Measuring Hidden Costs of Cloud Computing
By Chris Curran, CTO Forum Team
Many companies across industries are still working on getting beyond the usage costs for cloud computing to understand the complete costs of migrating, implementing, integrating, training, and redesigning the surrounding and supporting people, processes, and architecture. In fact, three examples from companies that we are working with demonstrate how different details can lead to the same conclusion: uncertainty about the hidden costs of cloud computing…
Sorting Out Social CRM Options for Business
By Dylan Persaud, CTO Forum Team
According to Peter Greenberg, the author of CRM at the Speed of Light, social CRM is a philosophy and a business strategy, supported by a technology platform and designed to engage a customer in a collaborative conversation in order to provide mutually beneficial value in a trusted and transparent business environment…
Cloud Computing Still Only In Its Infancy
By Gyana Ranjan Swain, CTO Forum Team
In an exclusive conversation with Gyana Ranjan Swain, Salesforce.com’s APAC Regional Marketing VP (APJ) Jeremy Cooper talks about the potential for and the technological advancements in Cloud Computing…
Lest We Forget About Enterprise Security
By Shubhendu Parth, CTO Forum Team
Are CIOs spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the citadel and securing the digital assets—particularly when corporate wide cyber crimes and espionage have started to show a quantum jump even in developing economies like India? Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days.
Security Assurances are Challenge for CIO’s
From the CTO Forum Team
In an exclusive interview with the CTO Forum, Tom Clare, Sr. Director Product Marketing Blue Coat Systems, cautions CIO’s about the ignorance towards the growing web-based security threats and prescribes simple remedies to prevent from damages.
Security Scenarios are Syllogistic Fallacy
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Oops, I just argued from scenario. Pundits often extrapolate from the current state of vulnerability of systems to predictions of massive power outages, financial collapse, and loss of command and control are falling into the scenario syllogism trap. Posing scenarios to support your anti-cyber war position can be just as dangerous…
Optimizing Multiple Enterprise Applications
From the CTO Forum Team
Enterprise applications choke the corporate IT networks, and the blame invariably falls on bandwidth scarcity. Jeff Barker, VP solutions and Technical Marketing at Blue Coat Systems, talks exclusively to Rahul Neel Mani about application optimization and secured delivery.
Strategies for Secure Storage Initiatives
From the CTO Forum Team
As part of their storage security strategy, enterprises must understand the value of such intellectual property in combination with the risk tolerance of the organization before they can address how to appropriately secure it and store it. Moreover, because the value of information changes over its lifetime, so should its storage.
Privacy and Security Top Cloud Concerns
By Satish Das of the CTO Forum Team
Today, most of our contracts are jurisdiction-based and mostly relate to the location of data. With cloud computing, this is something which can’t be defined. Until laws evolve to accommodate these technological issues in contractual terms, large corporations will find it difficult to migrate quickly to clouds.
The Future of Enterprise and Web 2.0
From the CTO Forum Team
Web 2.0 evangelist Stowe Boyd shares his views on the myths, realities and future of web 2.0 and enterprise: Crowd sourcing innovation - drawing on the smarts distributed across the company and outside in the user community - is another big bang that companies need to be exploring.
