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It was a great year for Social CRM, Social Selling and the world of SaaS. We’ve collected a bunch of great articles over the course of the year so we wanted to share the the top 25 blog posts from 2012. Any others we should add to the list? Leave them in the comments.
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Unless Google can get its serverless act together, it may end up winning the container battle but losing the cloud war
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
For years, AWS had the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market all to itself. Microsoft was late to the party, but with its strong ties to CIOs and a savvy hybrid cloud story, Azure has quickly become a serious contender to Amazon’s cloud throne. Google, however, has had to settle for a distant third place.
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Google used to rely mainly on its technical bona fides to sell its cloud, but now it's meeting customers halfway with new enterprise-friendly capabilities and support
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"By most estimates, Google Cloud remains a distant No. 3 behind AWS and Microsoft Azure."
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From data scooping to facial recognition, Amazon’s latest additions give devs new, wide-ranging powers in the cloud
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"....... no company has done more to create feature-rich bundles of services for the cloud than Amazon."
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Remove head from sand. Resist impulse to hug server. Prepare yourself for the inevitable
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"I said the cloud wouldn’t eat the world in 2017, but it's going to happen eventually. There's simply no reason for most businesses to run their own Data Center. There's no reason for most non-IT businesses to write most of their software. Buying hardware? It's a generation behind by the time you unpack it."
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You think your datacenter offers a better solution than AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform? Fuggedaboutit
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Ultimately, there's no way you can keep up with the relentless economies of scale of an Amazon, Google, or Microsoft."
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That depends on how good you are at managing infrastructure. 451 finds labor efficiency and utilization severely impact total cost of ownership for private clouds
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Public clouds have their advantages. Most notably, public clouds are the least wasteful deployment option because they offer on-demand provisioning of resources."
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Enterprises didn't spend any more money on storage systems in Q2, but they got more capacity, IDC says
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Where enterprises last year were ordering SSDs (solid-state drives) with up to 3TB, now they can buy in bulk with units as big as 15TB."
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All those millions of new endpoints will add equally as many vulnerabilities if the industry fails to address the problem
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
IoT: Big money, big risk. If we buy into the hype that IoT offers huge opportunity, we should assume the hackers won't be far behind.
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More and more enterprises are moving towards multi-cloud environments, but data encryption and security remain a stumbling block, according to the latest research from workload security provider HyTrust.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"When it comes to security, 44% encrypt data using a cloud provider solution, while 28% deploy a separate data encryption solution."
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Find out which ones give you more (or less) control over your data
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
5 of the best products reviewed
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Advanced practitioners display hybrid vigour
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
Cloud computing is so mainstream these days that maybe it should just be called “computing”.
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Building a perimeter fence around traditional infrastructure may reduce some IT risks, but it sacrifices agility. Composable Infrastructure offers a better way.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"In short, it would be a Composable Infrastructure – one that turns compute, storage and fabric into fluid pools of resources that you can effortlessly compose and recompose to meet each application’s changing needs."
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Micrsoft is in the midst of a historic strategic pivot to embrace Linux as a first-class supported platform. We explore the implications for enterprise IT and business decision-makers, and recommend practical steps to position your organization for a cross-platform Microsoft strategy
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
Azure has emerged as an alternative to AWS, and Microsoft has partnered with Docker to deliver container support for Windows Server 2016.
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How vulnerability management and threat prevention can move at the speed of continuous delivery
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Simply put, it is not possible to keep up with container image updates, deliver reliable alerts, and detect anomalies if we continue relying on a manual, start-and-stop system."
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Chrome may be the world’s most popular browser, but it isn’t necessarily the best one
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Chrome is great. Google did a wonderful job with it—and continues improving it every day. But Chrome isn’t perfect, and it’s not the only bundle of bits that can fetch a URL. There are plenty of other good options, and you should explore them for all of these 13 reasons and maybe a few more."
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Container-based applications introduce unique security challenges; here’s how to address them
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"If security teams want to seize the opportunity (borrowing a devops term) to “shift security to the left,” they need to identify and involve themselves in container initiatives now."
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Cloud providers are pushing predictive analytics, machine learning, and IoT, but most companies simply want to move their workloads first
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
IT leaders want to get their workloads running properly in the cloud. Innovative stuff? It is not that important right now.
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In the next five years, nearly every important decision, whether it's business or personal, will be made with the assistance of IBM Watson, said IBM president and CEO Ginni Rometty, in a keynote speech at IBM's World of Watson conference.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Watson technology will touch hundreds of millions of people by the end of this year alone, IBM's CEO said."
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VMware private clouds will gain elasticity from the Amazon-VMware offering, but customers may eventually wonder why they need a private cloud at all
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Techies who live in the future are likely to greet VMware Cloud on AWS with a shrug. The private cloud (whatever that is) and on-premises computing in general are on the wane, they will say, as even the C-suite embraces the public cloud."
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The benefits of big data are real.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"The key to choosing the right cloud vendor for your organization lies in understanding your big data needs."
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The new version of Google's container-orchestration system adds cross-cloud and state-management features, while also simplifying setup
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"Google Kubernetes has a reputation for being more powerful but more difficult to manage. Version 1.4 is aimed as much at making Kubernetes less burdensome ......."
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To kick off his company’s Ignite conference in Atlanta this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Adobe will run three of its most popular software as a service apps on the Microsoft Azure IaaS cloud. The move is a power play by Microsoft, but it should be taken with a grain of salt: Adobe uses Azure competitor Amazon Web Services heavily, too.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"As part of the agreement, Adobe will make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud platform for the Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud."
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AWS, Azure, Salesforce, and the rest enable you to build and/or deploy stuff in record time -- but those clouds aren't killing on-prem IT for good reason
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"If the IT department is a dinosaur ............. then why is it taking so long for the giant lizard to die?"
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In flash storage these days, it takes more than speed to win over many enterprises. Flash pioneer Violin is introducing its fastest arrays yet but also bringing its Concerto OS to the cloud.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
The flash storage pioneer is introducing its fastest enterprise arrays yet
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Cloud can handle the peaks in storage and computing demand, but organisations must be able to get it up and down quickly in order to benefit from the potential cost efficiencies and infrastructure agility that it can offer.
Peter Azzopardi's insight:
"In industry, IoT gives birth to IIoT, which involves monitoring the performance of complex machinery such as gas turbines, aircraft, ships, electrical grids and oil rigs."
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