TAG: data management

Robert Fox, Director, B2B / EAI Software Development - Liaison Technologies

2012 will see the rise of the Cloud Service Broker as organizations increasingly outsource multiple processes to the cloud.

Big-ticket BI investments are being deferred, and organizations must find alternative ways to meet expanding reporting and analytics requirements, which are less expensive, quicker to deploy, and also leverage existing investments in analytics and reporting.

Darren Cunningham, Vice President, Marketing - Informatica Cloud

Industry analyst Jeff Kaplan from THINKstrategies has been focused on cloud computing long before the term was coined and the bandwagon was full. I recently sat down with Jeff to discuss the market landscape, the evolution of cloud computing adoption, and the importance of integration to cloud success.

Darren Cunningham, Vice President, Marketing - Informatica Cloud

I don't want to suggest that cloud politics no longer exist, but my sense is that we've hit, or are about to hit, a tipping point where "hybrid is the new black" and IT organizations are reinventing and reasserting themselves around more comprehensive (and collaborative) cloud computing strategies. wanted to test this hypothesis from the line-of-business perspective, so I called a friend who was behind the purchase and implementation of salesforce.com outside of IT three years ago. He works for a division of a Fortune 500 company that needed a sales force automation solution and didn't want to hurry up and wait for IT. I asked him how things have evolved over the past three years.

Kamesh Pemmaraju - Sand Hill Group

I had several one-on-one conversations with CIOs, software executives, and cloud experts about database-as-a-service (DBaaS). My goal was to understand the challenges and benefits of DBaaS from a customer perspective and to identify future trends in this hot emerging space.