Cloud | The Accidental Guru

Aug

Resistance is futile – Oracle to assimilate RIM?

Category : BlackBerry, Cloud, Free Thinking, Industry voices, Oracle

Tags: google, OpenOffice.org, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, Research In Motion, Sun Microsystems

This is a great article sent to me by a colleague – Jonathan Fisher. This sort of follow’s up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could be a significant acquisition for Oracle. Clearly a long shot, costly and complex but with the current position of RIM sat on an island that is slowly being eroded it could be a very good home.

Software advice has done a great post of which companies Larry ‘could’ assimilate next check it out

RIM, Juniper, and VMware on Oracle’s Borg 14 list (go.theregister.com)
Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google (dccrowley.posterous.com)
Oracle’s Borg Strategy Continues (pcworld.com)
Oracle Sues Google Over Android Phones (news.sky.com)

Jul

Have Microsoft lost the plot?

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Category : Apple, Cloud, General, Google, hosting, Industry voices, Innovation, Microsoft, Mobile Devices, People

Tags: cisco, cloud, google, hosting, innovation, microsoft, mobile, Software as a service, Technology, vmware

Before you put pen to paper on a topic like this you have to challenge yourself before you make such a bold statement – so note the question mark.

Peter Drucker wisely noted, “Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.” High tech is uniquely a product of both. Inbound marketing leads to innovation, or at very least appropriately channeling innovation. Since technology markets are in perpetual change, and since the Internet has accelerated change, the key goal of marketing becomes tracking change and anticipating where this will cause money to flow.

Innovation requires vision and leadership -Microsoft has lost both. Gates had the vision, Jobs has the Vision and the ability to execute. Ballmer is an operations guy and for 10 years even when Microsoft have been out of the spotlight they have slowley been committing suicide – innovation and importantly the ability to make it happen which requires the vision to carry through.
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Jul

#Cisco Cius video – this is one serious service for enterprises

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Category : Cisco, Cloud, General, Industry voices, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators

Tags: cisco, Cius, Collaboration, Enterprise, Messaging, Wireless

Jul

#Cisco enterprise desktop game changer – Cius tablet PC running Android

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Category : Cisco, Cloud, General, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators

Tags: Android, AudioVisual, Business, Business Services, cisco, Cisco Systems, Cius, tablet, Videoconferencing

This is a great move from one of the mega vendors.

Recently Cisco unveiled its Cius tablet PC running the Android 2.0 OS aimed squarely at business users. This is a game changer. As you will see from one of my previous posts – back in Siemens over a decade ago, Cisco pulled the market as it changed the desktop paradigm for voice 10 years ago.
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Jul

#Hosting automation for Telco / Carriers – choice is critical for the customer – check out Ensim, Paralells and EMS Cortex

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Category : Amazon, Apple, Azure, BlackBerry, Cloud, General, Google, hosting, Microsoft, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators

Tags: BlackBerry, Business, ems, Ensim, google, microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, o2, Paralells, Technology, Unified Communications, Verizon

I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry ‘pans’ out within the telco / carrier market – the hosting industry has quite literally gone ‘pete tong’ since the BPOS drive against partners.

The market is full of technical ‘diatribe’ – everything is about the Cloud in the IT industry. The reality is that it has been going on for years in various shapes or forms. Continue Reading

Jun

#Hosted Services – the right recipe for growth, prevent the lock in.

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Category : BlackBerry, Cloud, Feature it, General, Google, hosting, Industry voices, Microsoft

Tags: BlackBerry, Business, EMS Cortex, Ensim, google, microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Paralells, Salesforce.com, Software as a service

The hosted services market has now reached that point of maturity where hosted exchange vendors are ten a penny. Personally I started in this market back in 2003 when margins were ‘rich’ for hosted services like Exchange, SharePoint, BlackBerry etc and subsequently went deeper into the vertical SaaS industry because I saw the writing on the wall. We built the business fast because we focused on value – we targeted lawyers, accountants, professional services industries – we not only gave them a great messaging solution, we partnered with software vendors who would offer them compliance, security and services like BlackBerry. These were not Microsoft technologies but services the market actually wanted. Continue Reading

Jun

Which flavour cloud – elastic, azure or a bit of apple sir?

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Category : Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Facebook, Feature it, Google, hosting, HP, IBM, Microsoft

Tags: Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Apple, AWS, Azure, cloud, EC2, google, HP, IaaS, IBM, microsoft, PaaS, S3, saas, Salesforce.com, Software as a service, vmware

Firstly, I have not managed to finish this post. It was only meant to be a quick run down which has just got bigger the more I am thinking about this. Anyway, it’s not a deep technical view more of a pull it into a single page who are the main players and some wildcats. So in no particular order -Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Salesforce, Acadia (Cisco, EMC, VMWare tie up). I have also looked at Facebook – interesting spin? and one who I am sure is waiting in the sidelines, Apple.
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Jun

#Cloud – IBM starts to expose it’s hand

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Category : Cloud, IBM, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators

IBM have been watching in the sides lines. I think they know more than most that getting involved in the marketing education process is expensive and with a brand like theirs probably unnecessary, spent your money developing your offerings and keep talking to your customers. I think IBM will emerge as a powerful player as the market evolves,they have the customer base and you never got sacked for buying IBM. Check out the video below on IBM’s traveler offering - doesn’t really excite me, maybe its the video Anyway, worth digging into in more detail.

The only area that I bring into question is their ability to operate in highly price sensitive markets which seeming from some of the recent press releases is where they want a slice of the action - mobile. It’s certainly an interesting tie up with Android for Lotus notes - clearly restricting them to a niche customer base and without the support of the carriers sales team I personally cannot see any take up. That said, if they start to port their IM, Presence and Collaboration tools onto Android it will certainly see off Microsoft and Apple’s advances into their Notes customers.

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Jun

IPad nope- Siemens SIMPad was an innovative product

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Category : Cloud, General, Mobile Devices

Look what I found in my loft- it’s like a graveyard of technology up there.

I think I got this in 2003- tablet, 1kg in weight embedded Microsoft CE. Funny-WLAN on an optional card, no USB and infrared.

Too early! Vision spot on.

That said apple did bring out a tablet over 10 years ago, so technically first.

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