What impact does the Cloud Delivery model have on SO business. What is the market and SO is not just for IT but for several processes , therefore BPaaS.
1) The document discusses considerations for building a private cloud, including leveraging the transformational power of cloud computing to enable new business models, deliver IT without boundaries, and improve business agility.
2) It recommends mapping current applications and services to a cloud deployment strategy to prioritize workloads for migration to private, public, or hybrid clouds.
3) The evolution from current infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model is described, starting with virtualization and advancing to consumption-based metering and automation of service delivery.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
The document discusses IBM's digital asset management solution called IBM Business Media Share. It provides an overview of the types of digital assets that can be managed, such as video, images, audio, and documents. It then summarizes the key benefits of IBM Business Media Share, which include providing a central place to manage assets efficiently, enabling agility through digital workflows, and helping users work more effectively. The solution allows users to acquire, create, store, change, distribute, and retrieve digital assets throughout their lifecycle.
1) The document discusses IBM's cloud computing strategy and offerings called SmartCloud.
2) SmartCloud aims to help organizations transform IT from cost centers to strategic innovation centers by enabling faster deployment, improved access to resources, and variable costs through public, private and hybrid cloud models.
3) IBM focuses on capturing the cloud market across infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and business process/software as a service through its SmartCloud foundation technologies, managed cloud services, and cloud business solutions.
Lessons Learned: Business agility through open standards & cloudAngel Diaz
Dr. Angel Luis Diaz is the Vice President of Software Standards and Cloud for IBM Software Group. The document discusses how open standards and cloud computing can help businesses achieve agility through flexibility, innovation, and cost reduction. It also notes that while cloud projects promise benefits, they can fail without proper planning around communication, collaboration, and standardization. IBM recommends their approach of leveraging best practices and standards to help ensure cloud project success.
The document discusses how cloud computing is changing the IT landscape for businesses. It notes that trends like mobile computing, social media, digitization, and analytics are driving deep changes. The cloud provides attributes like flexibility, scalability, adaptability, and complexity reduction that support business needs. The cloud allows applications to be deployed quickly and resources to scale up or down on demand. The document advocates that companies adopt cloud services to improve efficiency, enable innovation, and transform their business models.
We know what it takes to solve our clients’ biggest challenges, and we’ve spent the last 50 years delivering software that is fueled by expertise, built for change, and ready for work.
1) The document discusses considerations for building a private cloud, including leveraging the transformational power of cloud computing to enable new business models, deliver IT without boundaries, and improve business agility.
2) It recommends mapping current applications and services to a cloud deployment strategy to prioritize workloads for migration to private, public, or hybrid clouds.
3) The evolution from current infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model is described, starting with virtualization and advancing to consumption-based metering and automation of service delivery.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
The document discusses IBM's digital asset management solution called IBM Business Media Share. It provides an overview of the types of digital assets that can be managed, such as video, images, audio, and documents. It then summarizes the key benefits of IBM Business Media Share, which include providing a central place to manage assets efficiently, enabling agility through digital workflows, and helping users work more effectively. The solution allows users to acquire, create, store, change, distribute, and retrieve digital assets throughout their lifecycle.
1) The document discusses IBM's cloud computing strategy and offerings called SmartCloud.
2) SmartCloud aims to help organizations transform IT from cost centers to strategic innovation centers by enabling faster deployment, improved access to resources, and variable costs through public, private and hybrid cloud models.
3) IBM focuses on capturing the cloud market across infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and business process/software as a service through its SmartCloud foundation technologies, managed cloud services, and cloud business solutions.
Lessons Learned: Business agility through open standards & cloudAngel Diaz
Dr. Angel Luis Diaz is the Vice President of Software Standards and Cloud for IBM Software Group. The document discusses how open standards and cloud computing can help businesses achieve agility through flexibility, innovation, and cost reduction. It also notes that while cloud projects promise benefits, they can fail without proper planning around communication, collaboration, and standardization. IBM recommends their approach of leveraging best practices and standards to help ensure cloud project success.
The document discusses how cloud computing is changing the IT landscape for businesses. It notes that trends like mobile computing, social media, digitization, and analytics are driving deep changes. The cloud provides attributes like flexibility, scalability, adaptability, and complexity reduction that support business needs. The cloud allows applications to be deployed quickly and resources to scale up or down on demand. The document advocates that companies adopt cloud services to improve efficiency, enable innovation, and transform their business models.
We know what it takes to solve our clients’ biggest challenges, and we’ve spent the last 50 years delivering software that is fueled by expertise, built for change, and ready for work.
SAP Cloud Strategy Keynote Sven DeneckenSven Denecken
SAP's cloud strategy is to enable customers to use their on-premise SAP solutions with public and private clouds. They offer line of business cloud solutions that extend customers' SAP investments. Their approach focuses on collaboration, mobility, analytics, and being built on HANA. SAP aims to build a winning cloud by addressing total cost of ownership, speed of deployment, and partner ecosystem.
Demystifying cloud computing with IBM POWER Systems and IBM i COMMON Europe
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud computing solutions. It begins by explaining how cloud computing can help businesses by improving efficiency and reducing costs. It then provides an overview of IBM's cloud offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and hybrid cloud solutions. The document focuses on IBM SmartCloud Entry, a basic private cloud solution for Power Systems. It describes the key capabilities of SmartCloud Entry such as projects, appliances, workloads, metering, and four-click deployment. Finally, it discusses advanced cloud solutions like CloudBurst that provide a fully integrated platform for private clouds.
Sorin Visan is the Director of IBM Software in Romania. The document discusses how cloud computing offers several advantages for businesses including scalability, cost flexibility, and adaptability. It also discusses how governments and public sector organizations can take advantage of the cloud to innovate citizen services, collaborate more effectively, and transform core operations. Finally, the document outlines IBM's SmartCloud Solutions portfolio and capabilities around accelerating business processes, delivering analytics, and enabling collaborative networks.
IBM provides software solutions to help governments become smarter through:
1) Leveraging information to make better decisions and anticipate problems.
2) Coordinating resources and processes to operate effectively.
