To win the cloud, remember George Westinghouse
Is the cloud the final computing architecture, as NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims? Even if it's not, the winners will be the transaction and infrastructure providers.
Is the cloud the final computing architecture, as NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson claims? Even if it's not, the winners will be the transaction and infrastructure providers.
Organisations have been gathering our personal information in remote datacentres for decades. But combine the social web, cloud storage and cheap computing power and it's a whole new ball game.
An Australian government proposal to allow travellers to dump the need for physical passports has moved from thought-bubble to international discussions about a trial -- with security an afterthought.
A small premium beef producer in northern New South Wales gives a hint of what the dawning age of mass customisation might look like. Cows with Bitcoin.
When it comes to telling your users about security incidents, fess up, speak directly, and assume things are worse than they appear.
But Australian businesses 'aren't very far up the maturity ladder with this stuff yet', says network engineer Mark Newton.
How can long-established enterprise IT vendors adapt to a world where nimble startups provide low-cost easy-to-use services? They can't. They will die.
The cloud isn't just about commercial software and enterprise systems. The open-source world has its services too. Linode has been offering virtual Linux servers for years. Now the OpenStack project provides open source, open standards software for building reliable cloud infrastructure.
Australia is a top performer in a region that's beating the socks off other regions for Netsuite, according to the company's leadership — but the nation's performance has been in the mid-market, which could see change as the company guns for enterprise.
NetSuite's partnership with Yammer "adds social" to business software, just like Salesforce.com's Chatter. But is the social buzzword really a business revolution?