A lot has been talked about upcoming information technology delivery trends
and its effect on the innovative start-up solutions. Mark Andreessen
recently commented that Facebook would not have been viable as a company
without leveraging these new technologies to deliver their product. While a
lot of attention is paid to huge success stories like Facebook, a small
start-up in Cincinnati called CoupSmart has leveraged a whole different
approach to combine mobile and social networking capabilities to deliver a
unique solution.
The recent deal environment filled with daily deal sites, "extreme couponers"
and other consumers who try to take advantage of the system has made offering
discounts (traditionally a key driver of new customer trial) a hazardous
proposition. CoupSmart offers businesses of all sizes a better way to serve
deals to their customers by combining F... (more)
Back in 2004, I worked for IBM, which offered end-to-end solutions that few
other technology vendors could provide. An automotive customer in Australia
had a myriad of disjointed processes connecting them with their end users and
wanted to achieve tangible cost savings by improving operational
effectiveness. To accomplish these goals, the client wanted to deliver
services to their dealers, suppliers and fleet customers through a single
portal interface. This was going to be achieved through the integration of
information, people and processes to help maintain more effective
re... (more)
HP and Microsoft fall under the category of major enterprise technology
providers along with Cisco, IBM, Oracle, SAP and VMWare/EMC. With an eye on
projected cloud computing revenue growth, they are all looking at ways to
expand their cloud computing presence in order to avoid being overtaken by
this transformational change.
These two companies made announcements recently that caught my attention (but
there are more):
HP announced the purchase of Vertica followed by embracing OpenStack and
CloudFoundry as part of their cloud offerings. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and
others announce... (more)
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Got back Friday after a week in the East coast attending the Cloud Expo and
meeting with customers/partners.
I roamed around the exhibits and found one vendor area that was always packed
- Microsoft. Folks were attracted to the huge honking collection of
hardware placed right in middle of their exhibit space. Now Microsoft is not
a hardware vendor - but they seem to have partnered with others to bring this
and show their might. It also needed a special drop of electricity into the
hall - 400V or so using a ... (more)
Recently a number of companies have been talking about cloud certifications.
The topics cover security, resilience and HIPAA among other certifications.
The federal leadership in cloud computing talks about centralized
certifications.
Cloud computing certifications should belong in broad categories, for
example:
Standards: Do products or solutions adhere to industry or technology
standards e.g security, etc Communications: Platform portability and
inter-cloud communications should fall here. Encapsulation of multiple
standards become important here. Individual certifications:... (more)
Larry Carvalho runs Robust Cloud LLC, an advisory services company helping various ecosystem players develop a strategy to take advantage of cloud computing. As the 2010-11 Instructor of Cloud Expo's popular 
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