Comments on: Which of the 3 cups has a cloud under it? http://gigaom.com/2012/09/30/which-of-the-3-cups-has-a-cloud-under-it/ Sun, 19 May 2013 07:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Thiele http://gigaom.com/2012/09/30/which-of-the-3-cups-has-a-cloud-under-it/#comment-1041583 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:31:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=568125#comment-1041583 Thanks for the kind words and great comment. I’m happy to read that the point of the message is coming across clearly.

Mark

]]> By: windwardits http://gigaom.com/2012/09/30/which-of-the-3-cups-has-a-cloud-under-it/#comment-1040526 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:35:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=568125#comment-1040526 Great post, Mark, and one that kicked of some elaboration on our part. When talking to prospects and peers alike, we speak a lot about “context”. Technology only works if it works in the “context” of what you need it to do. AWS, Rackspace, private clouds — awesome elements of a potential solution but they’re all completely irrelevant if you don’t even understand what you need them to do, and how they need to do it while operating within the parameters of your organization.

Really, I read your piece as a kind of call to arms for enterprise-level IT consumers. Here’s an inescapable truth: vendors would be happy to push technology on you day and night, and even define your context for you.

We must resist!

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