As the latest round of procurement for G-Cloud opened at the end of February it won’t be long until we get to see who’s made it onto the refreshed roster of suppliers on CloudStore when the new framework goes live in May.
With the new framework in the pipeline there are signs of renewed ambition for G-Cloud to deliver more business to a wider set of suppliers as evidenced by Francis Maude’s goal for a further £100m to be spent through the platform by May 2015.
The trouble is that when you look at the numbers, this is little more than a gnat’s bite from the elephantine £13.8bn spent on Government each year. What’s more, this is the total spend on a framework where there are now 1186 suppliers vying for business.
It is clear that G-Cloud has a long way to go. So …
It’s official. IBM is now a cloud company. Big Blue has announced it is to push $1bn (£597.6m) of its resources and investments into cloud, including a developer-friendly platform as a service (PaaS) offering called BlueMix.
The Armonk giant also revealed it was to push SoftLayer into a variety of new zones, including making Watson available on the platform.
Amidst a plethora of announcements within the billion dollar investment, IBM SVP software and cloud solutions Robert LeBlanc described it as “another significant move in extending true cloud integration.”
“IBM is ushering in a bold new era of innovation by partnering with developers in an open environment to accelerate the emerging world of hybrid cloud computing,” he said. “We are combining the strength of our developer ecosystem with the depth of subject matter expertise to build a scalable model that easily spans from a single developer to global teams …
Being a businesswoman, I know how busy an entrepreneur’s life is. In order to make sure that my business runs cost-effectively and everything happens on time, I have opted for a number of ideas and services. I have realized over time that management of IT is something which consumes a lot of money and time. In order to eliminate my headache related to IT services, I have opted for the Cloud.
Businesses have been a witness to how rapidly customer dealing has been changing over many years. Earlier businesses had to face a stiff competition in order to get new clients but now they face competition even in retaining the existing clients. This is the point where Customer Relationship Management comes into play.
You would have realized that everything these days is moving on the cloud. Whether it a business data, or a crucial software, or anti-viruses, or books, everything is there on the cloud. It would be highly profitable for the businesses if they move their CRM on the cloud. Here are some reasons to prove that the combination of CRM and cloud is worth million dollars.
No matter how much this technology progresses on an international scale, it still is cloudy in the land of the cloud.
In a perfect world, we all would be on the cloud living our lives happily ever after. There’s no denying the limitless potential possessed by this revolutionary technology which has not only changed the way we do business, but also how we live our lives.
IBM has announced a unique new development environment and capabilities-as-a-service to help clients and developers speed the adoption of “hybrid” clouds, which have the potential to usher in a new era of innovation across the enterprise. As part of its initiative, IBM has invested more than $1 billion for software cloud development and is launching new capabilities running on SoftLayer.
With today’s news, IBM is addressing three fundamental issues to help speed the adoption of hybrid clouds.
1. Enabling enterprise developers for the cloud: According to Evans Data, there are more than 18 million software developers worldwide yet less than 25 percent are developing for the cloud today [1]. As the industry moves to the cloud era, millions of developers are
Although cloud hosting has been a massive boom it’s not necessarily a disruptive technology model.
While Amazon is certainly doing it to a much larger scale than ever before, it more represents an ongoing maturity of the simple web hosting we began in the early 90s. It may now be on steroids but it’s still fundamentally the same virtualized shared infrastructure model.
It’s also still just a technical decision, not one of business transformation. The Marketing and other business managers don’t care whether an app is run in-house, in the Cloud or anywhere else, as along as it works and provides them the software functionality they need.
So it is usually the technical teams making these decisions , with no real impact on how the organization overall performs their work, or in how the software that it runs works in terms of information models.
The world’s largest and most successful private cloud operations are revolutionizing their approach to demand management. These organizations have recognized that while self-service portals are a component in the overall cloud architecture, these tools do not enable demand management. In fact, in many cases the portals and end-user interfaces don’t actually capture anything to do with demand, but instead force the user to enter the capacity “supply” requirements that they think will meet their demands. This is very different. Large enterprises have recognized the need to look beyond immediate requests to also model the “pipeline” of new demands that will be coming down the road. It is only by capturing new immediate requirements, an understanding of the pipeline and what is running in environments that organizations can possibly hope to accurately model demand and properly allocate compute, storage and network resources.
This whitepaper shows how corporate IT can manage its environment as if it is “deployed to the cloud.” So, if and when different parts of the environment are deployed to the cloud, day-to-day management of the environment remains unchanged—regardless of where it is running: on premises or at a service provider.