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Sandra Hamilton

Sandra Hamilton is the Vice President of EMC Consulting. As the EMEA lead, Hamilton is responsible for driving the organisation’s strategy in enterprise information management, application architecture, cloud and virtual datacentre, and security and risk management. Shine was senior vice president and general manager for EMEA at Sybase, overseeing all operational, sales, marketing, services and support operations in the region. Prior to Sybase, Shine was at Canadian-based Geac Computer Corporation for ten successful years, based in both the UK and US at various times, during which he helped to successfully turn around two major global divisions for the ERP firm. Prior to this Shine spent 6 years with Andersen Consulting and three years in the Oil Exploration Industry. Steve holds a degree in physics from Manchester University.

Sandra Hamilton

June 06, 2011

The Journey to Your Cloud Part 5: Building Your Private Cloud

Transforming IT from a technology supplier into a provider of services to the business

Transforming IT from a technology supplier into a provider of services to the business   If you've ever taken a high-level look at enterprise...

Posted by: Sandra Hamilton

April 19, 2011

Journey to Your Cloud: Part 4 - It all comes down to trust...

Key considerations for building your Trusted Cloud Framework

Key considerations for building a Trusted Cloud Framework   In a recent survey by Gartner the top barriers to businesses adopting Cloud...

Posted by: Sandra Hamilton

April 15, 2011

The Journey to Your Cloud: Part 3 - Into the cloud, but which cloud...

Identifying application workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud transformation

In Part 3 we are going to address how you approach Cloud from an applications perspective and what considerations you need to make on your...

Posted by: Sandra Hamilton

April 14, 2011

Journey to Your Cloud: Part 2 - Making your case to the business

Making your case for cloud to the business

Making your case to the business for cloud transformation Part two... and you are still here! I hope some of the thoughts and the ideas that I...

Posted by: Sandra Hamilton

April 11, 2011

The Journey to Your Cloud.... and other stories

Firstly, I would like to say a big thanks to the kind folks at CIO.co.uk who have generously provided me the time and space to write this - my...

Posted by: Sandra Hamilton


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