Rapid , Revolutionary and Broad reaching changes
initiated by new product/platform launches in Information Technology space
along with the evolutions of new programming Paradigms/Methodology in Software
Applications Development space and releases of Newer Versions of existing
product suites; first up spring multiple challenges on Knowledge Acquisitions
aspect in these areas as well as on Skills Development side.
The broad classifications of challenges are:
- Knowledge
acquisition
- Skill
empowerment/improvement
- Moving
in fast to stay ahead of competition
Most striking is ; along with these new challenges also
come a whole new world of connected new business opportunities; which to encash
means, move in fast and stay ahead of your competition. In fact these changes
and disruptions provide redefinition to how business in general will operate in
the future ; are most liked by SI and ISVs because this allows their business
to thrive and reach newer heights ; gain newer clients with a refined set of
new value propositions and new solutions.
For Software Services organizations i.e. SIs::System Integrators and ISVs
::Independent Software Vendors the primary challenge is to 1st identify and
then adopt the most relevant technology/products/paradigm for its solutions
spectrum, for its value propositions and for its client base.
They essentially need an unbiased opinion on the value of a technology and
its business value propositions.
Identification of suitability of a particular technology is most crucial as
Vendors create unprecedented Hype / Initial demand over each and every technology
offerings and attempt to drive adoption even in the technology’s infancy stages
putting the ISV / SIs in a quandary “ To adopt or Not to adopt ”. Early
adoption gives First movers advantage which no software development
organization wishes to miss. Business Drivers create Business Pressure.
The Vision v/s Hype kind of evaluation starts with getting to know Primary
Feature / Functionality [FF] then getting to know What and Why aspects in the
initial stages leading to the When and How then to Do’s and Don’ts and
eventually to the Best and Next practices [BNP] aspects. The premium
knowledgebase is the one that enables architecture and architecting of a
solutions in these new technology space.
These changes and disruptions induce a
redefinition as to how business in general will operate in the future.
This opens up opportunities for SI and ISVs, as:
- This
allows their business to thrive and reach newer heights
- It
provides them the basis for acquiring newer clients and/or providing refined
set of value propositions and solutions.
The SI and ISVs hence need to 1st identify
and then adopt the most relevant technology / products / paradigm for its
solutions spectrum, for its value propositions and for its client base.
They essentially need:
- An
unbiased opinion on the value of a technology and its business value
propositions.
- Identification
of suitability of a particular technology is most crucial as Vendors create
unprecedented Hype / Initial demand over each and every technology
offerings
- undertaking
early adoption, as it gives a First mover advantage which no software
development organization wishes to miss.
The Vision v/s Hype kind of evaluation starts with
Getting to know Primary Feature / Functionality
- Then
getting to know What and Why aspects in the initial stages
- Leading
to the When and How
- Then
to Do’s and Don’ts and
- Eventually
to the Best and Next practices aspects.
This premium knowledgebase is the one that enables the architecture
and architecting of the solutions in the new technology space.
Knowledge acquisition
for various spectrum of professionals in a software development organization
eventually followed by Skills Development for its front line staff that
produces results is paramount.
Our Core Training
interventions
- Deliver on Peoples Technology Competency
roadmap / Certification roadmap as defined by the organization .—“build
competitive edge”
- Deliver Customized program for on-Bench people
- Deliver Customized program for people in technical
transition
Our Specialized New
Services have offerings:
1. Custom Solutions
2. Products
3. Events
Custom Solutions:
The objective of this
service is to provide expertise in Building
Custom Solutions/Products, Cater to Resolving Customer Pain Points across
Organizational Processes/Adoption, and Improving Functional Areas.
The offerings that
are classified as Custom Solutions are:
·
On
Boarding
o To Build Competitive Advantage for Business
through Process Effectiveness, Innovation & Project Readiness of Fresher
·
Project
Readiness
o Allow key
stakeholders to define their requirements and close important gaps before any
significant work and investments begin
·
Evangelism
o Partner with Customers/Vendors in Product Pre
Launch Activities
Products:
Products are aimed at
bridging technology and skills gaps, by publishing innovative content designed
and delivered by our experienced consultants, with an average industry
experience of 10 years.
