Though expected as part of the enterprise transformation, we are seeing a much faster adoption of Business Process as a Service aka industry SaaS model into large and medium-sized enterprises.
We are seeing that most enterprises looking for cloud-based solutions for the new business process areas, while looking for options to migrate on-premise packaged software into their cloud equivalent.
The following players and their products have already marked their presence as a de-facto choice for many enterprises when they think of modernizing their existing IT operations. While some of these players call their offeringa mere SaaS (Software as a Service), they in fact cover end-to-end business process to be considered as BpaaS.
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SYS-CON Events Announces Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley Venue
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, the 11th International Cloud Expo, will take place November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
«Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing’ was coined,» said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. «Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing’ and ‘software’ in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo.»
An Agile and Revenue-Generating Approach to Cloud Services
Travel insurance provider Seven Corners went beyond the typical efficiency and cost conservation benefits of cloud to build innovative business services that generate whole new revenue streams.
I often hear that culture will trump strategy. It sounds as if in your organization — maybe because you’re an SMB and you can get the full buy-in of your leadership — you actually were able to make culture into the strategy?
Absolutely! By changing the culture and getting the departments out there to ask, «Is this stuff you’re doing going to help me with this problem?» «Well, yes, it will,» and then you deliver on that promise.
When you make a promise and you deliver on it, on or ahead of schedule and under budget people begin to believe, they’re willing to participate and actively suggest other possible uses with technology that maybe you didn’t think of. So you end up with a great technology-business relationship, which had the immediate result for the owners who were out looking to buy an insurance services application or rent one.
Humanizing IT with FortressITX VP of Managed Services, Louis Ardolino
What makes Louis great is his constant dedication to customer service and his unique understanding of the IT world. From virtualization, to full IT closet offload, private cloud solutions, to the FortressITX Hosted PBX and Exchange services, Louis has a great way of breaking down complex issues so anyone can understand them. Essentially, he is our go to guy for humanizing IT.
Dell Reportedly Offers $2.15 Billion for Quest
Quest Software said last Thursday that it got an acquisition offer worth about $2.15 billion from an unidentified “strategic bidder.”
Reuters claims the unidentified mystery bidder is Dell after talks to buy Quest broke down earlier.
The $25.50-a-share cash offer bests the $23 a share Quest accepted back in March from private equity house Insight Venture Partners. Insight has to sweeten its offer or let it go for a break-up fee of either $4.2 million or $6.3 million.
Wall Street punters pushed the stock up ~10% betting it could go for better than $26 a share. JP Morgan has said the company is worth $28 a share or around $2.36 billion.
Quest reportedly got several offers during the 60-day “go-shop” arrangement it struck with Insight to see if it could fetch a better price.
The Challenge of Herding Cats: Your SaaS Portfolio and Security
It’s obvious the rise of SaaS (software-as-a-service) has changed the game. The benefits of subscribing to a cloud-based application service are already well-known and documented: cost-efficiencies, speed, hands-off maintenance, etc… It’s no longer an emerging practice and, for most IT managers, has become an inextricable component of any go-forward IT network strategy. What this means is now there are dozens of new sign-ons per user from a variety of endpoints (including mobile and tablet). And if we are talking enterprise-wide deployments, this is can be as challenging as herding cats.
Cloud Computing: NASA Forsakes OpenStack for Amazon
NASA has retreated from OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing platform it helped RackSpace launch by contributing its Nebula (Nova) compute controller.
Apparently NASA doesn’t want to play developer anymore. Instead, it’s on an “IT reform” tear that started a year ago.
This reform has a lot to do with NASA watching how it spends the taxpayer’s dime and using commercial cloud services when appropriate.
Ah, but the sweet irony is – according to a June 8 blog posting by NASA CIO Linda Cureton – that the agency has “shifted to a new web services model that uses Amazon Web Services for cloud-based enterprise infrastructure. This cloud-based model supports a wide variety of web applications and sites using an interoperable, standards-based and secure environment while providing almost a million dollars in cost savings each year.”
Avoiding the Operational Debt of Cloud
If you ask three different people why they are adopting cloud it’s likely you’ll get three different reasons. The rationale for adopting cloud – whether private or public – depends entirely on the strategy IT has in place to address the unique combination of operational and business requirements for their organizations.
But one thing seems clear through all these surveys: cloud is here to stay, in one form or another.
Those who are “going private” today may “go hybrid” tomorrow. Those who are “in the cloud” today may reverse direction and decide to, as Alan Leinwand puts it so well, “own the base and rent the spike” by going “hybrid.” What the future seems to hold is hybrid architectures, with use of public and private cloud mixed together to provide the best of both worlds.
Cloud & National Security: Report to the President on Cloud Computing
In view of the the quick-moving push to modernize many national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) capabilities to be cloud based capabilities, the White House tasked the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) to produce a report aimed at answering the central issue: Can NS/EP processes be migrated to the cloud without undue risk?
Cloud & National Security: Report to the President on Cloud Computing
In view of the the quick-moving push to modernize many national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) capabilities to be cloud based capabilities, the White House tasked the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) to produce a report aimed at answering the central issue: Can NS/EP processes be migrated to the cloud without undue risk?