3) Enabling leaders to better serve citizens and businesses in a rapidly changing world.
IBM software is optimized to work together in integrated solutions and architected on open standards that allow it to work with other software and hardware.
This document summarizes IBM's perspective on cloud computing in 2011 and beyond. It discusses how cloud computing leverages existing technologies like virtualization, automation, and standardization to provide benefits like low costs, flexibility, simplicity, and rapid provisioning. IBM positions itself as focusing on enterprise clients and industries, with cloud services that are optimized, integrated, and managed. Examples are given of how governments and educational institutions are using the cloud to increase efficiency, collaboration, and access to resources.
The cloud computing market is growing rapidly, and the latest Gartner Hype Cycle shows that the hype around it has recently transformed into reality. In fact, eighty percent of Fortune 1000 companies are adopting cloud-operating models.
Cloud has significant implications on many roles within an organization and on IT service management. These implications on service management are increasing the discussions around the application and relevance of ITIL in cloud environments.
Organizations and professionals are looking to:
Develop cloud competencies to adopt cloud computing
Understand how cloud computing impacts service management
Adapt the ITIL framework to fit a cloud environment
Have a look and examine whether this can be a successful marriage or if a prenuptial agreement is required!
The document discusses how the IBM zEnterprise system can provide benefits for healthcare organizations by helping them improve operational effectiveness, achieve better quality and outcomes, and enable collaborative care. It highlights key capabilities of the zEnterprise system like cost savings, security, availability, efficiency and scalability. The system allows consolidation of platforms and simplification of IT infrastructure to help healthcare providers reduce complexity and costs while improving services.
The document discusses new SaaS parts and order processing capabilities for IBM's SmartCloud platform. It highlights reductions in the number of parts by 50% through business system enhancements and more flexible structures. A demo is provided of the new order processing functionality along with pricing and e-commerce integration details. The changes are meant to help partners and customers take advantage of cloud computing and software as a service.
This document discusses how organizations can maximize benefits and avoid pitfalls when moving infrastructure to the cloud. It outlines significant cost savings from cloud computing through economies of scale and shifting from capital to operating expenses. However, it cautions that proper vendor selection is important to realize these savings given the many options available. It emphasizes assessing individual providers' billing capabilities, costs, performance and support to ensure security, compliance and open standards.
The document discusses how clouds, mobility, and big data together create a revolution in business capabilities when used together. It provides a use case example of how an airport authority could use these technologies together in an "outside-in" model, rather than traditional "inside-out" IT systems, to allow real-time collaboration between different groups' employees to solve operational issues as they arise. This would allow improved efficiency and customer satisfaction over just using individual groups' internal IT systems.
This annual review document from Logicalis provides an overview of the company's performance in 2011 and objectives for 2012. Some key points:
- Revenues increased 25% to $1.05 billion and EBITDA increased 26% to $53.3 million due to excellent operational management and increasing business diversification.
- Three acquisitions were completed in Europe, the US, and Asia Pacific to expand operations and services portfolio.
- Objectives for 2012 include increasing revenues, profitability, and services portfolio such as cloud-based services, as well as seeking further acquisition targets.
- The Chairman notes a strong performance with all regions seeing growth, particularly the US and South America. As services
This document provides an overview of managing security and delivering performance in the cloud. It discusses how businesses are increasingly moving applications and commercial apps to the cloud to enable innovation and cut costs. However, IT departments must manage services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments while ensuring security, performance and compliance. The document outlines CA Technologies' approach to planning, building, running, securing and assuring cloud services across the lifecycle to help customers enable innovation while managing complexity.
01 Pam Ibm Sw Day Joburg May 2011 Social Business Pcpchandor
This document discusses how IBM has adopted social business practices to power its large, global operations. It summarizes how IBM uses social collaboration among its 400,000 employees and 100,000 partners to increase productivity, drive innovation, and deepen client relationships. Some key tactics include allowing social tools for communication, crowdsourcing ideas from professional networks, and optimizing the workforce through remote and diverse collaborations.
The document discusses how public sector organizations in Canada can realize benefits from moving to cloud computing services. It outlines opportunities like increased productivity, lower costs, and better serving citizens. The challenges of determining return on investment and overcoming misperceptions are also addressed. Case studies are presented showing how the University of Toronto reduced costs by consolidating email systems on Office 365 and how the Government of Ontario tested a private cloud to modernize aging infrastructure.
Internap’s John Freimuth and Steve LeClair of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a provider to meet your virtualization goals.
WebSphere Connectivity & Integration: Leveraging responsive IT to make your b...IBM Sverige
Hursley Comes To You 2011
WebSphere Connectivity & Integration:
Leveraging responsive IT to make your business
smarter and more agile
Chris Sharp
STSM, Master Inventor
Whitepaper vision on mobile, mobility, clouds and the enterprise of tomorrowMichel van den Berg
The document discusses how cloud, mobility, and big data technologies present both evolutionary and revolutionary opportunities for businesses and governments. On one hand, these technologies can help optimize existing "inside-out" IT systems and operations through streamlining, virtualization, and cost reduction. However, they also enable a revolutionary "outside-in" approach focused on engaging customers through new mobile and online business models. While some see these technologies as simply evolving current IT, they truly represent a game-changing opportunity to transform how organizations do business in the digital era.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a pro
Jive Software is a global leader in social business software. It offers a true social business platform that bridges enterprises, customers, and the social web to enable engagement, collaboration, and business impact. Jive has the most deployed social business solution worldwide and the most extensive product capabilities, with implementations at over 25% of Fortune 100 companies.
Future of Power: IBM PureFlex - Kim MortensenIBM Danmark
IBM offers a portfolio of integrated systems designed to improve IT efficiency, accelerate applications and analytics, and simplify cloud infrastructure. This includes PureFlex and Flex System which tightly integrate compute, storage, networking and management. PureSystems provide expertise through pre-integrated solutions and patterns that simplify tasks. Clients benefit from higher performance, utilization and lower costs through integration and automation.
