This weekend I was clever. That is newsworthy because it doesn’t happen very often. Our son is stationed at a military base that did not receive TV coverage of the Boise State football game on Saturday night. It must have been the government shut-down. I can’t think of any other reason they wouldn’t have shown it. The solution was a three hour Google+ Hangout whereby mom and dad got to talk to our officer son while the laptop camera «inadvertently» captured and streamed the Broncos game showing on our big screen TV. It was a nice Hangout – they won! We tried Skype first, but the picture was blurry. Google+ Hangout, however, was picture perfect.
Our son is stationed a great distance away, however, using real-time communication and video we can communicate and share what is going on in our lives. This same kind of technology can be used in the context of «capability projection» for companies. Here is my definition of capability projection, «The ability of a business to apply all or some of its capabilities such as marketing, sales, distribution, etc., over great distances to respond to and take advantage of new market opportunities.»
The Exponential Cloud Growth Visualization
Cloud management vendors recognize the need for transparency and are taking the necessary steps to enhance their solutions to better support active visibility. The natural evolution of a typical management system begins with gathering data and presenting it in report tables. While traditional IT tools have had a similar evolution, the infinite cloud resources and dynamic manner of the environment take the lack of controllability issue to the extreme. This, makes visualization more crucial than in a traditional, finite data center. This week, I met my good old `cloud friends` from Dome9 that released their new cloud security visualization solution, Cloud Clarity.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Platform as a Service & the Software Revolution
The software industry is in the midst of a revolution, driven by incredible advances in Big Data, analytics, mobile devices, developer tools, and infrastructure. Platform as a Service is at the center of this revolution, providing a comprehensive foundation that spans all clouds, private, hybrid or public, and gives developers a unified perspective that is consistent whether deploying apps to a laptop or across data centers.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist at ActiveState, will dive into PaaS, showing how it enables rapid delivery of modern enterprise applications, with emphasis on how it simplifies Big Data access, instant elastic scaling, service provisioning, log aggregation, and remote monitoring, while dramatically increasing productivity and decreasing time-to-market. Platform as a Service is expected to be as influential on the software industry as Linux was two decades ago. After attending this session you’ll know why.
Cloud ERP for Manufacturers: Two Sides of the Coin
Cloud computing has been an important trend for several years now and that trend is continuing to gather weight with new and improved ERP software offerings for manufacturers. Like any ERP selection choice, the decision to move to the cloud has pros and cons compared to traditional on-premise ERP systems.
One of the biggest advantages, regardless of the vendor selected, is low cost of ownership. There is little up-front cost for cloud ERP software and often no additional hardware cost. One low subscription gets the software now and includes all aspects of ERP support. You don’t need a help desk and you don’t need people to maintain the servers required for an in-house ERP.
Verizon Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Verizon has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With industry-specific solutions and a full range of global wholesale offerings provided over the company’s secure mobility, cloud, strategic networking and advanced communications platforms, Verizon Enterprise Solutions helps open new opportunities around the world for innovation, investment and business transformation.
Cloud Expo: Cloud Acceleration Techniques for Mission-Critical Apps
The journey to the cloud has created demanding new challenges for IT departments who are tasked to support global users accessing applications from a multitude of devices. As the pace of application development and deployment increases, organizations need ways to provide global scale and optimal performance without sacrificing security.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Bishop, Strategic Engagement Manager at Akamai Technologies, will provide technical details for how dynamic content can be accelerated with a globally distributed platform and how applications can be instantly supported with minimal effort.
The New Era for Service Providers
In their March 2013 report “Business Technology Innovation,” Ventana Research found that 40 percent of companies attributed cloud usage to reduced costs, followed by improved efficiency of business processes (39 percent).[1] Though the benefits of the cloud, like business and social collaboration, are clear, many organizations are having trouble seeing past the potentially overwhelming transition to the cloud. Most enterprises do not want a one-size fits all solution, which requires them to manage multiple relationships, negotiate multiple contracts, maintain multiple payments, remember multiple passwords all with multiple service providers. Maintenance is already a challenge, and by adding the complexity of transition, cloud computing can easily seem like an IT nightmare.
Domo Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture that is redefining the business intelligence (BI) market and transforming the way business is managed, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Domo is a new form of business intelligence unlike anything before—a cloud-based business management platform that transforms the way organizations are managed. Domo makes critical information directly accessible to business users, heroizes IT professionals, and delivers the user experience BI has been missing for 25 years.
How Oracle Database 12c embraces in-memory architecture
Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions
At the Oracle OpenWorld annual user conference last week, Oracle announced enhancements to the Oracle Database 12c platform, including a new in-memory option for both analytics and transactional applications and an extension of its engineered systems portfolio to cover backup and logging. The new Oracle Database In-Memory Option is targeted at improving performance with analytics and OLTP (online transaction processing).
The in-memory enhancement is in line with overall trends that Ovum has identified with data platforms adding the capability to handle more diverse workloads. Oracle also announced a new appliance with a long – but very descriptive – name: the “Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance.” It is designed to make backup and recovery more manageable, reliable, and up to date.
The latest addition to Oracle’s engineered systems line does not add new capabilities beyond those available from software-only solutions from providers like Informatica …
The best and worst-performing cloud computing stocks through Q313
The five highest-performing cloud computing stocks as of Q3, 2013 in the Cloud Computing Stock Index have proven prowess in closing enterprise-level deals, expertise in compliance and security, and years of infrastructure experience.
Twelve of the nineteen companies in the index delivered a positive return in the first three quarters of this year. NetSuite (NYSE:N) leads all companies in the index with an annualized gain as of calendar Q3 of 88.69% and has a dollar value of $16,078 on $10,000 invested on January 2nd of this year.
Workday (NYSE:WDAY) attained an annualized gain of 81.49% as of Q3, and has a dollar value of $15,617 on $10,000 invested on January 2nd. Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) attained an annualized gain of 49.33% and delivered $13,498 on $10,000 invested from January 2nd to October 2nd of this year.
The following table lists …