SYS-CON Events announced today that ERP.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
ERP.com is the authority site for enterprise resource planning (ERP). Members of ERP.com and visitors to the site can streamline their business software selection process by searching the comprehensive database of software solutions and ERP packages.
Crisp Research Strengthens Its Team with Cloud Analyst Rene Buest
Crisp Research, the cloud computing and digital business focused IT consulting and analyst firm, expands its team of analysts on February 1, 2014. With the addition of Rene Buest, most recently managing director and principal analyst of the IT management consultancy New Age Disruption, Crisp Research continues to expand its know-how and advisory services in cloud computing. With Rene Buest Crisp Research takes one of the most influential cloud experts on board.
Prior to joining Crisp Research, Rene Buest was managing director and principal analyst of the IT management consultancy New Age Disruption. “He is regarded as a renowned expert on the global cloud market, and is one of the most experienced cloud analysts in Germany,” said Steve Janata, Managing Director of Crisp Research.
Crisp Research Strengthens Its Team with Cloud Analyst Rene Buest
Crisp Research, the cloud computing and digital business focused IT consulting and analyst firm, expands its team of analysts on February 1, 2014. With the addition of Rene Buest, most recently managing director and principal analyst of the IT management consultancy New Age Disruption, Crisp Research continues to expand its know-how and advisory services in cloud computing. With Rene Buest Crisp Research takes one of the most influential cloud experts on board.
Prior to joining Crisp Research, Rene Buest was managing director and principal analyst of the IT management consultancy New Age Disruption. “He is regarded as a renowned expert on the global cloud market, and is one of the most experienced cloud analysts in Germany,” said Steve Janata, Managing Director of Crisp Research.
CodeFutures Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures, a leading supplier of database performance tools, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
CodeFutures Corporation is a leading supplier of Big Data technology designed to reduce the time and effort required to develop database applications and dramatically increase deployed database scalability, reliability for Big Data environments, enabling customers to obtain maximum value from their Big Data investment.
Gigamon Introduces NetFlow Generation Application
Gigamon on Wednesday announced a forthcoming application to generate and export NetFlow records from within the Visibility Fabric™. As a part of the Applications Layer of the Unified Visibility Fabric architecture, the NetFlow Generation application will create NetFlow records, then send the information to one or multiple NetFlow collectors or analyzers. Gigamon has traditionally focused on creating features and functionalities to help optimize the tools infrastructure, however, NetFlow Generation will allow our Visibility Fabric to optimize the network. The application can maximize the efficiency of the network itself by assuming the processing necessary to generate NetFlow information that had previously been dedicated within the switch, thereby reducing the burden to the network.
Gigamon Introduces NetFlow Generation Application
Gigamon on Wednesday announced a forthcoming application to generate and export NetFlow records from within the Visibility Fabric™. As a part of the Applications Layer of the Unified Visibility Fabric architecture, the NetFlow Generation application will create NetFlow records, then send the information to one or multiple NetFlow collectors or analyzers. Gigamon has traditionally focused on creating features and functionalities to help optimize the tools infrastructure, however, NetFlow Generation will allow our Visibility Fabric to optimize the network. The application can maximize the efficiency of the network itself by assuming the processing necessary to generate NetFlow information that had previously been dedicated within the switch, thereby reducing the burden to the network.
Verizon to Add SAP HANA to Cloud Infrastructure
Verizon Enterprise Solutions on Wednesday announced a memorandum of understanding with SAP that outlines plans to deploy the SAP HANA® platform in Verizon’s data centers, making it available to customers across Verizon’s cloud offerings, including eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new Verizon Cloud. SAP HANA is SAP’s market-leading in-memory platform. This is the most recent enterprise-class service to be added to Verizon’s cloud environment, as the company creates the enterprise cloud ecosystem.
Verizon brings the full power and functionality of enterprise-class technology to the cloud while providing clients flexibility and control over their cloud environment. The company is developing an ecosystem of enterprise technologies that are designed to run on Verizon’s Infrastructure as a Service platform.
In IaaS and PaaS Convergence, It’s PaaS That Should Lead
Recent commentaries by cloud industry luminaries Reuven Cohen & Krishnan Subramanian address key issues related to relative importance and potential longevity of an independent Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). In his commentary, Reuven poses, “Do consumers really care about the difference between IaaS and PaaS?” The answer to this question is most likely, no, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for distinction, it merely is a matter of how best to deliver the value of cloud computing to users.
In his commentary, Krishnan does an excellent job of exploring one way to classify PaaS as either service or container orchestration. However, in some ways, the distinction introduces more confusion. For example, his use of Docker illustrates how convergence of IaaS and PaaS actually makes sense for the industry and, thus, diminishes his key point that there’s value in the cloud application layer existing as a distinct layer within the cloud stack.
Growing Customer Lifetime Value with Gamification & Communities
In this webinar, our featured guest Kim Celestre, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research will share findings from the new report: “Benchmark B2B Social Marketing Efforts,” just released this month. Kim will highlight the top social marketing tactics that have achieved the highest level of satisfaction and positive business outcomes for B2B Marketers. Join us to see which tactics made the list – you may be surprised at what they are.
Kim will also share her predictions on the future of communities as they move beyond just the customer support function and start influencing buying behaviors earlier in the customer lifecycle through strategies such as gamification, and ultimately driving higher ROI.
Liz Courter, Community Manager at Marketo, will showcase how her company has been successfully leveraging online communities to grow customer lifetime value.
How do you put a price tag on the cloud?
By Richard Campione, President, Cloud & Data at Services Business at ServiceSource
A recent CIO Zone article stated “cloud computing is increasingly becoming the rule and not the exception.” With cloud computing becoming so pervasive and commonplace in our day-to-day lives and businesses, everyone has differing opinions on how to quantify the true value of the cloud.
So, how exactly do you put a value on and quantify the business benefits of the cloud?
On its surface, the cloud brings economies of scale that can be quantified through traditional metrics such as cost savings and performance improvements. For ServiceSource, a company focused on harnessing the power of big data to increase recurring revenue and customer retention for our clients, the real benefit of the cloud is the ability to do things that you couldn’t otherwise do, and the unprecedented agility it affords.
Let’s start with agility
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