Matt and Rhianna discuss next week’s All About the Cloud conference in San Francisco!
SIIA & INPUT Webinar: Federal Cloud Computing Initiative Update
Opening Presentation by INPUT: “Five Indicators That Cloud Computing is Here to Stay”
Presenter:
Deniece Peterson, Manager, Industry Analysis, INPUT
Vendor Panel
Moderator:
Michael Binko, President & CEO, kloudtrack
Panelists:
Kevin Jackson, Cloud Evangelist and Engineering Fellow, NJVC
Nick Hoover, Senior Editor, InformationWeek
Robert O. Ames, Director and Deputy CTO, IBM Federal
SIIA CEO Interview with Bill Loss, SaaShr.com
What will the software industry look like in 3, 5, even 10 years from now? And what customer demands and business trends will drive changes in software products, how they’re developed, and the industry that provides them?
Given the dynamics of innovation and ever-changing user landscape, in many ways it’s difficult to predict what the software industry will look like in 3 years let alone 5 or 10 years. With this said, however, here are some thoughts for consideration.
Security: Security will ultimately be linked more often to an individual’s biometric markers. The trend continues towards multi-factor authentication where both physical and virtual considerations prevail. As advancements in security technology are achieved, cyber criminals will also continue to advance and keep this segment of the software industry ever-changing.
Private, Public and/or Hybrid Clouds: The existence of all three may very well be a reality for years to come. With most business decisions, associated risk must be well balanced with specific technology advancements to determine appropriate IT decisions. When it comes to private and public clouds, attention will remain focused around the sensitivity of intellectual property and related data which is collected, processed and stored. [Read more...]
Richard Dym at Oracle OpenWorld
Mobile Town Hall Meeting: Notes
During last week’s All About the Cloud conference, discussion focused, of course, on the evolution of the cloud as a core business strategy. But there was one particular conversation that went in another direction.
A group of industry executives sat down to have a conversation about the challenges of evolving into the mobile applications and services market. Why? SIIA has been exploring how to reach out to companies that focus exclusively in mobile applications or that are evolving into it. In fact, the Software Division of SIIA is actually generating new projects as we speak in order to address growing needs.
While no answers came out of the discussion, there was clearly a need for continuing the discussion. View the Mobile Town Hall flip chart notes below.
Mobile Town Hall Meeting
1. ISVs Navigate Mobility
-What to think about when developing
-Infrastructure Support
-Go to market
2. Device Issues
3. Points of Sale
4. Desktop-to-mobile transition
5. In-house or Outside Expertise — or both?
6. Abandonment of laptop?
7. Security Issues
8. Authentication
9. Data transit across non-traditional channels
10. Device-driven authentication
11. DRM
12. Infrastructure Issues
-Pulling right data
-Pushing right data
-Speed
13. Is the mobile browser going to define mobile access?
-Compete for it or become less relevant
14. Issues in the backoffice
15. UI or not UI?
16. Usability
17. Functionality
18. Form-factor
19. Composite app use?
20. Origins of mobile as voice comms and how that might limit or change how mobile evolves
21. Who needs to know in your Co.s?