The offerings
published are:
·
Theme
Based Program
o Conduct workshops framed around topics /
rhythms prevalent or addressing community needs.
·
Webinar
o Host Live Web Sessions for current &
emerging technologies; showcasing integration, interoperability, and
development knowledgebase.
·
Video
o Publish Current Technology Multimedia Content
for far reaching aspiring developers.
·
Real
World Project
o Provide competency building deep dive, end to
end hands on workshops for aspiring and experienced developers.
Events
Synergetics, would like to
engage and reach out far and wide to existing customers and beyond, to the
entire community of the I.T. industry. Events will create the forums which will
allow for exchange of ideas and information, and enable the community, to scale
up and reach out to each other.
The forums will be
targeted at:
·
Developer
A forum for Developer Oriented Knowledge
Transfer of emerging technologies
·
Vendor
Participate in Various Annual Events of
Vendors and ISV/SI
·
Wisdom
A forum showcasing WOW sessions across ISV/SI community
for extending existing product knowledge and capabilities
Our 15+ years to deep connection with the Developer
community as listed below; we get to see that they desire knowledge and
skills on different levels as per their role.
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Rapid , Revolutionary and
Broad reaching changes
initiated by new
product/platform launches in
Information Technology space
along with the evolutions of
new programming
Paradigms/Methodology in
Software Applications
Development space and
releases of Newer Versions
of existing product suites;
first up spring multiple
challenges on Knowledge
Acquisitions aspect in these
areas as well as on Skills
Development side.
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Most
striking is ; along with
these new challenges also
come a whole new world of
connected new business
opportunities; which to encash means, move in fast
and stay ahead of your
competition. In fact these
changes and disruptions
provide redefinition to how
business in general will
operate in the future ; are
most liked by SI and ISVs
because this allows their
business to thrive and reach
newer heights ; gain newer
clients with a refined set
of new value propositions
and new solutions.
For Software Services
organizations i.e.
SIs::System Integrators and
ISVs ::Independent Software
Vendors the primary
challenge is to 1st identify
and then adopt the most
relevant
technology/products/paradigm
for its solutions spectrum,
for its value propositions
and for its client base.
They essentially need an
unbiased opinion on the
value of a technology and
its business value
propositions.
Identification of
suitability of a particular
technology is most crucial
as Vendors create
unprecedented Hype / Initial
demand over each and every
technology offerings and
attempt to drive adoption
even in the technology’s
infancy stages putting the
ISV / SIs in a quandary “ To
adopt or Not to adopt ”.
Early adoption gives First
movers advantage which no
software development
organization wishes to miss.
Business Drivers create
Business Pressure.
The Vision v/s Hype kind of
evaluation starts with
getting to know Primary
Feature / Functionality [FF]
then getting to know What
and Why aspects in the
initial stages leading to
the When and How then to
Do’s and Don’ts and
eventually to the Best and
Next practices [BNP] aspects.
The premium knowledgebase is
the one that enables
architecture and
architecting of a solutions
in these new technology
space.
These changes and
disruptions induce a
redefinition as to how
business in general will
operate in the future.
This opens up opportunities
for SI and ISVs, as:
The SI and
ISVs hence need to
1st identify and
then adopt the most relevant
technology / products / paradigm
for its solutions spectrum,
for its value propositions
and for its client base.
They essentially need:
-
An unbiased opinion on
the value of a
technology and its
business value
propositions.
-
Identification of
suitability of a
particular technology is
most crucial as Vendors
create unprecedented
Hype / Initial
demand over each and
every technology
offerings
-
undertaking early
adoption, as it gives a
First mover advantage
which no software
development organization
wishes to miss.
The Vision v/s Hype kind of
evaluation starts with
Getting to know Primary
Feature / Functionality
-
Then getting to know
What and Why aspects
in the initial stages
-
Leading to the When
and How
-
Then to Do’s and
Don’ts and
-
Eventually to the
Best and Next practices
aspects.
This premium knowledgebase
is the one that enables the
architecture and
architecting of the
solutions in the new
technology space.
Knowledge acquisition for
various spectrum of
professionals in a software
development organization
eventually followed by
Skills Development for its
front line staff that
produces results is
paramount.
