Cloud Transformation through ‘Future First’ Architecture
The backbone to the consulting services from the CBPN is the CTM best practice – Cloud Transformation Management, and the primary outputs from these engagements will be CTM Roadmaps. CTM Roadmaps enable migration to Cloud Computing through Shared Service-based models. Shared Service Roadmaps The fundamental role of the CBPN is to catalogue Cloud Best Practices, [...]
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Canada Cloud Network launches Social Cloud PR service
CanadaCloud.net, 11-May-2012 – The Canada Cloud Network (CCN), a new industry consortium intent on establishing Canada as a world leader in the field of Cloud Computing, is pleased to announce their formal launch and the immediate availability of membership services including ‘Social Cloud PR’. Founded by Neil McEvoy, a long-time Cloud Computing entrepreneur from Scotland, [...]
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Cloud Transformation through ‘Future First’ Architecture
The backbone to the consulting services from the CBPN is the CTM best practice – Cloud Transformation Management, and the primary outputs from these engagements will be CTM Roadmaps. CTM Roadmaps enable migration to Cloud Computing through Shared Service-based models. Shared Service Roadmaps The fundamental role of the CBPN is to catalogue Cloud Best Practices, [...]
Extending on premise applications to the cloud
When you have an existing system, and you have a need to deploy a mobile app that won’t interfere with what’s already in place, the cloud can offer a great solution if managed correctly. With so many services on offer, there are many problems that cloud can be considered as a solution for, especially in [...]
Big Data Hosting
When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data. So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their service portfolio? For enterprise consultancy, cloud platforms and tools such [...]
Introducing Cloud Dynamics : Right-sizing the data centre
Canada boasts yet another start-up with the potential to be a heavyweight player in the global Cloud Computing industry. Cloud Dynamics is a uniquely powerful formula for this market, given two particular key founding strengths: An executive team with comprehensive, real-world experience of large data centre transformation programs and associated Cloud computing architecture skills. Their [...]
Canada Cloud Network launches Social Cloud PR service
CanadaCloud.net, 11-May-2012 – The Canada Cloud Network (CCN), a new industry consortium intent on establishing Canada as a world leader in the field of Cloud Computing, is pleased to announce their formal launch and the immediate availability of membership services including ‘Social Cloud PR’. Founded by Neil McEvoy, a long-time Cloud Computing entrepreneur from Scotland, [...]
ACIS – ESaaS Best Practices
ACIS are a specialist in the Microsoft FAST Search engine, and offer technical and consulting expertise that enables it to be used for the best practices described in our white paper – Microsoft Cloud 2.0 – FAST Social Computing. Their SPM module enables FAST to be used in a ‘Hybrid SaaS‘ manner – In short one [...]
fpweb – Get Sharepoint FAST!
Microsoft Sharepoint FAST is the powerful technology described as the foundation for ‘Microsoft Cloud 2.0‘. fpweb offers FAST hosting, and you can get a quote fast!
Cloud Service Brokers – ITaaS Best Practices
The headline theme of our upcoming events, both the GovCloud 2.0 webinar and the Drummond Report workshop and white paper, is the role of Cloud Service Brokers and how they will enable the transition to ITaaS – IT as a Service. The second part of our webinar will focus on the emerging concept of ‘Cloud Service [...]
Microsoft GovCloud 2.0
We’ve just published our first main ‘Solution Guide’, a complete snapshot of how Cloud is applied in one specific area, in this case the Microsoft portfolio. MicrosoftCloud.biz is intended as a channel marketing tool to envelop all aspects of the Microsoft Cloud supply chain, ranging from in-house Private Cloud through Azure hosting and Office 365. [...]
Colligo – Offline Cloud 365 replication
Our primary activity here is matching vendors and other innovations to the best practice standards defined for Cloud Computing by organizations like NIST. For example one of the key areas that NIST highlights is offline replication. In short when you find yourself in a location with no wireless Internet access, what use are your Cloud-based [...]
Infopedia – Microsoft Salesforce 2.0
One of the most powerful IT case studies I have read recently was the Microsoft one for their own in-house `Salesforce 2.0′ platform, what they call Infopedia. As detailed in the full white paper on this topic of Cloud 2.0, when it is applied to the sales activities of an organization it`s called `Salesforce 2.0`. [...]