O documento discute a importância de medir o Valor do Investimento (VOI) ao invés do Retorno do Investimento (ROI) para avaliar programas de reconhecimento de funcionários. O VOI leva em conta benefícios intangíveis como comprometimento e retenção, enquanto o ROI se concentra apenas em métricas financeiras. A evolução para o modelo VOI exige que a alta direção reconheça que ativos como engajamento são tão valiosos quanto vendas e produtividade.
SAP Cloud Strategy Keynote Sven DeneckenSven Denecken
SAP's cloud strategy is to enable customers to use their on-premise SAP solutions with public and private clouds. They offer line of business cloud solutions that extend customers' SAP investments. Their approach focuses on collaboration, mobility, analytics, and being built on HANA. SAP aims to build a winning cloud by addressing total cost of ownership, speed of deployment, and partner ecosystem.
Demystifying cloud computing with IBM POWER Systems and IBM i COMMON Europe
This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud computing solutions. It begins by explaining how cloud computing can help businesses by improving efficiency and reducing costs. It then provides an overview of IBM's cloud offerings including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and hybrid cloud solutions. The document focuses on IBM SmartCloud Entry, a basic private cloud solution for Power Systems. It describes the key capabilities of SmartCloud Entry such as projects, appliances, workloads, metering, and four-click deployment. Finally, it discusses advanced cloud solutions like CloudBurst that provide a fully integrated platform for private clouds.
Sorin Visan is the Director of IBM Software in Romania. The document discusses how cloud computing offers several advantages for businesses including scalability, cost flexibility, and adaptability. It also discusses how governments and public sector organizations can take advantage of the cloud to innovate citizen services, collaborate more effectively, and transform core operations. Finally, the document outlines IBM's SmartCloud Solutions portfolio and capabilities around accelerating business processes, delivering analytics, and enabling collaborative networks.
IBM provides software solutions to help governments become smarter through:
1) Leveraging information to make better decisions and anticipate problems.
2) Coordinating resources and processes to operate effectively.
3) Enabling leaders to better serve citizens and businesses in a rapidly changing world.
IBM software is optimized to work together in integrated solutions and architected on open standards that allow it to work with other software and hardware.
This document summarizes IBM's perspective on cloud computing in 2011 and beyond. It discusses how cloud computing leverages existing technologies like virtualization, automation, and standardization to provide benefits like low costs, flexibility, simplicity, and rapid provisioning. IBM positions itself as focusing on enterprise clients and industries, with cloud services that are optimized, integrated, and managed. Examples are given of how governments and educational institutions are using the cloud to increase efficiency, collaboration, and access to resources.
The cloud computing market is growing rapidly, and the latest Gartner Hype Cycle shows that the hype around it has recently transformed into reality. In fact, eighty percent of Fortune 1000 companies are adopting cloud-operating models.
Cloud has significant implications on many roles within an organization and on IT service management. These implications on service management are increasing the discussions around the application and relevance of ITIL in cloud environments.
Organizations and professionals are looking to:
Develop cloud competencies to adopt cloud computing
Understand how cloud computing impacts service management
Adapt the ITIL framework to fit a cloud environment
Have a look and examine whether this can be a successful marriage or if a prenuptial agreement is required!
The document discusses how the IBM zEnterprise system can provide benefits for healthcare organizations by helping them improve operational effectiveness, achieve better quality and outcomes, and enable collaborative care. It highlights key capabilities of the zEnterprise system like cost savings, security, availability, efficiency and scalability. The system allows consolidation of platforms and simplification of IT infrastructure to help healthcare providers reduce complexity and costs while improving services.
The document discusses new SaaS parts and order processing capabilities for IBM's SmartCloud platform. It highlights reductions in the number of parts by 50% through business system enhancements and more flexible structures. A demo is provided of the new order processing functionality along with pricing and e-commerce integration details. The changes are meant to help partners and customers take advantage of cloud computing and software as a service.
This document discusses how organizations can maximize benefits and avoid pitfalls when moving infrastructure to the cloud. It outlines significant cost savings from cloud computing through economies of scale and shifting from capital to operating expenses. However, it cautions that proper vendor selection is important to realize these savings given the many options available. It emphasizes assessing individual providers' billing capabilities, costs, performance and support to ensure security, compliance and open standards.
The document discusses how clouds, mobility, and big data together create a revolution in business capabilities when used together. It provides a use case example of how an airport authority could use these technologies together in an "outside-in" model, rather than traditional "inside-out" IT systems, to allow real-time collaboration between different groups' employees to solve operational issues as they arise. This would allow improved efficiency and customer satisfaction over just using individual groups' internal IT systems.
This annual review document from Logicalis provides an overview of the company's performance in 2011 and objectives for 2012. Some key points:
- Revenues increased 25% to $1.05 billion and EBITDA increased 26% to $53.3 million due to excellent operational management and increasing business diversification.
- Three acquisitions were completed in Europe, the US, and Asia Pacific to expand operations and services portfolio.
- Objectives for 2012 include increasing revenues, profitability, and services portfolio such as cloud-based services, as well as seeking further acquisition targets.
- The Chairman notes a strong performance with all regions seeing growth, particularly the US and South America. As services
This document provides an overview of managing security and delivering performance in the cloud. It discusses how businesses are increasingly moving applications and commercial apps to the cloud to enable innovation and cut costs. However, IT departments must manage services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments while ensuring security, performance and compliance. The document outlines CA Technologies' approach to planning, building, running, securing and assuring cloud services across the lifecycle to help customers enable innovation while managing complexity.
01 Pam Ibm Sw Day Joburg May 2011 Social Business Pcpchandor
This document discusses how IBM has adopted social business practices to power its large, global operations. It summarizes how IBM uses social collaboration among its 400,000 employees and 100,000 partners to increase productivity, drive innovation, and deepen client relationships. Some key tactics include allowing social tools for communication, crowdsourcing ideas from professional networks, and optimizing the workforce through remote and diverse collaborations.
The document discusses how public sector organizations in Canada can realize benefits from moving to cloud computing services. It outlines opportunities like increased productivity, lower costs, and better serving citizens. The challenges of determining return on investment and overcoming misperceptions are also addressed. Case studies are presented showing how the University of Toronto reduced costs by consolidating email systems on Office 365 and how the Government of Ontario tested a private cloud to modernize aging infrastructure.
