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    Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered enterprise adoption of web services and SOA. As CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures, he has developed an evaluation framework to help ISVs and enterprises select cloud platforms, and advises US and European vendors on messaging, positioning and go-to-market. His newest role as an industry advocate is vice-president of EuroCloud.

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Phil Wainewright

Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneering website ASPnews.com, and later Loosely Coupled, which covered enterprise adoption of web services and SOA. As CEO of strategic consulting group Procullux Ventures, he has developed an evaluation framework to help ISVs and enterprises select cloud platforms, and advises US and European vendors on messaging, positioning and go-to-market. His newest role as an industry advocate is vice-president of EuroCloud.

  • Cloud Computing: do you have a clue?

    Big systems vendors are spreading misconceptions about the cloud because it helps them sell more kit. Here's a rundown of some of their tactics

    Blog posts | May 31, 2012 5:28am PDT

  • WebEx founder backs Sharepoint killer Huddle

    UK based enterprise cloud collaboration vendor Huddle is taking over where collaboration pioneer WebEx left off after its ill-fated acquisition by Cisco, gaining market share at the expense of...

    Blog posts | May 24, 2012 4:43pm PDT

  • London's thriving cloud start-up scene

    There's a sudden flourishing of cloud start-up talent in the UK. What's brought it about?

    Blog posts | May 22, 2012 6:33am PDT

  • Speed of business propels SaaS expansion

    SaaS adoption is rife among fast-growing companies that want to adapt to change and stay up-to-date. That leaves conventional on-premise vendors competing for the laggards.

    Blog posts | May 17, 2012 10:46am PDT

  • The idiot guide to multi book accounting

    Is SuccessFactors operating multi book accounting across its parallel NetSuite and ByDesign instances? Or is it just pantomime?

    Blog posts | May 16, 2012 7:32pm PDT

  • SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign

    NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims SuccessFactors is a NetSuite customer. SAP says it runs on ByDesign now. Who's right?

    Blog posts | May 15, 2012 12:00pm PDT

  • Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud

    Enterprises are being sold over-specified, inefficient private cloud infrastructure that will end up as shelfware, a conference heard last week.

    Blog posts | May 14, 2012 6:16pm PDT

  • Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy

    Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.

    Blog posts | May 10, 2012 1:06pm PDT

  • Crowd scale, friction and the nature of the firm

    Why a new, digitally enabled, contract-based online business model is disrupting long-established enterprises.

    Blog posts | April 24, 2012 9:29am PDT

  • The day software ate Cisco

    Cisco's track record with software tells us the company will not survive the shift to software-defined networking

    Blog posts | April 22, 2012 4:44am PDT

  • Marketo buys Crowd Factory? You read it here first ...

    Read my analysis of today's news in the blog post I published last November ... the trouble with prescience is that people forget too easily these days

    Blog posts | April 18, 2012 8:23am PDT

  • Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms

    Siri's approach to deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debating how to mine their stores of big data for value.

    Blog posts | April 6, 2012 8:57am PDT

  • Cloud: disruptive good, disruptive bad

    Adoption of cloud in the enterprise is disruptive in a bad way for IT and in a good way for business. No wonder IT wants to put the brakes on.

    Blog posts | March 29, 2012 10:59am PDT

  • Internet castaways of BBC's Apprentice

    Lord Sugar's apprentices are learning how to be entrepreneurs in a parallel, non-digital reality where no one ever dreams of using their smartphone to look something up on Google

    Blog posts | March 22, 2012 10:22am PDT

  • Appirio masters the automation of professional services

    Appirio's latest funding is a new bell tolling for today's top integrators, a warning signal that, rather than acquiring these cloud upstarts, they may indeed be challenged and replaced by them.

    Blog posts | March 19, 2012 7:14am PDT

  • Taking false cloud comfort from multi-tenancy

    One-for-all or many-for-some? How a vendor implements multi-tenancy makes a big difference to the effectiveness, competitiveness and market appeal of a cloud application or resource.

    Blog posts | March 14, 2012 7:49am PDT

  • Next-gen integrators automate how you buy IT

    With Dell targeting the volume SMB sector and cloud SIs serving larger enterprises, traditional IT providers could face extinction as cloud adoption spreads.

    Blog posts | March 7, 2012 1:02pm PST

  • Beware this fake ShopBop order email

    I was nearly scammed into downloading malware today by a cleverly executed phishing email that just arrived in my inbox

    Blog posts | March 1, 2012 4:12am PST

  • Digging for gold in DataSift's Twitter archive

    DataSift is unlocking two years of Twitter archive for pay-as-you-go analysis using its big data tools, opening up a social media goldmine to enterprises and entrepreneurs

    Blog posts | February 28, 2012 8:54am PST

  • Joining the dots in the cloud

    Businesses are going to have to connect up all those stovepiped cloud instances they've deployed. New options are emerging, but which ones are going work?

    Blog posts | February 27, 2012 8:03am PST

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