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S+S and the other software and services initiatives from Google et al may well take away a fair chunk of the work needed to manage an effective IS service.\u00a0 If we can do that we can devote our efforts away from the day-to-day ops and into making a difference elsewhere.\u00a0 Sure there will still be challenges, but hopefully most of the operational overhead will be focused on service management and commercials than day-to-day technical design and admin.\u00a0 So…\u00a0 If I’m an enterprise customer planning my IS architecture for my business over the next few years what should I be thinking about?<\/p>\n
The first thing that comes to mind is the cloud where all these services will live…\u00a0 Where is it, and how do I get to it?\u00a0 How do my users authenticate to it?\u00a0 How is my information secured between the cloud and desktop?\u00a0 How do my customers feel about having their data in a cloud somewhere in Redmond or Mountain View?\u00a0 Might I be part of the cloud for my customers?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The software side shouldn’t too much of a problem (famous last words!)… getting software to people we can do, but the more I can move that into the cloud the happier I’ll be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is my problem for the next few weeks… S+S and the other software and services initiatives from Google et al may well take away a fair chunk of the work needed to manage an effective IS service.\u00a0 If we can do that we can devote our efforts away from the day-to-day ops and into … <\/p>\n