Greg Radcliffe worked for Sysco up until a couple of years ago when he decided to take the plunge and set up his own coffee company, Ristretto, along with with business partner, Mark Anderson.
Read all about how they left the IT industry to follow their dream.
Yesterday, the Irish Internet Association’s Working Group on Cloud Computing was formally kicked off as we began our task to publish a whitepaper by the end of September. The meeting was well attended with all the major cloud vendors (Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, etc.) outnumbered by industry representatives (elan, Kepak, Friend’s First, Merrill Lynch, etc.).
The first hurdle was easily cleared when the NIST definition (http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html) was unanimously adopted.
The second hurdle – the scope of the whitepaper – proved a little more contentious when Google’s figures contradicted Microsoft’s on Ireland’s enterpise adoption of cloud applications. Google’s figures showed Ireland to be well ahead of its European counterparts while Microsoft’s showed Ireland to be lagging.
After much debate, agreement was finally reached that cloud computing needs to be categorised into simple and complex applications since there are obviously many more obstacles to the adoption of complex applications so they need to treated differently.
The fact is real obstacles exist so this is the task we have set ourselves to either resolve the perception of these obstacles or propose recommendations to counter them in the hope that our whitepaper will encourage Irish enterprises to get on the cloud.
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