Strong Privacy Management is Key for Cloud Monetization and IoT
As healthcare providers move into mobile device applications and across
enterprise and cloud technologies in the U.S. and abroad, businesses and
consumers are demanding more layers of protection. And it’s needed: Recent
online security breaches highlight the importance of security, especially as
cloud transactions and the IoT become more commonplace.
Attracting new customers and retaining old ones is paramount for most
companies, and creating trust goes a long way when it comes to the
monetization of online data. Concern over online security can determine what
companies customers use, and that trust can be a major factor in choosing one
company over another.
The better a company can secure and protect this information; the more
successful it will be with customer acquisition and retention rates. For
ex... (more)
Recurring Revenue - An Unparalleled Opportunity
How do you surge ahead of the competitors and completely shake up the game?
What determines who becomes the next Netflix, Apple, or Salesforce of your
industry? It all comes down to identifying the opportunity to grow revenue
and gain the competitive advantage. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel
– just reinvent how you package and sell your products and services.
Consider the brands above – each company is not the sole provider, or even
the inventor, of the products and services they sell. A convergence of cloud
computing technolo... (more)
3 IoT Trends to Watch in 2015
The dust has settled from CES 2015. The Internet of Things was front and
center throughout the show, a reflection of its rapidly expanding presence in
products and services for consumers and businesses alike. IoT played a vital
role in hundreds of products on display, including dazzling innovations such
as self-driving cars and the latest drones. Here are three trends that
emerged from CES that will shape the direction of IoT monetization in 2015
and beyond.
Wearables move beyond the wrist
The market for wearables is advancing beyond the realm of wri... (more)
By Salil Deshpande
At the end of 2013, Salil Deshpande, Managing Director with Bain Capital
Ventures and member of the Aria Systems board, popularly made a
few predictions in the cloud and virtualization industries for 2014. Among
Salil’s predictions were the notions that moving apps to the cloud includes
moving your ancillary problems to the cloud and that apps will need to manage
their data in memory rather writing them to a disk.
So how did Salil fare with his predictions? He recently took a look back with
some interesting results. His full article, which first appeared on VM ... (more)
Nickelodeon - The Newest Brand to Embrace the Move to Recurring Revenue
Can’t get enough of SpongeBob SquarePants? You’re in luck! Soon you’ll
be able to watch your favorite show on demand.
Nickelodeon owner Viacom recently announced its plan to offer a stand-alone
Internet offering that focuses on mobile viewers for the popular cable
channel. Full details and offerings for the plan, which launches in March,
haven’t been released yet so it’s still unclear how much subscribers
will pay and if they will get the same services as cable and satellite TV
subscribers or access to supple... (more)
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