The time for thinking about the cloud as a technology to adopt in the near future may now be over. Cloud computing, in all its many forms, has arrived. If you don't have a strong strategy to align your company's operations with cloud progress, you may find yourself overtaken by more agile...
The cloud's spread across industries and areas of business can be tracked in many ways. Noting the size of the overall services market is a good start, but there may be an even more vivid illustration of cloud use: As Forbes contributor Joe McKendrick recently reported, companies are running short on...
If you're an independent software vendor, chances are this is a transitional time. The cloud has arrived on the scene, carrying a mix of promise and uncertainty. How will the technology affect the way you reach out to clients? How will you convince the customer base to come along? How will the new...
Application development skills are important for internal business operations due to the wide variety of niches that the resulting products can fill. If you have a team capable of producing reliable Web applications, many functions can become easier and better unified. Within the most advanced...
When an IT trend begins to pick up speed, the window to get your company involved becomes very narrow. If you don't hurry, competitors may reap the benefits while you hurry to catch up. The everyday use of the cloud is reaching this stage, with standard business applications proving far more...