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McKinsey & Co. Report: Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing
Who should consider shifting IT work to the cloud? McKinsey & Company presents a new analysis that defines and evaluates cloud computing in a clear, hype-free way. This presentation
- defines clouds and cloud services
- helps companies determine whether a move to the cloud would be cost effective for their business
- discusses barriers to more wide-spread adoption of cloud computing
- presents alternate strategies of equivalent merit for improving data center performance.
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McKinsey & Co. Report: Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency
First presented at the Institute’s 2008 Symposium, Green Enterprise Computing: Capitalizing on Current Opportunities and Exploring Future Trends in Energy Efficiency, in Orlando, Florida, this jointly developed Report by Will Forrest of McKinsey and Ken Brill of Uptime outlines the severe negative financial consequences of continuing high levels of data center investment. The Report is broken into three Findings, three Drivers of Poor Efficiency, three Recommendations, and a Goal for doubling data center efficiency using a new business metric entitled CADE, or Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency.
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