This article discusses 3 key predictions about how cloud computing will change business and IT:
1. Cloud computing will enable more inter-company business processes and emergence of "business ecosystems" of companies with complementary strengths.
2. Cloud computing provides an "exoskeleton model" of sourcing IT capabilities externally rather than internally, allowing smaller companies and industries access to sophisticated IT.
3. Cloud computing will give rise to "business process utilities" - companies providing common processes like sales tax calculation on a massive scale.
Rising to the New Challenges of Transactional Services in the Public SectorCapgemini
Companies and government agencies alike are moving their activities online.
The rising curve of online service delivery adoption has raised expectations of service levels. Yet many transactions in the public sector are often still provided by systems that were not intended, designed and built to support the exponential user and data growth.
Subsequently, the rise of online service delivery not only requires new investment but also adds new risks in making these systems secure for an online world with its increasing levels of cyber crime. Both the private and the public sectors are under pressure to reduce the costs associated with delivery of transactional services.
But since our last paper on the topic was published, three significant trends have emerged:
- The increased urgency to reduce fraud and non-compliance
- The changing nature of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services strategies moving away from pure cost reduction to transformational outsourcing
- The rapid rise of Cloud technology, with dramatic changes to delivery models
Read our paper to learn more about how government can learn from the private sector in order to tackle these issues.
All organizations are now looking to the cloud as a possible model for enterprise IT delivery. Zero -capex, pay-per-use and radical scalability become the incentives. But there are risks too, with communication and data security, enterprise standards, compliance and service consistency all causes for concern.
This condensed document summarizes Getronics thinking and position on enterprise cloud adoption.
Rising to the New Challenges of Transactional Services in the Public SectorCapgemini
Companies and government agencies alike are moving their activities online.
The rising curve of online service delivery adoption has raised expectations of service levels. Yet many transactions in the public sector are often still provided by systems that were not intended, designed and built to support the exponential user and data growth.
Subsequently, the rise of online service delivery not only requires new investment but also adds new risks in making these systems secure for an online world with its increasing levels of cyber crime. Both the private and the public sectors are under pressure to reduce the costs associated with delivery of transactional services.
But since our last paper on the topic was published, three significant trends have emerged:
- The increased urgency to reduce fraud and non-compliance
- The changing nature of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services strategies moving away from pure cost reduction to transformational outsourcing
- The rapid rise of Cloud technology, with dramatic changes to delivery models
Read our paper to learn more about how government can learn from the private sector in order to tackle these issues.
All organizations are now looking to the cloud as a possible model for enterprise IT delivery. Zero -capex, pay-per-use and radical scalability become the incentives. But there are risks too, with communication and data security, enterprise standards, compliance and service consistency all causes for concern.
This condensed document summarizes Getronics thinking and position on enterprise cloud adoption.
Faced with depressing predictions of looming budget cuts cloud computing has come to the fore of discussions to uncover relatively short-term economies in IT functions within the public sector. But how much of the cloud story is hype? How different are cloud architectures to the web-server farms that organizations have had the means to access for well over a decade? And how realistic is it that core business systems will move out of the data centre to the cloud?
Three Generations of Citrix CEOs: Enabling a Better Way to WorkDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how Citrix is building on its 30-year record of success by remaking digital workplaces and redefining the very nature of applications and business intelligence.
Charles King, Pund-It, Inc believes that the term 'enterprise system' has to be redefined to meet the today business process, application and workload.To know more about the IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Presented at eMetrics Boston 2012. Defines the organizational challenges and key performance indicators for those considering the applications of Big Data in their organization.
Digitalization is the new buzzword, and digital solutions have become the platform for a new generation of Information Technology use cases, architectures and systems. Digital strategies and emerging digital technologies are the basis for disruptive IT innovations that will influence and guide enterprise planners and designers for many years to come. This white paper identifies and introduces the key framework technologies that will push us into the new digital era.
Whilst the web modifications our existence cloud of things may alter our existence Again-This new technology cloud of things Rising
the next engineering that change the idea from love issues and use individuals to enjoy people and use issues, crib tech handle both
humanity issue in health and power, assisting aged and disabled people and retains the guarantee of repairing the centuryaged
individual issues of poverty, illness, assault, and bad management. A genuine achievement comes whenever you assist others achieve
success chief is created by commanders not fans. A genuine achievement is available in event in Japan-America-Europe but
additionally in not just of common ownership of the new technology. Our concept to all-is common ownership of cloud of things.
