A Future Look at IT MangementPosted in General on August 04, 2010 by Caleb Olthoff
In a recent interview, Jimmy Harris, managing director of cloud computing at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, shared his thoughts on how the job of IT management will change over time as enterprises take a more services-centric view of their worlds. His advice in a nutshell: If you've got a penchant to know everything about anything, then you best shake it. And, likewise, polish your IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-like service management knowledge and business acumen. Here's why, he explains. As more robust cloud services bubble up, abstraction of infrastructure will become the IT endgame. "Enterprises won't be managing infrastructure from an operational and service delivery perspective but essentially acquiring it as services," he says.       
Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software MarketsPosted in General on July 29, 2010 by Caleb Olthoff
SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report "Software as a Service 2009-2014", the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 14.1 percent from the 2009 revenues. In 2009, the revenues were $7.5 billion and it is growing to $8.5 billion this year. "Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue within the enterprise application software market is forecast to surpass $8.5 billion in 2010, up 14.1 percent from 2009 revenue of $7.5 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The rapid adoption of SaaS has contributed to growth in varying degrees across the enterprise software markets. There will be a shift in total SaaS revenue from just over 10 percent of the combined markets in 2009, to more than 16 percent of these combined markets in 2014."
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