Research from Varonis Systems Inc., a provider of comprehensive data governance software, has found that 67% of respondents say that senior management in their organizations either don’t know where all company data resides or are not sure. In addition, 74% of organizations reported that they do not have a process for tracking which [...]
Continue Reading →The Cloud Council of 7 (CCO7) is proud to announce that we have joined other industry leaders in order to compile information regarding how the Cloud is currently being used. Under the direction of North Bridge Venture Partners, nearly forty Cloud Computing organizations will survey what you have to say about [...]
Continue Reading →Ever wish that you could explain Cloud Computing to someone in 90 seconds or less? Well, now you don’t have to because the folks at National Geographic have done it for us. Starting with the caveman (who had to start managing stuff) and moving on to the abacus, the calculator, and the IBM-PC, we get [...]
Continue Reading →In July 2011, IBM developerWorks conducted a survey of over 4,000 IT professionals, faculty members, and students from among the IBM developerWorks community. Respondents were asked about their view of the future of technology…
including questions on business analytics, mobile computing, Cloud computing, and social business. The 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report offers interesting [...]
Continue Reading →Special thanks to David Strom, Business Channels Editor, ReadWriteWeb, who originally published this blog post on the ReadWriteWeb cloud blog.
The Eight Things the Simpsons Can Teach You About Cloud Computing
When the Simpsons started out back in 1987 as animated shorts for the Tracey Ullman show no one [...]
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Guest blogger Christopher Neal, Vice President of the Technology and Telecom Practice, at Chadwick Martin Bailey reports that when it comes to Cloud computing, IT professionals are leading the charge to adoption….and more.
Last year we shared some of the key trends in cloud computing conversion with the potential to make 2011 the year of [...]
Continue Reading →On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died at the age of 56.
As we reflect today on his impact on so many things, we thought we’d touch on Steve Jobs thoughts on Cloud computing in [...]
Continue Reading →Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference by Lawrence Schwartz, Senior Director of Marketing, Tokutek
Monica Rogatiof LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s desk. One day, someone needed an Ethernet cable [...]
Continue Reading →Recently, I attended Symantec’s “Gaining Confidence in the Cloud” seminar in Chicago, Illinois. The keynote speaker was Anil Chakravarthy.
He is Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. He gave a great overview of Cloud computing to the audience. For starters, Symantec is hearing from customers that:
Information is growing Attacks are [...]
Continue Reading →Find out how NIST, a measurement standards laboratory, is helping the Federal government accelerate their adoption of Cloud technologies.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a measurement standards laboratory. The institute’s official mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
In 2009, NIST [...]
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