Internap’s John Freimuth and Steve LeClair of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a provider to meet your virtualization goals.
WebSphere Connectivity & Integration: Leveraging responsive IT to make your b...IBM Sverige
Hursley Comes To You 2011
WebSphere Connectivity & Integration:
Leveraging responsive IT to make your business
smarter and more agile
Chris Sharp
STSM, Master Inventor
Whitepaper vision on mobile, mobility, clouds and the enterprise of tomorrowMichel van den Berg
The document discusses how cloud, mobility, and big data technologies present both evolutionary and revolutionary opportunities for businesses and governments. On one hand, these technologies can help optimize existing "inside-out" IT systems and operations through streamlining, virtualization, and cost reduction. However, they also enable a revolutionary "outside-in" approach focused on engaging customers through new mobile and online business models. While some see these technologies as simply evolving current IT, they truly represent a game-changing opportunity to transform how organizations do business in the digital era.
Internap’s Adam Weissmuller and Michael Carman of VMware discuss different paths businesses take toward cloud adoption, how to evolve your own cloud strategy and key considerations for choosing a pro
Jive Software is a global leader in social business software. It offers a true social business platform that bridges enterprises, customers, and the social web to enable engagement, collaboration, and business impact. Jive has the most deployed social business solution worldwide and the most extensive product capabilities, with implementations at over 25% of Fortune 100 companies.
Future of Power: IBM PureFlex - Kim MortensenIBM Danmark
IBM offers a portfolio of integrated systems designed to improve IT efficiency, accelerate applications and analytics, and simplify cloud infrastructure. This includes PureFlex and Flex System which tightly integrate compute, storage, networking and management. PureSystems provide expertise through pre-integrated solutions and patterns that simplify tasks. Clients benefit from higher performance, utilization and lower costs through integration and automation.
O documento discute a importância de medir o Valor do Investimento (VOI) ao invés do Retorno do Investimento (ROI) para avaliar programas de reconhecimento de funcionários. O VOI leva em conta benefícios intangíveis como comprometimento e retenção, enquanto o ROI se concentra apenas em métricas financeiras. A evolução para o modelo VOI exige que a alta direção reconheça que ativos como engajamento são tão valiosos quanto vendas e produtividade.
The document discusses IBM PureApplication System, which provides a new breed of integrated systems from IBM to simplify IT operations. Some key points:
- PureApplication System can deploy a 3-tier web application in under 15 minutes and automatically scale it in minutes.
- It provides complete, ready-to-go systems with over 100 pre-integrated applications that are optimized for enterprise workloads.
- Using system patterns allows applications to be deployed and maintained more easily compared to traditional methods. A disaster recovery setup can be done in as few as 5 clicks.
- PureApplication System transforms the application lifecycle by providing simplified, agile, and optimized application delivery and management capabilities.
Presentazione IBM Flex System e System x Evento Venaria 14 ottobrePRAGMA PROGETTI
This document discusses IBM's sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo in 2014. It provides an overview of the transaction details, analyst reactions which were mostly positive, and commitments from both IBM and Lenovo to ensure a smooth transition and continued innovation. Key points include Lenovo paying $2.3 billion for the business, IBM continuing to provide support for 5 years, and both companies pledging commitment to customers and the server roadmap.
The document describes IBM's PureFlex and Flex System integrated infrastructure solutions. It highlights key features such as built-in expertise that automates complex tasks, integration by design to optimize performance, and a simplified management experience. IBM PureFlex and Flex System are presented as expert integrated systems that incorporate decades of IBM expertise through "patterns of expertise" to help customers innovate faster, improve efficiency, and gain control over their IT environments.
Udløs potentialet i Enterprise Mobility, Vijay Dheap, IBM USIBM Danmark
This document discusses mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) trends in the enterprise. It highlights how mobile device adoption is accelerating and how employees are increasingly using personal smartphones and tablets for work. The document outlines some of the business benefits of mobility but also discusses the unique security challenges that mobile devices present for enterprises. It provides an overview of IBM's strategy and solutions for mobile management, security, and application development.
Cloud Computing, outsourcing your IT infrastructure?Rien Dijkstra
Although IT infrastructure delivers no direct business value, for many organizations information systems are tightly interwoven within the fabric of their primary processes that creates business value. The puzzle is how to source your IT and if Cloud Computing is the solution of this puzzle.
Presentation following the publication of the book 'Rightsourcing: Enabling Collaboration' ISBN 978-1481792806
This document introduces IBM's PureFlex System, an expert integrated infrastructure system. It is a pre-configured, pre-integrated system that combines compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and management tools. It is designed to simplify IT while improving agility, efficiency and control. Key benefits include faster deployment, increased performance, lower costs, and simplified management compared to traditional systems. The PureFlex System includes optimized compute nodes, integrated storage, scalable networking, and automated management software to deliver an expert, integrated experience from acquisition through maintenance.
The document presents two solutions for secure internet banking authentication - one based on short-time passwords using hardware security modules, and the other based on certificate-based authentication using smart cards. It discusses current authentication threats like offline credential stealing and online channel breaking attacks. Both proposed solutions offer strong security against these common attacks, with the certificate-based solution being highly attractive for the future due to changing legislation and potential widespread use of electronic IDs.
Network security involves protecting computer networks from unauthorized access. It aims to achieve access control, confidentiality, authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation. Throughout history, as hacking and crimes emerged in the 1980s and the Internet became public in the 1990s, security concerns increased tremendously. Network security employs multiple layers including physical security, perimeter protection, user training, encryption, and firewalls among other hardware and software components. As threats continue to evolve, the field of network security must also evolve rapidly to protect information and system resources.
While computer systems today have some of the best security systems ever, they are more vulnerable than ever before.
This vulnerability stems from the world-wide access to computer systems via the Internet.
Computer and network security comes in many forms, including encryption algorithms, access to facilities, digital signatures, and using fingerprints and face scans as passwords.