Our Core Training
interventions
-
Deliver on Peoples
Technology Competency
roadmap / Certification
roadmap as defined by
the organization
.—“build competitive
edge”
-
Deliver Customized
program for on-Bench
people
-
Deliver Customized
program for people in
technical transition
Our Specialized New Services
have offerings:
1.
Custom Solutions
2.
Products
3.
Events
Custom
Solutions:
The objective of this
service is to provide
expertise in
Building Custom
Solutions/Products, Cater to
Resolving Customer Pain
Points across Organizational
Processes/Adoption, and
Improving Functional Areas.
The offerings that are
classified as Custom
Solutions are:
-
On Boarding
-
Project Readiness
-
Evangelism
Products:
Products are aimed at
bridging technology and
skills gaps, by publishing
innovative content designed
and delivered by our
experienced consultants,
with an average industry
experience of 10 years.
The offerings published are:
-
Theme Based Program
-
Webinar
-
Video
-
Real World Project
Events
Synergetics, would like to
engage and reach out far and
wide to existing customers
and beyond, to the entire
community of the I.T.
industry. Events will create
the forums which will allow
for exchange of ideas and
information, and enable the
community, to scale up and
reach out to each other.
The forums will be targeted
at:
A forum for Developer
Oriented Knowledge Transfer
of emerging technologies
Participate in Various
Annual Events of Vendors and
ISV/SI
A forum showcasing WOW
sessions across ISV/SI
community for extending
existing product knowledge
and capabilities
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Introduction
We live in a digital world!! Every
interaction is a “transaction”, and recorded into the computer’s storage.
So, what is the primary need of capturing
this transactional data?
·
Proof of Interaction
·
Grain for Business Analysis
·
Case for Predictive Analysis
As we have digitized every piece into a
bit, the challenge faced today is more in terms of
·
Volume of Data and,
·
The disparate forms of Data in
a Domain.
As mentioned, data has a purpose to serve;
the major is that of participating in analysis, leading to the intelligence
required by the business to make informed decisions.
In this multi part blog series, we will try
to cover the need, along with the design & implementation practices for a
Business Intelligence Application.
The Framework for Business Intelligence
A Business Intelligence
Application, from a layered architecture perspective would be represented as
shown in Figure 1.
This framework is
conceptual, and technology agnostic.
Figure 1.
1.
The Data
Integration will result in the Consolidated Data Storage
2.
Data
Analysis and Rich Visualization such as decomposition trees will use this
Consolidated Data
3.
The
Consolidated Data can be termed as Data Warehouse OR Data Mart.
In
the next blog, we will explore the Application Data Layer.
Until then; Cheers!!
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Aster Data has built a business out of
map/reduce, and the release today of a thousand new SQL query building
blocks—what it calls "functions"—is designed to give business users
access to map/reduce computed analytics.
Whereas open-source big data solution Hadoop, for instance, is based entirely
on its own implementation of map/reduce, as well as a set of homegrown query
structuring frameworks like Pig and Hive, Aster Data wants to use SQL right
from the start. Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, executive vice president of
marketing at Aster Data, said that this is a significant advantage over Hadoop.
“Hadoop lends itself more to batch-type processing. Most of our customers are
running analytics on a daily basis with the expectation of results returned
every few minutes," she said. "It's not real-time, but it's near
real-time.
"The second advantage is SQL map/reduce. We are literally targeting the
business analyst with SQL using full map/reduce underneath.”
Map/reduce is the framework for processing huge amounts of data, and it is the
basis of the Apache Hadoop project, as well as of Big Table, which runs
Google's search engine. Using map/reduce, huge stores of data can be processed,
and the results can be combined into a cohesive set of information.
Stephanie McReynolds, director of product marketing at Aster Data, said the new
sets of query-building tools aren't limited to business users. “We introduced
many new business analyst-ready functions," she said. "[These]
functions address particular business issues, like path analysis for website
traffic.
"We also have a series of packages for power users. These are for people
building their own SQL map/reduce applications. They want to use Java or C
functions to get ahead. These are smaller building blocks."
