January 6, 2011 Off

Salesforce.com Completes Acquisition of Heroku

By David
Grazed from Destination CRM.  Author: Koa Beck.

Salesforce.com completed its acquisition of Heroku, the privately held cloud platform that writes Ruby-based applications, earlier this week. The acquisition suggests that salesforce.com will take a greater share of the public cloud services market, projected by IDC to reach $55.5 billion in 2014.

Salesforce.com cloud platform will now support Java and Ruby, the major Cloud 2 languages, with this acquisition.

January 6, 2011 Off

How to enhance your career with cloud computing

By David
Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

Many practitioners in IT are ill-prepared for the continued emergence of cloud computing. Although this ignorance was almost cute in 2010, it will be career-limiting this year.

At its core, cloud computing, despite being hyped to death in 2010, has been largely misunderstood in terms of it true value to the enterprise and how IT needs to approach it. This needs to change. I have a few suggestions on how you can use cloud computing to enhance your career.

January 6, 2011 Off

Masters of the Cloud Computing Universe

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

When it comes to cloud computing, whomever controls the actual application is going to be king.

That’s the advice that Jason Liu, CEO of UC4 Software, a provider of IT automation tools, has for IT organizations trying to navigate the nuances of cloud computing.

January 6, 2011 Off

The Cloud CIO and the Internet of Things

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author:  Bernard Golden.

Forbes this week published an interesting article written by Ed Sperling titled "CIOs: Be Careful What You Wish For". In it, Sperling posits that virtualisation will cause a shift for IT leadership from technology to data. He writes:

"The virtualisation being implemented everywhere will give way to cloud computing, and cloud computing will unclutter technology to the point where the focus will migrate from technology to data."

He goes on to say:

January 6, 2011 Off

Is your IT job safe in the cloud?

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author:  Kier Thomas.

Cisco is the latest company to release customer research into cloud computing trends, and only an average of 18 percent of respondents worldwide said they are using the cloud in any capacity.

However, the outlook is better, as 88 percent said they planned to take up the cloud in some capacity within three years.

January 5, 2011 Off

Five tips for finding a cloud solution that’s ready for your users

By David
Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Sundar Raghavan.

Cloud computing is here to stay. It has quickly earned a reputation as a powerful business enabler, based on benefits such as scalability, availability, on-demand access, rapid deployment, and low cost. IT-savvy users in development and test functions have adopted the cloud model to accelerate application lifecycles. And with recent innovations in self-service access, users in consulting, training, and sales demo areas are also becoming the direct consumers of cloud services.

January 5, 2011 Off

Does CPTN Spell the End for Open Source Software?

By David
Grazed from ServerWatch.  Author: Paul Rubens.

It’s not often that the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC jump in to bed together, so when they do, you have to ask yourself what on earth they are up to.

Late last year Attachmate announced its plans to acquire Novell and that as part of the deal it will sell a whole bucket-load of patents (882, to be precise) to a mysterious outfit called CPTN Holdings for around $450 million. All that was known at the time was that Microsoft was behind CPTN, and Novell would continue to own the rights to UNIX.

January 5, 2011 Off

Taxpayers Demand CRM

By David
Grazed from Destination CRM.  Author: Koa Beck.

Since slashes to funding, governments big and small have been concentrating on making their citizens (or customers) more self-reliant. Without the resources to efficiently tackle every taxpayer dispute, government has concentrated on beefing up self-service options.