In any booming industry, rivalries are inevitable. In this article, The New York Times delves into the storm cooking in the Cloud.
If the Hatfields and McCoys lived in Silicon Valley, they would be fighting with piles of cash and lines of software code instead of knives and shotguns. And the fight would be over who wins the most customers in the computer industry’s growing “cloud” of software services, Quentin Hardy writes in The New York Times.
That is how it is for Aneel Bhusri and Zachary Nelson, whose companies are in contention over the next major shift in computing. In a way, the men are reliving history.
Two decades ago, their mentors feuded, and that time, too, the dispute took place against the backdrop of a major shift in corporate computing — when customers gave up their mainframes and moved to software that relied on personal computers closely connected to a server.
Mr. Nelson, the chief executive of NetSuite, used to work for Lawrence J. Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of Oracle.
Mr. Bhusri, co-founder of a competitor company called Workday, used to work for David Duffield, a rival of Mr. Ellison’s. Mr. Duffield is the low-profile founder of PeopleSoft, a once-powerful maker of corporate software that Oracle acquired in a bitter, 17-month hostile takeover fight.
How bitter? Oracle defeated a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department before it could reel in its rival. And a month after PeopleSoft was acquired, 5,000 of its 11,000 employees were laid off.
Together, NetSuite and Workday are among a growing circle of technology outfits poised to cash in on the migration to cloud computing services and perhaps elbow aside today’s corporate software giants, like Oracle and the German company SAP.
Ron Hovsepian corporate offers collaborative solutions based on the cloud. More information on its services can be accessed on this website.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Reasons why cloud computing is booming
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In recent years, the cloud computing industry undoubtedly rose to a higher level. Gone are the days when people and tech experts were questioning its capability to manage a company and an industry in the online world alone; doubts on the possibility of putting an entire industry profile on cloud have been dispelled. But no one can blame companies that still couldn’t turn over their hard copies to the InterWeb—change, especially a major one, is always difficult to deal with.
The reasons behind the cloud computing boom, if explained to a traditionalist who doubts the powers of this technology, are not really technical and are rather practical. Yes, trades and firms finally gave in to the promises of cloud computing for reasons simple and understandable.
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Affordable. With only Internet connection to rely on, being on cloud means there will be more physical space in the office –servers where office documents, employee profiles, operation details, and business plans are no longer needed. This being said, it means that being on cloud means “going green,” too. The company can save money on energy bills and can use the extra space to house more employees.
Saves time. In cloud computing, the trade owner lets everything to the cloud server. All he needs to do is let the program do the work for him—from organizing files and computing transactions and employees’ salaries to verifying works that need double checking. The work flow is more streamlined, saving time and eliminating error.
Safe. In cloud computing, everything is secure, since no burglar or thief can physically steal information from the Web. And the experienced hackers? There are many anti-hacking software and security measures online, all offered by the cloud provider.
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Ron Hovsepian, a seasoned expert in data management, serves as the president, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc. Visit this website for more updates on the online data management industry.
Monday, May 27, 2013
The positive effect of Box’s journey to the European cloud
The cloud computing industry’s sudden surge into the online management commerce is so surprising that some experts surmised that it may cost a big fraction of the labor force. They think that a lot of people will lose their jobs since the computer and the Internet would replace the task that humans are assigned to do.
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Box’s flourishing operations seem to counter the aforesaid grueling idea. Aaron W. Levi, the 28-year-old chief executive of the US-based privately held data storage firm, plans to take his business to a higher level by making a base to “capture other fast-growing markets for cloud-based data storage.” With this plan, new offices would be opened and more jobs would be created, which, in turn, might possibly attract more competitors, which also means more jobs in the future. Just this year, Box hired 40 more personnel to extend its American operation (which houses 700 employees) to London.
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But what prefigures Box’s European cloud adventure is beyond its personal company history: it only shows that the online business data storage and management industry is on its way to become a flourishing commerce. Box has shown many independent and privately owned cloud-computing and data storage companies that vying with industry giants like Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Google does not mean an automatic business failure.
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Ron Hovsepian, a seasoned expert in data management, currently serves as the president, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc. Visit this website for more updates on the online data management industry.