Shahani-Mulligan said that Aster Data's analytics can be tweaked and queried by
business users, a major advantage over Hadoop. She said that many business
users already know SQL, which cannot be said of Hive or Pig. She said that with
Hadoop, developers likely need to be called in to implement any analytics
batches that need to be run, but with Aster Data, the business users can do
that themselves.
“With almost any of our [customers] you talk to, one of the big appeals has
been that their existing business analysts can work with functions and don't
have to use a new language," said Shahani-Mulligan. "This is why we
came out with SQL map/reduce. Some of them also have Hadoop, but it requires
you to do constant programming in map/reduce versus having a simple-to-use
interface."
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New Orleans — With an eye to the consumer market,
Microsoft has unveiled the policies that will govern how consumer and enterprise
applications are distributed in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Yesterday, at its TechEd conference, the company
revealed that developers would have no limit on the number of paid applications
that can be submitted to the store. Developers will receive five free
submissions per registration; further registrations will cost US$19.99 each.
Marketplace business models will provide for
ad-supported, free, “freemium” and paid applications. Distribution can be
public or private. Private distribution is available for a predefined set of
people to review applications, which was done with an eye to the enterprise,
said Brandon Watson, director of developer experience for Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft will furnish development partners with
Windows Phone 7 devices in July, he said. Applications will be written in a
hybrid version of Silverlight 3, which includes elements of Silverlight 4, he
said. HTML 5 will not be supported.
Developers can port Silverlight 4 desktop applications
to Windows Phone 7; however, they should optimize for the experience that they
are delivering, Watson said. Windows Phone 7 will introduce a new interface
called “Metro,” which exposes application notifications through tiles on the
phone’s desktop.
Further enterprise functionality will become available
through integration with Active Directory and support for policies. There will
be more opportunities to extend functionality in the future, Watson said.
“Those are just the tip of the spear.”
Microsoft is unaware of whether third-party component
makers are building controls for Windows Phone 7, Watson said. “They all
probably want to be first to market when the phone is available,” he remarked.
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Cloud computing has taken off as a trend in enterprise
IT, but analysts say proper governance is necessary for companies to realize
the full benefits of on-demand systems.
New, relatively unmanaged and untamed technologies
always draw the same analogy: the wild, Wild West. That's what was said about
the Internet 15 years ago and several subsets of computing technology, which
tend to be unregulated when they first emerge. So is the same situation with
the Cloud.
As firms move from hosted, dedicated servers to the
looser virtualized environment of Cloud computing, that old wild, wild west
feeling is starting to come back, and if people are going to feel comfortable
using cloud services, they must be rules and governance set down for proper administration.
So says IT research firm Ovum in a report by Enterprise IT Planet.
Cloud computing has already established itself as the
next disruptive technology in the enterprise, but IT governance in the next few
years will be vital as companies feel their way through the transition away
from on-site software applications to cloud-based options, independent research
firm Ovum said in its latest report.
The benefits of the Cloud -- lower costs, a smaller
data-center footprint and immediate access to multiple applications for a
distributed, international workforce with minimal fuss -- are also some things
that can expose companies to degrees of risk that simply weren't possible
during the heyday of locally deployed software installations.
By Larry Barrett, June 17, 2010
Cloud computing is here. Running applications on
machines in an Internet-accessible data center can bring plenty of advantages.
Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For
on-premises applications, this platform usually includes an operating system,
some way to store data, and perhaps more. Applications running in the cloud
need a similar foundation. The goal of Microsoft’s Windows Azure is to provide
this. Part of the larger Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure is a platform
for running Windows applications and storing data in the cloud.
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which
dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service
over the Internet. To deploy a new solution, most of your time and energy is
spent on defining the right infrastructure, hardware and software, to put
together to create that solution, Cloud computing allows people to share
resources to solve new problems. Cloud computing users can avoid capital
expenditure (CapEx) on hardware, software, and services when they pay a
provider only for what they use.
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Customizing
TFS Work Items
Introduction
A
Work Item in common parlance is considered to be an instance of effort/work
being carried out by an individual. Multiple instances of Work Items eventually
culminate into the delivery of a service or a product that is meant for a
customer.
