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One of the first things I check every morning is my Google alert for "CIOs." In this morning's email were two interesting CIO profiles.

Perhaps the most instructive was that of Tony Pusey, the CIO for Trinity Mirror in the UK. He's in the newspaper business, an industry wracked by decades of turmoil. The story describes how he consolidated newspaper systems.

As with most events these days, yesterday’s talks from the ‘Master The Cloud’ event were retweeted live on Twitter through several people. We thought that it would be helpful to share some of the more interesting and informative Tweets from the event.  The core messages that we found most relevant were examples of practical adoption, and how to inform and leverage the C-suite on cloud strategies and adoption.

Below is the key event Tweets:

I love this chart which speaks to how nascent technology is perceived over time, the so-called "hype cycle." Expectations shoot through roof, then nosedive like a bad day on Wall Street and eventually level out once the true potential is established and bought into. The cloud has followed this path during the past year and is closing in on "slope of enlightenment" in my opinion.

We in HP Software have created a new HP Software Cloud presentation. I"ve posted two versions. The first has a voiceover (only about 10 minutes). The second is a PDF created from showing the slides and the notes I created for each slide. 

They are both hosted on SlideShare.net:

Week in review, Jan. 17. SOPA has gotten everyone's attention, including that of CIOs. Former federal CIO Vivek Kundra lands at Salesforce.com and managers are largely "useless."

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I’ve had the opportunity to discuss the issues related to the lack of transparency of public cloud previously. This is forcing users to trust the cloud service provider, not knowing who is actually behind the delivery of a particular service.

The topic of performance management in information technology circles has, by and large, been a relatively thorny issue at times. Part of the problem with post-deployment solutions is that code may be buggy and troublesome, functionality may not be close enough to original requirements and (often most importantly) real world data volumes supersede that which the system might have originally be designed for.

Odd. The top retweeted #cloudcomputing tweet this week points to nothing except the hashtag #painpoint and the tweetster @painpoint. Ok, I'll bite. Who are you AND are people talking about important stuff around your hashtag?  Well meet Mr. @painpoint via his Twitter profile: "Connecting Industry Problem Solvers. Use #painpoint and state your biz or tech pain. If it sounds smart, I will RT. Add on LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/PainPoint." His Twitter streams - a pain point discussion if you will - looks to be getting 25 or so tweets a day. I'll follow.

Before you left click that mouse to go to that other “work related” page, wait a few seconds while I explain what I’m talking about. While there is a ton of hyped up, blown out and super hyperventilated information out there about how the cloud makes your life better, reduces your workload and ultimately makes your coffee and butters your toast, not much is said about how the cloud can help your company save or make money. Real money…not that kinda-sorta-maybe-coulda money, but real put-it-in-the-bank money.

The other day I received a message requesting me to comment on a “vision” of the super mobile worker. The enquiry started with this statement: “I wish to join a growing community of mobile people, who live and work completely off their mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones, which enables them to drift endlessly through countries with no fixed abode, although they remain registered in their home country for income tax, banking, citizenship and perhaps one or two other reasons.”

The devices required were described as: