I have been not regularly posting the stuff on the blog for past week, and with many emails and requests that I have received for all, I am humbled. Thank you all for sending me notes, messages and calls…I will certainly be back on the blog, just taking another week (current) off to share anything. Bombarded with work…
Will be back soon. In the meantime, please keep on sending stuff that you would like me to write about or would like to share with the blog audience.
SEE YA!!!!
Further to my recent article on “Your Job Killing You”, my Friend Alison shared the below piece of Infographic that highlights the current state of our workforce and how overworked Americans are more stressed than ever before.
Again, work is very important, but cannot be at the price of health and peace.
Have a HAPPY WEEK!
John decided to go skiing with his buddy, Keith. So they loaded up John's minivan and headed north.
After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. So they pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if they could spend the night.
'I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently widowed,' she explained. 'I'm afraid the neighbours will talk if I let you stay in my house.'
'Don't worry,' John said. 'We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light.' The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night.
Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way. They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.
But about nine months later, John got an unexpected letter from an attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend.
He dropped in on his friend Keith and asked, 'Keith, do you remember that good-looking widow from the farm we stayed at on our ski holiday up north about 9 months ago?'
'Yes, I do.' Said Keith.
'Did you, er, happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?'
'Well, um, yes!,' Keith said, a little embarrassed about being found out, 'I have to admit that I did.'
'And did you happen to give her my name instead of telling her your name?'
Keith's face turned beet red and he said, 'Yeah, look, I'm sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did.' 'Why do you ask?'
'She just died and left me everything.'
(And you thought the ending would be different, didn't you?... you know you smiled... now keep that smile for the rest of the day!)
It’s the Weekend Humor……
The economics of public cloud computing are accelerating the pace of change occurring in enterprise software today.
Many of the scenarios that Clayton Christensen insightfully describes inThe Innovator’s Dilemma are playing out right now in many sectors of this industry, shifting the balance of purchasing power to line-of-business leaders away from IT. True to the cases shown in the book, new entrants are bringing disruptive innovations that are being successfully used to attack the most price-sensitive areas of the market. Winning customers at the low-end and making their way up-market, new entrants are changing the customer experience, economics and structure of the industry. Salesforce.com is a prime example of how the insights shared inThe Innovator’s Dilemma are alive and well in the CRM market for example. This is an excellent book to add to your summer reading list.
Defining The Public Cloud
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have defined the public cloud in their latest definition of cloud computing in their September, 2011 brief you can download here (The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing). The NIST defines public cloud as “the cloud infrastructure is provisioned for open use by the general public. It may be owned, managed, and operated by a business, academic, or government organization, or some combination of them. It exists on the premises of the cloud provider.” In addition the NIST defines three models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Gartner’s definition of public cloud computing is comparable yet includes Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) and Cloud Management and Security.
A quick check of the term public cloud on Google Insights shows the rapid ascent of interest in this area. A graphic from Google Insights is shown below:
Public Cloud Adoption in the Enterprise
In the many conversations I’ve had with CIOs and CEOs of manufacturing companies the role of cloud computing comes up often. There’s a very clear difference in the thinking of CIOs who see their jobs as selectively applying technologies to strategic needs versus those who are focused on compliance and risk aversion. The former see their enterprises moving to public and hybrid clouds quickly to better integrate with dealers, distributors and suppliers at a strategic level.
The public cloud’s pervasiveness in the enterprise is growing rapidly. This market dynamic is reflected in the report, Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2010-2016, 2Q12 Update (ID:G00234814). Gartner breaks out forecasts into the areas of Cloud Business Process Services/Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), Application Services/Software as a Service (SaaS), Application Infrastructure Services/Platform as a Service (PaaS), System Infrastructure Services/Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Cloud Management and Security Services. Highlights from the report are presented in the following five areas:
Cloud Business Process Services/Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)
Application Services/Software as a Service (SaaS)
Application Infrastructure Services/Platform as a Service (PaaS)
System Infrastructure Services/Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Cloud Management and Security Services
Bottom line: Of the five areas Gartner includes in their forecast, BPaaS and its subsegments show trending towards greater support for enterprise-wide transaction and e-commerce management. With 76% of the entire 2012 public cloud forecast being in the BPaaS segment, it is clear Gartner is seeing strong interest on the part of enterprise clients to spend in this area.
Courtesy – Louis Columbus
Blogger Labels: Public,Cloud,Adoption,Enterprise,economics,Many,scenarios,Clayton,Christensen,Innovator,Dilemma,sectors,industry,leaders,True,entrants,innovations,areas,customers,customer,Salesforce,example,insights,National,Institute,Standards,Technology,NIST,definition,September,infrastructure,government,combination,premises,provider,addition,Software,Service,SaaS,Platform,PaaS,IaaS,Gartner,BPaaS,Management,Google,ascent,area,conversations,CIOs,CEOs,role,difference,jobs,technologies,compliance,aversion,enterprises,hybrid,dealers,distributors,suppliers,Forecast,Services,Worldwide,Update,Application,System,Highlights,growth,Payments,Operations,CAGR,revenues,revenue,Commerce,Enablement,platforms,categories,Social,Suites,Office,Digital,Content,Creation,Intelligence,CAGRs,category,Chain,Forrester,Development,Database,Systems,Middleware,segment,From,Compute,Storage,Print,Bottom,transaction,clients,Courtesy,Louis,Columbus,three,five,subsegmentsIt was their anniversary, and Jill was waiting for her husband Nick to show up.. Things had changed since their marriage, the once cute, couldn't-live-without-each-other couple had turned bitter.. Fighting over every little thing,both didn't like the way things had changed. Jill was waiting to see if Nick remembered it was their anniversary!
Just as the door bell rang she ran to find her husband wet and smiling with a bunch of flowers in his hand.. The two started reliving the old days. Making up for fights, there was then plan 4 champagne, light music. And rain outside! It was perfect But the moment paused when the phone in the bedroom rang. Jill went to pick it up n it was a man.. "Hello ma'am I'm calling from the police station. Is this Mr Nick Brynes number?" "Yes it is!" " Im sorry ma'am; but there was an accident and a man died. We got this number from his purse; we need u to come and identify his body." Jills heart sank.. WHAT the Frickles!!!!
"But my husband is here with me?"
"Sorry ma'am, but the incident took place at 2pm, when he was boarding the subway. Jill was about to lose her senses. how could this happen? She knew these type of things she heard about the soul of the person coming to meet a loved one before it leaves!
She ran into the other room..
He was not there.. It was true! He had left her for good!! Oh God she would have died for another chance to mend every little fight before! She rolled on the Floor in pain. She lost her chance! Forever!
Suddenly there was a noise from the bathroom,the door opened and Nick came out and said....."Honey, I forgot to tell u my purse was stolen today"
LIFE MIGHT NOT GIVE U A SECOND CHANCE.. SO NEVER WASTE A MOMENT WHEN YOU CAN STILL MAKE UP FOR YOUR WRONGS!!!
Its the second half of d year so let's start making amends...
To spouses
To parents
To siblings
To friends
To children!
And many more. No one is promised tomorrow.....