Team Foundation
Server Work Items
Depending
on the approach one adopts for managing an application life cycle i.e. from
requirement gathering to actual delivery/deployment, there are various work
item types that will be instantiated and persisted into a database. As business
needs and the processes thereof are dynamic, and disparate, customizing a Work
Item, hence seems to be inevitable. It is therefore essential to understand the
anatomy and thereby gain the basic understanding of customizing an existing
work item type, or even adding a new work item type.
The
Anatomy of a WIT(Work Item Type), in TFS has three essential parts, viz.
-
Fields
-
Layout, and
- Workflow
Fields
In
TFS there are approximately 57 “Field Reference Names”, mapping to base/native
types. This is an extensible set. In
keeping with the .NET namespace tradition, two namespaces are predefined:
System and Microsoft. The System namespace includes all system fields that are
mandatory for Team Foundation system functions. The Microsoft namespace defines
all required fields for work item types defined by Microsoft. Customers and
partners can create their own field namespaces for custom work item types. We
could define our own namespaces, for e.g. a WIT for tracking leads could have a
field with a reference name of “Synergetics.LeadManagement.CustomerName”. This
in turn could be of a base type “String”, having a name of “Customer Name”, as
shown in Figure 1.1
Figure
1.1
Layout
In
this section, you map the reference name of the field to a control. The control
is the user interface for capturing the required data, and can be customized
with a “Type” property to perform necessary validation and change the look and
feel, as shown in Figure 1.2. A “Type” property could a “FieldControl”, “DateTimeControl”, or even a “LinkControl”
depending on the data requirement.
Figure
1.2
Workflow
A
wok flow is a series of linked steps which would be used to declare transitions
to different states, in the life time of a work item. Transitions would be
declared, or provide links between states in a WIT work flow, using a graphical
UI, as shown in Figure 1.3
Figure
1.3
As
an example, the transition from “Active” to “Closed”, will occur for the
reasons:
Obsolete,
Chose Competitor, Project Cancelled, Too Expensive, or Offer Accepted;
Wherein default values and rules for the
fields Assigned To, Activated Date, Activated By, Closed By, and Closed Date
are also declared.
The
Actions, provides the events under which this transition is deemed to occur.
To
conclude customizing a WIT in TFS is a simple, code free effort and can be done
within a short period of time, actually hours if not minutes. The key is to
know the process and identify the flows, further to which each flow could be
encapsulated as a WIT.
Interestingly,
as may have been observed, the example used to explain the anatomy and steps,
are for a WIT which captures and tracks non development efforts. If you are
wondering why would I use TFS to do such a thing?! Well, think about support
calls that one would want to capture, post deployment of a product/application.
Thanks
for spending time in reading this blog, and sincerely hope it may have helped
clear some doubts on the WITs in TFS.
Cheers
& Have A Nice Day Ahead!!
About Author: Sanjay Jotwani is Technology Transformation Group Leader.
Synergetics India:
IT consulting and Training services on .NET 4.0, SQL server 2008 BI. Awarded as
the Best. NET Training Service Provider by Microsoft.
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Oracle today has announced
its acquisition of AmberPoint, a maker of SOA management software.
AmberPoint's SOA Management System solution is focused on resolving issues in
application performance and transaction monitoring. The financial terms of the
agreement were not disclosed, and the transaction is expected to close during
the first half of this year, according to Oracle.
AmberPoint has partnerships with HP, Microsoft, Parasoft, SAP and TIBCO. Oracle will continue to support multiple platforms "even if the relationship
ends," and it will support OEM agreements going forward, the company said
in a conference call with the press.
"My guess is that Oracle will terminate many of these relationships,"
said Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director for Burton Group.
AmberPoint, which is the "clear leader" in the SOA management market,
is an "excellent acquisition" for Oracle, she added.
"I view SOA management as the most useful piece of SOA infrastructure an
organization can buy, yet very few organizations have bought one," Manes
said.
"The big vendors have universally promoted ESB as the foundation of a SOA
infrastructure, and they've traditionally played down SOA management. I have
the opposite perspective; SOA management should be the foundation of the
infrastructure, and ESBs are less important."
Oracle intends to integrate data from AmberPoint’s governance runtime into its
Fusion middleware products, including Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle SOA
Governance and Oracle SOA Suite, the company said.