Technology and Africa to be always a primary stage within this common ownership to repair Africa issues in poverty, illness, assault,
and bad management and we have to alter Africa from ICT customer to ICT maker and head ASDF Africa a forward thinking
Affiliation using the perspective of shifting Africa from being truly a passive customer to some prominent head and person of
electronic systems like cloud of things. With the purpose of linking the electronic space between Africa and also the remaining globe.
http://globecom2015.ieee-globecom.org/content/industry-posters
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Why cloud computing:
Cloud computing can be a cheaper, faster, and greener alternative to an On-premises solution. Without any infrastructure
investments, you can get Powerful software and massive computing resources quickly—with lower Up-front costs and fewer
management headaches down the road. Cloud-based solutions when evaluating options for new IT deployments Whenever a
secure, reliable, cost-effective cloud option exists. Shifting your agency into the cloud can be a big decision, with many
Considerations. This guide is the first in a series designed to help you Get started. The most important is the right choice
software as a service as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service or hybrid cloud. While addressing
administration goals of scalable, interactive citizen Portals. The cloud can also help your agency increase collaboration across
Organizations, deliver volumes of data to citizens in useful ways, and reduce IT costs while helping your agency focus on
mission-critical tasks. Plus, the Cloud can help you maintain operational efficiency during times of crisis.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. It provides a mix of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.
High performance data center computing using manageable distributed computingJuniper Networks
Terrapin Trading Show Chicago, Thursday, June 4
Andy Bach, FSI Architect, Juniper Networks
Distributed computing concepts (QFX5100-AA)
Scale and performance enhancements (QFX10000 Series)
Automation capabilities (tie in QFX-PFA)
Larry Van Deusen, Director of the Network Integration Business Unit, Dimension Data
Automation
Value Added Partner Services
Faced with depressing predictions of looming budget cuts cloud computing has come to the fore of discussions to uncover relatively short-term economies in IT functions within the public sector. But how much of the cloud story is hype? How different are cloud architectures to the web-server farms that organizations have had the means to access for well over a decade? And how realistic is it that core business systems will move out of the data centre to the cloud?
Three Generations of Citrix CEOs: Enabling a Better Way to WorkDana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how Citrix is building on its 30-year record of success by remaking digital workplaces and redefining the very nature of applications and business intelligence.
Charles King, Pund-It, Inc believes that the term 'enterprise system' has to be redefined to meet the today business process, application and workload.To know more about the IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Presented at eMetrics Boston 2012. Defines the organizational challenges and key performance indicators for those considering the applications of Big Data in their organization.
Digitalization is the new buzzword, and digital solutions have become the platform for a new generation of Information Technology use cases, architectures and systems. Digital strategies and emerging digital technologies are the basis for disruptive IT innovations that will influence and guide enterprise planners and designers for many years to come. This white paper identifies and introduces the key framework technologies that will push us into the new digital era.
Whilst the web modifications our existence cloud of things may alter our existence Again-This new technology cloud of things Rising
the next engineering that change the idea from love issues and use individuals to enjoy people and use issues, crib tech handle both
humanity issue in health and power, assisting aged and disabled people and retains the guarantee of repairing the centuryaged
individual issues of poverty, illness, assault, and bad management. A genuine achievement comes whenever you assist others achieve
success chief is created by commanders not fans. A genuine achievement is available in event in Japan-America-Europe but
additionally in not just of common ownership of the new technology. Our concept to all-is common ownership of cloud of things.
Technology and Africa to be always a primary stage within this common ownership to repair Africa issues in poverty, illness, assault,
and bad management and we have to alter Africa from ICT customer to ICT maker and head ASDF Africa a forward thinking
Affiliation using the perspective of shifting Africa from being truly a passive customer to some prominent head and person of
electronic systems like cloud of things. With the purpose of linking the electronic space between Africa and also the remaining globe.
