Here's my latest @forbes post, posted about an hour ago > http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/28/the-sky-is-the-limit-for-latest-platform-as-a-service-offerings/
@ruv: So theoretically, being for profit really boosts the economy so it doesn't matter whether the startup is about pinning bridal gown photos to an online bb board?
I get the impression that, outside of IT, people today don't even realise half the time that they're using cloud services - it has become so natural.
I used to store short docs by sending them to myself as emails. It didn't occur to me I was storing them in the cloud (before Google Docs, etc, of course).
Salesforce bought Navajo Systems. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Salesforcecom-Acquires-SaaS-Encryption-Provider-Navajo-Systems-331154/ Navajo encrypted in the cloud. Hoping this becomes a trend.
@Ruv: When I think of the cloud market, I envision the present as a point on the initial uptilt of a bell curve. Like right down at the very lower lefthand side of the chart. What do you think of that?
Note, I'm a cloud fan because of economie of scale, probably superior physical and data security, uptime, elasticity... But I have to sell the case. Encryption would really help -- especially if we hold the keys.
Nicole -- when you have your research data in sight, and you can unplug the device and put it in a safe, you may feel safer, even if it's not. Lots of folks just like to know where their data is physically stored. Similar to people who like to print e-mails perhaps.
The original version of enomaly back in 2004 was a web accessible API on top of virtualization, which I described as an Elastic Infrastructure provided as a service.
Question: I was puzzled by a recent Forbes blog in which you claimed interest in cloud was declining based on Google search results. Were you really serious about that? Seems a precarious research method.
@ruv: I'd also like to hear more about whether, given your experience with Enomaly, you'd agree with the common taxonomy of public vs. private vs. hybrid clouds.
Hi Reuven. We find a cloud roadblock because of confidentiality fears -- research data, student information (I'm at a university in Toronto). If we could encrypt data at a cloud providing facility, the argument would be stronger. Thoughts?
We also had the following question from a listener: When do you think cloud providers might permit third-party encryption of data at rest in their data centers?
Zynga runs its new game offerings on Amazon's cloud. If the app takes off, it migrates back to their own cloud. They avoid the infrastructure costs of starting a game that might fizzle. Clever. Their home cloud is designed like the public cloud's configuration to simplify migration back inside. No comment on their share price. The idea is good.
In terms of translating analytics into a human useful state, see Jer Thorp of the NY Times R&D group. Brilliant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9wcvFkWpsM
Imagine 20 school boards running their own config for a learning management system. Imagine it's the same system. You could host all of them in one big place with one instance of the software, or you could have multiple instances in the same config space. But you wouldn't have groups not in school boards.
Faculty members who teach database and programming are happy about being able to book a teaching space that's up to date, patched, empty, and available on demand. Hard to do internally.
I won't be lingering here too long since I have to get the radio show audio underway soon. But I'll return with my guest Reuven Cohen as soon as the audio portion ends.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM announced today the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a technology breakthrough that allows brands to crunch big data in record time to transform the way they engage clients in key functions such as customer service, marketing, and sales.
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