"We expect the addition of AmberPoint's products to Oracle Fusion
Middleware SOA Suite will provide stronger end-to-end governance that allows
customers to manage the entire life cycle of SOA-based solutions, providing
visibility and management across heterogeneous environments," said Thomas
Kurian, Oracle executive vice president of product development.
"I doubt that Oracle will start to downplay ESBs, but I expect they will
start to aggressively promote SOA management," Manes said.
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Worthington
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Windows Embedded 7 Standard, an embedded edition of
Windows 7, introduces new multimedia modules, energy saving options, and
management capabilities for specialized enterprise and consumer devices.
Microsoft shipped Windows Embedded 7 Standard in late April at the Embedded
Systems Conference in San Jose. Several of its partner's solutions and its own
reference hardware were demonstrated during the conference.
Those included multi-touch kiosks built with Intel hardware, industrial
automation products from Siemens as well as Microsoft's concept of set-top
boxes for integrating PC and Web-based multimedia with televisions. Partners
have been working with Windows Embedded 7 since September, when a preview
version was released.
The primary focus of Microsoft's embedded products has been on enterprise-class
devices, but Microsoft is now targeting the consumer marketplace with new
Windows Media Center components and Windows Presentation Foundation-based UI
controls, said Ashwin Kulkarni, senior product manager for Windows Embedded.
Developers also have access to Windows 7's multi-touch, Windows Flip 3D
navigation and Windows Aero user interfaces. Other technologies found in
Windows Embedded 7 Standard are Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Remote Desktop
Protocol 7.0, Windows Media Player 12 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service
Pack 1.
The core product footprint is 400MB, Kulkarni said. Microsoft's development
tools take dependencies into account as images are created, he said.
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Writing applications for cloud
environments is a different affair that writing for in-house hosting. At the
All About the Cloud summit in San Francisco this week, the focus was on what
changes developers need to make to their applications to enable their optimal
use in the Cloud. Perhaps the most interesting revelation offered during the
event was that of the direct correlation between billing and the quality of
source code.
Treb Ryan, CEO and founder of OpSource, said in a keynote talk that Cloud hosting offers “the best margins I have seen in the hosting business.” He added
that Amazon has largely played down the profitability of Cloud hosting, and he
suggested they have done so to scare off potential competition. OpSource has
been offering hosting for software-as-a-service applications for more than five
years and has relatively recently entered the Cloud hosting business.
Ryan said that applications hosted in the Cloud are under a performance
microscope. If they send too many requests to the database, that will be
reflected by a higher bill at the end of the month. He said that developers
writing applications for deployment in the Cloud need to realize that “bad code
costs me twice as much as good code. I can cut my op costs in half” by
optimizing the code.
Thus, said Ryan, developers can see a direct correlation between the code they've
worked on all month and the reduction in their Cloud hosting bill. That's
something developers haven't really been able to do since the days of
mainframes and time-sharing.
Elsewhere at the All About the Cloud summit, attendees and speakers discussed
the remaining problems of the Cloud. Integrating Cloud applications with
on-site systems was one of the first and most painful points discussed.
Paul Daugherty, chief technologies architect at Accenture, said, “We are at an
inflection point where integration becomes more critical. Increasingly we're
seeing a big increase in data sources used. Initially integration was about two
different applications, but now it's getting into the 10s and 20s.
"There was an interesting piece of research Gartner did: They looked at
companies using SaaS applications. One of the less obvious data points out of
their sample respondents was that 14% or 15% adopted SaaS, then reversed back
out onto on-premise. The No. 1 reason for that is cost of integration, and cost
required was too great."
Another remaining Cloud issue is security, said Ryan. “We're still addressing
security. The idea that the vast majority of Cloud environments have the same
user name and password for all users is ridiculous."
He added that most Cloud providers do not currently offer a way to tie multiple
accounts together, and thus whole companies sometimes use the same login and
password for their Cloud environments. Instead, Ryan would prefer accounts that
could be used by each user, but could also be tied together for collaboration
on the same virtual machines within the Cloud.
from SDTimes, By Alex Handy
Synergetics India: IT Consulting and Training Services
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