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