SugarCRM Cloud Computing Strategy
I don’t often have the chance to speak with the folks of SurgarCRM. So, it was a bit surprising to have Sugar reach out to me to discuss the company’s Cloud Computing strategy and present a recent example of that strategy in action — an initiative SugarCRM and IBM have been jointly working on to offer Sugar’s Software as a Service (SaaS) offering on IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise cloud computing platform.
SugarCRM’s Cloud Strategy
Sugar has long offered its technology as a service offering and as an open source software project. This offered customers the choice of using either Sugar’s IT infrastructure or their own. Sugar realizes that customers want more choice, higher levels of security, reliability and availability. To that end, Sugar is engaged in developing packaged versions of its technology for different Cloud Computing service environments. One of the first examples to become public was the SugarCRM/IBM initiative…
5 ways to benefit from NIST’s cloud road map now
Most government technology managers face the common problem of how to keep up with policy flow, the steady and sometimes torrential stream of IT directives, guidance and requirements from oversight agencies on how to modernize agency systems.
But in area of cloud computing, at least, help is on the way. On Nov. 2, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a “cloud computing technology road map,” a set of steps to setting up cloud systems that its creators said would help clear their path to cloud adoption.
The draft document, "U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Release 1.0" (NIST Special Publication 500-293) defines high-priority requirements for standards, official guidance and technology developments that need to be met for agencies to accelerate their migration to the cloud model…
The Year in Review: Cloud Computing Expands, CIOs on the Move
Upheaval might best describe 2011. Globally the year will be remembered for the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami, the death of Osama bin Laden, the ongoing financial crisis, and, somewhere, the population tipping past the 7 billion mark. In the U.S., presidential politics got into full swing, Steve Jobs’ passing dealt a blow to the technology community, and Occupy Wall Street protests gained momentum in cities around the country.
In public-sector IT, upheaval was the norm as 2011 saw a significant number of new CIOs, accelerated adoption of cloud computing, and the rise to prominence of the tablet … well, really just the iPad — though Amazon’s Kindle Fire might finally give Apple some real competition.
In this issue, Government Technology’s traditional year in review, our editorial and design staff recap the year that was. On the following pages you’ll find assessments of the key issues CIOs and public-sector technology professionals faced; a timeline of events; and a few lists showcasing what readers of Govtech.com were most interested in…
It’s cloud prediction time: IDC, Gartner weigh in
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
Analyst powerhouses IDC and Gartner both rolled out their latest cloud computing and big data predictions and statistics Thursday morning, and while some are bold, others might have you saying “Duh.” Here’s what they have to say, and how that squares with what I see.
On big data
“Big Data will earn its place as the next ‘must have’ competency in 2012″ (IDC). It’s hard to dispute this, if it hasn’t earned that status already. However, IDC does rely on some questionable logic to support its claim. It predicts that 2.43 zettabytes of unstructured data will be created in 2012, but much of that is only a big data problem to the degree it requires a lot of storage. Photo, video and music files will comprise a lot of that volume, and I think we’re a ways of way from doing meaningful analysis of those data types at a broad scale…
CloudPassage Named Finalist in UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards
CloudPassage Inc., the leading cloud server security company, announced today that it was selected as one of three finalists for the most promising startup category of the UP-START 2011 Cloud Awards. The panel of judges, representing recognized leaders in technology, evaluated 350 nominations from emerging and next-generation cloud companies before selecting a shortlist of finalists.
UP-START sought disruptive and next generation Cloud Computing companies, as well as innovative stealth mode and emerging solution providers who are defining cloud technology. CloudPassage will be among the award finalists who will present at the UP 2011 Cloud Computing Conference. The conference will showcase the leading technology innovators in cloud computing, and provide a forum for business and technology leaders to learn more about how cloud computing can enable growth and innovation for companies across all industries…
ING Bets Big On The Cloud
For Tony Kerrison, the day has long passed when it made sense to question whether cloud computing had a place in financial services companies’ IT plans. Kerrison has been one of the industry’s cloud computing pioneers: In 2008 he helped create an internal cloud for data center servers at Merrill Lynch (back then it was referred to as "stateless infrastructure"). This year he took the helm of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council, a group of corporate technology buyers developing cloud standards for vendors.
From his perch in Amsterdam as chief technology officer at ING, he’s at it again, and along the way he is aiming to provide a path that banks in all parts of the world can follow. ING’s project involves building a large hybrid cloud that combines features of public clouds and private data centers, one it will open to other banks to use. The hybrid or shared IT infrastructure, Kerrison believes, will achieve the variable costs, scalability, flexibility, and on-demand availability offered by public cloud computing in a way that addresses the security, compliance and performance requirements banks adhere to in their internal clouds…
Bessemer Cloudscape: A map of the major cloud players
Even as global markets struggle beneath the weight of unemployment, government paralysis, debt crises and Occupy Wall Street, one segment of the economy enjoys explosive growth with the promise of leading the recovery, one job at a time: cloud computing.
Cloud computing is no longer at the leading edge of the software world, but rather from the perspective of a growth investor, entrepreneur, or technology buyer, cloud computing IS the modern software industry. This multi-billion dollar, high-growth segment of technology now encompasses hundreds of exciting companies, covering every major segment of the software ecosystem. At Bessemer Venture Partners, we were unable to find a single compelling visual to track the leading companies in this revolution, so we synthesized our own based on thousands of meetings over the last decade…
Parallels Recruits Microsoft, Symantec Execs for Cloud Push
Parallels has recruited executives from Microsoft, Itron and Symantec.cloud to accelerate the company’s cloud computing and desktop virtualization push. CTO Michael Toutonghi joins from Microsoft, CFO David Arkley joins from Itron, and VP/GM Jesper Frederiksen joins from Symantec.cloud. The new recruits reinforce Parallels’ effort to chart a multi-year course from $100 million to $1 billion in annual revenues, Talkin’ Cloud believes.
Parallels is no stranger to the Microsoft campus. Parallels in 2010 hired Microsoft veteran John Zanni as VP of alliances and former Microsoft Small Business VP Birger Steen as president; Steen later ascended to the Parallels’ CEO post…
Tomorrow’s cloud: How your hosted services will look in five years’ time
While businesses are showing interest in embracing the cloud model, any wholesale enterprise adoption of cloud computing remains some way in the future.
For CIOs, particularly those in the public sector and heavily regulated industries such as banking, issues around data security have held back cloud uptake due to concerns that providers storing data overseas could see their customers running afoul of data protection legislation.
By the end of 2016 these fears will have been laid to rest, with more than half of Global 1000 companies storing sensitive customer data in the public cloud, according to research published today by analyst house Gartner…
Cloud Computing as a Threat to Older Tech Companies
The International Data Corporation, whose technology analysis and predictions influence a lot of corporate purchases, foresees the creation of a new high-technology industry in the convergence of mobile devices, social networking, and cloud-based computing and data storage. As a result, the company says in a new study, many industry giants will scramble to sustain relevance, and some upstarts will achieve leadership positions or be purchased.
Frank Gens, IDC’s chief analyst, who led the study, said, “The incumbents are facing a huge transition.”
Spending on the new technologies will reach nearly $700 billion, or about 20 percent of the $3.5 trillion in hardware, software, and services spent on information technology worldwide, IDC said. As a great deal of spending in the sector goes toward maintaining older systems, such a share for relatively new technologies is surprising. Spending on the new technologies is growing six times that of traditional computer servers and personal computers, IDC said, and by 2020 will be 80 percent industry growth…