http://globecom2015.ieee-globecom.org/content/industry-posters
http://www.google.com.eg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0ahUKEwipqL-QjafMAhXL2hoKHUcJAD0QFgg0MAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fworkspace.unpan.org%2Fsites%2Finternet%2FDocuments%2FUNPAN95410.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGEbD5i1bU8Az6766mhvL7n3r6huQ&sig2=d1_ALN8cwE4oZ56E3Vm7Fw
http://www.ipoareview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Statement-by-Dr.Assem-Abdel-Hamied-Mousa-President-of-the-Association-of-Scientists-Developers-and-FacultiesASDF.pdf
Why cloud computing:
Cloud computing can be a cheaper, faster, and greener alternative to an On-premises solution. Without any infrastructure
investments, you can get Powerful software and massive computing resources quickly—with lower Up-front costs and fewer
management headaches down the road. Cloud-based solutions when evaluating options for new IT deployments Whenever a
secure, reliable, cost-effective cloud option exists. Shifting your agency into the cloud can be a big decision, with many
Considerations. This guide is the first in a series designed to help you Get started. The most important is the right choice
software as a service as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service or hybrid cloud. While addressing
administration goals of scalable, interactive citizen Portals. The cloud can also help your agency increase collaboration across
Organizations, deliver volumes of data to citizens in useful ways, and reduce IT costs while helping your agency focus on
mission-critical tasks. Plus, the Cloud can help you maintain operational efficiency during times of crisis.
http://docplayer.net/search/?q=assem+abdel+hamed+mousa
http://www.ipoareview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Statement-by-Dr.Assem-Abdel-Hamied-Mousa-President-of-the-Association-of-Scientists-Developers-and-FacultiesASDF.pdf
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. It provides a mix of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.
High performance data center computing using manageable distributed computingJuniper Networks
Terrapin Trading Show Chicago, Thursday, June 4
Andy Bach, FSI Architect, Juniper Networks
Distributed computing concepts (QFX5100-AA)
Scale and performance enhancements (QFX10000 Series)
Automation capabilities (tie in QFX-PFA)
Larry Van Deusen, Director of the Network Integration Business Unit, Dimension Data
Automation
Value Added Partner Services
Third Sector Digital Edge "Driving Mobile Success" presentationOisin Lunny
I was honoured to present at the Third Sector Digital Edge conference today about "Driving Mobile Success" alongside Mark Weber from Save The Children #TSDigitalEdge
IoT Slam Keynote: Harnessing the Flood of Data with Heterogeneous Computing a...Ryft
This presentation was delivered as the closing keynote for the 2015 IoT Slam virtual conference. During the presentation, Ryft VP of Engineering, Pat McGarry, took a close look at how the IoT revolution is changing data analytics and driving the move of data analysis to the network’s edge where the data is being created. - See more at: http://www.ryft.com/blog/2015-iot-slam-keynote-harnessing-flood-of-iot-data-with-heterogenenous-computing-at-the-edge#sthash.x1Anoapb.dpuf
Get Cloud Resources to the IoT Edge with Fog ComputingBiren Gandhi
Fog Computing as a foundational architectural concept for Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE).
Embedded devices in the IoT are hampered by the compute, storage, and service limitations of living life on the edge. As IoT edge devices comprise broader sensor networks for industrial automation, transportation, and other safety critical applications, their high uptime requirements are nonnegotiable and service latencies must be kept within realtime or near real time parameters. However, the size, weight, power, and cost constraints of edge platforms also inhibit the ondevice resources available for executing such functions. In this session, Gandhi will introduce Fog Computing, a new paradigm for the IoT that extends compute, storage, and application resources from the cloud to the network edge. Beyond the interplay between Fog and Cloud, Gandhi will show how Fog services can be leveraged across a range of heterogeneous platforms—from end user devices and access points to edge routers and switches—through software technology that facilitates the collection, storage, analysis, and fusion of data to drive success in your next IoT device deployment.
Ibm Smart Business Overview Jimmy MillsJimmy Mills
IBM has been talking about our vision for a smarter planet for close to a year now- and working with thousands of clients - with great success and traction taking hold. Every industry is experiencing the benefits, and feeling the challenges, being presented by a smarter planet that is more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent.
An example is cloud computing: The economics driving cloud computing is not new technologies. Rather it is the combination of existing technologies with a focus on the end user. Virtualization drives higher utilization which lowers capital and operating expenses. Standardization also reduces capital and labor costs, while automation drives enhance user experience and automates many manual tasks to reduce errors and reduce the costs associated with managing an environment.
Why edge computing is critical to hybrid IT and cloud successClearSky Data
There's too much data growth to keep it all local, but sending data to the cloud can introduce performance, latency and access issues. Edge computing alleviates all three.
