Timothy Chou

Lecturer at Stanford University

Guest Blogger

Timothy Chou has been a leader in bringing enterprises to the cloud since 1999, when he began his tenure as President of Oracle On Demand where many businesses chose to have their enterprise applications delivered as a cloud service. Since leaving Oracle he returned to Stanford University and started the first course on cloud computing. Timothy has been a visible pioneer in evangelizing this major shift in computing. He has appeared in various publications including Forbes, Business Week, The Economist, and New York Times as well as on CNBC and NPR. He has also been a keynote speaker for business and technology audiences in North America, South America, Asia and Europe.

Timothy recently published a cloud computing trilogy titled Cloud Computing: Fundamentals, Cloud Computing: Operation Efficiency and Cloud Computing: Transformation, which are designed to teach the fundamentals of cloud computing, sharing plenty of examples.

This series is an abbreviated view of the above-referenced Cloud Computing Trilogy, a three cloudbook set, based on Dr. Chou's Stanford class, numerous keynote speeches and several enterprise workshops.

Timothy Chou's Articles

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  Just Say No to SLAs

  Timothy Chou - April 6, 2015 - 1 Comment

  Most of you who’ve either purchased or delivered cloud services have been asked for an SLA (Service Level Agreement). I’ve seen SLAs that can be measured on inches of paper. 

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  Security-as-a-Feature

  Timothy Chou - March 30, 2015 - 1 Comment

  Some of you may remember Marathon Man, starring Lawrence Olivier as the evil Nazi dentist Dr. Christian Szell, and Dustin Hoffman as a graduate student nicknamed Babe. Szell has come

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  ISVs Moving to the Cloud – New Partners

  Timothy Chou - March 23, 2015 - 0 Comments

  In my previous Cisco Blog post, I discussed the business models an ISV can deploy in moving to the Cloud. In this Cisco Blog, I’ll discuss one of the most

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  Traditional ISVs – Transform your Business into the World of Cloud Computing

  Timothy Chou - March 16, 2015 - 0 Comments

  If you’re a traditional on-premises software company, you’re in the right place. Today, I will talk about how cloud computing can transform your business. In a subsequent Cisco Blog, I’ll

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  State of the Cloud: A Case Study of One Company’s Journey

  Timothy Chou - March 9, 2015 - 3 Comments

  People often ask me: “Is cloud computing really being adopted?” Over the years, I’ve talked to large and small companies to find out the state of the art in their

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  SUMMARY: Moving to the Cloud

  Timothy Chou - March 6, 2015 - 2 Comments

  Stay tuned for the next installments of our Moving to the Cloud series. In the meantime, please add your comments or questions to the previous posts: Seven Ways to Move

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