CIOs will have the opportunity to move away from the traditional scenario of spending 80% of their budget on maintenance and 20% on innovation if they harness cloud computing technologies. This in turn will raise the expectations put on CIOs from the boardroom, who will expect IT to drive business innovations. Cloud computing is shaking-up competitive landscapes as companies of all sizes can access the same resources and reach similar markets as a result. But […]
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The advent of the Internet afforded a number of different companies options when it came to extending their offerings around the world. eCommerce presented a whole range of new opportunities and now, cloud computing is gaining in importance in this space. Entire networks are being moved to the cloud to enable streamlined operations, greater capability and lower costs. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is getting a whole new makeover in cloud computing and both companies and […]
The “cloud” is where we’ve been sharing our lives and storing our files for awhile now, but with so many cloud services there’s much more you can do that may not have crossed your mind. Here are our top ten ideas. 10. Write in Public Without a Blog Everyone and their mother has a blog nowadays, but how often is it really updated? And even then, how often are people saying anything worthwhile? That said, […]
It’s pretty commonly understood that corporate computing has gone through three principal phases: centralized computing first, then the PC Era, then the age of the network. We could easily fit Enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, and lots of other recent developments into the network phase, but I think we’d be missing something if we did so. It became clear to me as I watched the digital economy in 2010 that we had passed a tipping point […]