Here’s a good one … A small village in the north of England, Argleton, has been causing confusion with an air of mystery. The simple reason is, is that the village simply doesn’t exist except in the world of Google.
Posts Tagged ‘Producers’
Curious case of Argleton town
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Governance beyond Uncertainty
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009I had the privilege to join Sun’s Chief Privacy Officer, who is also our Chief Governance Officer for Cloud Computing, in meetings with some government InfoComm authority folks. The subject of the meetings were Governance for Cloud Computing.
Overall, I thought she did well in covering the key and important points across areas such as legislation / laws and the jurisdictional territories, Standards, data classifications / categories, how to maintain data privacy and security across its lifecycle, IP (Intellectual Property) of third party contents, license rights, policing rights, etc. The message she brought to the table is that at the end of the day, businesses needs to manage an acceptable equilibrium between gaining the business agility, cost advantages and empowering their business to leverage on available Cloud services, and the acceptable or tolerated level of risks by the business. It was not an easy subject to talk about (especially in an hour duration).
Is it really “low cost”?
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Someone once remarked that corporations are jumping on to the Cloud Computing bandwagon because they perceive it to be “low cost”. A recent survey of 502 respondents (C-level executives and IT decision-makers across 17 regions in the world) by Avanade shows that nearly two-third of them (worldwide) believes that cloud computing reduces up-front costs.
What we should always keep in mind is that there are always two perspectives to the statement. For every cloud services, be it IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) or SaaS (Software as a Service), there are two perspectives, namely: (a) The Producer of the service; or (b) The Consumer(s) of the service.
