By Cloud Ventures The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. UPDATE: I am also presenting on this topic at the upcoming 13th annual eHealth Summit – Read more. Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing This will focus on the overall best practices for Mobile... Apr. 16, 2013 06:06 PM EDT Reads: 627 |
By Cloud Ventures Our objective here at the Canada Cloud Network is to build a local forum for innovating global Cloud best practices. For example over here at Sheepdog our goal is to build one of Canada’s premier brands for expert Cloud consulting. Central to this is development of the ‘Clo... Apr. 16, 2013 06:05 PM EDT Reads: 828 |
By Cloud Ventures Recently Google commissioned Forrester Research to identify the TEI (Total Economic Impact) of moving to Google Apps, polling around 600 mid-sized firms about their collaboration plans. Download the report here: The Google Apps TEI Report from Forrester Research, used to to plan the RO... Apr. 7, 2013 09:25 AM EDT Reads: 553 |
By Cloud Ventures Although there are a number of suppliers in the Cloud market, most accept and note the primary dominance of Amazon, and the distinctions in scale of the Cloud that they operate. The Cloud providers market is like McDonalds – S, M, L and Super-size! So while there are announcement... Apr. 6, 2013 11:07 AM EDT Reads: 4,402 |
By Cloud Ventures A popular social media topic that is a great focus area for small businesses and other folks in sales is ‘Social Selling’ – This refers to using social media sites like Linkedin to help with your lead generation prospecting and other sales activities. For example this... Apr. 4, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,169 |
By Cloud Ventures The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD’ – Bring Your Own Doctor. In this March 4th article The Smartphone Will See You Now, the Canadian magazine McLeans reported on the work of the E-Health futurist Eric Topol. Topol describes the growing trend of patients ... Apr. 2, 2013 09:51 PM EDT Reads: 486 |
By Cloud Ventures The Forrester report ‘Total Impact of Google Apps‘ provides a framework for identifying the ROI from switching from a legacy mail and collaboration platform to Google Apps. Surveying 200+ organizations with over 1,000 employees, Forrester identified the main business benefi... Mar. 28, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,102 |
By Cloud Ventures  MaaS (Model as a Service) sets a new concept to order and classify data modeling design and deployment to the Cloud. MaaS changes the way to move data to the Cloud because allows to define data taxonomy, size and contents. Starting from data model design, MaaS might guide the DaaS (Dat... Mar. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,171 |
By Cloud Ventures  Our next seminar is scheduled for April 24th in New York City, with a headline theme of Big Data Cloud Computing. Specifically the agenda will be how to build a Big Data PaaS – Platform as a Service. This combines the NIST Cloud model for the middleware stack with the corporate a... Mar. 21, 2013 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,155 |
By Cloud Ventures Join my Sheepdog colleagues for a webinar on Thursday, March 21st at 12pm EST – Going Google Enterprise. Register here With a customer case study from Joe AbiDaoud, CIO for Hudbay Minerals, this webinar session will provide a comprehensive introduction to the Google+ Apps suite a... Mar. 14, 2013 04:08 PM EDT Reads: 492 |
By Cloud Ventures  For any modern entrepreneur I`d suggest the sweet spot of Cloud applications you should master is the holy trinity of these three killer apps – Linkedin, Salesforce.com and Google+ Apps. In short these cater for the end-to-end requirements of a sales operation, so you can begin s... Mar. 13, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,285 |
By Cloud Ventures It’s often said that BYOD – Bring Your Own Device, is part of a broader trend of “Consumerization”. In short staff are increasingly bringing their own home technologies into work, such as their smartphone, and using them for work purposes. It’s a blended e... Mar. 12, 2013 05:28 PM EDT Reads: 442 |
By Cloud Ventures  Recently I’ve been lucky to meet with the CTO’s of two important Canadian public sector organizations, Canada Health Infoway and the Province of Ontario. Indeed Dennis Giokas kindly presented on Cloud Computing in Healthcare at our recent seminar in Toronto. This presentati... Mar. 10, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,505 |
