The global team that makes up CSC Trusted Cloud Services recently attended the IDC Cloud Computing Conference on Nov. 4, in New York City. It was a great event, made all the better by the diverse speakers, including the one you see in this video.
Jessica Carroll is the Director of IT at the United States Golf Association. You might not immediately think of the USGA as a technology enterprise, but as Ms. Carroll explains in the clip, even golfers can benefit from cloud computing.
She explains that, several years ago, the USGA dived into the Internet in its outreach to a global audience. The organization’s experience with Microsoft Live Meeting was a positive first foray into cloud computing. Carroll says that the Microsoft BPOS application helped them present education consistently and made it easier for people to attend — without adding any infrastructure to the USGA.
Her concerns in the future, she says, will be preventing “cloud sprawl,” or too much variation from too many vendors in the various systems the USGA implements. Smart decisions and consolidation will be the goal and, even with concerns, she says she sees many benefits to reap in cloud computing.
In blog posts to come, we’ll have more conversation from the IDC event, which included CSC VP of Cloud Computing Brian Boruff as a speaker.
Did you attend IDC? What do you think of the USGA’s take on cloud computing?
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