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The Cloud Paradox: #cloudComputing flexibility is a tax that enables #startups to grow fast and agile, but when they become large enough, that same "tax" amputates *billions* in market value #mustRead

The Cloud Paradox: #cloudComputing flexibility is a tax that enables #startups to grow fast and agile, but when they become large enough, that same "tax" amputates *billions* in market value #mustRead | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing. Now, there is a growing awareness of the long-term cost implications of cloud. As the cost of cloud starts to contribute significantly to the total cost of revenue (COR) or cost of goods sold (COGS), some companies have taken the dramatic step of “repatriating” the majority of workloads (as in the example of Dropbox) or in other cases adopting a hybrid approach (as with CrowdStrike and Zscaler). Those who have done this have reported significant cost savings: In 2017, Dropbox detailed in its S-1 a whopping $75M in cumulative savings over the two years prior to IPO due to their infrastructure optimization overhaul, the majority of which entailed repatriating workloads from public cloud.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this article explores the cost of cloud computing for large SaaS companies that rely on cloud computing to run and operate their business. The basic argument is that cloud computing is amputating Billions from the market value of those large organizations. It should be read by every software engineer in every corporation and the proposed solutions implemented rapidly.

 

This statement summarizes the post best: "For a new startup or a new project, the cloud is the obvious choice. And it is certainly worth paying even a moderate “flexibility tax” for the nimbleness the cloud provides. The problem is, for large companies — including startups as they reach scale — that tax equates to hundreds of billions of dollars of equity value in many cases… and is levied well after the companies have already, deeply committed themselves to the cloud (and are often too entrenched to extricate themselves)."

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This post summarizes what I think about when I refer to #digitalTransformation: What comes after smartphones? via @BenedictEvans

This post summarizes what I think about when I refer to #digitalTransformation: What comes after smartphones? via @BenedictEvans | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

There’s an old saying that the first fifty years of the car industry were about creating car companies and working out what cars should look like, and the second fifty years were about what happened once everyone had a car - they were about McDonalds and Walmart, suburbs and the remaking of the world around the car, for good and of course bad. The innovation in cars became everything around the car. One could suggest the same today about smartphones - now the innovation comes from everything else that happens around them.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this post is a bit theoretical for someone not bathing in digital transformation all day as I do (mostly). It explores what could come next but more importantly stresses an important fact: we now have a new platform - the mobile phone - in our pockets that has the potential to transform our world. We have started to see this with eCommerce - physical retail stores become irrelevant and we can price compare from anywhere - but we have yet to see the real impact of eCommerce+mobile+cloud+5G. THIS is what I think about most days...

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Separating the Clowns from the Clouds: IBM+Oracle not in same league as Google+Amazon+Microsoft on #CloudCOmputing 

Separating the Clowns from the Clouds: IBM+Oracle not in same league as Google+Amazon+Microsoft on #CloudCOmputing  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

As I keep repeating, CAPEX is both a prerequisite to play in the big boy cloud and confirmation of customer success. Both IBM and Oracle are tens of billions of dollars in cloud infrastructure CAPEX behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Oracle’s spending has at least ticked up, but their spending is not enough to keep pace, much less to have any hope of catching up to the infrastructure of the big three.

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WHY IT MATTERS: there are only 3 players in cloud computing market: Google, Amazon, microsoft. Sorry IBM & Oracle just don't make the cut. Here is a great analysis of why this is so.

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Software Helps Police Departments Transform to #digital & Keep Cops On The Street via @forbes

Software Helps Police Departments Transform to #digital & Keep Cops On The Street via @forbes | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Scott Crouch and his college buddies built Mark43 to help police do their job more efficiently and effectively.

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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Every industry is being transformed by digital, even those that were not so long ago considered off limit. Great example, the police force, which have systems that date from another era, can now benefit from cheap communication, cloud services, big data and analytics services to deliver mobile police insight and tools using everyday mobile phones and tablets.

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GE Platform for the Industrial Internet is what digital strategy should deliver

GE Platform for the Industrial Internet is what digital strategy should deliver | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Predix, GE's cloud-based platform (PaaS) for Industrial Internet applications, combines people, machines, big data and analytics. Discover Predix today.
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GE's industrial Internet means that in the future they may be best known for their infrastructure than their products and devices. Watch for it.

 

More importantly, the industrial internet and Predix tools came out of a strong digital transformation vision carried out by an exceptional Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Linda Boff. See her profile for more details: http://cdoclub.com/us-chief-digital-officer-of-the-year-linda-boff-on-digital-transformation-at-ge/ 

 

I wrote about GE industrial internet in the past: see here http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?q=ge 

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#cloudComputing is greener than in-house: Google DeepMind #AI reduce energy by 40%

#cloudComputing is greener than in-house: Google DeepMind #AI reduce energy by 40% | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

To address this problem, we began applying machine learning two years ago to operate our data centres more efficiently. And over the past few months, DeepMind researchers began working with Google’s data centre team to significantly improve the system’s utility. Using a system of neural networks trained on different operating scenarios and parameters within our data centres, we created a more efficient and adaptive framework to understand data centre dynamics and optimize efficiency.

