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Ranking National ICT Commitments

Who are the world’s ICT leaders? What separates them from the pack? Where are the emerging ICT stars? Why are they important? How can you go “beyond the BRICs” in your analysis?

These are questions we’ve been working to answer over the past two years, with original research that looks at national ICT expenditures on a relative, “pound-for-pound” basis. We’ve engaged directly with government and business leaders in several countries – from each region of the world – to see how our findings can be used to improve national technology environments and, by extension, economic and societal growth.

In addition to our primary study, which is known as the Tau Index, we’re now embarking on targeted research for specific aspects of national ICT commitments—bandwidth, government policy, and the growth of various aspects of cloud computing.

As I’ve written extensively (search “Tau Strukhoff” – bing does a much better job than google), there are numerous results that may appear to be surprising. But if you’re looking for something that goes beyond traditional rankings that, in essence, show developed countries on top and developing countries on the bottom, visit us at www.tauinstitute.org or contact me via Twitter.

We have 102 countries in our index, and can provide views by region, income level, and other parameters.

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Ranking National ICT Commitments

Who are the world’s ICT leaders? What separates them from the pack? Where are the emerging ICT stars? Why are they important? How can you go “beyond the BRICs” in your analysis?

These are questions we’ve been working to answer over the past two years, with original research that looks at national ICT expenditures on a relative, “pound-for-pound” basis. We’ve engaged directly with government and business leaders in several countries – from each region of the world – to see how our findings can be used to improve national technology environments and, by extension, economic and societal growth.

In addition to our primary study, which is known as the Tau Index, we’re now embarking on targeted research for specific aspects of national ICT commitments—bandwidth, government policy, and the growth of various aspects of cloud computing.

As I’ve written extensively (search “Tau Strukhoff” – bing does a much better job than google), there are numerous results that may appear to be surprising. But if you’re looking for something that goes beyond traditional rankings that, in essence, show developed countries on top and developing countries on the bottom, visit us at www.tauinstitute.org or contact me via Twitter.

We have 102 countries in our index, and can provide views by region, income level, and other parameters.

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Enterprise Social Adoption Challenges

Although a lot has been talked about becoming a social business, adoption is not universal in enterprises.
I have attended IBM’s Lotusphere conference many times, but this year was a different experience. The long-familiar yellow Lotus branded signs were missing as the conference was renamed «IBM Connect.» The move away from Lotus branding was expected after IBM’s recent repositioning of Lotus products, along with some new acquisitions under the umbrella of IBM Collaboration Solutions.
The change also reflects IBM’s overall direction away from selling products to customers to focusing on business outcomes. The three main themes of the Connect 2013 conference were Social Business, Smarter Commerce and Smarter Workforce. These new focus areas are designed to enable IBM to expand into new markets while enrolling new clients.

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CRaSH for Mule, an Introduction

This blog is the formal introduction to the CRaSH console for Mule on which I’ve been working for the past month or so. I’ve decided to interview myself about it because, hey, if I don’t do it, who will?
It is a shell that is running embedded in Mule and that gives command-line access to a variety of Mule internal moving parts. It’s built thanks to the excellent CRaSH project, a toolkit built by Julien Viet and sponsored by eXo Platform, which allows the easy creation of embedded shells.
Well, it’s easy to find it out. Let’s connect to CRaSH for Mule and ask for help:

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Don’t Deploy Your Cloud Application Without Reading This | Part 1

Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud bursting, cloud storming, elastic compute, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, the list of terms goes on and on ad-nauseam. Like it or not, cloud computing has taken hold as an important design consideration in companies ranging from small startups to large established enterprises. The concepts and technologies behind cloud computing have been around for quite a long time now so why is it taking so long for so many companies to move their applications and realize the benefits that cloud computing offers?
Getting beyond the ridiculous fear of the unknown, security concerns are a major inhibitor to cloud adoption but between private cloud and a slew of security technologies and methods that should only impact a small portion of applications. The real problem, in my opinion, is that nobody wants to fail and suffer damage to their personal and/or corporate brands. I’ve seen so many companies make a poor transition to cloud computing and it impacts their revenue and customer retention.

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Apigee Mixes Big Data & Broad Data Analytics

Big Data analytics doesn’t go far enough according to Anant Jhingran, who was the brains behind IBM’s cunningly clever Watson computer as CTO of IBM’s lab in Silicon Valley.
“The information an enterprise typically collects – point of sales, procurement, even web site data – is not enough anymore,” he says. “In the new world of apps and APIs, the real value of data – the interaction with customers – has moved one or two tiers away from the enterprise and the more you know about the data in your app ecosystem, your ‘broad’ data, the better you’ll understand your business.”
This thinking has been distilled in Apigee Insights, the latest product from the increasingly promising Apigee, where Jhingran is now product chief.
Apigee Insights is supposed to leverage Big Data in a new way so a computer can draw sophisticated conclusions from weak unstructured data and produce business insights beyond what is currently possible.

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Mezeo Software Quietly Racks up Contracts

Box, Dropbox, Citrix’ ShareFile and whatever other consumer file storing-and-sharing point solutions are selling these days, however successfully, are threatened by next-generation cloud-scale middleware developments focused on unstructured data that can promise the enterprise IT department at least some semblance of the real security it’s currently looking for.
One of those developments comes from a five-year-old Texas company called Mezeo Software that’s effectively been in stealth mode for a long time and is quietly racking up contracts with a fistful of big Asian and European telecoms to supply customized cloud-based files, sync and sharing widgetry to their hoards of consumers.

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Mezeo Software Quietly Racks up Contracts

Box, Dropbox, Citrix’ ShareFile and whatever other consumer file storing-and-sharing point solutions are selling these days, however successfully, are threatened by next-generation cloud-scale middleware developments focused on unstructured data that can promise the enterprise IT department at least some semblance of the real security it’s currently looking for.
One of those developments comes from a five-year-old Texas company called Mezeo Software that’s effectively been in stealth mode for a long time and is quietly racking up contracts with a fistful of big Asian and European telecoms to supply customized cloud-based files, sync and sharing widgetry to their hoards of consumers.

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Don’t Deploy Your Cloud Application Without Reading This | Part 1

Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud bursting, cloud storming, elastic compute, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, the list of terms goes on and on ad-nauseam. Like it or not, cloud computing has taken hold as an important design consideration in companies ranging from small startups to large established enterprises. The concepts and technologies behind cloud computing have been around for quite a long time now so why is it taking so long for so many companies to move their applications and realize the benefits that cloud computing offers?
Getting beyond the ridiculous fear of the unknown, security concerns are a major inhibitor to cloud adoption but between private cloud and a slew of security technologies and methods that should only impact a small portion of applications. The real problem, in my opinion, is that nobody wants to fail and suffer damage to their personal and/or corporate brands. I’ve seen so many companies make a poor transition to cloud computing and it impacts their revenue and customer retention.

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