7 years ago0112Microsoft has announced a reorganization of its global sales force and marketing operations.
The reorganization is part of the company's effort to place greater focus on artificial intelligence and the cloud as it competes with companies like Amazon and Google's parent company, Alphabet, for customers who want to make use of cloud...
7 years ago07218 new organizations have joined the Linux Foundation as Silver members, the foundation announced today.
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization that enables mass innovation through open source. Its members help support the development of the "greatest shared technology resources in history," while accelerating their own...
8 years ago049Ultimate Software (Nasdaq:ULTI), a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions in the cloud, announced today that Consumer Directed Services (CDS) in Texas, an organization that enables individuals with disabilities to self-direct their care, is using UltiPro to respond to challenging state and federal reporting...
8 years ago047Oracle has a lot of catching up to do in the cloud.
If Barnes & Noble said it was going to undercut Amazon on book sales, would you believe them?
The same may go for Oracle and cloud services. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sept. 20 that his company’s new database-as-a-service is faster and cheaper than Amazon Web Services,...
8 years ago052Lillian Pierson, founder of Data Mania, presents her view on the convergence of IoT, cloud, and big data technologies, with an example from the healthcare industry.
Have you heard of medical radio-telemetry? Up until very recently, it’s been the closest thing that the medical field has had to remote, cloud-based intel on the human...
8 years ago049Enterprise applications delivered to corporate clients via the cloud may be extremely powerful, thanks to the near-infinite compute resources such programs can deploy. But much of the time they are not necessarily the easiest programs for staff members to use. Two new platforms from Microsoft aim to change that by making a company's...
8 years ago043Enterprises that think they can escape the clutches of vendor lock-in by shunting their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operations to the cloud are in for a very rude awakening, according to Gartner Inc.
The research house has just landed a sucker punch with the claim that almost all cloud ERP projects are doomed to fail by 2018,...
8 years ago051Once upon a time in Florida, there was Terremark, an IaaS provider heavily invested in both IaaS and VMware infrastructure. It was tooling along, looking good like many platform providers in the embryonic stage of Cloud-on-the-Hoof (CotH).
The wild and wooly days had Rackspace, Saavis, AWS, and another half-dozen Managed Services...
8 years ago050While the world gets all excited about new applications and the public cloud, enterprises have more pressing concerns.
Interesting news from IBM InterConnect today (Disclusure: IBM contributed to my travel and expenses to attend the event). Big blue is teaming up with VMware in order to give enterprises that use VMware (which, it has...
8 years ago046Enterprise Social Solutions GM shares thoughts on Project Toscana, cloud vs. on-premises and more at IBM Connect event
IBM Enterprise Social Solutions GM Jeff Schick emceed the company’s recent Connect conference in Orlando, where Big Blue updated customers and partners on its latest collaboration, mobile and cloud efforts,...
8 years ago042Every year cloud management vendor RightScale runs a survey of cloud adoption. The results are always interesting reading.
This year's RightScale "State of the Cloud" report is, as in previous years, interesting reading. In particular, it is interesting to see subtle changes in the cloud industry makeup with vendors starting to make...
8 years ago049Non-cloud technologies lumped into cloud revenue makes for a cloudy financial picture for users
Vendors in the cloud computing market hype up the revenues they earn from this emerging technology, making it difficult for customers to truly judge the strength of a vendor’s financial health and difficult to make comparisons between...
8 years ago053The potential obstacles are the very reasons why CFOs should make the move in the first place, says a KPMG executive.
It started with customer data a decade ago, followed by human capital management. Now the wave of cloud adoption is lapping at the door of finance as organizations begin to move their enterprise systems out of the...