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Box’s flourishing operations seem to counter the aforesaid grueling idea. Aaron W. Levi, the 28-year-old chief executive of the US-based privately held data storage firm, plans to take his business to a higher level by making a base to “capture other fast-growing markets for cloud-based data storage.” With this plan, new offices would be opened and more jobs would be created, which, in turn, might possibly attract more competitors, which also means more jobs in the future. Just this year, Box hired 40 more personnel to extend its American operation (which houses 700 employees) to London.
Image source: xcluesiv.com
But what prefigures Box’s European cloud adventure is beyond its personal company history: it only shows that the online business data storage and management industry is on its way to become a flourishing commerce. Box has shown many independent and privately owned cloud-computing and data storage companies that vying with industry giants like Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Google does not mean an automatic business failure.
Image source: telefonica.com
Ron Hovsepian, a seasoned expert in data management, currently serves as the president, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc. Visit this website for more updates on the online data management industry.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Corporate development: Where every detail counts
Record-keeping has always been an important part of business. No more is this important than in corporate development, where specialists scour acquisition targets and drive multiple transactions toward favorable outcomes for their companies. Keeping track of all these actions and directing them toward the company’s desired outcome in real time is a challenge to the teams responsible for corporate development.
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Not too long ago, many companies managed corporate development through manual storage in various locations, tracking through spreadsheets, and holding weekly calls with the corporate development teams.
The way things have been done before may no longer be as effective. That is why a new system of record, which would serve as the standard, may be in order. Switching to a newer system may be the solution needed to make the acquisition process more streamlined and transparent.
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A centralized and secure system would allow members of the team to catalogue, view, and update all pertinent information from a single, secure source. Platforms offered by content management solutions providers, such as IntraLinks, would also let companies connect with their intranets, allowing limited outside access to important documents in a secure fashion, and let teams monitor the progress in real time.
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Streamlining the acquisition lifecycle and managing oversight over it is a vital part of the corporate development process.
Ron Hovsepian is the chairman, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc., a provider of corporate collaborative solutions based on the cloud. More information on its services can be accessed on this website.
Not too long ago, many companies managed corporate development through manual storage in various locations, tracking through spreadsheets, and holding weekly calls with the corporate development teams.
The way things have been done before may no longer be as effective. That is why a new system of record, which would serve as the standard, may be in order. Switching to a newer system may be the solution needed to make the acquisition process more streamlined and transparent.
A centralized and secure system would allow members of the team to catalogue, view, and update all pertinent information from a single, secure source. Platforms offered by content management solutions providers, such as IntraLinks, would also let companies connect with their intranets, allowing limited outside access to important documents in a secure fashion, and let teams monitor the progress in real time.
Streamlining the acquisition lifecycle and managing oversight over it is a vital part of the corporate development process.
Ron Hovsepian is the chairman, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc., a provider of corporate collaborative solutions based on the cloud. More information on its services can be accessed on this website.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Collaboration through Microsoft SharePoint: A new way of working together
Having undergone many innovative design changes like most of the programs from Microsoft’s industry-standard Office line, SharePoint 2013 claims to be able to create a new collaborative work experience. A Web-based file-sharing program with cloud app creation functionalities, SharePoint allows its users to effectively share and manage files and documents in local intranets and, recently, in the cloud.
SharePoint was first launched in 2001 and has since joined the other iconic programs of the Microsoft Office suite in becoming one of the most ubiquitous industry programs on the market. The current version, 2013, allows for an increased social working environment, allowing users to connect with and share information with experts from across the organization and to take the program with them anywhere they go through their mobile phones and tablet PCs.
With additional social media functionality to intranets enabled by the enterprise social network Yammer and close integration with other programs from Microsoft Office, such as Outlook and Project, SharePoint brings working in a network, whether an intranet, extranet, or through a website, to a whole new level of integration.
More about this software’s features can be read from the Microsoft website.
Ron Hovsepian has been serving as the president, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc., since 2011. Visit this website for more information on the company’s services and how it uses programs such as SharePoint to provide its clients with effective enterprise collaboration solutions.
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More about this software’s features can be read from the Microsoft website.
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Ron Hovsepian has been serving as the president, CEO, and director of IntraLinks, Inc., since 2011. Visit this website for more information on the company’s services and how it uses programs such as SharePoint to provide its clients with effective enterprise collaboration solutions.
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