Getting a grip on cloud development

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11/05/2009 05:10:41 PM EST

A good article but I would not agree with the comments: "We find that if you can get nose-to-nose with the CIO and ask for a list of projects that at least one business unit would love to have," but he or she cannot allocate resources toward, you would become a hero within at least one of those units, Coffee said. Getting three projects "off the list" and getting results quickly will inevitably lead to someone else in the company saying, "How can I get some of that?" he added. "It goes from selling cloud internally to allocating opportunities." This assumes that cloud development is easier then normal development which would be a bad assumption not to mention that this assumes the resource is just sitting around so he and or his team could "Get three projects "off the list". I do believe there is a potential cost savings but this confuses the possibilities as the cost savings lie more in the offloading the cost and management of the infrastructure to the cloud. If I have a developer wether he develops for the cloud or internal system the time he will spend will more then likely be the same given a similar app.

United StatesPhillip Avelar

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