Update: Here's a link to the video of the session. I STRONGLY recommend watching this while going through the slides as many of the slides are pictures without captions and won't make as much sense by themselves:
http://www.gartnereventsondemand.com/session-video/SYM23/SPS24
The two most attractive benefits of cloud computing for enterprises are greater business agility and reduced IT spending. Unfortunately, most enterprises have little more than an intuitive sense for how these things will actually come to fruition. In this session, we'll examine business agility and IT spending against a fun and diverse backdrop of historical parallels! First, we'll gain an understanding of business agility through the lessons of aerial dogfighting by a noted fighter pilot. Next, we'll examine communist central planning models and why we should look to the free market to help structure our IT departments. Finally, we'll learn what Great Britain's coal usage in the late 1800s can tell us about IT spending in the world of cloud computing. Hang on for a wild ride!
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Gartner Symposium 2013: Air Combat, Communisim, Coal, and Clouds: Understanding Business Agility and IT Spending in the Age of Cloud
1. Air Combat, Communism,
Coal, and Clouds
Understanding Business Agility and
IT Spending in the Age of Cloud
Dave Roberts
Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing
david_roberts@bmc.com
@sandhillstrat
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2. What are the benefits of
cloud computing?
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47. “... by the time the surge comes along, what
[Gen. David] Petraeus did, which was brilliant,
was to decentralize our own OODA loop, if you
will, by delegating the responding authorities
down to brigade and, in some cases, battalion
level...”
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48. “The enemy was still stuck with a classical Maoist-
type of decision-making apparatus while the
coalition had a much more streamlined decision-
making apparatus that allowed them to react very
quickly on the street.”
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81. Thesis
Individual firms that allocate IT resources
using free-market principles will do better
than firms that favor central planning.
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