Paul Burns

President at Neovise LLC

Paul Burns is the President and Founder of Neovise, an IT industry analyst firm that uniquely adds business perspective to technology. He works closely with executive leaders from vendors and service providers to understand, evaluate and provide input on their solutions. He also spends time with IT organizations and businesses, compiling research data, analyzing needs and providing guidance on solution investments.

Paul has nearly 25 years experience in the software industry, driving strategy for enterprise software solutions through product management, competitive analysis and business planning. He has held a series of leadership positions in marketing and R&D, and spent two years as Research Director / Senior Analyst at another firm immediately prior to founding Neovise. Paul also writes articles for industry publications and speaks at industry events. He earned both B.S. in Computer Science and M.B.A. degrees from Colorado State University. Paul’s extensive industry background offers Neovise and its clients valuable insights on technical solutions that deliver business results.

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Article: Getting it Right with Enterprise Cloud Storage
There is a lot of cloudwashing within the industry. In some cases this involves grey areas. For example, not every cloud solution available has every cloud attribute. Some fall just a bit short on elasticity while others fall short on pricing models.


Podcast: Cloud Performance and Availability from the Global Perspective
A discussion on monitoring cloud performance and availability from the global perspective.


Article: Building Cloud IaaS Market Share by Tackling Application On-boarding
The rush is on for service providers to offer cloud infrastructure services. Many of the new entrants in the cloud IaaS market are coming from the hosting space where shared and dedicated hosting providers are extending their services to include cloud servers and infrastructure. Similarly, a large number of telecom and network service providers offering hosting services are growing their service offerings to include cloud infrastructure services. Unfortunately, the ability to serve up on-demand, self-service, pay-as-you-go, elastic infrastructure is only the first step toward establishing a sizeable and profitable position in the market.


Article: Cloud Computing Shifts to Second Gear with Government Help
The US Federal Government, through the US General Services Administration (GSA) announced that government agencies will soon have access to cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings through the government's cloud-based services storefront, Apps.gov. Here is an overview of why this is a major milestone in the development, acceptance and refinement of public cloud services.


Article: Understanding and Improving IaaS Strategy
Insights on definining or refining your IaaS strategy and marketing message.


Web Resource: Perspective Reports
A list, by Neovise, of reports on cloud computing and vendor solutions.


Web Resource: Profiles: Cloud Service Providers
A web repository of profiles covering a wide array of cloud computing service providers, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.


Article: Addressing a Real Obstacle to Cloud Computing: Change
Seven things an IT leader should do to help individuals and teams embrace cloud computing.


Article: Defining the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
A proposed definition for virtual private cloud (VPC).


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