Posted on July 12, 2013, by Goran Čandrlić | 6 minute read
In an article titled "Cloud migration best practices that most enterprises don't leverage", David Linthicum, one of the top cloud influencers, explains that most enterprises lack good planning and understanding of cloud technology. "Those in charge of the project let the hype lead them, and not the logic. They take unneeded risks, perhaps selecting the wrong applications to move to the cloud, or they move through the projects without validation of the technology, or perhaps they don’t understand their own security and governance requirements," he claims. The good practice is a lot of testing and paying attention to the requirements and also the new technology. To get even more specific, he brings a pattern of traditional, new and emerging practices when migrating to the cloud:
Read the full article by Linthicum at GigaOM.
"The customer experience is the next competitive battleground," says Jerry Gregoire, CIO at Dell Computers, while discussing cloud computing. You can focus on cloud architecture, and cloud operations, but what impact has it on customer experience is what will come to focus in a future decade. Frost & Sullivan, Positec and Five9 will look into the growing importance of providing a strong, positive high quality customer experience in corporate strategies and tactics, in a webinar scheduled for July 25, 2013, 2 pm. Topics are:
You can RSVP and register for the webinar here.
Oxford Economics, the world leader in global forecasting and quantitative analysis for business and government, brings an infographic (sponsored by SAP) that looks into an issue of unlocking the mobile cloud for enterprises.
As expected, 2/3 of companies have productivity, innovation and speed as top of mind priorities and expect cloud computing to highly improve all those points.
They also find that mobile is taking advantage of cloud based services as top three areas of focus for enterprises are: mobile security, affordable tablets and mobile device as desktop/laptop replacement.
They expect the cloud to further drive mobile business transformation, and companies to customize pre-packaged applications with cloud based mobile platforms. It can bring up to 70% increased productivity, 57% more access to customer information, and up to 53% reduced costs, according to Oxford Economics research.
Find the full infographic here.
"Fuji has inspired artists and poets and has been the object of pilgrimage for centuries," Lauren Hockenson quotes UN in an article for GigaOM, and now, "you can tweet at the top of Mt. Fuji, thanks to new cell coverage that offers 4G LTE." Right at the peak of the mountain, Japanese telecom company has set the connectivity network from now until the end of August, when most of the tourists climb to the mountain. It is important to note that 3G coverage was already added in 2005, but obviously this is not sufficient, and now the signal is boosted. Now, download speed on Japan's most famous mountain can reach 75Mbps. DoCoMo, that offers this service to its subscribers said that it is building a fleet of 30 truck-based LTE stations that can create networks from scratch or add capacity to existing networks and can be used for temporary events and to support regions hit by natural disasters.
Read more from GigaOM or ComputerWorld.
Cloud Computing Wire has published an updated list of top cloud computing influencers, which was aggregated and curated based on many such lists published elsewhere on the web, including top twitter influencers. The list includes David Linthicum, many times quoted here, Sam Charrington, the founder of CloudPulse Strategies, Jeremy Geelan from Cloud Expo, Reuven Cohen, vice president for Virtustream, Randy Bias, a cloud computing pioneer, and many more.
Find the full list here.
