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Oct 31
2011
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Business Application News & Discussion
Tags >> adoption
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Sep 20
2011
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DreamSimplicity & KeyStone OnDemand present:
Increasing Adoption & Retention of SaaS/Cloud Apps
Effective strategies to transform passive users into loyal power users.
6 Free sessions to choose from!
A 6-part webinar series designed for SaaS and Cloud executives in sales, marketing and support to provide effective strategies to increase customer acquisition, adoption and retention throughout the customer lifecycle.
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Apr 20
2010
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Global CIO: Steve Ballmer Interview: 'Hockey Stick' Cloud Growth AheadPosted by: Floyd Tucker Tagged in: Salesforce , Microsoft , IT , infrastructure , InformationWeek , Google , cloud , CIO , CEO , Ballmer , Amazon , adoption
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Microsoft CEO talks about new competition with Google, Amazon, and Salesforce, and why CIOs now are ready for cloud computing.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sent a message of late that Microsoft is "all in" when it comes to cloud computing. In an interview with InformationWeek editors, Ballmer made clear that this all-in cloud computing bet isn't merely a long-term, over-the-horizon play. The cloud growth--"hockey stick" growth, he said -- is taking off right now. And Ballmer makes a passionate case for how the investment Microsoft has made in cloud computing products and infrastructure over the last five years makes it different from rivals Google, Amazon, and Salesforce. We pushed to clarify--when does that hockey stick growth take off? We're not there yet, right? "I don't know. It sure feels like we're there today to me," Ballmer said. He added, however, that most lines of business software--industry-specific applications or transaction systems, for example--aren't going to the cloud en masse yet. Platform as a service offerings, like Microsoft's Azure, haven't taken off. But with what he calls "information worker infrastructure" -- think Exchange, SharePoint, and Office software -- CIOs are ready to move quickly to the cloud.
"Look, I don't want to oversell or undersell, but the truth of the matter is there is not an enterprise customer I visit today where this is not an issue -- just not," Ballmer said. Any CIO considering an upgrade to the company's e-mail or other collaboration platforms has to at least consider going to a cloud-based infrastructure. "Everybody is saying, look, next time I touch anything, I'm going. If I'm not touching anything, maybe I don't go," Ballmer said. "But if I'm really going to touch something, I'm going to have this [cloud] discussion."
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Mar 23
2010
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A recent article in the NY Times by Yochai Benkler, discusses some of the issues we in the US face with regards to cheap, fast and reliable broadband internet. The issue it seems isn't surrounding the availability of broadband internet, but the costs we take for granted to have it. According to Benkler, the US lags behind other developed nations when it comes to promoting high speed internet ubiquity through competition in the marketplace. In San Francisco, the majority of small business are stuck with just a small handful of options when it comes to internet connectivity for their business. This impedes the adoption of SaaS and Cloud Computing and will ultimately put a damper on innovation advancement of technology in the US. We've been saying for a long time, that one of the biggest barriers to widespread adoption of SaaS and Cloud Computing is inexpensive and reliable internet speeds matching those of on-site servers at a price that Mom and Pop on Main Street can afford...
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