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The omniscient cloud increases its coverage a little bit every day. News reports regularly thrum with accounts of how this paradigm-shifting approach to all things computing adds to its heft in exponential increments. With Gartner reporting that emerging economies will account for about $1.01 trillion of worldwide IT spending ($3.7 trillion) in 2011, let’s have a look at how the cloud is emerging in those parts of our global village where growth is raging in all areas: China and India. (more…)
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Latest Communications PostsChina and India: A Snapshot of the International CloudWednesday, November 30th, 2011
Speaking Cloud and ClearThursday, November 24th, 2011
Let us breathe, then, and draw in some of the new language this upheaval has brought into our revised realities. (more…)
Cloud Cuts CarbonFriday, November 18th, 2011
We’ve said it before and we will again. Cloud computing is a saviour of sorts—and for more than just your bottom line and overtaxed systems. No, cloud computing has a larger calling than that. One might even say that cloud computing is poised to deliver the world to a finer place, one in which waste and excess are recalled as sins of a more reckless age. With this communal data-storage marvel, the carbon emissions that would otherwise be sent heavenward from a churning-away corporate entity can be slashed meaningfully, and the world thus scores a significant reduction to its reliance on carbon. (more…)
How the Cloud Will Save the EconomyFriday, November 4th, 2011
In fact, the looming cloud heralding the next stage of corporate computing, the same one that’s sent nervous naysayers into all manner of anxious fits, has a broad silver lining that these fretful types probably haven’t considered. (more…)
There’s Safety in the Cloud After AllFriday, October 7th, 2011It’s not unheard of, the idea of people embracing the very thing that once sent them into spirited flight. Consider the broccoli example. Consider, too, the very prickly subject of cloud security, heretofore much maligned for its apparently inherently contained contradiction but, in a recent show of enlightenment, perhaps rewritten as saviour rather than villain. Big Picture Author In this Wall Street Journal article, a big-picture pundit introduces the extraordinary idea that the cloud may in fact be the safest place to store our data, the deafening cries that have long argued the opposite notwithstanding. (more…)
10 Things You Need to Know About PSOs, PSAs and CRMsWednesday, September 28th, 2011 10 Things you need to know about PSOs 1. The global PSA software market will hit a staggering $7.63 billion by the year 2017, according to new research from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The news is surprising, considering the hit this market took during the recent global economic dip, as those companies purchasing such products opted to hold back their purse in infrastructure-enhancing purchases. 2. The tide is turning on this front in a significant way. Indeed, PSA software suites are increasingly emerging as bona-fide recession-proofers for corporate IT department principals inside professional services organizations anxious not to suffer the same shortfalls again. (more…)
Cloud Standards 101Monday, September 12th, 2011 Are a new set of cloud standards starting to form? So it is with the developing shape of cloud computing. Definition is starting to emerge in the skies with the establishment of a set of standards seeking to best facilitate its adoption. Will they eliminate the confusion that currently shrouds the stuff? It’s a subject that’s scored a whack of attention from folks anxious to corral usability within manageable parameters. We take a look at some of the organizations trying to set the tone for this game changer. (more…)
Come Together: The Enduring Value of UCMonday, September 5th, 2011 Cloud computing - know your business No sooner have you draped yourself with the very latest in technological bling then the calendar pages catch the breeze and you’re out of step once more. Bellyache all you want, but this constant condition of obsolescence is par for the course in today’s ever-evolving technical landscape. It would be a tyranny to imagine keeping every last corner of your corporate house in technological currency. Still, it behooves all corporate citizens to take regular stock of the place, and to work to update at least the most outdated of their systems, regarding them particularly in light of how they support the shifting tasks and styles of the people who use them. (more…)
But Who Owns my Stuff? The Dropbox ExampleWednesday, August 31st, 2011 Will the Dropbox privacy storm abate? The storm began not in a teacup, but in a Dropbox, and it was a doozy. The Web-based file-hosting service that allows users to share files and photos across the Internet courtesy of cloud computing is still sweeping up from a summer squall that was set off with nothing more spectacular than some poorly chosen words. Dropbox set the leaves in motion in June when it sought to tweak its terms of service to better explain its position on a range of platforms, including the thorny business of its ownership of the data it hosts. But its reworked explanation just served to muddy the scene, arguably further damaging cloud computing technology’s more widespread adoption. (more…)
Phoning It In: The Far-Reaching Emergence of Near Field CommunicationsFriday, April 8th, 2011
There was a time when a phone was just a phone. What a quaint idea in a day when this ubiquitous device emerges increasingly as the Swiss Army knife of modern living. Near Field Communications (NFC) is the latest buzzing telephony concept to capture our collective imagination. (more…)
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