By Cloud Ventures Las Vegas, 4 March 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. This move will ensure innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of unsecured and difficult-to-ma... Mar. 5, 2013 05:02 AM EST Reads: 1,455 |
By Cloud Ventures Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the Cloud Identity and Security Best Practices (CloudIDSec WG). Find out below how to join this exciting new group! The core purpose of the CloudIDSec WG is to identify the overlap between the field of Cloud Computing and the K... Mar. 4, 2013 12:49 PM EST Reads: 532 |
By Cloud Ventures SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, 2013 — Firespotter Labs today announced the UberConference Google Apps Reseller Program. UberConference is a next generation audio conferencing service with a unique, visual interface. UberConference’s new channel partner program will be launching with Premi... Feb. 28, 2013 03:54 AM EST Reads: 956 |
By Cloud Ventures Our next Canada Cloud Seminar is now scheduled. On March 13th, at the downtown Toronto Business Development Centre, we will introduce ‘Always On Cloud Computing’. Keynote speakers will include Craig McLellan, previously the CTO for Hosting.com and author of the best practic... Feb. 27, 2013 03:29 PM EST Reads: 392 |
By Cloud Ventures Courtesy of the Centre for Global EHealth Innovation we held our first CCN seminar last week, entitled Cloud Computing and disruptive business models for E-Health. The seminar focused on the disruptive and transformational impact new technologies like Cloud Computing and Open Data will... Feb. 27, 2013 02:58 PM EST Reads: 846 |
By Cloud Ventures Our first CCN Seminar is this week on Thursday, 21st, being held at the Global Centre for E-Health Innovation. Register here: Disruptive Business Models for E-Health. As the name suggests the headline theme of the session is to consider the potential impact of Cloud Computing on the tr... Feb. 19, 2013 06:41 PM EST Reads: 720 |
By Cloud Ventures Another Canadian Cloud startup to highlight is Cloudiosphere. Their COO Liam Lynch has just posted up this in-depth article on the ‘Zero Trust Identity Model’ described a few blogs back. Another recommended piece to go along with this is Eve Maler presentation on The Three ... Feb. 19, 2013 06:39 PM EST Reads: 346 |
By Cloud Ventures For our upcoming seminar, a key theme will be “Matching Google Cloud ID to Cloud End Points” – By this I mean a focus on two different technology areas discussed on this blog, notably Google Cloud Identity and also Google Cloud End Points. We’re very lucky to be... Feb. 19, 2013 06:38 PM EST Reads: 613 |
By Cloud Ventures Last week I interviewed with Tema Frank, publisher of the Frank Online Marketing guide. You can listen to the podcast here, for a quick and general introduction to the business value of Cloud Computing for small businesses in Canada. In particular I emphasized the fit of local Canadian... Feb. 19, 2013 06:37 PM EST Reads: 334 |
By Cloud Ventures A headline theme for our upcoming seminar next week is ‘Google Apps for Healthcare’. It’s free to attend – Sign up here. Take Two Apps and Call Me in the Morning Our keynote speaker is Dennis Giokas, author of the recent Cloud Computing strategy document from Ca... Feb. 19, 2013 06:35 PM EST Reads: 1,237 |
By Cloud Ventures Our first CCN Meet Up is scheduled for next week 21st, where the TGH Centre for Global E-Health Innovation is kindly hosting Disruptive Business Models for E-Health. Having recently joined Sheepdog, one of Canada’s leading Google Cloud consulting partners, I will be presenting on... Feb. 11, 2013 09:21 PM EST Reads: 878 |
By Cloud Ventures NetSuite is a Cloud-based accounting and ecommerce solution that offers partner collaboration and multilevel support for mid-sized companies. Unlike other solutions, which can require multiple records and database support for each process, NetSuite increases business efficiency by offe... Feb. 11, 2013 05:34 PM EST Reads: 1,056 |
By Cloud Ventures  Ruby is an advanced language for many programmers, but it’s a powerful language used to make dynamic interfaces on the web. Dynamic web hosting shouldn’t be taken lightly because security holes still exist. A good cloud web host will offer a safe environment for development while still... Feb. 11, 2013 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,320 |
By Cloud Ventures  To best capture the primary value of Cloud Computing I always recommend looking at the scenario of a new entrepreneur launching their online business.
