CES: De-CEaSed? - The Cloud - Salesforce. Microsoft, which usually gives the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, served up a pre-show coup de gras this year: 2012 would be Microsoft’s last year at the show. The Vancouver Sun summed up the tone of the CES obits: That disparity [between newsorthy products and those that are announced at the show]has been most visible in those years when Apple, which has famously shunned CES, made a product announcement around the same time as the show.
Products such as the iPad and the iPhone — both announced at January Apple-only events — became smash hits, household names and industry-changing devices. Bonus points if you remember any products announced at CES the years those products came out. Are the end-times near for the big behemoth of US tech shows? In my years as a reporter for CNBC and CNN, I came to dread the soul-ducking nature of the endless sprawl of CES. I know. The big draw for many reporters was access to industry leaders.
“Why not?” “Our photog was arrested. “What? Amazon Web Services Blog. Cloudscaling. The Top Three Things To Bookmark for the Juno Summit April 14, 2014 Azmir Mohamed I can’t believe that it’s less than a month before the the upcoming Juno Summit. As you start putting together your plans for the Summit, I wanted to highlight some items to look forward to from the Cloudscaling team. #1: Four Cloudscaling sessions have been selected for the Summit. We appreciate the explicit endorsement from the community – the topics reflect on our experience and leadership in the space – and we are very excited to share!
Here is a recap of the four Cloudscaling sessions – you can simply add them to your Summit schedule by clicking on the links: Hybrid Cloud Landmines: Architecting Apps to Avoid Problems (Randy Bias & Drew Smith): Application portability? #2: For the second Summit in a row, we are sharing our booth space with Quanta. #3:Open Cloud System (OCS) product announcement. OK, I know it’s a teaser. New OCS management capabilitiesAdditional AWS compatible features Let me explain. Blogs | Cloud Computing Software from Eucalyptus. Cloud Computing Channel. High Scalability - High Scalability. 2011: the cloud has landed. Looking back on 2011, what stands out most of all is that the cloud became mainstream.
Cloud computing even got its own Gartner hype cycle, and while some aspects of the technology are still deemed to be in the early wave of the cycle, others are far beyond any hype. Indeed, SaaS is so well established today that Gartner positions it firmly on the 'slope of enlightment', well on the way to achieving productive enterprise adoption.
No wonder Oracle rushed to purchase RightNow as the year drew to a close, swiftly followed by SAP's acquisition of Successfactors. It's extraordinary to look back at the predictions I made at the turn of the year to see just how far we've come. Many enterprises struggle with this new need to operate in a connected world, and so it's no surprise there have been many instances of cloud failure during the year. Which brings me to the one unfulfilled prediction I made last year, that 'IT management gets wired to the cloud'.