A White Paper by:
The Cloud Business Use-Cases Project of
The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group, led by:
Pamela K. Isom
Distinguished Chief/Lead IT Archtiect, IBM
Cloud Work Group Steering Committee and CBUC Co-Chair
Deborah Hawley
Information Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation
Cloud Work Group Steering Committee and CBUC Co-Chair
July 2010
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Strengthening your Business Case for Using Cloud
Document No.: W106
Published by The Open Group, July 2010.
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