Cloud news – IBM acquires, 10 to watch this year, Mobility and Outsourcing contract reviews.
It’s a new year and things have started marching again…
- The first acquisition of the year? IBM has bought up cloud-based software testing platform Green Hat for an undisclosed sum. This continues IBM’s resurgence as a serious Cloud Services provider and shows how a solid long-term strategy can work. Remember when folks were ringing the death-knell of the former server giant when they made the decision to start dropping their hardware lines? Expect more from them this year too. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/ibm-buys-cloud-based-software-testing-platform-green-hat/
- It’s always interesting to speculate who is going to be ‘moving and shaking’ in this months ahead. GigaOm (http://gigaom.com/cloud/10-cloud-startups-to-watch-in-2012/) have put together their top-ten for the year ahead. Certainly some of these will fall by the wayside, but it’s interesting to take a look at the technologies and direction these new ventures are using and taking as they serve as a barometer for the market generally. In short, mobility and Cloud-based app development are tops with speedier infrastructure coming next on the list. It looks like were starting to turn a corner and looking beyond the basics of infrastructures towards streamlining those infrastructures for specific use cases.
- Box also believe that mobile is the key to Enterprise Cloud adoption in an article over at Tech Crunch (http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/08/box-mobile-adoption-is-the-gateway-drug-to-the-cloud-in-the-enterprise/) Quote time! “one of the big drivers we see for mobile adoption – and one of the big reasons why mobile deployment growth was actually higher than the user growth – has to do with the fact that enterprises are adopting cloud services because of mobile.Mobile adoption is actually driving cloud adoption,” says Matthew Self VP for Mobile at Box, “which isn’t totally obvious. But when you get to mobile, it isn’t about Microsoft anymore. Less than half of the computing endpoints in the world are Microsoft now…They’ve forced CIO’s to defect from Microsoft’s own entrenched postion, which is sort of bizarre. But it’s not like a CIO can say, ‘oh, I’ll just wait a year or two on mobile.’ ” Of course he makes a valid point, more and more we’re seeing Microsoft NOT being the end-point for consumed services and that’s something we need to be increasingly aware of when we’re talking about Cloud Services adoption.
- Finally, an interesting article which talks about how existing IT Outsourcing contracts could be reviewed and re-examined to take Cloud Services into consideration, rather than simply waiting them out to take advantage of new solutions. The process here is of interest as it potentially opens some opportunities which would seem to be tied off for the next year or so. http://gigaom.com/cloud/bils-it-outsourcing-contract-cloud/
Cheers for now!
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