The Cloud has made entrepreneurism itself more accessible to more people, lowering the barrier to entry by lowering the costs it takes... Feb. 10, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,146 |
By Cloud Ventures  The financial ROI of Cloud security and compliance is judged by decision makers in end-user organizations by the same measures as is done for Cloud computing in general, i.e. by how much it cuts up-front capital expenditure and in-house manual maintenance cost. However, manually transl... Feb. 8, 2013 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,661 |
By Cloud Ventures  The concept of single sign-on (SSO) is not a new one, and over the years it has successfully bridged the gap between security and productivity for organizations all over the globe.
Allowing users to authenticate once to gain access to enterprise applications improves access security a... Feb. 7, 2013 06:53 PM EST Reads: 2,378 |
By Cloud Ventures Our next webinar is now scheduled, for the 20th March at 11am EST Register here GovCloud and the Digital Agenda The headline theme for this session is to identify and explore the enabling relationship between Cloud Computing and Digital Government programs. This will include a headline... Feb. 7, 2013 01:20 PM EST Reads: 551 |
By Cloud Ventures McKinsey provides an excellent insight into how executives should approach the increasingly important world of social media. In Six Social Media Skills Every Executive Needs (requires free registration) they describe how the transformational power of this trend can be harnessed through... Feb. 4, 2013 04:36 PM EST Reads: 764 |
By Cloud Ventures Last year I posted a blog to the Allstream portal about how tools like Cloud-based Microsoft Outlook services can help you implement personal productivity best practices, like ‘Getting Things Done‘. This type of functionality is also possible with the Google toolset, indeed... Feb. 4, 2013 01:32 PM EST Reads: 1,114 |
By Cloud Ventures Recently the USA Government announced a Digital Government strategy. Our new white paper ‘GovCloud 2.0′ describes how Government Cloud Computing can provide an accelerating platform for implementing this policy, covering topics such as: Business Transformation - Harnessing ... Feb. 2, 2013 10:04 AM EST Reads: 1,731 |
By Cloud Ventures As described in this previous blog, we started the process of collectively building a standardized profile that Cloud Providers can use to describe their services, hosting facilities and other factors that are important to client, so they can make like for like comparisons. We’re... Jan. 31, 2013 01:48 PM EST Reads: 384 |
By Cloud Ventures We have now launched an industry directory for the Canadian Cloud industry: CanadaCloud.info Our goal is to help customers find local Canadian service options for their Cloud needs, and provide a showcase vehicle for the many smaller providers who are starting out. What I’m attem... Jan. 30, 2013 05:39 PM EST Reads: 682 |
By Cloud Ventures  As discussed on this thread in one of our Linkedin groups, we are starting the process of building a directory of Cloud Providers and also facilitating competitive assessment of the services they offer. Here’s a quick draft to get the dialogue started, that we`d like to refine wi... Jan. 30, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,230 |
By Cloud Ventures New York, NY and Blue Bell, PA – Jan. 29, 2013 - Vaultive, a provider of persistent encryption gateways to retain ownership and control of cloud data, and Turnberry Solutions, a Microsoft Managed Partner with a proven track record of architecting, designing and implementing lar... Jan. 29, 2013 11:25 AM EST Reads: 871 |
By Cloud Ventures We have now confirmed the date and venue for our first CCN Meet Up: Disruptive business models for E-Health 21st Feb Centre for Health Innovation, Toronto General Hospital Our keynote speaker is Dennis Giokas, CTO for Emerging Technologies at Canada Health Infoway. As was reported here... Jan. 28, 2013 06:43 AM EST Reads: 445 |
By Cloud Ventures In our TRANSFORM e-magazine series we focus on the different needs of different vertical industries, like Government and E-Health for the first two issues, and now the media sector for the third installment. This third issue will be headlined by an interview with the technology leaders... Jan. 28, 2013 06:40 AM EST Reads: 1,220 |
By Cloud Ventures New York, NY –January 22, 2013 — Vaultive, a provider of cloud data encryption solutions designed to maintain the control, security and compliance of data processed by cloud-based services, has joined the Rackspace Cloud Tools program. Vaultive is now included in Rackspace’s comprehens... Jan. 28, 2013 06:26 AM EST Reads: 856 |
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