Industry-specific cloud solutions can enable organizations to automate manual tasks and shift their focus to competitive differentiation. Cloud and software vendors now offer vertical-specific solutions that modernize legacy processes and jump-start innovation, freeing organizations to focus resources on competitive differentiation. As the global economy moves from a pandemic footing to
Category: Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers. If the connection to the user is relatively close, it may be designated an edge server.
New Era Of Data Monetization: Advances In Data-Sharing Technologies Made It Easy To Share Data While Preserving Security And Privacy
New technologies give rise to innovative business models and products by simplifying the mechanics of data-sharing across and between organizations – all while preserving the veil of privacy. Thanks to advances in data-sharing technologies, you can buy and sell potentially valuable information assets in highly efficient, cloud-based marketplaces. Combine this
Digital Technology For The Future Of The Planet: Lives, Society, And The Physical Environment
Digital technology is becoming an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society and the environment. We present a framework for computing in the context of problems facing the planet. The framework has a number of goals: an optimal digital infrastructure, sensing and optimizing with a global world model, reliably
Cloud Innovation Strategy: Four Potential Circumstances For Future Of Cloud Innovation Programs In Any Organizations
Cloud innovation programs have competing priorities across the c-suite. Organizations can better align business outcomes with technical requirements and gain economies of scale across these programs with scenario thinking. Introduction What if a large hospital system could aggregate all of its data for opioid prescriptions – how many milligrams were
Cloud Migration: A Cohesive Approach To Cloud Strategy – Implementing The Right Mix Of Security, Trust, And Business Agility
Introduction Increasingly, global organizations are migrating from legacy on-premise infrastructure to the cloud in order to achieve greater business agility and resilience with a modern IT approach. Yet too often, cloud migration and cybersecurity are considered separately, with different teams focused on different phases of what could be a shared
Creating XaaS Business (Anything As A Service): Building Scalable Lead-To-Cash Operations For Industry 4.0 With Sales And Back-Office Capabilities
In an XaaS environment, leaders are looking to meet changing customer needs by transforming their lead-to-cash value chain. In the 16th article in our series on digital industrial transformation, we examine how to institute a scalable yet flexible omnichannel sales process. Introduction Shifting to an as-a-service purchasing model can present
Enterprise IT: A Time Of Unprecedented Disruption Thrive With Cloud And Everything-As-A-Service | Deloitte Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) Study, 2021 Edition
Companies were shifting to everything-as-a-service IT even before the pandemic boosted the value of flexibility, and the second Deloitte Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) Study shows adopters increasingly prizing the XaaS model. Introduction Over the past decade, leaders have become increasingly taken with the idea of everything-as-a-service (XaaS). Across industries, organizations have looked
How Management Will Be Changed By The Most Impactful Information Technology Of Our Time: Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is changing how products are designed; enabling closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and fostering more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers. In particular, new ways of writing and deploying software
Internet Of Things And Smart, Connected Products Are Forcing Companies To Rethink Their Competitive Strategy
“Information technology is revolutionizing products, from appliances to cars to mining equipment. Products once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts have become complex systems combining hardware, sensors, electronics, and software that connect through the internet in myriad ways. These “smart, connected products” offer exponentially expanding opportunities for new functionality,
Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future By George Gilder
Is blockchain the technology of the future? George Gilder, author of Life After Google, argues that bitcoin and blockchain technology is revolutionizing the Internet. He sits down with Peter Robinson to discuss technology, cloud computing, big data, and the growing role of blockchain in innovating new technologies. Gilder argues that
Why There Is So Much Excitement About K3s Joining CNCF In Open Source Community?
Hot on the heels of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Rancher Labs announced the acceptance of K3s by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It’s joining the likes of OpenTelemetry, Network Service Mesh, Longhorn and 30 other projects in the Sandbox. At first glance, it comes across as yet another open source project joining
What Is Open Source Software Bootstrapping?
In the software industry, open source has become a way of life. If not quite the de facto choice for enterprise software at every level (proprietary vendor-closed software isn’t going away any time this decade), then we can at least say that we’re seeing major organizations embrace a high degree
