Category: Executives
HP’s Apotheker pushes company’s new growth strategy
At the Tuesday AlwaysON OnDemand conference at their headquarters, Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Leo Apotheker continued to outline his strategy to outperform rivals including IBM and Oracle. HP intends to increase its involvement in the rapidly expanding cloud computing market by running next-generation data centers for large enterprise customers. According to Apotheker, his goal is “to [...]
Close to forty percent of small businesses planning cloud computing – Microsoft.
According to Microsoft, 39 percent of small businesses intend to buy one or more cloud computing services over the next three years. This is a conclusion from Microsoft’s third annual worldwide study into how small and medium businesses plan to use cloud-based resources in the next three years. The study indicates that SME’s will [...]
Why Aren’t More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Why Aren't More Businesses Embracing The Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion today about cloud computing and the supposed cost benefits that it offers. According to an interesting piece by Alok Misra in Information Week, many companies don’t seem to understand where these reduced costs come from. The reason is that many enterprises right now are not able to distinguish between on-site [...]
Bold Claims From Google But Are They Real Foresight Or Just Empty Threats?
Recently, Google Apps, the web-based operating system product from Google, ran a four page ad in the Economist magazine, in an effort to stir up more interest from users and businesses all over. Since its inception in 2007, the company boasts a subscription base of more than 3,000,000 users that continues to grow by 3,000 [...]
Former Salesforce.com Execs Form Cloud Startup, Okta
Former execs from Salesforce.com have launched a startup in the enterprise cloud computing business, with initial clients Pandora and Enterasys. Based out of San Francisco, Okta provides an enterprise solution intended to make it easy for companies to manage cloud computing apps and users; particularly useful as a company grows in headcount and adopts more [...]
How Cloud Computing Changes IT Staffs
A good friend who spent years selling to CIOs once commented about CIO priorities “They can only focus on three big things, and two of them are budgets and people, so don’t expect that it’s easy making your widget a top priority within the organization.” There’s a lot of wisdom in Abbie’s and my friend’s [...]
More Businesses are Spending money on Cloud Computing
Cloud computing and managed hosting spending by U.S. businesses will surpass $13 billion in 2014, up from less than $3 billion, according to a new In-Stat report. “Although spending across all sectors and size of business is projected to grow, there are some segments where growth will be staggering,” said Greg Potter, research analyst. “The [...]
FedEx CIO Explains The Power Of Cloud
Leave it to Rob Carter, the CIO of FedEx, to clarify what’s really powerful about cloud computing. Carter, the company’s CIO since 2000 and an InformationWeek advisory board member for almost as long, has a knack for discussing technology in a way that cuts to the business payoff, but without leaning on buzzwords that whitewash the [...]
Speculation is rampant that Microsoft Server Chief was fired over Cloud Strategy
This is getting interesting to watch. The latest speculation about Microsoft and Azure… Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have dismissed Bob Muglia from his role as head of the company’s $15 billion Server and Tools Business unit because he felt Muglia was not the right individual to lead Redmond into the cloud computing age, according [...]
Customers still dont fully get Cloud Computing
One of the more interesting Cloud Computing articles I have read from ZDNET. Seems like most customers don’t really understand or appreciate the full benefits of Cloud Computing. It was pretty funny to read and I fully recommend: In a research note posted today, Gartner distinguished analyst John Pescatore said many corporate customers he’s talked [...]
How Cloud Computing Is Challenging CIOs
CIOs must adapt quickly to cloud technologies that lead toward collaboration, say keynote speakers J. P. Rangaswami, CIO and chief scientist at BT Design, and Murali Sitaram, VP/GM of Cisco’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform. Cloud computing is expanding at rates and directions barely imaginable a few years ago and CIOs will have to adapt quickly to [...]
Microsoft: Enterprise customer growth accelerates private cloud strategy
From Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is making a number of announcements around tools and database tweaks for its Azure cloud platform at this week’s TechEd conference. But I’m more interested in some of the more subtle clues I’ve been picking up about the Softies’ future cloud strategies and directions here. First, Microsoft execs are moving [...]
Executive Profile: Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics
Swayne Hill of Cloud9analytics credits his experience managing a golf course in his teens with teaching him valuable lessons in business. “In Western Canada, the golf season is four or five months. There’s a lot of intense pressure on available resources,” he said in a recent interview at his Redwood Shores offices. “It sounds kind [...]
Microsoft betting that India will lead the world in Cloud Computing
NEW DELHI: Microsoft Corp sees India as the global hub for cloud computing, the concept of renting computing power that has taken the technology world by storm and in the words of the NYT, what Silicon Valley cannot seem to get its head out of. “India will not only see a surge in cloud computing [...]
Oracle’s Larry Ellison eats his words on Cloud Computing
After Ellison’s colorful rants about the cloud’s absurdity, idiocy, and nonsense, Oracle’s expanding its cloud technology, advocacy, and marketing. After all the showmanship and on-stage theatrics, it really comes down to this: Larry Ellison is allowing his company to love the cloud because orange is the new pink for Oracle. This story offers a, uh, [...]
Oracle’s Larry Ellison eats his words on Cloud Computing
After Ellison’s colorful rants about the cloud’s absurdity, idiocy, and nonsense, Oracle’s expanding its cloud technology, advocacy, and marketing. After all the showmanship and on-stage theatrics, it really comes down to this: Larry Ellison is allowing his company to love the cloud because orange is the new pink for Oracle. This story offers a, uh, [...]
Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing
Interesting new Windows Azure related video. David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between Infrastructure vs Platform as a Service, and the role of private vs public cloud. [...]
What CIOs Need to Know About Cloud Integration
Cloud computing promises the ability to move applications and systems to the location and platform that makes the most sense–in terms of risk and economics–at any given time. Retailers, for example, can buy extra transaction-processing capacity during holiday shopping season and give it up when sales ebb. Financial services companies might buy infrastructure in which [...]
Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency’s CIO
A Defense Information Systems Agency’s cloud computing expert, Henry Sienkiewicz, is the agency’s new chief information officer. Sienkiewicz had been serving as the technical program director for the DISA’s Computing Services Directorate and replaces Roberta Stempfley, who left the agency last month to become director of the National Cybersecurity Division at the Department of Homeland [...]
Cloud Computing Expert Becomes Defense Information Systems Agency's CIO
A Defense Information Systems Agency’s cloud computing expert, Henry Sienkiewicz, is the agency’s new chief information officer. Sienkiewicz had been serving as the technical program director for the DISA’s Computing Services Directorate and replaces Roberta Stempfley, who left the agency last month to become director of the National Cybersecurity Division at the Department of Homeland [...]
Siki Giunta Joins CSC as Vice President of Cloud Computing and Software Services
CSC (CSC 50.27, -0.69, -1.35%) has named Siki Giunta vice president of cloud computing and software services
Capellas picked to run the Virtual Computing Environment coalition
Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq, MCI, and First Data, has a new job as the front man for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition.
