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The democratisation or consumerisation of IT
Some IT industry commentators and analysts have been drawing analogies between cloud computing and technologies such as electric power for a number of years.
Nicholas Carr predicted the consumerisation of IT and the emergence of utility style computing services as early as 2004…
MWEB’s introduction of truly uncapped ADSL has led to tumbling connectivity costs and bandwidth constraints rapidly becoming a distant memory. The playing field has been levelled and South African businesses of all sizes are now free to explore the many benefits cloud computing has to offer.
So says Andre Joubert, GM of MWEB Business, who points out that in regions like North American and Europe, where abundant bandwidth has been a way of life for many years, cloud computing is rapidly becoming mainstream…
Last week, InfoWorld’s David Linthicum made what I think is a very astute and long overdue observation: The term "cloud computing" has approached the point of being meaningless. As he points out, that’s not because nobody can agree on what the cloud is or has been created to do, but because every vendor in the IT space is falling over themselves to tell you just how "cloudy" they are — and spending a mint in marketing dollars to do it. Along the way, they’ve diluted the term to the point where it’s hard to tell what anyone’s really talking about anymore.
A particularly powerful area to apply Cloud computing is the automation of “unstructured content workflows” – Those business processes conducted manually via Word documents sent via email, conference calls and other multimedia that sits outside of enterprise applications.
Applications like CRM tackle a particular sub-set of processes relevant to customer information, and can often implement workflows like ‘Sales Quote’ for example. However this is just a record for reporting purposes, the actual work itself is achieved through writing it in Word and using email to share it with management for approvals etc…
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing’ was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing’ and ‘software’ in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."
EMC held its annual forum in Long Beach, Calif. earlier this month. Cloud computing, of course, dominated the messaging. But there were plenty of other subjects in the spotlight. Here are 10 major takeaways from the show….
The perception of cloud computing as a critical evolution in the way we live and work is rapidly growing, but what the recent spate of high-profile
When IBM-PC pioneer Mark Dean said that we’re entering the Post-PC era, a lot of people were surprised. After all, here’s a guy who is IBM’s CTO for the Middle East and Africa, one of the actual developers of the original IBM-PC, saying that its glory days are over. Who’d a thunk it?…
The news source said the biggest reason for the prediction is the increased awareness of