Category: Cloud

December 5, 2017

Oracle is a database engine run by most of PLM implementations in the world for many years. It is one of the best examples of vendor lock-in and the way to hook enterprise company to a costly maintenance contract and […]

December 4, 2017

As we enter the last quarter of 2017, business and IT executives are turning more of their attention to how they can use technology to accomplish their 2018 business objectives. We’ve compiled a list of five trends in cloud computing […]

November 30, 2017

SAP reported its third quarter fiscal 2017 financial results on Oct. 19, demonstrating the positive impact of the enterprise application software firm’s move to the cloud. For the quarter, revenue was reported at €5.6B for a four percent year-over-year gain. […]

November 14, 2017

As cloud awareness and adoption grow, more enterprises are beginning to appreciate the benefits of using multiple cloud platforms. Going multi-cloud brings a variety of advantages. The approach lets an enterprise tap into only the best parts of individual cloud platforms […]

October 6, 2017

For years Microsoft has talked about, previewed and at some times delayed the release of its Azure Stack hybrid cloud computing platform. But this week at its Ignite conference in Orlando Microsoft announced that Azure Stack is now shipping to […]

September 14, 2017

Cloud computing is transforming the way enterprises approach IT. The shift started with SaaS applications and is now rapidly sweeping through the data center with a growing focus on hybrid cloud initiatives. A recent Evaluator Group survey of enterprise IT […]

September 11, 2017

As cloud computing continues to generate a huge amount of buzz and interest over its future, another phenomenon is gaining investor’s and developer’s interest with promises to upend the future of enterprise IT. Hybrid cloud tech, which has only recently […]

September 1, 2017

PLM vendors and industry is adopting cloud-based technologies. The process isn’t simple and brings many discussions about what differences cloud can bring to PLM solutions. Few months ago, I attended CIMdata industry and market forum in Ann Arbor. One of the […]

August 31, 2017

Don’t rush into the cloud before taking the time to understand what you want, and what you need. When it comes to cloud adoption, organizations have shifted from asking, “Should we move to the cloud?” to more fundamental questions like […]

August 29, 2017

If you want to get up to speed with everything going on in technology, navigate to Kleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report 2017 here. The report is delivered annually and you might remember my blogs following […]

August 24, 2017

What is the difference between corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence (BI)? CPM and BI both inhabit the same arena of enterprise technology because they do the work of encapsulating the organization’s health. These two categories allow you to […]

August 23, 2017

According to the latest statistics from RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report, current cloud adoption among companies is 95%. This could mean that we’re not too far away from having 100% of companies who will use the cloud for […]

July 27, 2017

Cloud is a big buzzword, but as we know, there are so many flavors and colors of cloud technologies. The evolution of the cloud has started from network and remote data access and now fully exploding into hosting, on demand […]

June 9, 2017

Pegasystems has deepened its 7-year-old relationship with Amazon AWS, and also has teamed up with Microsoft Azure, company officials told Pegaworld attendees on Tuesday. The deals are part of a series of planned partnerships aimed at giving Pega’s clients choice […]

June 2, 2017

Storage is a fast-evolving industry. Groundbreaking hardware technologies quickly become commoditized, which is a challenge for vendors, but a great benefit to customers. Today’s shiny new array soon becomes matched by a similarly capable JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disk) […]

May 26, 2017

At its massive customer conference held last week in Orlando, SAP made it clear that it was charting a new course for the future. In announcing Leonardo — what it calls a digital innovation system — and in interviews with […]

May 24, 2017

Although we’re only beginning to scratch the surface when it comes to the capabilities of cloud applications, many are already contemplating the successor to cloud architectures. One such technology being discussed is a called edge computing. This is a concept […]

May 19, 2017

RackWare offers a management and automation platform that enterprises use to manage their computing resources to more closely follow demand. RackWare’s core proposition is that its management suite delivers cost savings to customers of a suggested 40 to 50 percent. […]

May 18, 2017

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2017 is here, and hopefully it will present a fresh opportunity to review some of the cloud’s limitations in this area. Some 60 percent of all enterprise IT workloads will be run in some form of public […]

May 17, 2017

Google today unveiled a cloud platform service to help organizations collect vital data from billions of Internet of Things devices. The service, Google Cloud IoT Core, is designed to help enterprises, including utilities and transportation agencies, securely connect globally distributed […]