By Louis Columbus on January 13, 2018
Digitally transforming enterprises (63%) is the leading factor driving greater public cloud computing engagement or adoption today. 66% of IT professionals say security is their most significant concern in adopting an enterprise cloud computing strategy. 50% of IT professionals believe artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing a role in cloud computing adoption today, growing […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2014
Digital Strategy From The Analysts At Constellation Research Constellation’s year end checklist offers suggestions designed to enable you to take control of your digital strategy in 2015. Consider these actions to ensure you dominate digital disruption in the new year. 1. Matrix Commerce: Scrub your data By Guy Courtin When it comes to Matrix Commerce, […]
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By Evangelos Simoudis on April 29, 2014
Since 1999 we have been investing in companies that develop SaaS applications targeting the mid-upper and global enterprise. Through these investments and the hundreds of other SaaS companies, targeting these and other segments, we have considered during this period, we have started to notice a transition in the way companies utilize cloud computing infrastructures platforms […]
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By Louis Columbus on November 11, 2013
Using analytics to better understand customer satisfaction, profitability, retention and churn while increasing cross-sell and up-sell are the most dominant uses of cloud-based analytics today. Jim Ericson and James Taylor presented the results of Decision Management Solutions’ cloud predictive analytics survey this week in the webinar Predictive Analytics in the Cloud 2013 – Opportunities, Trends and the Impact […]
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By Evangelos Simoudis on June 17, 2013
Since 1999 we have been investing in companies that develop SaaS applications targeting the mid-upper and global enterprise. Through these investments and the hundreds of other SaaS companies, targeting these and other segments, we have considered during this period, we have started to notice a transition in the way companies utilize cloud computing infrastructures platforms […]
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By Tom Raftery on November 22, 2011
And we’re back this week with the second installment in our Data Center War Stories series (sponsored by Sentilla). This second episode in the series is with Jürgen Burkhardt, Senior Director of Data Center Operations, at SAP‘s HQ in Walldorf, Germany. I love his reference to “the purple server” (watch the video, or see the […]
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By Phil Wainewright on July 19, 2011
A few weeks back I seem to have mystified a few readers with my apparent volte-face on the topic of private cloud, when I pointed out that any public cloud provider has to run a private cloud to operate its own service or platform. To help explain my thinking, I thought it might be useful […]
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By Michael Coté on July 12, 2011
Citrix announced the acquisition of Cloud.com this morning hoping to flesh out its long-running cloud road-map. This Brief Note covers what this means for Citrix and provides some background. Summary There’s some clear motivations for Citrix: Filling whitespace – Citrix has long spoken about cloud computing, but they’ve yet to make a big splash on […]
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By Phil Wainewright on July 5, 2011
One of the highly misleading assumptions built into the term ‘private cloud’ is the notion that there’s no privacy in the public cloud. People talk as though cloud providers don’t use firewalls or private networks or encryption. But of course they do. In most cases, the technology infrastructure they use is far more secure than […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. […]
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