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Phil Wainewright

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CEO, Procullux Ventures

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I'm an evangelist, facilitator, analyst, consultant, writer and Internet business expert. For more than a decade, I've promoted the business benefits of software-as-a-service and cloud computing and championed industry best practices. I help vendors create compelling messages that ...

I'm an evangelist, facilitator, analyst, consultant, writer and Internet business expert. For more than a decade, I've promoted the business benefits of software-as-a-service and cloud computing and championed industry best practices. I help vendors create compelling messages that position their offerings accurately, and I inspire business leaders and entrepreneurs to realize the potential of the cloud for business transformation.

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WEB: ZDNet SaaS blog

Aug. 1, 2011

Phil Wainewright answered this question

What is the keynote you're most excited to see at Dreamforce this year?

I'm really pleased to see that Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, is going to be speaking. I'm a VP at EuroCloud, the European cloud industry organisation, and we've been doing a lot of work with Commissioner Kroes' consultation on cloud computing ... more

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Cloud Computing

July 20, 2011

Phil Wainewright and 6 other people answered this question

What are best practices for change management after deploying SaaS applications?

Probably the most important best practice is to prepare beforehand, not leave it till after the SaaS app has gone in.
As several others have noted in previous answers, change is more frequent with SaaS apps and therefore it has to be managed in a ... more

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Cloud Computing

June 27, 2011

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Cloud for the Rest of Us: Buying, Selling and Focusing on Cloud, Outside the US [6/29 @ 11 am]

Looking at the media, it would seem that cloud outside the US is nascent at best - is this the case?

Information Technology

June 3, 2011

Phil Wainewright and 6 other people answered this question

Does the accessibility of cloud computing make hacking easier?

The accessibility of cloud computing makes hacking attempts more likely.
... which makes the operators of cloud computing assets more wary and alert against hacking attempts
... the net effect of which is that it's *harder* to hack cloud computing (unless you're hacking a cloud computing operator ... more

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Cloud Computing

June 2, 2011

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NYSE offering VMware-based cloud offerings to financial firms. Thoughts?

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Cloud Computing

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