Thursday | 16 October, 2008
Blog: What the Cloud can Carry
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It's almost unfortunate that early generations of Software as a Service were strongly influenced by small-and-medium business (SMB) needs for simplicity and ease of use. When that origin is combined with the limited feature set and shallow customization tools of many consumer-grade Web applications, people can easily underestimate the true capability of cloud-based applications and platforms.
When you look at the most pressing needs facing enterprise IT professionals -- to engage business units in more of their data-related tasks, to provide strong policy leadership in information security and business process governance, and to ramp up their initiatives in data analytics and search -- it's really quite clear that SaaS and PaaS are not merely capable, but ideal solutions to these needs.
- When software as a service is delivered with powerful and accessible customization tools like salesforce.com's programmable workflows, Apex Code for custom logic and Visualforce for user interface design, the business unit takes more ownership of the application and adopts the new tools far more broadly and rapidly.
- When application usage is observable through a service provider's dashboards and other assessment aids, there's far better visibility into who's using different types of data in various ways.
- When a platform as a service makes it easy for applications to share data, conveniently but selectively, the most difficult and brittle parts of a business analytics initiative are handled with ease and flexibility, right up front.
I've made this case for the enterprise readiness of the cloud in a 4-minute video, as well as in a more complete white paper available for free download. Please tell me what you think.
Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com in January of 2007, after spending 18 years as a technology analyst and columnist at the industry magazine eWEEK. He currently works with enterprise and commercial application developers to build a community based on the company's Force.com Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
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CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Inside Symantec's Security Operations Center 16 October, 2008 07:38:00
For Symantec clients, the Symantec Security Operations Center is the front line in the fight against network attacks. CSO toured the facility for an overview of how the services work, and for a look at some of the latest threats on the internet todayThe inside of the Symantec Security Operations Center looks like a scene out of the movie "War Games," and in many ways, the connection is fitting. The SOC, as it is known by Symantec employees, is in the business of detecting and analyzing network threats. And as malicious activity online gets increasingly more sophisticated, the war against cybercrime is definitely on. - +
Cyber security threats grow in sophistication, subtlety 16 October, 2008 08:26:00
Researchers say malware, botnets, cyber warfare, threats to VoIP and mobile devices, and the "evolving cyber crime economy" are ever-more sophisticated threatsThe annual report from Georgia Tech Information Security Center identifies five evolving cyber security threats, and the news is not good. - +
Tough economic climate can heighten insider threat 16 October, 2008 07:09:00
As companies downsize, they need to keep an eye out for disgruntled employeesWith a faltering economy resulting in increased jobs cuts and corporate belt tightening, security analysts are warning companies to be especially vigilant about protecting their data and networks against disgruntled employees. - +
Anonymous proxy servers: Necessary or evil? 15 October, 2008 07:13:00
Some security experts believe anonymous proxy servers are only necessary if you're up to no good, while others see them as a legitimate tool for research, pen testing and the like. Who's right?If there is truly a gray zone in the struggle between online good and evil, anonymous proxy servers live there. - +
Four security lessons from the World Bank breach 15 October, 2008 07:39:00
The World Bank is making headlines after a disputed report claims hackers managed to access their secure network for over a year. One security pro offers takeaways that everyone can learn from the breachAccording to a report from Fox News, several servers at the World Bank Group, an organization that offers economic assistance to developing countries around the globe, were repeatedly compromised and breached over the course of the last year.
Progress Software Selected for ACORD Standards Framework 16 October, 2008 09:45:00
Tandberg Data lifts RDX® QuikStor™ capacity to 500GB and offers continuous data protection 16 October, 2008 09:23:00
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Infohrm Launches 4G SaaS-based Workforce Planning, Reporting, and Analytic Solution 16 October, 2008 08:04:00
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