Greetings,

I was recently at Stanford University in Palo Alto at a conference to learn to maximize the use of our new registration system. It was a great conference with side benefits that included a visit to the Googleplex and seeing a Google self-driving car on the road. It's good to get out, to learn new things, and experience best practices quality examples like Stanford and Google. At PCATT, we're always learning.

All the best to you,

Beryl Morimoto

Program Manager

Whether you're looking for a cloud provider or evaluating your current one, there are questions you should ask in the areas of data security, completeness, and social, mobile, and analytics. Although there is a bit of overlap, the combination of these two lists, one from Oracle and the other from the Onyx Group, are good places to start developing your list of questions.

What's clear in the "cloud computing" work sphere is summarized in one sentence from Mary K. Pratt: "Just as there's no single path to cloud expertise, there's no single skill that defines it, either." She lists 10 "mix-and-match skills" for cloud computing and discusses how cloud computing is changing IT employment. 

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