The Cisco Unified Computing System™ is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The
system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Drones and Fog Computing - New Frontiers of IoT and Digital Transformation -...Biren Gandhi
Technology is considered one of the biggest drivers of Digital Transformation and Digital Disruption. Out of many frontiers of recent technological advancements, this talk focused on IoT, Drones and Fog Computing as key innovation accelerators for Digital Strategy.
The Internet of Things arrived last decade when the number of devices (that can connect) outnumbered the world population. We have now entered a new age. The evolution from #virtualization to #cloud to #IoT and #BigData a consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction and the rise of Fog Computing. The role of #OpenSource and #OpenStandards and the importance of the new trend: Open Data as the only way to keep sanity in Big Data. This is my presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering in Boston on Pi Day 2014
Watson DevCon 2016 - The Flu Fighters: Using IBM Cognitive Computing to Fight...IBM Watson
Presentation given by Jeff Goodhue and Dave Wakeman at Watson DevCon 2016.
Can cognitive technology really detect and track outbreaks using social media and save lives? Absolutely! The technology of Watson APIs, the Bluemix platform and IBM Operational Decision Manager can be combined into a powerful solution that uses Twitter data, natural language processing and situational awareness to detect patterns in social media to track disease and health outbreaks as they spread.
The real-time situation detection capabilities of the “Flu Fighters” solution can provide advanced warning to doctors, hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical providers and others so that preventative measures can be taken to protect at-risk patients before the outbreak reaches their area. In this session you will learn how a prototype of such solution was developed using IBM Watson Services and IBM Bluemix.
Accenture Technology Vision for Oracle 2014accenture
From digitally disrupted to digital disruptor: Applying the Accenture and Oracle lens to the six technology trends shaping the business landscape in 2014.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
Learn about how Enterprise systems have long defined the core value proposition of business computing, as well as the IT infrastructures that large organizations depend on to support both day to day operational processes and long term strategic initiatives.
The Future of Work is being reshaped by major trends - namely virtualization of work and consumerization of IT. These comprise the four major forces of change - globalization, virtualization, the Millennial mindset and cloud computing. These have drastically changed the way we communicate, collaborate, learn, buy, engage and consume. When the virtualization of work meets the consumerization of IT in the enterprise - and when systems of recod meet systems of engagement - the dynamics of work itself change.
The data center impact of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security rlw03...Diego Alberto Tamayo
Introduction
The consumerization of IT continues to have a major impact
on business. Technology forces have emerged that are
challenging organizations’ ability to respond. Cloud computing,
mobility, social business, big data and analytics and IT security
technologies are evolving very rapidly, putting an organization’s
IT agility, speed and resilience to the test. As these technologies
mature and converge, they are demanding a total reexamination
of the underlying enterprise infrastructure: its strategy and
design, its operation and its management framework.
How to Better Manage Your IT InfrastructureEdarat Group
Cloud computing can benefit a business in various ways. But before we discuss this in details, it’s better to have an elementary idea about cloud and its functionality. Cloud computing outlines a scenario in which hosted services are delivered over the internet. Cloud is essential for businesses because computation and storage have long been two vital requirements for enterprises. Through cloud computing, these requirements can be met easily and instantly without hardware usage.
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C O N T R A R I A
Te ch n o l o g y h a s a l -
w a y s b e e n a b o u t
hope. Since the begin-
ning of the industrial
revolution, businesses
have embraced new
technologies enthusi-
a s t i c a l l y, a n d t h e i r
optimism has been
re w a rd e d w i t h i m -
p r o v e d p r o c e s s e s ,
lower costs and re-
duced workforces. As the pace of technological
innovation has intensified over the past two de-
cades, businesses have come to expect that the next
new thing will inevitably bring them larger market
opportunities and bigger profits. Software, a tech-
nology so invisible and obscure to most of us that it
appears to work like magic, especially lends itself to
this kind of open-ended hope.
