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	<title>Fractals of Innovation</title>
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	<description>Ruminations &#38; Reflections on Technology &#38; Business</description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing: Enabling the Customer Driven Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past one decade, businesses focused on the short term profits. Many businesses  outsourced the customer service and/or moved toward self-serve models. This not only significantly reduced the customer interactions with the business but also reduced, if not eliminated, critical information flows from the customer to the businesses. Customers are now resorting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2010/01/19/cloud-computing-enabling-the-customer-driven-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Rethinking: Cloud &amp; Enterprise Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies currently spend about 5-6% of their revenues on IT. Many of these companies are now struggling to align their IT to support the business strategy, provide a competitive advantage, and serve as a platform for growth. Exploding number of choices and growing complexity of technology assets making these companies victims of their rapidly obsolescing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/11/22/rethinking-cloud-enterprise-computing/</link>
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		<title>Views and Experiences: Growth by Innovation or M&amp;A?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Furrier kicked-off an interesting conversational thread on twitter: Grow through innovation or M&#38;A interesting discussion going on here; re: Cisco vs Juniper &#8211; two different visions on growth. Jake Kaldenbaugh, Susie Wee joined me in the discussion. I have summarized my thinking and position on M&#38;A vs Innovation driven growth strategy. My argument is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/10/24/views-and-experiences-growth-by-innovation-or-ma/</link>
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		<title>Cloud: Interoperability &amp; Portability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The discussion about the difference between interoperability and portability isn&#8217;t new by any means. In the context of Cloud, Portability is the ability to move an application or service from one cloud to another cloud, usually with minimal overhead, or no overhead. Interoperability is the ability of services to seamlessly communicate with each other.
If Mime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/10/12/cloud-interoperability-portability/</link>
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		<title>Cloud &#8211; Enabling Rich User Experiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most successful brands create breakthrough ideas or innovations that are inspired by a deep understanding of consumers’ lives. Customers are no longer tolerating the rushed and mediocre service offerings. Instead, they are demanding satisfying and rich experiences. Companies that provide it will evoke emotional bonding with the brand and win their loyalty.
It’s fashionable today to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/10/10/cloud-enabling-rich-user-experiences/</link>
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		<title>Virtualization: Solution or Problem?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is virtualization solution to a problem or part of the problem?
Christofer Hoff  ignited the create spark Virtual Machines are the Problem, Not the Solution.
In my view and experience, Virtualization is part of the problem as well as part of the solution. While automation is the key in fulfilling end-to-end service delivery, virtualization is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/09/27/virtualization-solution-or-problem/</link>
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		<title>Government IT and Cloud Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government plans and their commitment for cloud computing seems very promising. I do certainly appreciate and congratulate the government leaders and their courageous and bold steps in driving the Cloud adoption.  During the times of crisis, we need innovations like this. Recent announcement by Vivek Kundra to source services from the public cloud is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/09/25/government-it-and-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<title>Talking to Myself. Reinforcing My Values. Then Me to We.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soliloquy. Talking to myself. Back in Chicago for weekend. Weekends in Chicago are fabulous and gives me an opportunity to critically look back and find better ways to do my job. It is a great time to reflect on what worked and what didn&#8217;t. Surprisingly, there are always better ways to do things. But we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/09/19/talking-to-myself-reinforcing-my-values-then-me-to-we/</link>
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		<title>Do Standards Stifle Innovation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attended federal cloud computing announcement today at NASA. White House CIO, Vivek Kundra, revealed ambitious plan for overall government adoption of Cloud computing and simplification of complex IT procurement process. I also attended private roundtable with Mr. Kundra along with folks from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, Cisco, SGI, Sun, Eucalyptus, Verari, Symantec, and Salesforce.
Mr. Kundra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/09/16/do-standards-stifle-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing and Governance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is a major technological paradigm shift after the Internet. While Internet provided the high-speed inter-connects across global digital villages, now cloud computing is transforming the way we serve information, knowledge, connections, and business transactions without worrying about building your own data centers.  As cloud computing becomes more commonplace in the lives of everyday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cloudrants.com/blogs/2009/09/12/cloud-computing-and-governance/</link>
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