IBM: Cloud apps mean developing in days, not months

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Michael Lee.

Speaking at VMWare’s vForum 2012 in Sydney today, IBM program director for Cloud Computing Client Engagements Dan Carr said that the maturity of cloud services has meant that businesses not only have traditional records-based applications to move to the cloud, but that new types of applications are being born out of the mobile and social boom that the internet is experiencing.

Carr said that customers that have come to him in the past four years have become increasingly concerned with the ability to align how they use the cloud with how fast their business is moving, saying that not only do they want to increase the efficiency of how they use the cloud, but also the ability in which they produce cloud application…

"We’ve seen businesses are asking, more and more, for not just a virtual machine, but a complete application," he said. "It’s really about using big data, web data, focusing on the interactions, and it’s [resulted in] this new class of application that we’re seeing." According to Carr, these applications tend to exploit mobile access, social media, and collaboration (such as integrating with LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter), and then feed information, such as analytics or interactions, back into systems of records, such as customer relationship-management systems…

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