UCaaS : Foundation for Social Business Architecture
Ontario Province has recently become more proactive in asking the local industry for innovative new Cloud solution type models, such as UCaaS – Unified Communications as a Service. This provides the ideal stimulus for development of the local Cloud supplier base, and to identify where the opportunities are for the additional innovation that Ontario is [...]
UCaaS opportunities in Ontario
The bare bones skeleton of the Canada Cloud Roadmap is now available – This provides the outline document that we will then populate with exciting new Cloud products and services. The first of these is ‘UCaaS’ – Unified Communications as a Service. How we build and launch new Cloud services is the magic formula that [...]
Canada Cloud Network – A Triple Helix Design
The idea behind the Canada Cloud Network has been to identify, review and then utilize a number of Innovation Best Practices to design how (and why) this forum works. In particular one key goal is to implement a ‘Next Generation Cluster‘, a thought leadership piece from Cisco on how the original cluster model from Michael [...]
Public GovCloud Computing – Assessing the requirements
As more and more large enterprises start to make public adoptions of cloud and service providers figuring out the role they play in the market, one of the biggest potential cloud adopters has been watching and looking for signs that the market can support one of the most public facing cloud deployments. Yes, Governments have [...]
Canadian Cloud 2.0, from Cisco
This week I published our latest Cloud Best Practices white paper, called ‘Microsoft Cloud 2.0‘. The main activity of the CBPN is this vendor matching, i.e. we identify the best practice model, and then describe how different vendors can be used to implement those models. In this case Cloud 2.0 mapped on to the Microsoft [...]
Rapid Application Development – In Plain English
Whenever a new technology appears, there is a short period of time where every body with an idea about branding want’s to “coin a phrase” or be the “first” to use a term. As much fun as I am sure all that may be, the problem is that when the technology leaves it’s infancy and [...]
Microsoft Cloud 2.0 – White paper
Here is our latest white paper : ‘Microsoft Cloud 2.0 - FAST Social Computing – Building your organizations Expert Operating System. Download : 20 page PDF The headline points are: Cloud 2.0 – The intersection of Crowdsourcing, Cloud and social media A strategic review of the Microsoft FAST Search engine, and the hugely important role it plays [...]
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind…
Best Practices are defined as a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. What this means is that they have actually been proven. Proven? How do you prove that one method or technique is objectively better than another? Best practices come [...]
Designing Applications for the Cloud
When designing applications for the cloud, or extending on-premise applications into the cloud, it should go without saying that you can’t just deploy and expect good results.
Help define a “(Tier 1) Cloud”
Recently I’ve had conversations with Cloud entrepreneurs that identifies one really simple but powerfully illustrative dynamic of the Cloud Computing industry: that there are different ‘classes’ of Cloud service available. Simply put there are i) web hosting companies who have installed VMware or other Cloud platforms and are offering this in addition to their traditional [...]
Sharepoint FAST from the Cloud
In 2008 Microsoft acquired enterprise search software company FAST, and have been integrating the software into the Sharepoint suite. While Sharepoint is an excellent document and collaboration tool, the reality of a busy corporate life is that over 80% of corporate information is spread across ‘unstructured’ content stored in web pages, Word documents, email archives, [...]
Microsoft Cloud 2.0 – FAST Social Computing
I have started work on our next main white paper, entitled `Microsoft Cloud 2.0 – FAST Social Computing` and which will be available some time this week. Microsoft vs Salesforce.com Showdown As per the title and the whole idea of this site in general is that it maps vendor technologies to best practice programs. In [...]
Bell Canada pioneers Cloud Service Brokerage
Earlier today I interviewed hot Cloud venture Appdirect, a company that offers a white label platform for implementing ‘Cloud Service Brokering’. This is one of the headline R&I focus areas for our road map. On the back of a $3.25m VC deal last year, Appdirect is one of a number of pioneers in this super hot [...]
GovCloud 2.0 apps for citizen service
When it comes to embracing social media and applications, many businesses seem to question the benefit. True, if you are a consumer goods manufacturer, there is inherent benefit in associating yourself with social media and consumer applications, but what about for Government agencies? Does it make sense for Governments, especially municipal, to look at creating [...]
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