Could offerings, in my experience don't offer (much) cost savings. All they seem to do is change capital costs to operating costs, which normalizes cash flows.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rod Trent <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree that the Cloud will continue to be a topic – but, if the economy > improves, no one will care about the Cloud. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:16 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: [OT] Stats about IT**** > > ** ** > > The hype cycle applies to outsourcing and the cloud like it applies to > everything. Of course, that doesn’t make them invalid.**** > > ** ** > > Outsourcing isn’t going away—enterprises are just realizing that there’s a > right time/way and a wrong time/way to do it. Future business leaders may > be more equipped than the current generation to make smart choices here; I > can tell you that we studied outsourcing quite a bit in grad school.**** > > ** ** > > The same will be true of cloud computing. We’re undoubtedly around the > “Peak of Inflated Expectations” now, which invariably leads to the “Trough > of Disillusionment.”**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP**** > > MIS Department**** > > Taylor County School District**** > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:47 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: [OT] Stats about IT**** > > ** ** > > Yeah…their track record isn’t great (particularly over the last couple > years), however, CIOs and CEOs still eat them up. Gartner, right now, is > promoting the Cloud like there’s nothing else. 3 years ago it was > “outsourcing”. Now, companies are bringing resources back in-house because > they realized... “Oops” that didn’t work.**** > > ** ** > > You just have to be very careful with “industry” information. It can be > just as politically motivated as anything else.**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
