It’s hard to miss the world of opportunities that data collection and analysis have opened up. But how can you avoid having information overload?
It takes a lot of will power, in our data obsessed world to say «too much!» However, there are many ways where too much information is destroying productivity, and actually causing bad decision making, not good. But it is hard to avoid the world of opportunities that has been opened in data collection and analysis. So how do you balance the two? The first step is to understand there is a big difference between data collection, and it’s utilization. While it seems subtle, the difference is key, and utilization is where many make mistakes.
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Internet of Things – Meet @AriaSystemsInc Nov 4-6 @CloudExpo [#Cloud #IoT]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Aria Systems, the recurring revenue expert, has been named «Bronze Sponsor» of SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Aria Systems helps leading businesses connect their customers with the products and services they love. Industry leaders like Pitney Bowes, Experian, AAA NCNU, VMware, HootSuite and many others choose Aria to power their recurring revenue business and deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.
Be Sure To Attend My SAP HANA Cloud Webinar
I’ll be hosting an SAP HANA Cloud webinar at 11am eastern time, Wednesday, October 29. You can sign up now.
Featured speakers will be Allan Adler, Managing Partner, Channel Cloud Consulting, and Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce, SAP.
Attendees will learn about
• Cloud economics, hybrid cloud strategy, market size and opportunity
• Introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platform and how to:
– Build new next-generation applications
– Extend on-premise solutions non-disruptively through extensions in the cloud
– Extend existing cloud solutions and building customized business processes for SaaS solutions
• SAP PartnerEdge for Application Development and how to become a partner
• Opportunities to market and sell your applications via SAP Store, reaching SAPs 250,000+ installed base
The SAP HANA Cloud Platform supports both Java development and native SAP HANA applications also taking advantage of predictive analytics. Users can build new or port existing Java-based applications to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, and is also an option to embed SAP HANA Cloud with existing solutions.
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Oh, Is That The Internet You’re Wearing? By @psilvas | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
‘ALOHA! We’re here at the Red Carpet Event at the 2021 Web Movie Awards! All the stars are here wearing the latest in fashion trends. Oh, here comes DigiTom wearing his underarm sweat blocker shirt that also calculates how much moisture he is losing and how many ounces of water he needs to replace that sweat. Cool stuff. Ah, and here comes Hank Hologram and what is amazing is how his shoes continue to change colors depending on his mood. Ooop…With all those screams, it must be super director Steve Streamer who has 500 little HHDD cameras sown into his clothes and he is making a live action movie of this event!’ Can’t wait to see who plays me!’
Announcing @AppZero_Inc Selected by GSK for WS2003 Modernization [#Cloud]
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has licensed AppZero application migration software to move Windows Server 2003 applications onto a newer operating system. Microsoft recommends AppZero for moving a variety of applications from Windows Server 2003, which reaches the end of extended support in July, 2015, to Microsoft’s newer operating systems.
«AppZero facilitates fast, efficient migration of our Windows production applications onto our new environment, and we are very pleased with the results.» said Robert Mattie, Director, Hosting Solutions at GSK.
The State of Enterprise Cloud By @Colin_Lacey | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Over the last decade, cloud computing has undeniably become a critical component of the modern enterprise. It has evolved past Software-as-a-Service for a select number of enterprise applications to encompassing entire business platforms, spanning various business devices and operating systems, and can virtually enable new ventures to pop up overnight.
The state of cloud computing today is now a crowded field of vendors, providing anything and everything as-a-service – from security and management solutions for the cloud, to converged solutions and virtualization offerings, to public, private and hybrid cloud environments. This vast array of options can be overwhelming to the point that businesses turn to outside help in order to determine exactly how their cloud environment should look.
Using AWS and Solving All Security Issues by @GiladPN [#Cloud]
The Amazon Web Services public infrastructure cloud is seeing massive adoption, and for good reason. Using AWS arms companies with advanced infrastructure that, in most cases, they could not possibly achieve in their own datacenters. In fact, According to Gartner, AWS has 5 times more deployed cloud infrastructure as their next 14 competitors have…combined.[1] Customers like Bristol-Myers Squibb, Unilever, and Lionsgate are taking advantage of the broad and deep services of the AWS Cloud to grow their businesses and accelerate innovation.[2]
However, using any public cloud infrastructure still requires proper implementation, especially as regards security concerns; this is true for AWS as much as anyone. An IDG Enterprises survey of 1,500 companies found that two-thirds of IT decision makers see security as the primary barrier to cloud adoption.[3] We asked real companies about the top cloud security mistakes made on AWS and found that many users rely too much on AWS and do not do their own due diligence as it pertains to their own cloud security. These experts revealed what they think are the top cloud security mistakes on the attached infographic.
The ‘Internet of Things’ and Band-Aids? | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
Last week I told you about my family’s experience with an under the skin glucose sensor that tracks blood sugar levels. While this Internet of Things trend often takes the form of a thermostat, light bulb or coffee machine, the medical field has been using sensors for a while and it is about to get even more connected with your skin.
