Capossela on Enterprise Cloud Computing

Chris Capossela is one of my favourite execs to listen to at Microsoft. He always takes a very customer oriented view of the world and listens a lot more than he talks – always a good sign. In a recent guest column on GigaOm, Chris discussed the enterprise, cloud computing and 5 key considerations for business. As you’d expect in a column like this, Chris doesn’t go in to sales mode – but that’s because he often doesn’t. He explains stuff in a simple, non confrontational way and usually leaves you with something you hadn’t considered before.

I know that all sounds like a sales pitch that’s creeping to one of our Senior VP’s but it’s not designed to be. I just think he has interesting stuff to say and is genuine about it.

if you’ve any interest in cloud computing and run a business, this is well worth a read and if there is one topic I’d add to Chris’s 5 it’d be “migration”. From speaking with a number of big customers this week, the topic of how do they get to the cloud was one on their minds…and related of course was how do they work in a hybrid cloud/on-premises world. Both big challenges that I think are only partly solved right now but certainly one we’re working on as are folks like VMWare of course.

A busy week on cloud and S+S press actually with SteveB also riffing with MercuryNews.com and saying Azure will be ready by year end.