Here is our latest white paper, a document co-authored by myself and one of our Technology Strategy Board members Alan Gin, CEO of ZeroNines. Download: Always On Digital Government (15-page PDF) Always On Cloud Architecture We were inspired to write this paper following the recent data centre outage in Calgary a few weeks back. The impact was severe, […]
Archivo mensual: Agosto 2012
Apple Offered Samsung a License Two Years Ago
Apple is apparently more reasonable than it lets on.
Back in 2010 it offered Samsung a license. Apple estimates that it might have cost Samsung $288 million back then. Now it’s asking $2.5 billion and that’s just in the current case in California.
FOSS Patents calls it “the most spectacular revelation of the ongoing trial.”
Are companies spending more and more on the cloud?
According to analysis from research firm Frost and Sullivan, over half of Australian companies using cloud computing services are spending 10% of their budget on the cloud.
Further research revealed that 70% of Australian enterprises in the cloud are looking to boost their services “significantly” in the next 12 months.
The overall research into Australian business showed:
- 53% of companies using cloud computing services spend more than one tenth of their IT budget on cloud solutions
- 31% spend more than 20% of their budget on the cloud
- Perhaps unsurprisingly larger organisations spend much more on cloud than smaller companies
The study noted the similarities between companies pursuing software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
While SaaS remained the most common delivery model, the use of IaaS has skyrocketed, in part due to increased local market adoption, the report noted.
The usual concerns over moving to the …
CloudBeat is Back
Ben Kepes and I had a load of fun last year, helping the team at VentureBeat put on their inaugural cloud computing event, CloudBeat. Clearly we did something right whilst having fun, as they’ve invited us back to reprise our content advising/ programme shaping role again this year. Right at the end of November, we’ll once again be doing what we can to assemble a stellar cast of cloud companies and their customers at the Sofitel in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco. As the blurb states, Unlike other cloud conferences, CloudBeat brings IT executives who use cloud technologies onto the same stage as the companies making those technologies. It’s a rare chance to learn what really works, who’s buying what, and where the industry is going. Ben and I both feel that there’s a real need to ensure that the stories of customer success (and failure) get heard, instead of just having the cloud companies tell us how wonderful they’re going to make the future. How do the adopters of cloud solutions have to change? What can they do that they couldn’t achieve with other approaches? Is it about saving money, or going green, or being agile, or […]
Salesforce Reportedly Gets Monster Contract
Cloud pioneer Salesforce.com reportedly got its biggest contract ever, bigger than its State Farm deal, which was valued at $140 million, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Mark Murphy.
Who it is is a mystery. Forbes thinks it’s a large tech company.
IBM Opening its First African Research Lab
IBM has sent up its first research lab in Africa. That makes an even dozen labs worldwide. The new one’s in Nairobi in Kenya. It should host 50 researchers in five years.
IBM didn’t say how much it’s investing but the government of Kenya is putting in $2 million a year for five years for a share in the copyrights.
Google to Cut 4,000 Jobs at Motorola Unit
After buying Motorola Mobility and its 17,000 patents for $12.5 billion in May, Google is going to try to make the place profitable, something that has eluded it for 14 of the last 16 quarters.
RIM’s New Cloud Unit Reportedly on Block
Struggling Research In Motion is looking to sell NewBay Media, the white-label mobile content supplier that it bought last October for $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal in a story Reuters picked up on.
Other non-core assets could also go. RIM has RBC Capital Markets and JPMorgan exploring strategic options. The company is trying to cut a billion dollars in costs ahead of bringing the new Blackberry 10 to market early next year.
RIM’s New Cloud Unit Reportedly on Block
Struggling Research In Motion is looking to sell NewBay Media, the white-label mobile content supplier that it bought last October for $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal in a story Reuters picked up on.
Other non-core assets could also go. RIM has RBC Capital Markets and JPMorgan exploring strategic options. The company is trying to cut a billion dollars in costs ahead of bringing the new Blackberry 10 to market early next year.
RIM’s New Cloud Unit Reportedly on Block
Struggling Research In Motion is looking to sell NewBay Media, the white-label mobile content supplier that it bought last October for $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal in a story Reuters picked up on.
Other non-core assets could also go. RIM has RBC Capital Markets and JPMorgan exploring strategic options. The company is trying to cut a billion dollars in costs ahead of bringing the new Blackberry 10 to market early next year.