I followed a meetup last night in Austin presented by Michael Cote of 451 Research and CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen. John provided a review of the past five years of cloud computing and Dave talked about some current strategies in using PaaS. The overall program provided a nice and thorough review of where we've been and where we are. The global nature of the cloud reaches to most nations. In the modern era, enterprise IT evolves at a similar pace worldwide, rather than in North America and Western Europe first, as in days past. Depending on what particular aspect you're examining, it even moves more quickly in some developing nations - "eMoney" services on mobile phones in places such as Kenya and the Philippines are an example of this phenomenon. Similarly, in the research we've been conducting at the Tau Institute since 2011 on the relative dynamics of IT de... (more)

New @Cisco Ad Campaign Focuses on Application Economy | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

SYS-CON Media announced that Cisco, a worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow, has launched a new ad campaign in Cloud Computing Journal. The ad campaign, a webcast titled 'Is Your Data Center Ready for the Application Economy?', focuses on the latest data center networking technologies, including SDN or ACI, and how customers are using SDN and ACI in their organizations to achieve business agility. The Cisco webcast is available on-demand. Cloud Computing Journal aims to help open the eyes of Enterprise IT professionals to the economics ... (more)

The World of Hadoop and Beyond By @JnanDash | @CloudExpo [#BigData]

The World of Hadoop and Beyond Hortonworks went through an IPO last Friday, December 12, 2014. It’s initial price of $16 soared by 60% immediately after. Today the stock price is $24.70 with a market cap of $1.02B. Another billion dollar club member. They compete with Cloudera and MapR in packaging the open source Hadoop platform for customers. How do they make money when the basic Apache Hadoop is free? – by offering added services like training and consulting. They can also add auxiliary products (not open source) that customers must pay for. The interesting fact is that Horto... (more)

The Mobile Experience By @VZCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Mobile commerce traffic is surpassing desktop, yet less than 20% of sales in the U.S. are mobile commerce sales. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Dan Franklin, Segment Manager, Commerce, at Verizon Digital Media Services, defined mobile devices and discussed how next generation means simplification. It means taking your digital content and turning it into instantly gratifying experiences. Speaker Bio: Dan Franklin is a Segment Manager, Commerce, at Verizon Digital Media Services. Cloud, Big Data, and the 'Internet of Things' Are you ready to pu... (more)

‘Decisions on Streaming Data’ By @Databricks | @CloudExpo [#BigData]

Decisions on Streaming Data Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Amazon, Google and Facebook are household names in part because of their mastery of Big Data. But what about organizations without billions of dollars to spend on Big Data tools - how can they extract value from their data? In his session at 6th Big Data Expo®, Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at Databricks, discussed how the zero management cost and scalability of the cloud is addressing the challenges and pain points that data engineers face when working with Big Data. He also shared how the growing deman... (more)

The Key to Long-Term Results By @AriaSystemsInc | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

The Key to Long-Term Results: Increasing Customer Retention and Satisfaction Our last post defined customer lifetime value (CLV) as the metric critical in measuring the success or failure of a recurring revenue program. In order for your company to routinely return significant revenue, maximizing CLV needs to be at the top of your priority list. A CLV-supported strategy boosts many aspects of your business, from sales to customer service. When it comes to increasing customer retention and customer satisfaction, the two keys to driving long-term results, this same strategy works to... (more)