Cloud computing has been an important trend for several years now and that trend is continuing to gather weight with new and improved ERP software offerings for manufacturers. Like any ERP selection choice, the decision to move to the cloud has pros and cons compared to traditional on-premise ERP systems.
One of the biggest advantages, regardless of the vendor selected, is low cost of ownership. There is little up-front cost for cloud ERP software and often no additional hardware cost. One low subscription gets the software now and includes all aspects of ERP support. You don’t need a help desk and you don’t need people to maintain the servers required for an in-house ERP.
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Verizon Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Verizon has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With industry-specific solutions and a full range of global wholesale offerings provided over the company’s secure mobility, cloud, strategic networking and advanced communications platforms, Verizon Enterprise Solutions helps open new opportunities around the world for innovation, investment and business transformation.
Cloud Expo: Cloud Acceleration Techniques for Mission-Critical Apps
The journey to the cloud has created demanding new challenges for IT departments who are tasked to support global users accessing applications from a multitude of devices. As the pace of application development and deployment increases, organizations need ways to provide global scale and optimal performance without sacrificing security.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Bishop, Strategic Engagement Manager at Akamai Technologies, will provide technical details for how dynamic content can be accelerated with a globally distributed platform and how applications can be instantly supported with minimal effort.
The New Era for Service Providers
In their March 2013 report “Business Technology Innovation,” Ventana Research found that 40 percent of companies attributed cloud usage to reduced costs, followed by improved efficiency of business processes (39 percent).[1] Though the benefits of the cloud, like business and social collaboration, are clear, many organizations are having trouble seeing past the potentially overwhelming transition to the cloud. Most enterprises do not want a one-size fits all solution, which requires them to manage multiple relationships, negotiate multiple contracts, maintain multiple payments, remember multiple passwords all with multiple service providers. Maintenance is already a challenge, and by adding the complexity of transition, cloud computing can easily seem like an IT nightmare.
Domo Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market and transforming the way business is managed, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Domo is a new form of business intelligence unlike anything before—a cloud-based business management platform that transforms the way organizations are managed. Domo makes critical information directly accessible to business users, heroizes IT professionals, and delivers the user experience BI has been missing for 25 years.
How Oracle Database 12c embraces in-memory architecture
Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions
At the Oracle OpenWorld annual user conference last week, Oracle announced enhancements to the Oracle Database 12c platform, including a new in-memory option for both analytics and transactional applications and an extension of its engineered systems portfolio to cover backup and logging. The new Oracle Database In-Memory Option is targeted at improving performance with analytics and OLTP (online transaction processing).
The in-memory enhancement is in line with overall trends that Ovum has identified with data platforms adding the capability to handle more diverse workloads. Oracle also announced a new appliance with a long – but very descriptive – name: the “Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance.” It is designed to make backup and recovery more manageable, reliable, and up to date.
The latest addition to Oracle’s engineered systems line does not add new capabilities beyond those available from software-only solutions from providers like Informatica …
The best and worst-performing cloud computing stocks through Q313
The five highest-performing cloud computing stocks as of Q3, 2013 in the Cloud Computing Stock Index have proven prowess in closing enterprise-level deals, expertise in compliance and security, and years of infrastructure experience.
Twelve of the nineteen companies in the index delivered a positive return in the first three quarters of this year. NetSuite (NYSE:N) leads all companies in the index with an annualized gain as of calendar Q3 of 88.69% and has a dollar value of $16,078 on $10,000 invested on January 2nd of this year.
Workday (NYSE:WDAY) attained an annualized gain of 81.49% as of Q3, and has a dollar value of $15,617 on $10,000 invested on January 2nd. Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) attained an annualized gain of 49.33% and delivered $13,498 on $10,000 invested from January 2nd to October 2nd of this year.
The following table lists …
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You…Smarter
It is 11 October, 2014. I am writing this in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal at the foot of the majestic Himalayas. The date is only marginally significant – it is now 2 years and seven months since I was successfully operated on for pancreatic cancer – but the location perhaps is more revealing. Kathmandu is a city of life and laughter and matches perfectly the mood of someone who not only has escaped the usual fate of those struck by the deadliest of all the cancers, but has also shaken off the insidious side-effects of chemotherapy, the «planned poisoning» that represents the world’s default treatment for malignant tumors.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building Big Data Solutions in the Cloud
The success of extracting people-oriented business intelligence depends upon the ability to collect every possible expression and derive the business observations from it. Usually this is done by implementing machine-learning algorithms running on large datasets using Big Data and cloud technologies. However, often the requirements for Big Data analysis are not well understood by the developers and business owners, thus creating an undesirable product. There is a need to develop the expertise and process of creating small-scale prototypes quickly and testing them to demonstrate correctness, to match with business goals.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Shrikant Pattathil, Executive Vice President at Harbinger Systems, will discuss how to practice agile process modeling using non-production rapid prototyping technologies to develop a working lightweight prototype. This prototype can be easily migrated to cloud technologies with larger datasets ready for production.
Cloud Expo: Lighten Your Data Center TCO with Helium Storage Solutions
Massive in scale, hyperscale cloud infrastructures are defining new storage efficiencies as there are intense economical and operational pressures to do more with less, while building and maintaining expansive and complex multi-tiered storage data centers in order to scale, reduce TCO and ultimately manage prolific data growth. At the heart of these data centers is storage.
In his General Session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Brendan Collins, VP of Product Marketing at HGST, will talk about the future of HDDs based on a new Helium platform that will enable new market opportunities and improve TCO like never before.