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Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alison Wagonfeld.

At Emergence Capital, we have had the opportunity to invest in visionaries such as Marc Benioff, Aaron Levie and David Sacks who have built major enterprise cloud applications that have formed the basis of the next generation of business software around the world. As we look out to 2015, we are excited to invest in what’s next for the enterprise.

We spend so much time talking about the future, so I thought it would be fun to share the 2015 predictions from Emergence’s five partners — Gordon Ritter, Jason Green, Brian Jacobs, Kevin Spain, and Santi Subotovsky — about the emerging themes for enterprise technology and the technology investment environment:…

Grazed from Vlocity. Author: PR Announcement.

I am pleased to announce that Vlocity has been named a finalist in the CRM Solution of the Year category for the 2014-2015 Cloud Awards. This international awards program is now in its fourth year and recognizes the leaders and innovators in cloud computing. Vlocity is joined on the CRM Solution of the Year short-list by CRM companies including Infusionsoft, Zendesk and SugarCRM. The final winner will be announced on Tuesday January 27th with a public vote also announced on this date to decide who will win the Cloud Computing Organization of the Year Award.

Last year’s CRM Solution of the Year winner was Veeva Systems, the leading provider of life sciences cloud software. Veeva was founded by several of the same founders of Vlocity, including Craig Ramsey, Mark Armenante and Young Sohn…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

Whenever this time of the year arrives with its proliferation of predictions, William Gibson’s quote “the future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed” comes to mind. The best predictions provide a glimpse into the future while also providing mile markers to measure the journey. Those are the most fascinating of all because they take a firm stand on where, how and why a given area is scaling and at what pace. Instead of adding to the many cloud computing and enterprise software predictions being made for 2015, I’m providing a listing of those that are the most interesting and thought-provoking. They are listed below:

• 10 Hadoop Predictions For 2015 – Well-researched series of Hadoop predictions and market forecasts. Key insights include the following: Over the next five years, the Hadoop-MapReduce market is expected to hit $2.2BV, attaining a compound annual growth rate (GAGR) of 58%, according to MarketAnalysis.com; IDC predicts that worldwide revenues for the Hadoop-MapReduce market will increase to $812.8M by 2016, up from $77M in 2011; IDC, which expects Hadoop to be in use in 45% of European organizations by the end of 2015; and SQL to become Hadoop’s killer app for 2015…

Grazed from ZDNet. Auhor: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

Linux and open-source software had many high points this year, but it also had many low ones as well. Let’s just get it over with and start with the worst.

Linux and open-source fiascoes

1) Heartbleed

When you program with open-source the right way, it creates great software. When you accept open-source as magic, you end up with Heartbleed. Heartbleed, if you don’t recall, was an OpenSSL security hole that affected hundreds of millions of websites, It’s root cause was that everyone–and I mean everyone–just assumed that it was safe because it was open source. So, for years no one bothered to check to see if the code really was reliable. It wasn’t…

Grazed from EpochTimes. Author: Veronica Davis.

Simply put, cloud computing is ‘computing power delivered anywhere, anytime, driving on the global connectivity of the World Wide Web.’ It’s become a fascinating revolution, writing the first chapter of a new era of web browsing and web experiences. Not only do small and growing businesses get to enjoy the power of computing without having to deploy file servers, storage systems, e-mail servers, and what not, but it also means that you can have access to a whole library of your personal data and your most important productivity applications anytime, anywhere.

All you need is your account and login details to access the cloud based service or application on any smartphone, tablet or other device and you can resume from where you left off. File storage services offering GBs of space, web based content management, website publishing, online video clip making and other multimedia services such as a super cool one I discovered earlier today: ShakeM. Here’s a toast to some of the best cloud based services making the internet such an enjoyable and empowering experience for the most demanding of web users…

Grazed from BizTech. Author: Ricky Riberio.

The technology that companies use is changing at a blistering pace. While companies are still considering whether or not to virtualize their servers, other enterprises are planning on turning their entire infrastructure into a software-defined machine. The software-defined enterprise starts, first and foremost, with fundamental architectural shift we are seeing in the industry.

And that is the movement to a software-defined data center. And that software-defined data center can be delivered on-premise or off-premise, known in the world as hybrid cloud computing. That’s where the world is going," said VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach. Eschenbach was one of several IT leaders who gathered to discuss the most important and needle-moving technology challenges facing businesses today, as part of CDW’s Bring IT On technology leadership series…

Read more from the source @ http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2014/12/vmware-president-carl-eschenbach-says-software-defined-data-center-future

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Kristen Lee.

In this third of three blog posts on IDC’s IT outlook for 2015, analysts tackled the topic of cloud. Here IDC’s Robert Mahowald, program vice president of SaaS and cloud services; Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president for enterprise system management software; and Rick Villars, vice president of data centers and cloud, outlined three ways in which the cloud will shake up IT ecosystems in 2015 and how IT leaders can prepare.

Hybrid cloud adds complexity to IT environments

IDC predicts that by 2016 more than 65% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud technologies. “This is going to really drive a number of changes across the structure, management, and just operational velocity of many IT organizations,” Turner said. Enterprises are being driven to adopt hybrid cloud for a number of reasons, Turner said. These include the need for cloud service diversity, the demand by end users for more and more self-service IT, and the growth of OpenStack and open source containers…

Read more from the source @ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/cloud-2015-continued-unrelenting-disruption-to-traditional-it/

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Application performance continues to be a concern for organizations of all sizes, and according to a new report from Enterprise Management Associates and sponsored by New Relic, cloud-hosted application performance management is now the second most common use case for production software-as-a-service (SaaS), right after office productivity applications.

The report, "Public Cloud Comes of Age: Application Performance Management (APM) Strategies & Products for Production-Ready Cloud Ecosystems," noted several challenges enterprises are currently facing in migrating to and using cloud services and infrastructure. But since it’s also a sponsored report, it also provided significant detail on application performance management and monitoring vendor New Relic, so expect a touch of bias…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-research/12242014/report-cloud-hosted-apm-second-most-common-saas-use-case

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Jordan Novet.

My main hope for 2015 is that the industry can move on from the “What is the cloud, public clouds are good/bad, private clouds are good/bad” debate and essentially become more nuanced in our understanding. Generally the experience of 2014 is that most people like the model of consumption matching demand, but still have concerns on the nature and types of workloads that we can port.

2015 is the year when we stop talking about the cloud as a “What if?” choice and start talking about the different architectures and their suitability for your workloads. So unlike some commentators who have thrown the collective towel in on cloud computing focusing on purely public cloud over the Internet and calling it a “commodity” or the domain of a few, we are students of history and think we are merely in the Precambrian phase of cloud evolution and look toward the next more impactful stage…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Dan Newman.

Today, four of the most impactful streams of technology – social media, mobile, big data, and cloud are gradually converging into one powerful force that’s making way for a huge shift in the current business landscape. While the combination of these technologies will unlock new opportunities for businesses, it will also change the way we live and work. On the whole, convergence technology is the new innovation to watch. Sound interesting?

If your interest is piqued, then you might be intrigued to hear that convergence technology is going to be utterly indispensable for businesses as well. Let me explain. Businesses are leveraging the power of social, mobile, cloud, and big data already. To this point, these powers have been compartmented, more or less…