
Measuring Your DevOps Success
by: Our answer is always that an organization’s current position must be baselined first. Having a baseline means you can build a business case, apply targets and goals to your projects and measure your success as you progress through your project with the ultimate goal being to report back to the board on how you(…)

SoftLayer – Ibm’s New Quarterback for the Cloud
by: What typically happens to smaller firms when they are being eaten up by mega-companies like IBM seems pretty obvious – they go to the dogs. Key executives will leave the team, product roadmaps will lose their binding character and strategy will get fuzzy due to the sheer magnitude of the organization and its inherent(…)

Product Manager Matt Ayers on Skytap’s Integration with Amazon Web Services
by: Hi folks, I’m a product manager here at Skytap and I wanted to take some time to talk about our newly-launched support for Skytap on Amazon Web Services. Since beginning a private beta program last November, we’ve been working closely with our customers who use AWS, and after receiving extensive customer feedback, we are(…)

Oracle Reports Gains, But Rivals Grow Faster
by: Doug Henschen Oracle Cloud subscription revenue increases 25% and hardware rebounds, but Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce.com, and Workday threats loom large. Continue reading at informationweek.com This post is brought to you as part of the VMware Software Defined Enterprise, which provides resources and solutions for the software defined world. Join the conversation on Facebook and(…)

Cloud Computing Security Needs: 7 Steps to Migrate to the Cloud
by: In 2008, the size of the cloud computing industry was $46 Billion. That is more than the GDP of Costa Rica! Think it’s a lot? Ready to jump on the cloud security bandwagon? That was 2008! In 2014, the size of the cloud computing industry has more than tripled to $150 Billion – almost(…)

Industry Prospects And Googles Initiatives To Cause Its Future Growth To Flourish (Blackstone Equity Research/Seeking Alpha – Goog)
by: Blackstone Equity Research / Seeking Alpha – GOOGIndustry Prospects And Googles Initiatives To Cause Its Future Growth To Flourish – By Blackstone Equity Research: Google Inc. (GOOG) is an American multinational corporation specializing in internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies. AdWords, an online advertising service has(…)

Infonetics: Videoconferencing and Collaboration Show Strongest Growth Among Unified Communications Apps
by: Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2014 UC Cloud and On-Premises Strategies and Vendor Leadership: North American Enterprise Survey, which explores enterprises’ plans for unified communications (UC), including cloud deployments, and their perceptions of UC vendors. ANALYST NOTE Continue reading at SDN Journal This post is brought to you as part(…)

Good Customer Experience Requires IT Innovation
by: With the information technology department gaining more visibility as an organizational business driver, the C-suite is turning to IT to assist in connecting with customers more effectively. In fact, corporate executives are coming up with a wide variety of ambitious plans on this front, and all of them are expected to involve technology, according(…)

Cloud World Forum Addresses the Evolving Role of the CIO
by: London, 18 March 2014 – In an increasingly digital world the Cloud era presents a wealth of opportunity to economies, enterprises and individuals around the globe. At an executive level, Cloud is having a profound effect on the role of CIOs, whose corporate responsibilities are evolving as their companies fight to stay ahead of(…)

Enterprise Mobility, Digital Transformation and Work Spaces
by: I had the opportunity to spend some time recently with Asure Software’s VP/GM of EMEA and APAC, Nigel Clarke, and to discuss how digital transformation is impacting work spaces and the mobile workforce. In years past I attended facility management conferences and developed mobile apps to help manage facilities, assets, rooms, inspections, materials(…)