Boeing, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank, Washington Post and
Schumacher amongst global leaders at TM Forum's Cloud Summit
MORRISTOWN, NJ—August 10, 2010—With the Cloud Services promise meant to
transform the way enterprises operate today, TM Forum is at the forefront,
announcing their Cloud Summit at Management World Americas 2010, (November
9-11, Orlando, FL.) Bringing together enterprise customers, cloud service
providers and technology suppliers to remove barriers to adoption, create a
vibrant marketplace for cloud services, and support transparency through
industry standards, TM Forum's Cloud Summit will see open discussion and
debates with industry leaders and attendees.
With three days full of user case studies, panels, intensive debates and
enterprise roundtables, senior executives from Boeing, Commonwealth Bank of
Australia, Deutsche Bank, Wash... (more)
Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top Players in the
Cloud Computing Ecosystem - now expanded to a list of 250 and growing daily
thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (@jg21) and a very kind
mention by ReadWriteWeb - there have been suggestions that another prism
through which to view cloud computing might be that of people rather than
companies.
Now Michael Sheehan has encouraged me to Just Do It, so let me get
started...as per the previous Top Cloud Players list, this list will a
work-in-progress and is totally porous, so don't hesitate to pin... (more)
I was fortunate to have attended yesterday's SAP Sybase Executive Briefing in
Boston. Also attending were SAP Mentors, Jon Reed and Susan Keohan, "the
workflow goddess." There was a lot covered, but in this report I am going
to focus on what I learned about enterprise mobility there. First, I will
provide some impressions and then drill into some details. Keep in mind
that this is my biased interpretation (i.e. analysis) of what I heard.
The SAP team wanted to communicate that SAP is a different company, with
different management now. They want to leave the slow,
grinding a... (more)
As Dell and HP slug it out to capture 3PAR, Cisco may be adopting a quieter
acquisition style and attempting - according to TechCrunch anyway - to
acquire Skype. Citing someone he refers to only as "one of our more reliable
sources," the Silicon Valley-based site's senior editor Michael
Arrington claims Cisco has already made an offer before Skype has time to
complete its recently announced IPO.
It is five years now since eBay famously acquired Skype for $1.9 billion.
Such an acquisition by Cisco, if it were confirmed, would mark a new scale
for the current round of M&A activity, w... (more)
Innovation on Ulitzer
On-premise vendors continue to struggle in transitioning their products to a
Software as a Service (SaaS) model according to Brian Sommer at ZDNet. In
his latest blog, “The Expanding Gap Between On-Premise and SaaS Solutions
he outlines some of the issues, namely, multitenancy, platform, and solution
integration with SaaS.
For many of you, as readers of the innovation blog on Ulitzer, you recognize
that what is afoot is nothing less than a complete economic business model,
and cultural shift, in service delivery innovation – not an easy transition
for any... (more)
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