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2011

The Social Revolution Has Just Begun

The Social Revolution Has Just Begun

By John Taschek on January 4, 2012

Depending on whom you ask, 2011 was either the year of the iPad or the year of social. The truth is that they were and are equally weighted because they are catalysts for each other, and while each can exist without the other, imagining such a thing is like trying to imagine a world where […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Technology | Tagged @estebanskolksy, @jtaschek, @pgreenbe, @stevegillmor, 2011, chatter, cloud computing, esteban kolsky, gartner, hype, hype cycle, industry, ipad, iPad/Apple, New Media, paul greenberg, platform, Products, salesforce, salesforce.com, social, Social Enterprise, steve gillmor

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

By Randy Bias on January 4, 2012

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 2011, amazon, Asymco, automation, aws, cloud computing, cloud futures series, cloudscaling, commoditization, ec2, gogrid, iaas, openstack, predictions, rightscale, salesforce.com, scaling, vmware, web scale | 9 Responses

Two Events That "Clouded" Our Thinking In 2011

Two Events That “Clouded” Our Thinking In 2011

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 3, 2012

2011 is long gone and I should have done this post last week. However, I still think it is relevant to highlight some changes in our thinking about the cloud that happened due to events in 2011. Whether many agree with me or not, I see 2011 as a year where cloud computing moved from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, aws, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, design for failure, electricity model, iaas, insights, paas, VM | 6 Responses

Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue To Grow 21% This Year

Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue To Grow 21% This Year

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 8, 2011

Gartner, the leading research firm, said SaaS will grow by 21% this year with CRM leading the way. Based on the trends we have been observing in the recent years, this is pretty much expected. After the initial FUD and maturation of cloud based technologies, enterprises are looking beyond the security and privacy issue to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, box, box.net, briefs, CRM, erp, gartner, gartner forecast, saas | 1 Response

Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit

Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 1, 2011

Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week at Santa Clara and it highlighted how Hadoop has matured in the past few years. Hadoop is an open source project under Apache Foundation which aims to solve the storage and processing of big data. Based on Google’s Map Reduce, Hadoop has emerged as a major platform in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, benchmark capital, big data, cloudera, hadoop, Hadoop summit, Hadoop summit 2011, hdfs, Hortonworks, insights, Mapr, mapreduce, open source, pervasive, pervasive software, yahoo

IBM Releases New Rational Solution With An Eye On The Cloudy Future

IBM Releases New Rational Solution With An Eye On The Cloudy Future

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 7, 2011

Yesterday at IBM Innovate 2011, IBM announced a new Rational Solution with an eye towards a cloud dominated future. IBM Innovate is the annual user conference for their Rational Software users. During the event, they also showcased Suntrust Bank, a large US bank, using Rational Software which reduced the software deployment issues by 93%, help […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 2011, cloud computing, CloudComputing, IBM, ibm innovate, ibm rational, ibminnovate, ibmrational, insights, jazz, rational, rational software, rationalsoftware

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 24, 2011

Abstract As we enter 2011, the expectations surrounding the growth of cloud based services are very high. In spite of the unwarranted hype and FUD surrounding the cloud based services in 2008 and 2009, the past year saw some level of maturity in both the cloud services itself and, also, in the discussions surrounding cloud […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, cloud computing, cloud security, cloud storage, federated clouds, iaas, paas, researchreports, saas, trends | 2 Responses

IBM Study Predicts Collaboration, Analytics And Cloud Computing As Drivers Of Growth In Midmarket

IBM Study Predicts Collaboration, Analytics And Cloud Computing As Drivers Of Growth In Midmarket

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 17, 2011

Image via CrunchBase Recently, IBM released a study that talked about how midmarket organizations view IT in 2011. As US and rest of the world emerge from one of the worst economic troubles they have ever encountered, organizations are opening up their wallets for spending. IBM tried to find out the purchasing patterns, business issues […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, briefs, business analytics, collaboration, Enterprise, IBM, Ibm survey, infrastructure, Midmarket | 1 Response

Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011

Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 18, 2010

Gartner has released a forecast that predicts a 16.2 percent increase in SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market from 2010. The SaaS revenue in the enterprise application software market in 2009 was $7.9 Billion and, according to the analyst firm, it is forecasted to increase to $9.2 Billion in 2010, a solid 15.7 percent […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, enterprises, forecast, gartner, predictions, saas | 4 Responses

Gluecon 2011: Changing the Game

Gluecon 2011: Changing the Game

By Guest Authors on November 2, 2010

Gluecon is unlike any conference I’ve ever run before. Because it’s aimed at developers, the topics are far more technical than my feeble marketer’s brain can easily comprehend. And because Glue isn’t defined as “a cloud computing” conference, it’s not caught in the echo chamber of “defining” this, that and the other thing. Glue seeks […]

Posted in General | Tagged 2011, api, cloud computing, conference, gluecon

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