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Department of Defense’s Cloud Computing Strategy: Saving Money & Increasing Security

December 30, 2011 by Thu Pham
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Back in August, I blogged about the federal cloud computing strategy proposed by CIO Vivek Kundra with intentions of allocating $20 billion of the total $80 billion IT budget for cloud computing migration alone. The goal is similar to the DoD’s NDAA strategy – consolidate and reduce data center and energy expenditure. [read more]

Business Intelligence & General Management I

November 4, 2011 by Jose de la Vega
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"This article is the first of the total of three that we are going to publish from LITEBI, each one will be part of a Whitepaper focused on the effects and contributions of Business Intelligence to the company from the point of view of the CEO." [read more]

Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud, Part II: 2011 Benefits of Cloud Adoption

September 26, 2011 by Thu Pham
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"A recent Wall Street Journal article reporting on cloud security details the trends of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) when it comes to benefits of cloud adoption and the overall trend of outsourcing the cloud." [read more]

Salesforce Presents New Social Enterprise with Chatter, Mobility and Data

September 9, 2011 by Mark Smith
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Salesforce.com’s social enterprise is a big step forward from the strategy it talked about at last year’s Dreamforce, and is now focused helping companies build social profiles of employees and customers that can managed and augmented with information about the individuals from other social networks. [read more]

2011 Cloud & IT Disaster Recovery Statistics

August 25, 2011 by Thu Pham
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A recent survey conducted by the Aberdeen Group uncovered the IT disaster recovery trends of a range of companies using cloud computing for data storage, backup and recovery. [read more]

Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing

August 4, 2011 by Thu Pham
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Cloud Computing delivers faster recovery times and multi-site availability at a fraction of the cost of conventional disaster recovery. [read more]

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Want Magic? Spill the Secrets of Your Black Box

July 6, 2011 by Paul Barsch
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Too much transparency may disclosure your “secret sauce” to competitors. But where possible, “throw back the hood” to show customers how your product or service is created or delivered. [read more]

Planning for the turned-around economy? Cloud Computing and SaaS can help.

March 17, 2011 by Ephraim Cohen
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Though the economy has thrown us a curve ball over the last couple of years, there are indications that the economy might be in the process of turning around. In fact, wholesale distributors have recently reported six quarters of consecutive growth, plus the need to start growing their inventories and people resources, i.e. the need to... [read more]

CTOs: Provide Your Inputs on Government Implemention of Cloud Computing Constructs

February 8, 2011 by Bob Gourley
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Our nation’s technologists have always come to the aide of their nation. There are many great exemplars in this domain. two of my personal favorites are: Edwin Land, inventor famous for his work on consumer cameras but also a key designer of reconnaissance systems (including the U2). Frederick Terman, the thinker most responsible for... [read more]

Why is there so little innovation in cloud hardware?

November 27, 2010 by Theodore Omtzigt
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With the explosion of data and the need to make sense out of it all on a smart phone is creating an interesting opportunity. Mobile devices need high performance at low power, and Apple seems to be the only one that has figured out that having your own processor team and IP is actually a key advantage. And the telcos will need Petascale... [read more]

On-Demand Computing: Soaring with the Cloud Tackles Current Tech Issues

September 16, 2010 by Maggie Fox
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We excited to let you know about an event our friends (and clients) at SAP are helping put on later this month. On September 28, MyVenturePad, along with SAP, will present “On-Demand Computing: Soaring with the Cloud.” This four-and-half hour global summit will cover cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology. This... [read more]

Transaction Processing in the Cloud

September 15, 2010 by Tony Bain
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While this paper has been out for a while I was reminded about it yesterday.  It is a great read for anyone considering locating their applications and/or data in the cloud.  An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud  [read more]

Evolution of Change: Signs for the Future of Business

September 4, 2010 by Michael Fauscette
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I like taking the time once in a while to tie different trends together, it just helps me focus on what's really happening now and helps me understand where things might be going. Taken individually there are some very interesting things happening in technology and business but when you link them together a picture starts to emerge that... [read more]

One Third of All Software Delivered via Cloud in 2014

August 12, 2010 by Ephraim Cohen
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IDC reports in a recent press release that: The Software as a Service (SaaS) market had worldwide revenues of $13.1 billion in 2009. IDC forecasts the market to reach $40.5 billion by 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate of 25.3%. By 2014, about 34% of all new business software purchases will be consumed via SaaS and SaaS... [read more]

Cloud Application versus On Premise, Myths and Realities

August 5, 2010 by Michael Fauscette
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I was reading something recently on SaaS TCO that once again dredged up one of our industry folktales about SaaS versus on premise software and it reminded me that no matter how mainstream I think the SaaS apps market has become, there's still a lot of misunderstandings and misinformation rattling around with prospects, analysts and... [read more]

Prototyping Cloud Analytic Applications

July 27, 2010 by Jenna Russell
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Cloud computing is changing the way that companies build and deploy their analytic solutions. With cloud computing, computing is available on demand, scales elastically, and can be self-provisioned. This flexibility sometimes requires developing new analytic infrastructure and new analytic algorithms, which, in turn, requires some... [read more]