The document provides tips for keeping a network secure, including always keeping virus software and Windows updates enabled, using firewalls, backing up data regularly, and using strong passwords. It warns about common password risks like using obvious words or writing passwords down. The document also covers securing laptops, email, wireless networks, and avoiding risks from open networks. Proper authentication, surge protection, and password protecting are emphasized as important security best practices.
1. Formulate a testing plan with the client to identify systems to evaluate and the scope of testing allowed.
2. Remotely or locally access the target systems to find vulnerabilities by simulating common attacks.
3. Report any found vulnerabilities to the client along with recommendations on how to remedy security issues.
This document discusses strategies for outsourcing software development work to remote teams. It outlines two approaches to outsourcing ("Outsource 1.0" and "Outsource 2.0") and recommends "Outsource 2.0" which involves hiring a dedicated remote team on a long-term basis. The document provides tips for companies using outsourced teams, including establishing strong management processes, frequent communication, training the remote team, and clearly defining expectations and performance metrics to ensure project success.
MISA Cloud Workshop_ Roadmap to a municipal community cloud in canadaMISA Ontario Cloud SIG
The document provides an overview of cloud computing and its benefits for municipalities. It discusses how cloud computing can help cities work smarter by leveraging information, anticipating problems, and coordinating resources. The document outlines different cloud deployment options and common adoption patterns among cities. Case studies are presented showing how cloud computing has helped cities in Rio de Janeiro, China, and several towns in New York to improve services, reduce costs, and drive economic development.
IBM presented its mobile strategy for business partners. The key points were:
1) Mobile is a major opportunity area with over 10 billion devices expected by 2020 and growing adoption in enterprises.
2) IBM's mobile platform provides capabilities for businesses to build mobile apps, manage mobile devices and applications, and extend existing systems to mobile.
3) IBM's solutions address both business opportunities like increasing productivity and customer engagement, as well as challenges around security, multiple platforms, and BYOD.
This document discusses cloud computing and its benefits. It defines cloud computing as the provision of virtualized resources over the internet or intranet. The key benefits are: (1) reducing costs through on-demand access and pay-per-use models, (2) improving quality of services and enabling new services, and (3) reducing risks through security and resiliency. IBM can help clients develop cloud strategies, condition existing infrastructure for cloud adoption, and pilot initial projects to realize these benefits through virtualization, automation, and optimized resource utilization.
The document outlines CA Technologies' top 5 IT predictions for 2013. The predictions are: 1) Big data projects will begin showing returns on investment and increasing demand for data management. 2) Enterprises will increasingly adopt public clouds as service providers expand offerings. 3) Identity management will become more important as the new perimeter with the rise of cloud services. 4) Sensing technologies in mobile devices will be used more for applications like disaster management and smart grids. 5) Companies will primarily build applications for mobile/social platforms rather than traditional platforms.
IBM and BeyondTrust Presents: Protecting Your Sensitive Data in the CloudBeyondTrust
This document discusses protecting sensitive data in the cloud. It begins with an agenda for the presentation and discusses IBM's smart cloud offering. It then discusses security best practices for the cloud, including managing privileged users and implementing least privilege controls. The document also introduces BeyondTrust's cloud security solutions for managing privileges across physical, virtual, public and private cloud environments. It emphasizes the need for scalable, context-aware security intelligence and automation to strengthen security and compliance across hybrid cloud deployments.
The document discusses several megatrends shaping the IT world including growth in emerging markets, increasing amounts of data ("big data"), security threats, analytics, cloud computing, mobility, and social business. It outlines IBM's transformation to a "smarter" approach focused on instrumented, interconnected and intelligent systems. Key technologies discussed include Watson, predictive analytics, expert integrated systems, storage class memory, and mobile/cloud platforms. The trends point to a more data-centric architecture and analytics approaches needed to make sense of unprecedented data volumes and varieties.
Build and Connect Enterprise Mobile Applications from developerWorks Live! Leigh Williamson
1) IBM provides an integrated mobile development solution combining mobile application platforms and application lifecycle management tools.
2) This solution addresses challenges in developing for multiple mobile platforms, integrating with backend systems, and meeting tight time-to-market requirements.
3) Key capabilities include cross-platform mobile app development, integration with existing backend systems, and tools that help align development and operations teams to reduce cycle times.
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.
La tendencia de Cloud Computing. Nubes públicas, privadas e híbridasMundo Contact
The document discusses trends in cloud computing models including public, private, and hybrid clouds. Public clouds offer services to multiple customers and have seen rapid growth due to their low costs and scalability. However, private clouds are more popular currently for enterprises that desire more security and control over their infrastructure. Hybrid clouds that combine public and private cloud models are seen as the future approach. The document also outlines Huawei's strategy to develop cloud platforms and services across various industries as part of their ICT solutions.
PCTY 2012, How Mobile changes the World v. Christian CagnolIBM Danmark
Mobile technology is changing the world. IBM's mobile strategy focuses on extending existing business capabilities to mobile devices and transforming businesses by creating new opportunities through mobility. The document outlines IBM's approach to helping clients optimize their mobile initiatives through extending and transforming existing processes and systems, building new mobile applications, and managing and securing mobile devices and applications.
Unleash Business Innovation with the Next Generation of Cloud ComputingSam Garforth
1) The document discusses how cloud computing can unleash business innovation by enabling new models of engagement and service through intelligent workload optimization and orchestration on a next generation cloud infrastructure.
2) It highlights how CEOs now see technology as the most important external force impacting organizations and how CIOs are turning to innovative technologies like big data, mobile, cloud, and security to deliver business outcomes.
3) The challenges of managing massive amounts of data, expanding infrastructure, accelerating markets, and increasing risks are discussed as well as how cloud computing can help through characteristics like intelligent services, dynamic orchestration, and common cloud management standards.
The document discusses Dell's converged infrastructure solutions and strategy. It highlights key benefits such as improved efficiency, agility, and simplified management through convergence. Dell aims to deliver convergence on the customer's terms by supporting both holistic and siloed approaches. The company also discussed its converged blade data center solution, vStart pre-configured solutions, and plans to release a new converged infrastructure manager called Skyhawk to further automate infrastructure configuration and management.
