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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.

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March 27, 2012

"After more than a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve regionally within the enterprise application markets. Increasing familiarity with the SaaS model, continued oversight on IT budgets, the growth of platform as a service (PaaS) developer communities and interest in cloud computing are now driving adoption forward."

— Quote by Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner. Quote found in a Gartner press release at Gartner Says Worldwide Software-as-a-Service Revenue to Reach $14.5 Billion in 2012

3:50pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyIfThgp

February 13, 2012

"Gartner has identified three major drivers for the adoption of cloud/SaaS offerings for BI, analytics and performance management: 1) Time to Value, 2) Cost Concerns, 3) Lack of Available Expertise"

— Quote (and more information) found in a Gartner Press Release titled: Gartner Says Nearly One Third of Organizations Use or Plan to Use Cloud Offerings to Augment Business Intelligence Capabilities

9:11am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyGMDGzf

Filed under: data analytics big-data big_data paas cloud saas BI

January 26, 2012

"Public cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise spending (19 percent annually through 2015)"

— Quote by IT research analyst firm Gartner in press release: “Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012”

11:47am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFP8e_v

(Notes: 9)

Filed under: cloud cloud-computing cloud_computing paas iaas saas

January 26, 2012

"The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the next five years to reach revenues of $66 billion in 2016. The market will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.4 per cent from the $18 billion it will reach at the end of 2011."

— Quote found in a press release by the research firm, Ovum. See “Public cloud services market to hit revenues of $66 billion”

11:45am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFP8Gct

(Notes: 1)

Filed under: cloud public-cloud cloud-computing cloud computing iaas paas saas ovum

January 26, 2012

"Demand for private clouds is expected to double as many organizations look for ways to gain greater flexibility from their computing resources while still maintaining control of their data. Forrester predicts the private cloud market to rise from $7.8 billion in 2011 to more than $15 billion in 2020."

— Quote found at IBM press release: “IBM Introduces New Portfolio of Private Cloud Offerings”

11:41am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFP7br2

Filed under: cloud cloud-computing private-clouds saas paas iaas virtualization

April 28, 2011

"Cloud service sourcing is immature and fraught with potential hazards. The hype around cloud computing services has increased interest, as well as caution, for CIOs trying to determine where, when and if cloud services can provide valuable outcomes for their businesses. Cloud computing is driving discontinuity that introduces exciting opportunities and costly challenges. Organizations need to understand these changes and develop realistic cloud sourcing strategies and contracts that can reduce risk."

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Quote by Frank Ridder, research vice president at Gartner found at “Gartner Says CIOs Must Take Steps to Manage Risk and Unexpected Costs During the Cloud Sourcing Revolution”