Reducing the cost of IT management is one of the primary pressures for most
organizations. One of the most common ways to reduce such costs is to enable
the reuse of applications that developers have already created and configured
for the enterprise. In the past decade, especially in the past 3-5 years,
companies have spent millions of dollars on enterprise software applications
of all sorts: CRM, ERP, and other operational applications. The next few
years will be less about new application development, and more about existing
application integration and reuse.
The Service-orien... (more)
It sounds so obvious when you get right down to it: you need to know what
problem you're solving before you can solve it. Common sense tells you to
start with the problem before you can find the solution to the problem. If
you start with a solution without knowing what the problem is, then there's
no telling if the solution you have will be the right one for the problems
you're facing.
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SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in
broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to
establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub.
It's launched Singapore's first integrated cloud computing marketplace for
businesses. The SingTel Innovation Exchange is meant to accelerate the
development of cloud computing services.
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Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing --
pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of
hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and
high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality
of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and the long-term costs of
public clouds.
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