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Colocate Undifferentiated Services to Cut Costs, Reallocate Resources
“Building and managing a data center is best left up to the experts,” writes Gary MacFadden in his latest Professional Alert: “Switch SuperNAP Cloud Infrastructure Service Does the Heavy Lifting for IT.” At Wikibon’s April 23, 2013 Peer Incite, Jason Mendenhall, EVP of Cloud for Switch Communications argued that Switch’s SuperNAP colocation center in Las ...
Keep Your Data Close and Your Competitors’ Data Closer
Cloud provider ISVs (CPIs), aka Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) including Salesforce, Microsoft 365 and Google Apps, and ServiceNOW, are becoming increasingly important in many companies, with or without formal IT involvement, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest alert: “Keep Your Own Data Close and Your Competitors Data Closer”. Many of these cloud-based services actually run ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 25, 2013
Dell Announces Portfolio of Mobile Solutions for BYOD At Dell’s “Power to Do More — Accelerating Results” event in San Francisco yesterday, the vendor showed new mobility tools to streamline enterprise mobility management, endpoint security enhancements, and tools to expedite application upgrades and cloud adoption, with new migration systems and partner program enhancements to reinforce ...
ITOs Need to Reorganize Around Services or be Left Behind
One of the biggest lessons from the April 23 Wikibon Peer Incite Meeting on the impact of cloud services on the ITO is that IT needs to become a services-led organization like the competition to survive. This means much more than just creating a menu of IT business services figure out what each costs per ...
CIOs Should Embrace the Cloud but Apply Strong Management Techniques
As the initial CIO skepticism about cloud services fades and ITOs start looking for the advantages of cloud, writes Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Alert, “The CIO and the Cloud: Embrace, Extend, Innovate”, they should consider Big Data Analytics as an early use case. However, they should be careful about “platform sprawl”, the 21st ...
Data Scientists — Weight Cost/Benefits of Cloud for Production Big Data Systems
Enterprise developers and data scientists often build small proofs-of-concept for Big Data analysis projects, involving relatively small subsets of enterprise data, on public cloud platforms. But when those pan out, the development team builds the production-level system in-house. That makes sense when most or all of the data is generated in-house, but it may be ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 24, 2013
EMC Reports Record 1Q Revenues, Reaffirms 2013 Business Outlook EMC has reported 1Q13 revenue of $5.39 billion, a 6% increased year-to-year and a record for the company. GAAP net revenues attributable to EMC were $580 million, and earnings per diluted share were $0.26. Non-GAAP net income attributable to EMC was %850 million, a 4% year-to-year ...
Is AWS Eating the Enterprise? Not so Fast, Others are at the Table, Too
AWS is growing at a phenomenal rate. Wikibon estimates it will top $3B in 2013. But, says Jason Mendenhall, EVP for Cloud at Switch Communications, creator of Nap 7, a.k.a. SuperNap, the world’s largest, fastest public cloud colocation data center, it is not eating up the IT-as-a-Service marketplace — in fact in some ways it ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 23, 2013
Netherlands Rabobank International Selects HP Autonomy for Dodd Frank Compliance Rabobank International, the retail bank division of Rabobank Group, has selected HP Autonomy Enterprise Content Management (ECM) to meet regulatory obligations and drive business efficiency. Autonomy will provide a single, end-to-end information governance platform for regulatory record management and help increase trading efficiency by automating ...
EMC Announces New Courses for Management on Cloud, Big Data
“As our president, Joe Tucci, is always saying, there are waves in technology, and Big Data, Cloud, and mobility are the biggest in 30 years,” says Tom Clancy, VP of Educational Services at EMC. “We have been offering week-long certification courses for IT in Big Data and cloud services for years. All our students tell ...