Rose Petals The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only know What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose. — Robert Frost

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Now on Our Radar     Knowing the scope of these organizations will make you successful. Global Business Enablement (GBE) Global Sales and Marketing (GSM) Global Direct Services (GDS) Global Applications Delivery (GAD)

governance cloud computing infrastructure as a service software as a service virtualization security platform as a service open source agility visibility capex opex cost reduction grid computing scalability storage as a service compute server utility computing multi-tenant vdi soa compliance pay per drink economies of scale efficiency

Workload-Driven Road Map Value Ease of Adoption Run and maintain Service stability High costs of innovation Traditional chargeback Time to market of IT: 8 weeks Legacy Services Committed cost reduction Business in transformation Internal cloud genesis Per use chargeback Time to market of IT: 2 weeks Grid Services Shared environment Agility SaaS application deployment Per user over time chargeback Time to provision IT: on demand Future-proofing Cloud Services Low High

Enterprise Cloud Imperatives Security and integrity of business process rather than by platform Business First Approach Multi-platform application enablement

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