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Timothy Chou

Lecturer at Stanford University

Timothy Chou has been a leader in bringing enterprises to the cloud since 1999, when he began his tenure as President of Oracle On Demand where many businesses chose to have their enterprise applications delivered as a cloud service. Since leaving Oracle he returned to Stanford University and started the first course on cloud computing. Timothy has been a visible pioneer in evangelizing this major shift in computing. He has appeared in various publications including Forbes, Business Week, The Economist, and New York Times as well as on CNBC and NPR. He has also been a keynote speaker for business and technology audiences in North America, South America, Asia and Europe.

Timothy recently published a cloud computing trilogy titled Cloud Computing: Fundamentals, Cloud Computing: Operation Efficiency and Cloud Computing: Transformation, which are designed to teach the fundamentals of cloud computing, sharing plenty of examples.

This series is an abbreviated view of the above-referenced Cloud Computing Trilogy, a three cloudbook set, based on Dr. Chou's Stanford class, numerous keynote speeches and several enterprise workshops.

Articles

April 6, 2015

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Just Say No to SLAs

3 min read

Most of you who’ve either purchased or delivered cloud services have been asked for an SLA (Service...

March 30, 2015

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Security-as-a-Feature

3 min read

Some of you may remember Marathon Man, starring Lawrence Olivier as the evil Nazi dentist Dr. Christian Szell, and Dustin Hoffman as a graduate student nicknamed Babe. Szell has come to New York from his South American jungle hideaway to retrieve a cache of diamonds, but he’s not sure he won’t be walking into a […]

March 23, 2015

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ISVs Moving to the Cloud – New Partners

4 min read

In my previous Cisco Blog post, I discussed the business models an ISV can deploy in moving to the...

March 16, 2015

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Traditional ISVs – Transform your Business into the World of Cloud Computing

3 min read

If you’re a traditional on-premises software company, you’re in the right place. Today, I will talk about how cloud computing can transform your business. In a subsequent Cisco Blog, I’ll discuss the implication this move will have on your sales and distribution strategy. Model One Business Model Traditional software companies have operated in a Model […]

March 6, 2015

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SUMMARY: Moving to the Cloud

1 min read

Stay tuned for the next installments of our Moving to the Cloud series. In the meantime, please add your comments or questions to the previous posts: Seven Ways to Move to the Cloud Seven Software Business Models – Part 1 Seven Software Business Models – Part 2    

March 9, 2015

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State of the Cloud: A Case Study of One Company’s Journey

2 min read

People often ask me: “Is cloud computing really being adopted?” Over the years, I’ve talked to large and small companies to find out the state of the art in their...

March 2, 2015

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DATA CENTER

Seven Software Business Models – Part 2

5 min read

Many years ago I found myself talking to venture capitalists about the differences between SaaS, outsourcing, ASPs, MSPs, online applications; etc. Also I noticed that my Stanford students had little understanding of the economics of software, so I developed the idea of seven business models to cover everything in the software business, and remove the […]

February 23, 2015

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Seven Software Business Models – Part 1

4 min read

Many years ago I found myself talking to a venture capitalist about the differences between SaaS, outsourcing, ASPs, MSPs, online applications; etc. Also I noticed that my Stanford students had little understanding of the economics of software, so I developed the idea of seven business models to cover everything in the software business, remove the […]

February 17, 2015

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Seven Ways to Move to the Cloud

3 min read

While cloud computing is based on a number of technology innovations, I’m going to write for the non-technical person who I think needs to understand this major shift.  In the...