HuffPost Live. Jmayfield56 : My Favorite @Salesforce #C... Happy Holidays from Internet Creations. Salesforce - Company - San Francisco, CA - Cloudforce New York. The Hijacking of PaaS: Time for Cloud Runtimes. The Future of Cloud Computing: Industry Predictions for 2012. With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - still in full swing at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, what is being said about the future landscape of cloud computing?
In this round-up we asked a variety of members of the cloud computing ecosystem, from CIOs to independent consultants to marketeers. We asked in each case for their top five predictions. Here are their views on what's in store in 2012: Santa Clara Convention Center is getting ready for Cloud Expo Silicon Valley DIY Service Provision | Cloud of Devices | Security Breach Looms | Personalized SPs | African Growth Lauren C. Lauren is responsible at IBM for the technology strategy for the company's growth initiatives, including cloud computing, Smarter Planet, business analytics and emerging markets. 1. Greg Ness | @ArchimediusVP of Marketing at Vantage Data Centers 1. Social Nets | Tablets | New Collaboration Models | IT Skills Shortage | RoR & HTML5 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Workday looks to put a bomb under SAP and Oracle duopoly.
Towards the end of my quarterly earnings call last week with Bill McDermott, co-CEO SAP he said: "The cloud is real at SAP. We're going to assemble a portfolio of on-demand applications with Business ByDesign and then we're going to impose our will on the market. " I came off that call with one thought in mind. McDermott could convincingly sell the idea the moon is made of green cheese to otherwise sane adults. And get them to pay for the pleasure of obtaining that knowledge. If Workday continues on its present trajectory, it stands a very good chance of rendering both SAP and Oracle irrelevant to the market.
The duopoly of SAP-Oracle have pretty much ground out the enterprise turf for themselves. That aside, all these players are fatally flawed. Salesforce.com has already taken $2 billion plus out of the market (PDF download) with their CRM solution. Workday is interesting because they've done something we've not seen in the market before. Jolicloud. Cloud Computing Gets Personal. Do and it's done. Enterprise Business Management Solutions : Human Capital Management | HCM | Payroll & Financial Management Software as a Service - Human Resource | HR | Solution.