Strategy Consultant specializing in IT transformation, lean strategy, and mobility solutions. He is also the Chair of the Accessibility Committee for the Cloud Council of 7 (CCO7). He was recently quoted in an article about CCO7 on the IT Services Site where he said "A lot of marketing has presented the Cloud as a silver bullet, an all or nothing...There are different solutions available for different situations."
"Forrester has a new playbook on achieving cloud economics ,that addresses each major phase of the transformation. http://t.co/guwbtMEQ— cloudcouncilof7