Software promises evolutions, revolutions and
even transformations in how companies do busi-
ness. The triumphant vision many buy into is that
enterprise software in large organizations is fully
integrated and intelligently controls infinitely com-
plex business processes while remaining flexible
enough to adapt to changing business needs. This
vision of software lies at the core of what Thomas
Friedman in “The World Is Flat” calls “the Wal-
Mart Symphony in multiple movements — with
no finale. It just plays over and over 24/7/365.”1
Whole systems march in lock step, providing syn-
chronized, fully coordinated supply chains,
production lines and services, just like a world-
class orchestra. From online web orders through
fulfillment, delivery, billing and customer service
— the entire enterprise, organized end to end —
that has been the promise. The age of smart
machines would seem to be upon us.
Or is it? While a few companies like Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. have achieved something close to that
ideal, the way most large organizations actually
process information belies that glorious vision and
reveals a looking-glass world, where everything is
in fact the opposite of what one might expect.
Back-office systems — including both software ap-
plications and the data they process — are a
variegated patchwork of systems, containing 50 or
more databases and hundreds of separate software
programs installed over decades and intercon-
nected by idiosyncratic, Byzantine and poorly
documented customized processes. To manage this
growing complexity, IT departments have grown
substantially: As a percentage of total investment,
IT rose from 2.6% to 3.5% between 1970 and 1980.2
By 1990 IT consumed 9%, and by 1999 a whopping
22% of total investment went to IT. Growth in IT
spending has fallen off, but it is nonetheless sur-
prising to hear that today’s IT departments spe ...
Today, everything computes. Intelligence has been infused into
things no one would recognize as computers: appliances, cars,
roadways, clothes, even rivers and cornfi elds. This is the daily reality
of an instrumented, interconnected and intelligent world—a Smarter
Planet—which IBM began chronicling nearly three years ago.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
VMblog - 2020 IT Predictions from 26 Industry Expertsvmblog
Find out what's going on in the world of #artificialintelligence, #machinelearning, #cloud, #kubernetes, #containers, #virtualization, #security, #disasterrecovery, #networking, #data and so much more in 2020. Read these #predictions from 26 of the industry's leading experts to learn more! Hear from industry thought leaders from companies like Altaro, Citrix, Commvault, Datacore, IGEL, Kaspersky, Liquidware, SolarWinds, Veeam, Vembu, VMware and more. And make sure to also read the more than 430+ other expert predictions here: http://bit.ly/2QVorPI at VMblog.com.
IT service management (ITSM or IT services) is a discipline for managing information technology (IT) systems, philosophically centered on the customer\'s perspective of IT\'s contribution to the business. ITSM stands in deliberate contrast to technology-centered approaches to IT management and business interaction. The following represents a characteristic statement from the ITSM literature:
Providers of IT services can no longer afford to focus on technology and their internal organization[;] they now have to consider the quality of the services they provide and focus on the relationship with customers.ITSM is process-focused and in this sense has ties and common interests with process improvement movement (e.g., TQM, Six Sigma, business process management, CMMI) frameworks and methodologies. The discipline is not concerned with the details of how to use a particular vendor\'s product, or necessarily with the technical details of the systems under management. Instead, it focuses upon providing a framework to structure IT-related activities and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users.
1. This article originally appeared
in the October 2010 issue of
The journal of
high-performance business
On the Edge
Cloud computing:
Where is the rain?
By Kishore S. Swaminathan
Chief Scientist
Accenture
Cloud computing makes traditional IT faster, better
and cheaper—and it has the potential to change both
the business and IT landscapes in fundamental ways.
2. What’s not to like about cloud com- they can much more easily com-
puting? After all, among other things, municate and exchange informa-
it promises on-demand pricing, less tion with other IT systems from
IT overhead, lower cost and the ability other companies to execute busi-
to scale IT up and down quickly. ness processes that cross company
boundaries.
To be sure, all these are definitely
nice-to-haves. But in fairness, they Intercompany processes are not
don’t quite seem to add up to a pro- new. In the 1980s, Electronic
verbial paradigm shift. So is this Data Interchange was aimed at
just a passing cloud with no rain? communication between compa-
nies looking to exchange informa-
In fact, I think that anyone in the tion across a supply chain (most
C-suite (not just CIOs) should pay notably, within the automobile
close attention to cloud computing— industry). The travel industry
not because it makes traditional has integrated processes among
IT faster, better and cheaper but airlines, car rental companies and
rather it has the potential to change hotels to create business ecosys-
both the business and IT landscapes tems (the oneworld alliance, the
in some fundamental ways. Star Alliance, etc.) that offer pas-
sengers a single travel experience
Three predictions across multiple airlines, rental car
On a purely technical level, cloud companies and hotels.
computing blurs the line that
separates the IT that’s inside an Today, however, such processes are
organization from the IT that’s handcrafted and hardwired among
outside an organization. I predict systems involving a small number
that this is likely to lead to three of business partners or managed by
distinct classes of business and third-party “clearinghouses.”
wealth-creation opportunities.
