Accelerating vs. deflating time to SaaS revenue Over the past 8 months, we have seen an increase in the number of ISVs contacting us to help them plan a roadmap to SaaS. After reviewing these conversations, a trend has started to emerge. 1. On-Premise ISVs see the need to begin the journey, typically due to competitive and market pressures. 2. They understand and want to get to the technical end game — a true multi-tenanted, singular code basis — but they don’t know how or even why they should get there. 3. They want to get to that end game
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Cloud Computing Adoption Can Generate EUR 763 Billion in Europe by 2015, Cloud Dividend Report Cloud-based solutions and adoption of cloud computing could generate up to EUR 763 billion in economic benefit in the five largest European economies by 2015, part two of EMC Corporation’s 2011 Cloud Dividend report conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) revealed. The report studied possible economic benefits of cloud computing adoption and deployment of cloud-based solutions in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Distribution, retail and hotels sectors alone could generate EUR 233 billion in value in the next
The Chinese Dragon And Cloud Computing “In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.” – Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Prominent British politician. In an earlier article, I speculated on the possible emergence of India as a cloud computing superpower on the strength of its millions of IT professionals (See: Is India The Next Cloud Computing Superpower? ) Now, it is unlikely that China, the other half, and dare I say, the stronger half, of the two nations many say will dominate this century, would sit still and let India take the lead. China may
How Can Cloud Computing Help In Education? “Education is not the filling a bucket but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet, dramatist. Whenever we talk of cloud computing, we always talk about its impact on business. In all my previous articles, I have done the same, speaking about how cloud computing can improve efficiencies, cut costs, save time and in general, give businesses a great return on investment. However, today I am going to speak on something quite different – how cloud computing can help in the noblest human pursuit of all, education. The
Cloud Computing Sector to Witness More M&A in 2011, PwC Report The rush for cloud-based technology solutions and development of virtualization and security technologies will fuel growing interest in cloud computing during 2011 and a new wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is expected, a recent report by PwC revealed. Cost savings opportunities and growing confidence in cloud computing are the driving force behind a new technology trend; namely, switching to cloud-based solutions by large and small and medium enterprises alike. Companies now have more confidence in security provided by the cloud and a growing number of businesses are migrating
“To cloud or not to cloud” — is this the question? We hear a lot of talk these days about clouds: Private clouds, Public clouds, Enterprise clouds, Shared clouds, Hybrid clouds — the list goes on. You only have to search popular Internet blogs to see many active debates over the issue of “to cloud or not to cloud.” There are many arguments and lively debates about the suitability of different application types (e.g., Enterprise Back Office, eCommerce) and the ability of the different cloud technologies to support them. Some of the debates have gotten quite heated. Without mentioning any
How BIG Is The Cloud Computing Market? “A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947), American industrialist and pioneer of assembly line production. Henry Ford, industrialist extraordinaire, knew the value of his Model T in the American market. That is why, contrary to the popular belief at that time that customers should always be provided choices, he refused to offer his now-iconic product in multiple colors, going as far as to say, “They can have it any color so long as it’s black.” Although the
Here are to two interesting perspectives regarding this topic. Who’s right? Below is a blog post found at ComputerWeekly discussing… An article in Computerworld UK reports that the latest advice from the Information Security Forum (ISF) is that information security professionals should treat cloud computing as they would any other external supplier. “Cloud is just outsourcing” according to Adrian Davis, a principal research analyst at ISF, speaking at an (ISC)2 Conference in London. It’s a shame they didn’t quote from my talk at that conference, as I take the opposite view. Cloud computing is light years apart from the dedicated, specified,
