Despite widespread concerns about cloud data security and control, there’s been a lot of recent news on the healthcare industry’s steady, but cautious foray into cloud computing. In early July, research firm MarketsandMarkets issued a report stating that the healthcare cloud computing market will grow from $1.7 billion in 2011 to $5.4 billion by 2017, an encouraging 20.5% compounded annual growth rate. However, the report points to some key restraints, such as patient data security and cloud compliance that could slow down the market unless mitigated.
In a unique twist, a recent article identifies cloud data security as a primary driver, not an obstacle in the cloud adoption trend. In “Money in a mattress: Why patient records should move to a private cloud”, the author expounds on the security weaknesses of traditional hospital client-server systems in which protected data can be easily compromised, and he points to private or hybrid clouds as better solutions.
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Cloud Computing: Integration in the Cloud
“We are a cloud integrator. We help companies bring their internal IT infrastructure into the Cloud,” stated Jason Silverglate, President and CEO of FortressITX, talks to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo New York, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Don’t expect big changes from VMware’s new CEO
By Tim Stammers, Senior Analyst, Infrastructure, Ovum.
Paul Maritz, CEO of EMC subsidiary VMware, is to be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, who is currently president and COO of all of EMC’s business other than VMware. The swap will happen in September, when Maritz will move in the opposite direction to become EMC chief strategist.
The move does not signal immediate or major changes at VMware. While the company faces increasing competition, its dominant position in the server virtualization market is not under immediate threat, and its revenue is still growing quickly.
EMC has also dismissed rumors that VMware plans to spin out its Cloud Foundry operation, at least for now. Although Maritz offered to step down during board discussions of VMware’s strategy, he has not been sidelined, as shown by his new role, his continued presence on VMware’s board of directors, and his high profile this week …
In Technology, It’s About 10 Years, Not 100 Years
Silicon Valley is a strange anomaly in a big world. It’s arguably the center of the technology universe, constantly cranking out new ideas, new products and new companies. And its residents create billions (or trillions) of dollars of revenue on the back on that technology. But Silicon Valley also has this self-belief that it’s a romantic place, a modern day Camelot where the ills and evils of the world can be vanquished by spreading around magic silicon dust in just the right amounts. It looks to highlight the next 100 year company, which will cement it’s place as a foundational pillar in the fabric of future global economies.
But there’s a small problem with that romantic idea. That’s not how the Silicon Valley DNA is wired. Regardless of whether or not people believe Silicon Valley is currently living in a bubble
Cloud Computing: Novell Refuses to Let WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Die
The federal judge who’s been minding Novell’s billion-dollar WordPerfect antitrust suit threw out its remaining claims Monday theoretically bringing the generation-old dispute dating to Windows 95 and the reign of Bill Gates to an end.
Novell however says it’s going to appeal the bench ruling granting Microsoft’s motion to dismiss as a matter of law.
An eight-week trial in December ended in a hung jury of 11 to one in favor of Novell.
Judge Frederick Motz said in his decision that “Although Novell presented evidence from which a jury could have found that Microsoft engaged in aggressive conduct, perhaps to monopolize or attempt to monopolize the applications market, it did not present evidence sufficient for a jury to find that Microsoft committed any acts that violated Section 2 [of the Sherman Antitrust Act] in maintaining its monopoly in the operating systems market.”
Microsoft Posts Its Very First Losing Quarter
Microsoft has never reported a loss in its 26 years as a public company until Thursday when a gargantuan $6.19 billion write-down on aQuantative, the online ad agency it acquired in 2007 for $6.3 billion to compete against Google, plus $540 million in deferred revenue on Windows 8 nominally caused it to lose money.
It lost $492 million or six cents a share on revenues up 4% to $18.06 billion. It made $5.87 billion, or 69 cents a share last year. Excluding the adjustment Microsoft would have made 73 cents a share.
Broadcom Corporation Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by connecting everything®.
Cloud Computing: Aryaka Closes $25 Million C Round
Aryaka, the cloud-based WAN Optimization-as-a-Service start-up, has secured a $25 million C round.
The financing was led by InterWest Partners with Sumitomo and Presidio Ventures kicking in along with existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
It makes $54 million altogether.
The new money is earmarked for market penetration and global reach.
Aryaka figures it’s redefining the multibillion-dollar global WAN optimization market and changing the way enterprise consumes the technology. The company claims 500 customer sites on six continents and a billion connections for a hundred thousand business users including Aruba and Radware.
Cloud Computing: Workday Reportedly Files IPO Papers on the QT
Workday, the promising cloud-based HR and financial management start-up founded by the founder and former chief strategist of PeopleSoft David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has reportedly filed its S-1 paper to go public under a new law that will let it keep its financials under wraps until 21 days before its investor-fanning roadshow.
It’s IPO has been highly anticipated and could be glorious. Reuters, which broke the story, figures it could be the “largest market debut” since Facebook’s botched IPO in May.
Workday, which is subscription-based, is a lot more stable than Facebook.
The law it’s reportedly using is the so-called JOBS Act, short for the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, intended to help companies with less than a billion dollars in revenues get out.
How Important is English to Global IT?
The Philippines is the world’s most highly rated user of business English, surpassing even the UK, North America, and ANZAC, according to a report from a company called Global English. The firm’s Business English Index (BEI), recently updated for 2012, rates the competence of business English within more than 70 countries worldwide. Norway finished in second place.
How important is the English language in international business? How much stuff is really lost in translation? To what degree is highly competent English a bonus to a country that is touting its skills in computer languages such as Java, the C’s, The Three P’s, etc.?
My experience has been that good English communication keeps things moving. Less good communication – and I freely admit that my Mandarin, Hindi, and everything else but English is terrible – slows things down. It’s not a matter of getting things wrong when communications are difficult, it’s a matter of wasting time.
Armed with this new database, I integrated some of the BEI’s numbers into my ongoing research about ICT dynamism on a nation-by-nation basis.
I’ve integrated a number of factors – broadband quality and access, cost of labor, income disparity, corruption, overall economic development – to create an amalgamation that highlights countries the most dynamic countries, ie, the ones doing with the most that they have.
For now, I’m focusing on a custom report for Asia, and have integrated the BEI into the amalgam. In doing so, the Philippines’ capability vaults it over all other countries in the region, including China, India, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
This occurs over a broad range of weighting algorithms, but even weighting the BEI lightly pushes the Philippines to the top of the heap. China’s strong performance in other categories, combined with its middling English skills, puts it in second place in this research. Australia finished third.
The BEI must be stirring some dust up in native-English countries; how can the Philippines do better than Australia, for example? I attribute it to a sensibility in the Philippines, in which English is not taken for granted but studied seriously by those who wish to get and maintain good jobs.
In the Philippines, if you’re without good English, your potential pathways to success are very, very limited. Perhaps this is less true in Australia, the US, and other presumed English-first countries these days.
Tweet me if you want to know more about what I’m doing. It’s fascinating stuff.