Cloud Strategy
Grazed from ARN. Author: Mike Gee.
Fujitsu executive vice-president, solutions, global delivery, Cameron McNaught, said, ”Fujitsu has a vision of a Human Centric Intelligent Society, one where social and business innovation is driven by the intelligent use of information and communication technologies. "We see Cloud as the natural platform for delivering these new types of applications, which is reflected in both the increase we are seeing in cloud adoption and how it is becoming a standard part of IT service delivery models for many CIOs today...
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Grazed from NewYork Times. Author: Editorial Staff.
Oracle is paying $68 a share in cash for the Micros, a maker of hotel and restaurant business technology systems. At a 24 percent premium to the undisturbed share price, it’s at about half the premium Priceline recently agreed to pay for the restaurant reservations site OpenTable, as one example...
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Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman. John Finch, the CIO of the Bank of England, warned potential cloud users to be wary of financial promises made by cloud providers and urged them to worry about legal aspects, security, compliance, service level agreements (SLAs) and data scalability while planning out their cloud strategy. “Do not, do not, do not let the bean counters determine your cloud strategy,” Finch warned delegates at Cloud World Forum in his keynote focusing on the practical realities of cloud computing. “I may sound like I'm in cloud-denial, but I am not. Cloud can deliver good value and I know of many use cases where cloud has been a real enabler,” Finch said...
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Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
The company continues to work on its software stack for big-data processing, called HAVEn (Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica, enterprise security, apps). The company also plans to launch an online magazine, called Matter, designed to help top executives understand how best to drive business value through technology...
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Grazed from eWeek. Author: Eric Lundquist.
OpenStack, a community-developed, open enterprise computing stack, represents a first chance for startups anxious to sell into the enterprise and a second chance for established vendors anxious to find their footing in an era when cloud computing is becoming the central computing engine for enterprises...
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Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Jeramiah Dooley. It's hard to imagine a conversation that happens between C-Level enterprise executives without 'the cloud' coming up. While cloud computing is obviously nothing new, breaking through the noise and determining the best strategy is still a very real and difficult issue for CIOs. Everyone seems to be sharing a different opinion on the changing landscape of the cloud. At the centre of the cloud debate we often have legacy hardware vendors trying to push their own agendas. They're doing everything they can to protect their market share by delaying the innovation of their customers. We know they're doing this because there are certain things surrounding cloud that are not being discussed...
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Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada. A well-planned digital strategy is important for any firm looking to get ahead. There is ample opportunity for companies, especially midsize firms, to apply technologies such as cloud computing, social media, mobile and numerous other business analytics into their data infrastructures for long-term success. But are enough businesses thinking this way? Understanding Convergence An executive at Ovum recently suggested that firms do not sufficiently understand the importance of converged IT. This deficiency, reports TechDay, causes business leaders to make shortsighted decisions when planning their IT strategies, and ignore opportunities to improve the efficiency with which they manage and interpret information...
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Grazed from IBTimes. Author: Jerin Mathew.
"The number is not yet definite and there are still checks being made as to whether positions overlap or are unnecessary," the person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The source added that the cuts would affect all regions and areas. Nevertheless, SAP plans to create about 3,000 new jobs in 2014, leading to a net increase in the number of staff, according to the source...
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Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Quentin Hardy.
IBM is hardly alone in facing the economic challenge of cloud computing, in which companies buy computing delivered, remotely, as a service over the Internet. The more that computing shifts to the cloud, the less that corporate customers will buy conventional software and hardware for their own data centers...
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Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Steve Lohr.
![]() Those concerns have weighed on the company’s stock price, which has been stagnant since Ms. Rometty took over nearly two and a half years ago. But in an interview at IBM’s headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., Ms. Rometty said she and the company now had a clear vision for how to pursue another generation of growth...
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