This document discusses the growing adoption of cloud computing from different perspectives. It notes that Gartner research predicts 20% of businesses will eliminate all their own IT assets by moving fully to the cloud by 2012. It also discusses how application developers, IT administrators and operators, and business advocates view and are influencing the cloud. Finally, it introduces VMware's vCloud initiatives to provide cloud solutions that can be deployed privately or publicly and integrate internal and external clouds.
IBM Smarter Business 2012 - 11 trender för Enterprise Mobile just nuIBM Sverige
Den mobila marknaden har så här långt mest handlat om konsumentappar, men nu ser vi flera trender mot Enterprise Mobile där organisationer önskar erbjuda sina anställda att använda applikationer när de behöver det, med deras egna mobila enheter. Och de vill helst använda de mobila enheter som passer dem själva (BYOD). Dessutom vill organisationer erbjuda sina kunder mobila tjänster och allt det här skapar utmaningar. IBM vill, som ledare inom den här marknaden, hjälpa kunder att ta rätt beslut och göra verklighet av sina visioner. Lyssna på Johannes Eltz från IBM:s huvudkontor prata om IBM:s syn på Enterprise Mobile, de 11 tydligaste trenderna.
Talare: Johannes Eltz, Business Development Executive Mobile, IBM
Besök http://smarterbusiness.se för mer information.
IBM hosted a cloud forum on April 7, 2011 to discuss social business in the cloud. Sean Poulley, Vice President of IBM's Social Business Cloud, presented on how social business embraces networks of people to create business value by being engaged, transparent, and nimble while ensuring trust, security, and compliance. IBM defined social business, created the first social software platform in 2007, and brought it to the cloud in 2009. IBM sees social business as a $100 billion opportunity and delivers social business solutions globally across industries from large to small customers. Brendan Crotty then demonstrated LotusLive, IBM's social collaboration platform in the cloud, which provides security, reliability, integration capabilities, and is an ext
On March 23, TD Azlan held the "Build 4 the Cloud" seminar at De Olifant in Breukelen, Utrecht.
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Speakers Marc Samsom (Cisco) and Jan Smit (VMWare), among others, shared very useful information about upcoming changes in the datacenter market.
1) Cloud computing adoption is growing rapidly and expected to accelerate in the coming years. Surveys show many organizations are piloting or adopting cloud technologies with over 90% expected to substantially implement cloud in 3 years.
2) IBM's SmartCloud platform represents their vision for cloud computing with infrastructure, platform and software services that can be consumed on demand. It provides enablement technologies, managed cloud services, and business solutions.
3) A health publisher implemented IBM's Unica NetInsight software as a service to gain insights from customer data, focus web optimization, and have consistent reporting.
This document discusses how IT operations are becoming more complex with the rise of cloud computing and virtualization. It notes that managing technologies across on-premises and cloud environments introduces challenges around monitoring, automation, and maintaining processes. The document also discusses how NetEnrich provides services to help companies operationalize their virtual and cloud environments through consulting, monitoring, security, and managing the full lifecycle of virtual machines and cloud workloads.
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HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
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DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
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Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
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HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
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The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
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Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Webinar: Designing a schema for a Data WarehouseFederico Razzoli
Are you new to data warehouses (DWH)? Do you need to check whether your data warehouse follows the best practices for a good design? In both cases, this webinar is for you.
A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
- How to gather information about a business;
- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
- Expanding existing dimensions and facts.
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5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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Mobile Revolution: By the end of 2011, smart phones and tablets will overtake PC shipments.2 Downloads of mobile applications, or “apps,” are expected to surge from 11 billion in 2010 to 77 billion in 2014.3 These applications use location sensors and cameras, coupled with broadband connectivity, to enable activities ranging from videoconferencing to real-time coupon delivery for nearby stores. People want more than music, movies and books on the go; they want all information (including from businesses) that way. Mobility has eliminated the boundaries of space and time. Customers are always connected, and companies can interact with them at any time. The implications cannot be overstated. With information about products becoming as important as the products themselves, almost every company is now in the business of creating and delivering “content” – information that is personal, relevant and timely when accessed by the customer. Social Media Explosion With 2 billion people connected to the Internet, social media is quickly becoming the primary means for communication and collaboration. Young people may have spearheaded the changes, but people of all ages have joined the virtual revolution: 89 percent of the millennial generation uses social networking sites, but so do 72 percent of baby boomers. And the gap is closing. Hyper Digitization Today’s world exhibits a fast-developing case of hyper-digitization. As much information is now being generated every two days, according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as existed between the dawn of civilization and 2003. Demand for video, as well as constant connectivity, is expected to double the amount of mobile data traffic every year through 2014. Power of Analytics Advanced mathematical analysis, powered by intensive computing systems, provides unprecedented opportunity to unleash the value of interconnected data. Electronic tags on packages, pallets and transport vehicles can relay critical information about the location and quality of items ranging from pharmaceuticals to food. Sensors in electrical grids and water systems, intelligent buildings and congested roadways can optimize the use of scarce resources. Predictions based on information relayed from security cameras, satellites and soil can improve public health and safety.
IBM PureSystems are designed to help IBM clients achieve greater simplicity, speed and lower cost in their IT environments. Expert Integrated Systems reduce the time cost and risk of custom designing, integrated, tuning, managing and maintaining each intended purpose. For our clients, changing today’s status quo is critical for a number of reasons: to shift a higher % of budgets from operation expense to investment in projects that accelerate new value; to reduce dependency on scare expertise; and to enable greater IT agility that enables greater business agility.
