Rafi Mohammed wrote an excellent article about Netflix, pricing, customer requirements, and shareholder concerns on the HBR Blog describing The Real Reason Netflix Stock Tanked . Netflix had many options as they looked at raising prices. Mr. Mohammed argues the one option they correctly took off the table was to increase their cost structure and not…
Microsoft Open Day in Jordan focuses on Cloud Computing.
(MENAFN – Jordan Times) More than 1,500 IT professionals and experts will convene in the capital next month to explore the latest innovations in cloud computing technology at the 2011 Microsoft Open Day. The two-day event, which starts November 1, provides an opportunity to showcase advanced innovations and IT business solutions and exchange views on…
BLOG: Cloud computing – Why semantics matter
By Andrew Milroy, Computerworld In earlier posts, I have written about how the term, private cloud, offers little value and is arguably a term that is used by legacy IT suppliers to exploit concerns about their customers migrating computing resources to the (public) cloud. Is the private cloud simply a data centre with lipstick? In other…