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Miguel Membrado

GoGrid Rides The Cloud Into Your Business | FastCompany.TV - 0 views

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    Not only Amazon and Google are providing cloud computing infrastructures. GoGrid dans Rackspace also. Here is the interview of the CEO and the VP Technology of GoGrid.
Miguel Membrado

The FASTForward Blog » blueKiwi 2009 - The Sociology of Productivity is a Cor... - 0 views

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    Jon Husband is analysing in detail the new BlueKiwi offer, and how it is a real tool to help changing usages within corporations. He demonstrated that this is a new layer to information systems, not only a complement to any existing IBM or Lotus infrastructure, which is the major problem for large accounts to integrate this new technologies.
Miguel Membrado

CIOs Ignore Collaboration Tools Too Much, CEB Says - Global-cio - - 0 views

  • Although austerity drives have led to a focus on process automation, this isn't producing the scale of improvements needed in employee productivity,
  • Any organization spending less than this is seriously lagging, whilst those pushing hardest for improvements are allocating two-thirds of all IT spending to the tools that are really capable of transforming the way users work.
  • One of the biggest surprises in our latest research is the growing impact of collaboration on productivity,
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  • People know that work is becoming more collaborative, but the surprise is that 50% of successful performance now depends on this -- where 10 years ago 80% of the outcome of any task would have been down to the individual. It is the magnitude of the shift that we didn't expect.
  • Things change so quickly now that organizations really need to be reviewing their plans quarterly, and ensuring they can adapt them if priorities have altered.
  • their lack of visibility on what IT users need to do their jobs effectively
  • Who in IT really understands the end users and how they get work done?' there was often an uncomfortable silence
  • It may require the involvement of HR and other disciplines -- in the form of cross-functional support -- as users learn to work more collaboratively, sharing knowledge and ideas more readily, and replicating best practices.
  • Some of this may be hosted in the cloud; also users will be able to find their own apps, which will simply plug in to the company infrastructure. IT will own the integration and the security, but will be much less focused on the interface to users,
  • executives are demanding 20% more productivity from their employees, yet that 55% of workers feel unable to handle the stress of their jobs for much longer
  • More than any other department, IT has a crucial part to play in helping businesses meet this demand, CEB said.
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    "CIOs Ignore Collaboration Tools Too Much, CEB Says"
Miguel Membrado

I'm A Startup - Why Am I Being Inundated With Cloud Providers? | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • SendGrid – replaces your email infrastructure so you don’t have to build, scale, and maintain these systems in-house.
  • ScaleXtreme – a cloud-based server automation product for the modern distributed data center. SystemAdmins gets a single unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers.
  • New Relic – an all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.
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  • 4. OpenStack is a big trend in cloud computing and will continue to be so. Does the company have a foundation in OpenStack, a belief in open source and working with the community to make technology great? And is this important to you?
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