Can deals with mega-vendors lead to a loss of negotiating power?
Published by CIO magazine on 29th September 2011, but no longer available online.

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Can deals with mega-vendors lead to a loss of negotiating power?
Published by CIO magazine on 29th September 2011, but no longer available online.
The cloud has introduced flexibility in marketing but what has it done for improving market intelligence? Explored in Graham Jarvis’ article, published by CloudPro on 12th September 2011.
Client: CloudPro.
An article for CloudPro about why marketers are turning to the cloud.
Published on 2nd September 2011.
Top tips for getting the most out of email marketing campaigns
Channels like email marketing can be used for a variety of reasons, including the targeted broadcast of a newsletter to keep your customers informed about how they can overcome, for example, their particular challenges and issues. They can be used as part of customer loyalty, promotional and sales campaigns too.
Author: Graham Jarvis. Published by Startups.co.uk on 23rd August 2011.
Government CIO Joe Harley has had an illustrious career within the public and private sector. As well as taking on the mammoth task of transforming ICT within the public sector in January 2011, he remains CIO and director general for Corporate IT at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)….
Read the complete article…published by CIO.co.uk on 23rd June 2011.
by CIO.co.uk on 23rd June 2011.
Unified comms is the promise of bringing different forms of communications together – is it a good fit for the cloud?
Unified communications is about bringing your mobile and fixed line telephony, email, instant messaging, collaboration and other communications together in such a way that you can manage them as one.
It’s a great option for organisations that have a dispersed workforce, or those that want to adopt flexible working practices, as there are clearly some advantages in terms of permitting a your staff to work from home, which in effect helps to reduce carbon emissions and office space. As a practice it is argued that flexible working can also boost employee performance, and experience shows that it can facilitate and encourage a higher level of collaboration…
Read more on ITPro, originally published by CloudPro..
Could government departments really save £800m through smarter provision?
In October 2010 Sir Philip Green delivered a report that described government waste of public money and resources as being both staggering and shocking.
The government, he said, was not sufficiently using its huge scale and buying power to gain better deals in all operational and departmental areas. Different government departments and public sector bodies, for example, have often worked with a diverse range of communications suppliers…
Read more of Graham Jarvis’ article on CIO.com.
Without workloads the cloud is just idle. This perhaps seems very obvious to all of us because wherever data is being processed workload is created by the servers used to manage and handle it. David Chalmers, Technology Director for Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Business Group agrees…
Originally published on CloudPro.
The outstanding opinion about whether there will be an oligopoly or monopoly of cloud providers in the future is a resounding, “No”. However, life is not so simple and it emerges that the definition of what a cloud provider is can literally make the whole question much foggier than one would immediately think. This is because there are a number of different players within the cloud computing market, and each of them contributes in some way.
Read more on ITPro – originally published by CloudPro.
Cloud computing can often involve a multitude of suppliers providing hardware, software and services. The complexity of managing so many different supplier relationships begs the question about whether there is a need for a single aggregator to manage this complex pattern.
Published by CloudPro, but no longer available online.
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