Cloud start-ups are forming on a daily basis, and billions of dollars in wealth are being created as companies craft innovative strategies to exploit this opportunity. Conversely, long-standing corporate icons that have failed to do so are becoming history instead of making it. In short, the cloud is disrupting every dimension of business, whether it is the research, engineering, or design of new products and services; their manufacturing, operations, and delivery; or any point along the customer interface. CLOUDONOMICS explores the implications of the cloud and how it applies to the evolution of modern business, as well as reveals how the next decade is likely to bring untold innovation.
Why Data Breaches Occur and How You Can Lessen Their Impact
One of the dirty little secrets about security: there is simply no way to make your company impervious to a data breach. It’s almost a statistical certainty that you will, at some point or another, be hit with a security scenario that you’re not prepared for. That’s why security today is as much about damage control as it is about breach avoidance.
Attacks on corporate networks and data occur at alarming frequency. You might think that’s because attackers have become more sophisticated, but that’s not necessarily the case. In fact, the most recent Verizon Security Breach study suggests a hacker with fairly rudimentary skills could’ve pulled off the majority of attacks in 2012.
And these attacks aren’t isolated to large banks and government entities – they’re pervasive across all industries. The bottom line is, if you have important data, chances are someone else thinks it’s important too — and will do whatever it takes to get to it.
Can TIBCO’s Integration Leadership Deliver?
TIBCO is traditionally known for its leadership in integration and is now expanding into a number of new areas through acquisitions as well as building new capabilities. This post is to analyze their products based on attendance to their annual TUCON conference.
Seven Cool Ways To Enhance Your Trip To Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
These days Cloud is about more than efficiency – it transforms entire industries. That’s why thousands of enterprise IT professionals of every stripe will be converging in three weeks’ time at 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley – co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo. But to ensure that delegates’ time Nov 5-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center is totally and utterly well spent, Cloud Expo has also ensured that there are multiple ways to enhance each and every of the days those professionals choose to invest in attending the event.
Zenith Infotech Announces TruHAAS for TigerCloud
Zenith Infotech’s TigerCloud is changing the private cloud market by offering an enterprise-class solution via TruHAAS – a rent-to-own pricing structure. TruHAAS allows companies to customize their technology spending to better meet their cash flow in this tight economy. By eliminating large upfront hardware expenditures, Zenith has eliminated the most significant barrier to private cloud adoption that companies in the SMB market face.
“Zenith focuses on enabling small and mid-size businesses to implement the same robust technology as the enterprise market, with easy-to-administer solutions at an affordable price. We continue our mission to be innovative in the way we help companies think about expanding their technology. Offering a complete private cloud solution at low monthly rates without any long-term commitment is true hardware as a service (TruHAAS),” explains Akash Saraf, CEO of Zenith.
Cisco’s "Kickstart-to-Cloud" Workshop at Cloud Expo
The Cisco Workshop at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Nov 5-8, 2012, is a one-day event on Monday, November 6, that will offer a perspective on all the new technologies out there and how to not be distracted by the bright shiny objects.
Join Wayne Greene, Rodrigo Flores, Joann Starke, and Brian Cinque of the Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group & Corporate IT at Cisco Systems as they describe the habits of effective cloud builders and hear in-depth what made one private cloud deployment a smashing success.
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Cloud Computing: Workday Barrels Out of the Gate
Workday tickled its IPO price again Thursday night finally settling on $28 a share.
Its original range was $21 to $24, which was jacked up to $24 to $26 Tuesday.
Then it barreled out of the gate shortly before 10 Friday morning opening at $48.05, almost 72% higher than its IPO price.
The cloud reprise of PeopleSoft, started in 2005 by the same people who ran PeopleSoft before they were run off the range by a hostile Oracle takeover, got its validation making around $637 million on 22.75 million shares, pulling off the biggest largest cloud IPO – heck, the biggest tech IPO – since the Facebook fiasco in May.
Amazon Web Services Cheat Sheet
The cloudvertical blog has a new AWS cheat sheet plus a good discussion of the “how in the heck can I predict what this will cost us?” problem.
Cloud Computing: Alteryx Humanizes Big Data
Alteryx thinks it’s managed to humanize cloud-borne Big Data, a good thing too since its analytics is directed at normal business folk as well as data analysts.
In the fashion of the times it’s combined its sophisticated analytics – its stuff is used by such as Wal-Mart, MacDonald’s, Sprint and the top 10 wireless providers – with a consumer-based social enterprise experience.
It’s supposed to let organizations get to the value of Big Data exponentially faster.
Alteryx figures that makes it a pioneer.