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36% Of Enterprises Predict Public Cloud Spending Will Increase In 2021

By Louis Columbus on May 16, 2021

451 Research’s recent survey, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Budgets & Outlook 2021, provides new insights into how the pandemic acts as a catalyst driving organizations to pivot toward new digital business models faster than they had anticipated. The survey is based on interviews with over 300 cloud and IT professionals. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 451 Research, Cloud Computing, Cloud computing spending in 2021, iaas, Louis Columbus' blog, PaaS, public cloud, SaaS

Trends: 9 Actions to Consider Before 2015 For Digital Transformation

Trends: 9 Actions to Consider Before 2015 For Digital Transformation

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, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 2015, Apps Strategy, Augmented Humanity, Authentic, Authentic Business, best of breed, best practices, Big Data, Big Data Business Models, BigData, bring-your-own-device, Business Analytics, business strategy, Business Transformation, BYOD, CEO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Creative Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, CMO, CoIT, CoIT and the New CSuite, collaboration, collaboration software, Constellation Research, Corporate Strategy, CTO, CustExp, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer service, Customer Support, CXM, CXO, CXP, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, digital, Digital Business, digital commerce, Digital Disruption, Digital DNA, Digital identity, digital marketing, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, E-Commerce, e-Signature, early adoptions, engagement, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, future of work, HR, innovation, IT Strategy, journey maps, marketing, Marketing Automation, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, Next generation apps, Privacy, Privacy Rights, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, public cloud, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, safety, safety and privacy, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, strategy, supply chain, trends, User Experience, user strategy, vendor strategy

Choosing Between Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures

Choosing Between Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged hybrid cloud, iaas, PaaS, Private Cloud, public cloud, SaaS, SaaS/Cloud Computing, startup | 1 Response

Choosing Between Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures

Choosing Between Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, iaas, PaaS, Private Cloud, public cloud, SaaS | 3 Responses

Cloud to Enterprise: Resistance is Futile

Cloud to Enterprise: Resistance is Futile

By Basab Pradhan on April 2, 2013

At the end of its Journey to the Cloud, will an enterprise still be running its own data center? Perhaps, but if it does, it will be much, much smaller. It will be the Private Cloud part of a Hybrid Cloud that will run only a small portion of enterprise workloads. On the other hand, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, data center, Facebook, public cloud, technology | 3 Responses

Monday’s Musings: Understand The Four Personas Of Disruptive Tech Adoption

Monday’s Musings: Understand The Four Personas Of Disruptive Tech Adoption

By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2012

Pace of Innovation Exceeds Ability To Consume Rapid innovation, flexible deployment options, and easy consumption models create favorable conditions for the proliferation of disruptive technology.  In fact, convergence in the five pillars of enterprise disruption (i.e. social, mobile, cloud, big data, and unified communications), has led to new innovations and opportunities to apply disruptive technologies […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #techoptimization, adoption, analytics, Apps Strategy, best practices, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, Business Outcomes, business strategy, change, Change Management, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CoIT, CoIT and the New CSuite, Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Digital Divide, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, Digital Divide, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, disruptive, Disruptive Tech Life Cycle, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, future, future of business, future of work, innovation, innovation insights, innovation labs, management strategy, Monday's Musings, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, next generation, Next generation apps, organizational strategy, outcome focused, People to People, public cloud, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, socbiz, social business, Social Enterprise, Social Media, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, technology adoption, technology budgets, Technology Optimization, User Experience, ux | 2 Responses

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

By John Taschek on January 31, 2012

There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They’re wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CERN, Cloud Computing, competition, David Bradshaw, EC, efficiency, European Commission, government, idc, Industry, innovation, Neelie Kroes, public cloud, Public Sector, Web/Tech

Monday’s Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon’s Cloud Outage

Monday’s Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon’s Cloud Outage

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.  […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Apps Strategy, backup, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, disaster recovery, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Foursquare, high availability, hootsuite, IBM Blue Cloud, license management, license policy, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, public cloud, Quora, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Reddit, rwang0, Vendor Selection

Sorting out “cloud security”

Sorting out “cloud security”

By Michael Coté on April 19, 2011

What people fear is The Fear of the New – The Unknown. They think something about cloud computing is wildly different – more than likely, it’s about exposing your technical debt in security, your current weaknesses, not introducing new problems.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, CohesiveFT, enterprise, enterprise software, Harold Moss, ibm, public cloud, Randy Bias, security, Systems Management

Private cloud discredited, part 2

Private cloud discredited, part 2

By Phil Wainewright on April 13, 2011

I wrote part 1 of this post last October, highlighting a Microsoft white paper that convincingly established the economic case for multi-tenant, public clouds over single-enterprise, private infrastructures. Part 2 would wait, I wrote then, for “the other shoe still waiting to drop … a complete rebuttal of all the arguments over security, reliability and […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Bechtel, Cloud Computing, enterprise, Infrastructure, microsoft, Netflix, Private Cloud, public cloud, Twitter | 6 Responses

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