While on-premise deployments are still the default for many enterprise applications today, most everyone agrees that SaaS and Cloud are the future. The question from the CXO is no longer, “Should we consider putting this application in the cloud?” It is, “Why wouldn’t we deploy this in the cloud?” As this new thinking takes full effect, I see three big changes for IT professionals:
Instead of acquiring and operating on-site infrastructure and applications for the enterprise, IT professionals will be expected to coordinate business services for employees and end-users. Their role will be to ensure their “customers” are getting the performance levels they need to speed communication, increase collaboration and accelerate individual and organizational productivity.
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When Natural Disaster Strikes
In 2013, the total cost of natural disasters reached $192 billion, according to recent research from Impact Forecasting, a division of reinsurance company Aon Benfield, who conducts these reports each year.
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy topped 2013’s most costly natural disaster. With damage estimated at over $60 billion, Sandy is the second most expensive hurricane on record in the United States. Countless businesses lost revenue while waiting for power to return, or floods to subside. But many others were prepared, thanks to the IT professionals who made sure they had the right technology in place to weather any storm. In the eye of the storm, there are a few positive stories that came out of this devastating disaster.
Call for Papers for Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley Opens
Despite the economy, cloud computing is doing well. Gartner estimates the cloud market will double by 2016 to $206 billion. The time for dabbling in the cloud is over!
The 15th International Cloud Expo, co-located with 6th International Big Data Expo and 4th International SDN Expo, 3rd DevOps Summit, 2nd Internet of Things Expo, and 3rd WebRTC Fundamentals Summit to be held Nov. 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, announces that its Call for Papers is now open.
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud, Big Data, SDDC, DevOps, Internet of Things and WebRTC: submit your speaking proposal today!
Misconceptions Around App Testing in the Private Cloud
The private cloud is misunderstood. At this stage, vendors can be forgiven for not having a firm idea of what the private cloud is and how it can uniquely improve their processes. Too many service providers have branded legacy technologies as «cloud-based,» warping buyers’ expectations about what a private cloud actually is and should do. In some cases, what developers and testers get with these cloud-washed solutions are nothing more than heavily virtualized environments that offer little or none of the scalability, automation, self-service, and on-demand provisioning associated with cloud computing at-large.
As a result, organizations may think of the private cloud as simply a slight update to their internal IT systems, a fresh coat of paint on the same aging infrastructure that they have been looking to leave behind as new dynamic applications become more central to their businesses. They want a cloud platform that can enable more agile software lifecycles, with streamlined testing and abundant resources for developers, but these misconceptions may lead them to conclude that the public cloud is the only way to achieve these goals and facilitate quicker time-to-market, as well as higher programmer productivity.
CA Technologies Redefines SaaS-based IT Service Management
CA Technologies on Tuesday unveiled CA Cloud Service Management, a mobile-ready, SaaS-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that delivers simplicity and speed across the enterprise.
CA Cloud Service Management is designed with a unique ‘configure, don’t code’ approach that offers implementation in weeks, not months, without new development and maintenance resources or complex upgrades. In fact, service delivery and resource provisioning can be automated in just a few minutes. And, it provides a consumer-like experience to accelerate adoption and empower end users.
CA Technologies Redefines SaaS-based IT Service Management
CA Technologies on Tuesday unveiled CA Cloud Service Management, a mobile-ready, SaaS-based IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that delivers simplicity and speed across the enterprise.
CA Cloud Service Management is designed with a unique ‘configure, don’t code’ approach that offers implementation in weeks, not months, without new development and maintenance resources or complex upgrades. In fact, service delivery and resource provisioning can be automated in just a few minutes. And, it provides a consumer-like experience to accelerate adoption and empower end users.
Coca-Cola: How to move a 100 year old brick and mortar firm into the cloud #CloudWF
Onyeka Nchege, the CIO of Coca-Cola, cited the importance of education and adaptability in how to transform a brick and mortar business to the cloud.
Speaking during the keynote of Cloud World Forum in London, Nchege noted that the 100 year old company, consistently voted as one of the most powerful global brands, has partially migrated to the cloud with technology not a huge standpoint.
«A lot of folks tend to focus on the technology…but you realise very quickly the technology isn’t where you want to focus your time to begin with,» he told delegates.
Coca-Cola has moved what Nchege called ‘non critical’ apps, such as HR and time-keeping, into the cloud, with a look on migrating core ERP in the near future. «If my HR partner were here, he’d kill me for saying this stuff is non-critical,» he joked.
Nchege noted the five important reasons companies …
Using Tools to Create Mobile Apps Quickly
Perfecto Mobile is using a variety of cloud-based testing tools to help its developers rapidly create the best mobile apps for both enterprises and commercial deployment.
We have surely entered a golden age of mobile apps development, not just for app stores wares, but across all kinds of enterprise and productivity applications. The notion of mobile-first has altered the development landscape so much that the very notion of software development writ large will never be the same.
How big data is set to boost the effectiveness of analytics in banking
Jaroslaw Knapik, Senior Analyst, Financial Services Technology
Big Data will dramatically enhance key areas in banking such as fraud analytics, customer analytics, and web analytics. It does not replace banks’ current analytical infrastructure, but extends its scope: it has become conceivable to conduct analyses based on all data, not just a sample.
Big Data also extends the range of data types that can be covered, the problems that can be addressed, and the user groups able to use it within a single organization. Beyond the familiar base of transactional data and text, emerging technologies and frameworks are providing banks with the power and tools to digest digital and physical channel interactions and various types of data such as customer data, graph data, and geo-location data.
This is not just a matter of the data being available, or of technology seeking a problem to solve. Data from customers, banking channels, back-office …
An API Strategy Is a Business Strategy
It used to be that only application developers knew what APIs were, but things have changed to the point where there are entire conferences dedicated to APIs, websites track them, and people can make a living from doing API reviews. CEOs tout their own APIs in keynote speeches, and CMOs allocate budget to API development. The fact is, however, that what an API is and does hasn’t changed. Functionally, APIs were created to expose data to, and across, applications. Originally based on SOAP/XML endpoints, they evolved into Web-based services that enabled ecommerce, data and communication transactions. Before long, it became clear that there isn’t much one can do online unless it involved an API.