Cloud Tech News

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.

A presentation from Dennis Giokas on cloud computing in healthcare was quite visionary in how cloud will evolve and grow in e-health; in particular, the forecast of increasing use of SaaS as a delivery model. This is a simple and logical part of the cloud trend, of course, but exciting to see it described in both strategy and real world terms.

The concept of single sign-on (SS) is not a new one, and over the years it has successfully bridged the gap between security and productivity for organisations all over the globe. Allowing users to authenticate once to gain access to enterprise applications improves access security and user productivity by reducing the need for passwords.

The financial ROI of cloud security and compliance is judged by decision makers in end-user organisations by the same measures as is done for cloud computing in general. However, manually translating security policy into technical implementation is difficult, expensive and error-prone (especially for the application layer).

Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and distributed by anyone - subject only, at the most, to the requirement for attributes and sharelikes.

Faced with a need to find huge cost reductions the Province of Ontario is in the same place as many governments throughout the world – They’ve shouldered the debt to see us through the financial meltdown and now need to be smart about how they digest what they’ve taken on.

The Drummond Report is another political exercise focused on the growing public sector deficits, Ontario in this case, and the author makes a number of recommendations for cost-saving measures to bring this situation under control.

Although it can feel like you’re playing an intense game of Buzzword Bingo, the key way to approach new technologies like Cloud Computing is to marry them up with other hot topics, like social media and big data. Typically these aren’t entirely different domains more so simply different perspectives on to the same system, and so it’s helpful to throw them all in a pot and discuss: DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, .. etc.