Main Point: With management and admin costs taking the bulk of IT budgets, the most efficient datacenters will be the enablers for innovation. Speaker Notes: Based upon an annual IDC study, the pie charts on the left show the relative share of IT expense on servers (the dark blue wedge), energy and cooling (the green wedge), and management and administrations (the light blue wedge). The increase in management and administration expense from 29% in 1996 to 68% estimated for 2013, demonstrates a critical challenge faced by IT organizations around the world. We need to simplify complex IT environments to turn this trend around, so clients can shift management expense to growth investment Our global technology services group funded some additional primary research into the effectiveness of IT datacenters and discovered some interesting differences between the least and most efficient ones. Only 1 in 5 organizations are able to invest greater than 50% of their budget on new projects. The question is how can we help clients shift expense of operating existing systems, to investment in delivering new capabilities and value for their organizations? BACKGROUND DETAIL: Source: 2012 IBM Data Center Study: www.ibm.com/data-center/study ( http://www.ibm.com/data-center/study ) Data Source: IBM Data Center Study Conducted January 2012 Study conducted in seven countries worldwide – U.S., Canada, Brazil, Germany, France, China, India 65 questions 308 Respondents in the study: IT managers and CIO respondents IBM Report, IDC conducted research and helped write Study measured data center efficiency across the data center – including operations, facilities, server, storage, networking, applications and tool, governance, staffing Analyzed data to determine stages of data center efficiency Study Findings What we found is that one in five, or 21% or about 1 in 5 of the total respondents are operating at the Most Efficient level The Most Efficient data centers, are currently allocating about 53 percent of their total IT budget on new projects Least Efficient data centers are allocating much less to new projects that can help innovation – only 35% of IT budget on new projects Let’s look at some of the attributes that differentiate between the Most Efficient and the Least Efficient The Most Efficient Data Centers Early and fast adoption of new technology – 86% describe themselves as first or early adopters of new technology vs. 43% for Least Efficient data centers 58 percent use automation tools to move VMs automatically based on service level agreements (SLAs), without the need of manual intervention—versus 1 percent for Least Efficient data centers 93 percent of Most Efficient data centers use virtualized storage, versus 21 percent for Least Efficient data centers 87 percent use a services catalog approach for storage, leading to cost-effective storage placement, versus only 3 percent for Least Efficient data centers Definition of Storage Services Catalog: storage services catalog enables more efficient storage allocation and governance
The six cloud business enablers are applicable whether your cloud strategy involves becoming a consumer or a provider of cloud-based offerings – or includes elements of both Cost flexibility – 1) Shift capex to opex; - IT CapEx is money spent on acquiring physical assets for the purpose of running business. Examples of IT CapEx: printers, servers, laptops, networking equipment, etc. OpEx is money spent on the operational aspect of running business. Examples of IT OpEx: telephone service, leased network lines, printer cartridges. Enterprise software licenses are typically treated as CapEx, along with the servers and networking equipment required to host the software. IT CapEx also tends to be less fluid and much more expensive than routine IT OpEx. CapEx spending also tends to be harder to forecast than OpEx. OpEx typically represents a real cost of doing business: your business needs an internet connection to exist, and you pay for what you use. CapEx in general is often more fuzzy in relation to its impact on a company’s operations, especially when it comes to IT CapEx. Sure, you need a server to run your business, but do you really use it 100% for the entire duration of its life? Even with virtualization tools like VMWare, you’re probably not using it 100%. Plus, CapEx also has maintenance and “unexpected events” overhead that OpEx doesn’t. Cloud enables the shift from CapEx to OpEx. ii) Pay-per-use software and services; - With cloud applications there is no longer a need to install software or pay software license fees. This pay-per-use model provides greater flexibility and eliminates the need for significant capital expenditures 2) Business Scalability : Businesses can scale operations very easily based on requirement. If you need new servers because the number of hits to your website has increased, then you can easily do so. If you need to get rid of the extra servers, you can do that easily as well 3) Market Adaptability : Cloud enables a f aster time to market and helps in rapid prototyping, development and deployment; 4) Masked complexity : The c omplexity becomes hidden from end-user; There is user independence from IT or other operational issues like upgrade & maintenance. 5) Context-driven variability : Supports user defined preferences. Cloud can be used to store information about user preferences and enable the customization of product or service which is being delivered. 6) Ecosystem connectivity : Creation of new value nets including SMEs Shared infrastructure and services from cloud service providers Enhanced productivity through customer / partner interaction For example, cloud based platforms support sharing of resources, processes and workforce between companies in Pharmaceutical value chain, hence enabling joint research and collaboration
Enhance –Use cloud to improve products and services and gain incremental revenue Improve existing products/ services, add new features Enhance customer experience Deliver through broader array of channel Extend – use cloud to create new products and services or utilize new channels or payment models Create new products or services Deliver via new channels Develop new payment models Invent - use cloud to “create a need” and own a new market Introduce new revenue models, generate new revenue streams
As discussed earlier, Optimizers are organizations which utilize Cloud to IMPROVE their role in the value chain and ENHANCE their value proposition further. North Carolina State University (NCSU) In collaboration with IBM, NC state looked to a new virtualization based ‘Cloud Computing’ model—known as Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) – for flexible and intelligent provisioning that offers a quantum improvement in access, efficiency, and convenience over the traditional approach for managing resources that it previously relied on. It allowed NCSU to enhance user experience while optimizing operational efficiencies. Innovators: Organizations, which in addition to the above, also actively utilize Cloud to EXTEND or TRANSFORM and create or invent to an extent have been categorized as INNOVATORS 3M Visual Attention Service (VAS) offers Cloud-based scientific analysis of product and marketing design effectiveness, predicting visual impact. 3M offers VAS in a Cloud-based, pay-as-you-go model that is fast, affordable, flexible, user-friendly, and fits easily into a designer’s existing process. The new Cloud-based offering allows 3M to transform its role in the product development value chain by closely integrating with a global network of designers. The offering enables 3M to extend into adjacent customer segments, including brand owners, marketing professionals, and creative designers beyond 3M’s target market segments. Disruptors: CREATE a new industry ecosystem or disintermediate an existing value chain or INVENT by constructing a radically different value proposition to create a new ‘need’ and own the market Comcast In 2011, Comcast piloted Xcalibur, its next generation cloud based TV platform that aims to revolutionize the way people watch TV. Xcalibur moves the company beyond the delivery of channels and video via set-top boxes that use digital television technology to leveraging cloud architecture that delivers live TV service directly to any Internet-connected device. The cloud-based platform shifts the ability to control content into the cloud. It enables live video feeds that serve the ever-growing numbers and types of mobile and connected devices. Customers can find content tailored to their needs in new ways, for example, by using an iPad app to choose channels, on demand videos and Xfinity online streaming videos. They can then watch their selected content when and where they want – whether on TV, tablet or other device. This personalized TV experience, combined with a powerful search engine and Internet apps to access non-TV content, as well as the ability to share via social media channels, allows Xcalibur to create a radically different customer value proposition.