Cloud computing in combination
I think these impending develop- with integration standards like
ments are significant because web services and service-oriented
the traditional data and process architecture has the potential to
isolation between and among enable inter-enterprise processes at
companies is about to break down, an industrial scale: complex business
and in its wake, new business processes that snake through
ecologies and value networks are multiple companies and their IT
about to emerge. Herein may lie the systems and that can be configured
proverbial paradigm shift inherent and reconfigured on the fly.
in cloud computing.
But you may very well ask: “Even
Prediction 1: During the next if this is technologically possible,
five years, we are likely to see what is the business driver for it?”
a dramatic increase in intercom-
pany business processes that, in Practically any human experience
turn, will lead to the emergence you can think of—whether it’s a
of “business ecosystems”—that is, vacation, a stint at the hospital or
groups of companies with comple- just living your average humdrum
mentary strengths that work seam- day—involves products and services
lessly with one another through provided by multiple companies.
intertwined business processes. Today, companies provide discrete
products and services that we, as
2
Outlook 2010
The moment a company’s IT sys- individuals, manage and orchestrate.
Number 3 tems migrate outside the firewall, The ability to flexibly weave together
3. a business process with services and applications can support a com-
from multiple companies around an pany from outside its firewalls. This
individual and his or her life (as the simple change is significant for two
travel industry does today) seems reasons. Smaller companies can have
like a strong driver in the business- access to sophisticated IT capabilities
to-consumer world. without incurring the overhead of
running an IT shop; at the same time,
Much as an individual’s life involves enterprise IT companies—for which
touchpoints with multiple products small companies were not attrac-
and services, almost every process tive targets under the endoskeleton
Cloud computing in organizations also involves inter-
actions with multiple business part-
model—can now provide IT capa-
bilities such as hardware, software
makes it considerably ners. Today, each business partner and services to thousands of small
sells a discrete product or provides companies from outside and thus
easier for companies a discrete service, and organizations achieve scale.
to configure business manage and orchestrate these inter-
nally (procurement or supply chain Interesting, but how important a
processes that integrate management, for example). development is this for businesses
and the IT industry as a whole?
internal components and Cloud computing makes it consider-
many external compo- ably easier for companies to configure There are many fragmented
business processes that integrate industries and groups of public-
nents into complex yet internal components and many sector entities—construction, educa-
fluid processes around external components into complex yet
fluid processes around their business
tion, health care, legal and small
municipal governments, to name
their business needs. needs. This seems like a strong driver a few—where the industry as a whole
in the business-to-business world. is large but the companies that make
up the industry are relatively small.
Prediction 2: Cloud computing They are large in the aggregate but
provides an “exoskeleton” model fragmented to the point that they
for IT capabilities as opposed to are not an economically viable market
the “endoskeleton” model we use for large enterprise IT vendors.
today. As a result, fragmented
industries (which are collectively Consider construction. In the United
underserved by IT today)—con- States, for example, it accounts for
struction and education, to name approximately 4 percent of GDP. But
a couple—will become attractive it is made up of architects, builders,
white spaces for technology and workers, material suppliers, con-
service companies to fill. struction equipment makers, ware-
house operators, building inspectors,
The current IT paradigm may be and many other constituent parts,
called an endoskeleton model of all with significant dependencies
IT: Data centers and applications and a need for coordination. Cloud
support a company from inside computing, with its exoskeleton
its firewalls. As such, to a large model, can serve the entire ecosys-
extent, only big companies have tem by consolidating their process
had the need and the ability to run and data flows. In other words,
complex data centers and applica- individual companies are too small
tions. Consequently, large companies to need ERP-like systems, but the
have been the traditional targets industry as a whole does, and cloud
for large hardware, software and computing makes that possible.
service companies.
This means that there are lots of
3
Outlook 2010
Cloud computing provides an exo- white spaces to be filled by IT and
Number 3 skeleton model of IT: Data centers a lot of wealth to be created.