Blueprint to Re-Cycle the much Hyped MagiK Kvadrant
Fellow Enterprise Irregular and HfS Research Founder Phil Fersht introduced their new Blueprint with an appropriate title: Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint. I think such a milestone warrants a historical overview of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Magic Cycle, Magic Hype, Hyped Magik… or any other variation you prefer. And since it’s just a few […]
Research data on cloud growth and focus
New survey research adds to our understanding of cloud growth and discusses areas of concern among business adopters of cloud computing.
Next Iteration Of PaaS: Will Amazon Join That Race?
I have been critical of “me too” approaches to PaaS by current breed of PaaS providers and have been calling for some differentiation which will take innovation to the next level. Some people have been asking me how the next generation of PaaS will look like. I have framed a simple model to explain where […]
Position Paper: Five Attributes Of Enterprise Cloud Applications
Abstract: In this position paper, we define the five core attributes of a modern enterprise cloud application which includes Simplicity, Cloud Scale Architecture, Open APIs, Mobile Platform Support and Social Awareness. We expect this definition to help organizations differentiate between a true cloud application from a cloud-washed application. Such an understanding will help enterprises to […]
Intel Joins Hands With Academia For Cloud Computing Research
Intel (previous CloudAve coverage), the chipmaker with increasing focus on cloud computing, yesterday announced a $30M investment in research on the future of cloud and embedded computing. As a part of this investment, Intel will set up two Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) at Carnege Mellon University, a leading research organization in the field of […]
Australia Tops Cloud Adoption In APAC
A new report from the research firm Frost & Sullivan sheds some light into cloud adoption in the APAC region. According to a new report, Australia continues to lead the adoption of cloud computing in Asia Pacific with 43% of enterprises now using cloud computing in some form and 41% of IT decision makers indicating […]
Saugatuck Study Predicts Every Business Category On The Cloud By 2015
Saugatuck Technology, Connecticut based Research and Consulting firm, released a new report today titled Key SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Trends Through 2015 – Business Transformation via the Cloud based on the analysis of global surveys, interviews, etc.. The interesting prediction of this report is that all categories of business computing will move to cloud by […]
Big Jump In SaaS ERP Interest
ERP has been considered the last frontier for SaaS and we have seen tremendous resistance from even organizations who were otherwise open to the idea of SaaS. Part of the reason was that SaaS ERP offerings were not robust enough for deployment, unlike say CRM applications. The most important reason for the resistance is that […]
Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be
One of the research projects I am working on is how schools, business and people align themselves to develop the skills needed for the workers we need today, and going into tomorrow. Like most forward projecting projects, the data gets fuzzier as you move deeper into the future, but there are some interesting aspects of […]
Surprising little information about Cloud Computing and Terrorism or Crime
All new technologies introduce security concerns, from faulty applications, to faulty configurations, to users who are simply dangerous in the new environment. A cloud computing infrastructure is no different from the basic idea of being misused, by an…
Horses for Sources and the London School of Economics Launch Groundbreaking Study into Cloud Business Services
Phil Fersht is a respected analyst and consultant, fellow Enterprise Irregular, Founder and CEO of Horses for Sources, a blog and research firm focused on all issues related to outsourcing. Because of the importance of his new initiative, I’ll quote his entire post below, with his permission: “Folks – we’re delighted to announce that today […]
Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud
Over the last year I have been working on a project for where I work to see just what the threat level was for systems in the “cloud”.
Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software Markets
SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report “Software as a Service 2009-2014”, the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 14.1 percent from the 2009 revenues. In 2009, the revenues were $7.5 billion […]
Repositories in the Cloud? Why on earth not?!
To be honest, I’ve never fully understood Higher Education’s penchant for building ‘institutional repositories.’ These frequently under-populated aggregations of academic papers produced by ‘research active’ employees of a particular university appear aligned almost exclusively to vaguely expressed institutional imperatives, and seem largely unrelated to either the selfish aspirations of the contributing authors or the tangible […]
Should Scientists Use Microsoft’s Free Cloud Services Offerings?
Image via Wikipedia I am a strong proponent of using cloud computing for scientific research. Some of my posts on the topic are listed below. LHC Computing Grid and the New Era of Scientific Computing Cloud Computing and Science – Mathematica Embraces Cloud Computing Cloud Computing and Science – MATLAB on Clouds Amazon Tries to […]