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Google uses artificial intelligence to analyze energy consumption in its data center to improve cooling and reduce energy consumption by 40%.

 

The paper also links to other most interesting links on data center operations including:

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Energy is the main cost of data center operations so this is great news. Companies should thus use this news to further move their computing to the cloud as large data centers - Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others - are way more efficient than anything even large corporations can do.

 

This is true for energy consumption, and I contend it is also true for many other areas including security and speed of implementation. It is essential that any digital transformation make cloud computing the primary de facto standard over any on-premise operation.

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Beyond Google, Amazon, and Microsoft: strategies to differentiate digital offering

Beyond Google, Amazon, and Microsoft: strategies to differentiate digital offering | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
The cloud space continues to evolve rapidly buy fundamental strategic principles will always apply - to the cloud industry or any other industry, for that matter. One of those principles is Michael
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My friend PL Bisaillon raises a very good point: your digital product or services must be differentiated from that of the large established players. PLB highlights different ways that the cloud services industry providers can differentiate themselves from the large players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Cloud solutions in particular and digital solutions in general will be dominated by large global organizations. For digital transformation, large consulting firms such as McKinsey, Capgemini or the big4 will certainly offer services and solutions that appeal to a large audience and global organizations. However, this leaves room for regional providers - french speaking ones in Quebec province for examples - or niche players that focus on specific industries or verticals - eCommerce as is the case for my organization FMCS.digital for example. Always good to be reminded that the world will not be a monolithic one composed solely of large players.

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Your Bosch dishwasher will soon connect to the cloud #IoT

Your Bosch dishwasher will soon connect to the cloud #IoT | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Bosch joins the cloud computing bandwagon by becoming a full service provider for connectivity and the Internet of Things. The company aims to have all of its electronics IoT- enabled through IoT Cloud by the year 2020.

Via Richard Platt
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Bosch is launching its own cloud computing services for the Internet of Things, with the first cloud facility to be located in Germany.  The company is the latest to join the IoT bandwagon by becoming a full service provider for connectivity and the Internet of Things.  Currently, there are at least 5 million devices that are working with Bosch's IoT Suite. These include the staples of a connected home such as a central hub and contact sensors between the door and window.

 

It is interesting to see that companies in the non technology space - like Bosch - are investing heavily to be positioned for the year 2020, where they expect IoT devices to start taking hold. What are all the others doing?

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Bosch is launching its own cloud computing services for the Internet of Things, with the first cloud facility to be located in Germany.  The company is the latest to join the IoT bandwagon by becoming a full service provider for connectivity and the Internet of Things.  Currently, there are at least 5 million devices that are working with Bosch's IoT Suite. These include the staples of a connected home such as a central hub and contact sensors between the door and window.

 

It is interesting to see that companies in the non technology space - like Bosch - are investing heavily to be positioned for the year 2020, where they expect IoT devices to start taking hold. What are all the others doing?

Emeric Bailleul's curator insight, March 16, 2016 3:40 AM

Bosch is launching its own cloud computing services for the Internet of Things, with the first cloud facility to be located in Germany.  The company is the latest to join the IoT bandwagon by becoming a full service provider for connectivity and the Internet of Things.  Currently, there are at least 5 million devices that are working with Bosch's IoT Suite. These include the staples of a connected home such as a central hub and contact sensors between the door and window.  Outside the home, the company's IoT Suite also includes connected parking spots that allow consumers to reserve a spot prior to arriving, and auto-racing applications that could monitor essential racecar details even in a distance through a pit crew.

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Consequence of digital transformation: Enterprise Software’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity  via @techcrunch

Consequence of digital transformation: Enterprise Software’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity  via @techcrunch | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
There is a massive opportunity for startups to define a new era of work, and it’s not just the products and platforms they build that will look completely..
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The article describes why cloud computing and software as a service will become a huge business in the near future.


WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

The article pretty much lays down the reasons why I believe that digital transformation of businesses will have a profound impact and why I started the blog 2 years ago.

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Cloud Computing Infuses Gartner Top Technology Trends

Cloud Computing Infuses Gartner Top Technology Trends | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
The list concerns the 10 most impactful shifts for companies next year.

Via Peter Azzopardi, Patrick Bouillaud
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Always good to follow those trends. No surprise.

Peter Azzopardi's curator insight, October 9, 2014 5:46 PM

The most directly related trend was "Cloud/Client Computing. ....

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The Hardware Facebook Invented Is Radically Changing The $150 Billion Enterprise Market

The Hardware Facebook Invented Is Radically Changing The $150 Billion Enterprise Market | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Facebook is radically changing the way technology is being built with its Open Compute Project. Here's a tour of some of the amazing new gadgets from OCP.

Via jean lievens
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A good review of the open compute project from Facebook. Lots of links to follow.


WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Everything is moving to the cloud and the OCP open source designs are the basis for servers and equipments that run cloud data centers. This is bound to increase innovation speed and reduce cost. It may also lead the way for other open sourcing of hardware projects and solutions.

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