We’re talking skin tags of a different kind.
Get Your Clouds Off the Ground by @Verizon | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Cloud services are the newest tool in the arsenal of IT products in the market today. These cloud services integrate process and tools. In order to use these products effectively, organizations must have a good understanding of themselves and their business requirements.
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Brian Lewis, Principal Architect at Verizon Cloud, will outline key areas of organizational focus, and how to formalize an actionable plan when migrating applications and internal services to the cloud.
The ‘Internet of Things’ Phenomenon By @DHDeans | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
Most forward-looking CEOs have already made their move to prepare for the future that they foresee – where business technology is a key deciding factor for them to attain ongoing commercial prosperity. This new digital-propelled environment will profoundly change business processes, along with the need for accelerated tech-savvy human capital development across all industries.
Those leaders that catch the next wave of Internet-driven market development will reap the rewards of the expanding Global Networked Economy. They’ll achieve a quantum boost in performance. And they’ll reach their lofty goals by harnessing the unique competitive advantages of cloud computing services, mobile enterprise applications and other targeted business technology investments.
Welcome to the Internet of Everything
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.9 trillion in 2015 – that’s a 3.9 percent increase from 2014. Business technology spending will be driven by Digital Business practitioners, according to Gartner, Inc. This change of influence is having a dramatic impact on the legacy IT profession.
Gartner defines Digital Business as new commercial designs that blend the virtual world and the physical worlds — changing how processes and industries work through the Internet of Things phenomenon.
“This year enterprises will spend over $40 billion designing, implementing and operating the Internet of Things,” said Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner. “Every piece of equipment, anything of value, will have embedded sensors. This means leading asset-intensive enterprises will have over half a million IP addressable objects in 2020.”
Line of Business Leaders Take the Driver’s Seat
Gartner believes that demand, procurement and control has already moved away from traditional IT organizations — toward Digital Business units and closer to the ultimate end-customer of business technology applications. Clearly, there’s been a significant shift in IT spending power. Gartner estimates that half of all major vendor salespeople are actively selling direct to business units, not IT departments.
“Thirty-eight percent of total IT spending is outside of IT already, with a disproportionate amount in digital. By 2017, it will be over 50 percent,” Mr. Sondergaard said. “Digital startups sit inside your own organization, in your marketing department, in HR, in logistics and in sales. Your business units are acting as technology startups.”
Speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando this week, Sondergaard used the example of smart machines to highlight the disruption caused in Digital Business. Smart machines are an emerging super class of technologies that perform a wide variety of work, of both the physical and the intellectual kind.
Smart machines will automate decision making. Therefore, they will not only affect jobs based on physical labor, but they will also impact jobs based on more complex knowledge worker tasks.
The impact will be profound. By 2018, digital businesses will require 50 percent fewer business process workers. However, by 2018 Digital Business will drive a 500 percent boost in digital commerce related jobs.
Sondergaard explained to the CIOs in the symposium audience, “The new digital startups in your business units are thirsting for data analysts, software developers and cloud computing vendor management staff, and they are often hiring them faster than IT.”
He insists that CIOs must move with a sense of urgency, to avoid further disruption. Companies must build talent for the digital organization of 2020 now. Not just the digital technology organization, but the whole enterprise. In essence, savvy multifaceted digital-native talent is the key to Digital Business leadership and sustainable competitive supremacy.
Focus on Vision-First Digital Business Leadership
As the technologies and trends that power digitalization move to center stage, traditional IT leaders are being presented with a unique opportunity to become forward-thinking Digital Business leaders, according to the latest global survey of CIOs by Gartner.
The latest survey uncovered that CIOs are fully aware that they will need to change in order to succeed in Digital Business — with 75 percent of respondents acknowledging that they’ll need to adapt their leadership style within the next three years.
According to the survey findings, 89 percent of CIOs agree that in addition to the considerable opportunities afforded by digitalization, the digital world engenders new, vastly different and higher levels of risk. Moreover, 69 percent said that the discipline of risk management is not keeping up.
The average IT budget will grow by just one percent from 2014 to 2015. CIOs estimate that 79 percent of IT spending will be «inside» the IT budget (up slightly from last year), but much digital innovation can and will be funded outside of the planned IT spending.
Seventy-three percent of surveyed CIOs say that they have changed their leadership style over the last three years, and 75 percent say they must change it over the next three years — to essentially flip their leadership style from control-first to more of a vision-first orientation.
«During the second IT era of industrialization, people leadership was honed to emphasize precision, discipline and tight control,» said Graham Waller, vice president and executive partner for Gartner Executive Programs. «Therefore, through both nature and nurture, CIOs have evolved into control-style pragmatic leaders. Given the characteristics of the new digital era, this bias is dangerous. CIOs must invert their style to be more vision-led and inspirational.»
The worldwide Gartner survey included responses from 2,810 CIOs, representing more than $397 billion in IT investment and operating budgets, within 84 countries.