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Nearly half (48%) of CIOs surveyed evaluate cloud options first, over traditional IT approaches, before making any new IT investments We asked the respondents regarding their plans around the organization's level of cloud technology adoption today and the expected level in 3 years. 72% of the respondents were either piloting, or had adopted or substantially implemented cloud in their organization, and this number is expected to increase to more than 90% in 3 years with a rate of growth touching 215% for organizations which intend to substantially implement cloud. Further, forecasts around cloud predict the cloud market to reach up to $241bn by 2020. Today, at least two thirds of companies of all sizes are actively either experimenting with or implementing cloud Survey results reveal that organizations are experimenting with cloud regardless of the size. Although, larger organizations are more likely to adopt or are piloting in cloud when compared to smaller organizations.
All cloud services categories will continue to outpace the overall IT market growth over the next several years. In fact, for every cloud service, 40% or more of Europeans SMBs report that they are considering adding the service in the next 3 years. Here are some of the highlights: Web hosting will continue to be the cloud service with the highest penetration rate. Already more than 50% of the SMBs in Europe have websites and many more SMBs will be adding websites in the near term. Business applications (aka SaaS) will be the largest category of SMB cloud service spending by 2015 at over 7B euros. Hosted infrastructure with be close behind. Hosted Communication and collaboration, as mentioned, will be the fastest growing with a 3 year CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of nearly 60%.
While the SMB cloud services market is growing across Europe, the growth will be much faster in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Northern and Western Europe, where the cloud services market is already quite mature. Today Northern and Western Europe make up 58% of the SMB cloud services market. However they will grow at half the rate of Eastern and Southern Europe over the next 3 years and will make up 45% of the cloud services market in 2015.
While Parallels did not create a country SMB Cloud insights report for Denmark, we can estimate the size of the market and its growth rate from the model we build of the European region. We estimate that the current market size about 830 million kroner and will grow 75% over the next 3 years to about 1.6 billion kroner. This points to strong growth in Denmark as more and more SMBs become aware of the cloud and its benefits for their business, particularly in the micro SMB size segment. Hosted infrastructure, communication and collaboration, and business applications will all grow about 30% or more year-over-year, while web presence is a bit slower at 9% (a typical growth rate for mature cloud markets in Europe). For speakers: CAGR = compound annual growth rate, you can explain it by saying it represents “the year over year growth rate” that we expect for the next 3 years
Firstly IBM offers 3 products to build a private Cloud Infrastructure for SAP either by using the exiting infrastructure or building a new one Tivoli Service Automation Manager Product to enable existing infrastructures for cloud deployment IBM Service Delivery Manager providing a pre-installed image for rapid deployment of a comprehensive Cloud management environment for existing infrastructures. Available as VMWare/Linux and PowerVM/AIX image IBM Cloudburst, the cloud-in-a-box appliance which provides certified stacks for SAP out of the box and a complete private cloud infrastructure IBM implementation services that support customers in setting up their specific SAP automation on an IBM Private Cloud infrastructure IBM Private Cloud Management Services for SAP providing support and operation services for SAP on a private cloud IBM Cast Iron, an appliance to connect the on-premise private cloud applications like SAP with a large variety of external cloud based SaaS applications like e.g. Salesforce.com IBM GTS also offers SAP hosting services on customer dedicated cloud infrastructures, which are also considered as private clouds by SAP IBM GTS also offers SAP solutions on shared private cloud environments, i.e. Customer workloads are separated on their own virtual networks and virtual machines, but share the same physical infrastructure (model 4). Such environments require SAP certification for cloud services to be supported for SAP production workloads. IBM completed that certification and SAP customer can run SAP production on this service environment Last but not least IBM also offers the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise a public cloud service. At this time SAP does not support production workloads on such public cloud environments. However, customers can deploy development, demo or prototype workloads on that environment.
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Our delivery model balances risk, cost and operational efficiency by: Enabling the right mix of delivery alternatives to achieve the optimum combination of quality, stability and savings Providing consistent worldwide processes and tools Utilizing a cohesive risk mitigation strategy across business continuity plans, assets and people, security resources IBM’s Global Delivery Model includes the following elements to meet our clients’ requirements and mitigate risks: Parallel and faster ramp-up, delivering savings quicker. Access to the world’s largest experienced services skill pool with extensive industry and technology expertise, in 173 countries worldwide. Access to the world’s largest business consulting and research organization. Multilanguage support with native speakers across the globe (English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, etc.) Our Global delivery model also enables flexibility in each delivery location: “ follow the sun” without a night shift 24x7 support for mission-critical applications, infrastructure, testing Working-day overlap between countries Multisite solution in different economic zones, protecting against: Wage inflation Currency risk Political and economic uncertainty
We utilize three key levers to drive quality and productivity… The first, standardization, is all about industrializing service delivery. We have embarked on the quality journey long time ago and have made significant progress with our quality methods, focusing on process simplification and eliminating non-value add steps. We have broadened our continuous quality roll-out across all geographic locations ... The second lever is Automation. Here we leverage IBM hardware, software and Research assets extensively. A great example is our deployment of Maximo to implement standard best practice workflows ... leveraging this tool from SWG allows us to pool delivery resources and drive skill depth for quality and productivity gains… Lastly, skills are critical in a delivery business ...and as over 50% of our delivery costs are labor, leveraging the right talent globally, at the best cost, is vital. Equally as vital is continually looking at the skills we have, where we may have gaps and the training/certifications that are needed to fill those gaps ... I'll also cover this in a little more detail... So, let's look at some specifics on how we execute on these three levers…
The 3750 questions were related to the EU CoC see next page Next cohort is to include another 12-ish DC in Europe