The Seamless Enterprise

Today the enterprise office space is at most sort of a “home base” for employees. The days of a permanent cubicle, with a desktop computer and POTS phone, seem archaic. It is a very dynamic situation, and as the IDC 2009-2013 forecast points out, a remarkable 72 percent of employees are mobile today, some even working out of their homes and on the road entirely.  (more…)

A recent 2010 survey by the Yankee Group showed that enterprises are now the fastest adopters of the cloud. In less than a decade Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.com went from unknown ideas to global market powers. In even less time LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter changed the world.  According to the Executive Guide to Cloud Computing, these organizations rode the power of the cloud to dominance. “With roots in supercomputing and many other technical disciplines, cloud computing unleashed an entirely new economic reality: technology-enabled enterprises built on low-cost, flexible, and limitless technical infrastructures”. (more…)

Gartner calls it Data Deluge. McKinsey calls it Big Data. No matter the name, the flood of incoming data to an organization, and data captured from the Web, is doubling every 18 months says McKinsey in its August 2010 Quarterly Report. Web communities, and technologies for capturing and analyzing information, give organizations access to customer data as never before.       

How can the enterprise capitalize on all this captured data and knowledge within its organization? (more…)

With the proliferation of new applications and cloud computing, how can an enterprise keep up? One way is through managed services. Today, managed services include more than just outsourced network services.

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First, to clarify: it is quite common for the terms “Web”, “Internet”, and “Cloud Computing” to be used interchangeably. They are indeed related, but they are also different. When we talk about the Internet, we are describing a network of networks. The “Web”, on the other hand, is a layer on the Internet, and is a user interface technology that makes the Internet usable. And finally, cloud computing, which has many definitions, is best described by Gartner as a style of computing where scalability and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are provided “as a service” using Internet technologies. These services are tracked and metered by use, which allows enterprises to pay for what they need.

In a recent webcast, Gartner says we are entering the age of the cloud and the mobile web. Here’s how these technologies are driving the enterprise IT strategy: (more…)