The dirty little secret, however, is that we are as unable to predict the future as you. None of us really knows what will happen next. The future is made up of an incredibly complex mixture of technologies, possibilities, and events that come together in ways that no one can truly predict.
The answer, therefore, is not to attempt to predict the future. But instead, to prepare for an uncertain future by building organizational capabilities that allow you to anticipate and rapidly pivot, respond and react to any change that the market may throw at you.
Pulzze to Exhibit at @CloudExpo CA | @InteractorTeam #IoT #DX #SmartCities
We build IoT infrastructure products – when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol,» explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA
Is Your ERP Ready for Digital Transformation? | @CloudExpo #DX #Cloud
Companies have always been concerned that traditional enterprise software is slow and complex to install, often disrupting critical and time-sensitive operations during roll-out. With the growing need to integrate new digital technologies into the enterprise to transform business processes, this concern has become even more pressing.
A 2016 Panorama Consulting Solutions study revealed that enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects took an average of 21 months to install, with 57 percent of these projects experiencing timeline overruns. A span of almost two years can be a long time when disruptive change comes in weeks or months rather than years. Any executive that has been around enterprise software implementations knows not only that new systems can take a long time to implement, but can take almost as long to change or update with new technologies.
[video] Cloud Without Compromise with @Interoute | @CloudExpo #SaaS #Cloud #Agile
«When we talk about cloud without compromise what we’re talking about is that when people think about ‘I need the flexibility of the cloud’ – it’s the ability to create applications and run them in a cloud environment that’s far more flexible,” explained Matthew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
In 2003, IT Didn’t Matter. Does It Matter Now? | @CloudExpo #DX #Cloud #DevOps
In the decade following his article, cloud computing further cemented Carr’s perspective. Compute, storage, and network resources have become simple utilities, available at the proverbial turn of the faucet. The value they provide is immense, but the cloud playing field is amazingly level. Carr’s quote above presaged the cloud to a T.
Today, however, we’re in the digital era. Mark Andreesen’s ‘software is eating the world’ prognostication is coming to pass, as enterprises realize they must become software companies to remain competitive.
The value IT brings to such companies is unquestionable. If Carr’s conclusions hold up, however, such technology will become less strategic as it becomes more ubiquitous – suggesting that digital enterprises are in for a world of hurt.
Perhaps we should set aside his conclusions as more applicable to a decade gone by. Or maybe there’s more to digital transformation than meets the eye?
[video] An Agile Platform for Custom Integration with @OutlyerApp | @DevOpsSummit #APM #Monitoring
«We are a monitoring company. We work with Salesforce, BBC, and quite a few other big logos. We basically provide monitoring for them, structure for their cloud services and we fit into the DevOps world» explained David Gildeh, Co-founder and CEO of Outlyer, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
[video] AI Log Analysis with @Loom_Systems | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #DX #Cloud #Monitoring
«Loom is applying artificial intelligence and machine learning into the entire log analysis process, from start to finish and at the end you will get a human touch,” explained Sabo Taylor Diab, Vice President, Marketing at Loom Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
[video] IT Self-Service Portals in a Continuous Delivery World | @CloudExpo @DellEMC #CD #Cloud #DevOps
What’s the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous delivery and Infrastructure as Code? This general session showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change.
Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud native applications.
RingCentral leads cloud business communication vendor race, says Synergy
RingCentral leads the way for the cloud business communications market with the overall landscape growing at a considerable clip, according to the latest note from Synergy Research.
The market is growing at an annualised rate of 23% driven by strong adoption of unified communications as a service (UCaaS), according to the research. The total cloud communication market is generating revenues in excess of $2 billion (£1.58bn) per year.
Synergy puts the market into three buckets; UCaaS retail being demonstrably the largest, followed by cloud comms and UCaaS wholesale. However, the later has a much quicker growth rate.
For RingCentral, presence as a market leader in both the former and latter are a boon – and the company pushed out an agreeable blog from CEO Vlad Shmunis with regard to the news.
“As we look ahead, we are excited about the market opportunity for cloud communications as enterprise customers empower their global and distributed workforce to work anywhere, any time, and on any device,” Shmunis wrote. “This market transition will fuel our growth to $1bn by 2020.”
“UCaaS continues to be a force for change within the business communications market,” said Jeremy Duke, Synergy Research founder and chief analyst. “Major barriers to cloud adoption are now almost a thing of the past and consequently we are seeing continued erosion of on-premises PBX-based systems. Clearly these trends will continue over the next few years.”
Other leading players in the market include 8×8, Mitel, and ShoreTel, Synergy added. According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for UCaaS, released in August last year, 8×8, BT, Fuze, RingCentral, and West Unified Communications found a place in the winner’s enclosure.
Adobe’s Results Prove that Cloud is the Way Forward
Adobe Systems Inc has reported another incredible quarter that beat analyst’s expectations on both profits and revenue.
Adobe has announced that revenue from its digital media business is $1.21 billion, which is almost four billion more than what analysts were expecting. Overall, it’s revenue saw a 27 percent jump as it touched $1.77 billion during this quarter. Analysts were predicting a revenue of only $1.73 billion. Also, profit per share was $1.02 per share as against the expectation of 95 cents per share.
Adobe also raised its forecast to a growth of 23 percent as against the expectation of 22 percent.
Creative Cloud is the flagship product of Adobe and it’s also the one that’s seen one of the highest demands over the last few quarters.
According to company reports, there are over nine million members in its online community, thanks to the super popular Photoshop and Flash. In fact, it is believed that there two products helped Creative Cloud as a whole to cross the $1 billion mark during the last quarter. Since then, there has been no looking back. In this quarter, Creative Cloud and the Digitial Media Annualized Recurring Revenue accounted for $4.56 billion, as against the analysts expectations of $4.54 billion.
Undoubtedly, the share price of Adobe went up by four percent to reach a record level of $146 per share.
Much of this success can be attributed to the switch that Adobe made in 2012. Led by its CEO, Shantanu Narayen, this company switched to a cloud-based model to move many of its traditional products to the cloud. Though the CEO and the management were met with stiff resistance from investors, this strategy has paid well, as is evident from the strong results that Adobe has been churning quarter after quarter.
The company has even been making some acquisitions to strengthen its portfolio and to move deeper into cloud-based services. Late last year, it acquired a company called TubeMogul for $500 million. This is a brand advertising company that adds to Adobe’s creative products, thereby providing a richer experience and greater value for its customers.
Besides acquisitions, it has also been striking lucrative partnerships to promote its products and to continue to expand its customer base. An example of this strategy is the partnership it struck with Microsoft to sell more of its business marketing products.
All these different tactics have paid off well for the company and it sure has a happy bunch of investors today. This is evident from the meteoric rise of its shares over the last few years. A quick look shows that Adobe’s share price has risen about 350 percent over the last five years and touched new levels after the results were announced on Tuesday evening.
With such a positive outlook and a clear strategic direction, Adobe exudes a lot of confidence about its future. Investors, analysts, employees and all other stakeholders like to see such exuberance, and this is partly why we can say that the performance of the company as well as its share prices are going to go through the roof in the coming months.
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