Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

In the following interview, Sramana and Steven discuss how supply chain services for Internet-based electronic data interchange (EDI) in the automotive and traditional whole goods markets are adopting cloud computing to their advantage. >>>

Private Cloud Analytics Is A Major Trend

Based on our TLCC interviews, it is evident that cloud analytics is a major trend. My conversations with IBM’s Ric Telford and Pat Toole clearly demonstrate IBM’s strategy of building a private cloud offering for analytics to cater to large enterprise needs. Today, we analyze Informatica’s prospects against this backdrop.

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Does Cloud Computing Have A Silver Lining For You? (Part 3)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

The third and final part of this series discusses formulating an implementation strategy and discovering blue-sky opportunities in the cloud.

Formulate your integration strategy

It is evident from industry-wide trends that a new business or startup has minimal integration points to deal with compared to companies with traditionally managed IT infrastructure and application deployments. It should not surprise anyone that small and medium businesses are the classic early adopters of cloud computing technologies – look at the customer case studies of prominent cloud vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, and others.  >>>

Does Cloud Computing Have A Silver Lining For You? (Part 2)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

In the first part of this post, we named three things those considering cloud adoption must do. Again, they are:

1.    Investigate your cloud adoption objectives and opportunities.

2.   Formulate your integration strategy.

3.   Discover your blue-sky opportunities in the cloud.

Part 2 will cover investigating opportunities, and we’ll finish with formulating strategies and discovering blue-sky opportunities in Part 3. >>>

Does Cloud Computing Have A Silver Lining For You? (Part 1)

By guest author Shaloo Shalini

As an engrossed spectator witnessing the charge of the cloud computing brigade, deafened by the din and fascinated by the exhilaration and anticipation around cloud computing across the globe, I am reminded of the saying sometimes attributed to Voltaire: Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ. (No offense meant to anyone.) >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Standing Cloud, Boulder, Colorado

Standing Cloud is an application deployment and management platform for the cloud and can be used to build websites and webapps. The platform is built in Java and is currently deployed on Rackspace and Amazon EC2 cloud servers. Further, the company offers more than sixty open-source applications that users may test-drive or install for permanent operation. It monitors and backs up applications and aims to offer seamless portability from one cloud service to another, ensuring that there is never any downtime by giving control back to the user. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: GCI created this “order to cash” service spin-off. Tell me more about what happened and what made you decide to make this move? Are you providing that same “order-to-cash” offering, which is cloud based, to various telecom and utility providers now? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: James Dunlap, President of Cycle30 (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini

SM: In bringing all of this together, what do you see as entrepreneurial opportunities? What are the blue-sky needs for newer solutions in cloud? It sounds like you have done something entrepreneurial yourself by taking this whole order to cash management to the cloud and spun it out of GCI. What is your thinking behind that decision? >>>