Patrick's Clouds (en) | Successful Transition to Cloud Computing

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Oct 10, 2012

Inspiring Leader : Sir Richard Branson

Two weeks ago I had the chance to attend at Dreamforce 2012 in San Francisco. What a great event ! This time, I will not talk about the Cloud, some Social Computing Revolution or what inovation trends. I will just talk about leadership, if I can, with Sir Richard Branson exchange with Marc Benioff. Few things I caught I want to share with you. In fact I have three main points. People, Try and...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Oct 3, 2012

From CIO to CIO !

What’s from CIO to CIO ? It is the next move for the CIO. From Chief Information Officer to Chief Innovation Officer. This will become true soon, even if the actual CIO role will disappear ! Gartner said “By 2017, Chief Marketing Officer will spend more on IT than CIOs”, 2017, not so far isn’t it ? Why this change ? As I presented in the last post about the Social Computing...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Sep 25, 2012

Social Computing Revolution

A clear vision with Social Business : Dreamforce 2012 Just look back 45 years ago. What’s about IT ? A great new way with mainframe in the 60′s. In a previous article I was talking about the evolution of IT. 35 years ago, it was about mini computer, 30 years ago about PCs, 20 years ago about connecting and internet, 10 years ago it was about mobile and today ? Social Computing. Guess what ?...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Sep 19, 2012

Dreamforce 2012, 10 years of Dreamforce.

It’s a major event on San Francisco this week. Dreamforce 2012. 2002 was Dreamforce event for CRM. 2007 was Dreamforce event for Cloud. 2012 is Dreamforce event for Cloud, Mobile and Social. What a fast move for this company, Salesforce was founded in 1999. Who is Salesforce if needed ? Focus on the Customer Relationship Management leveraging innovation and ruptures to offer the best CRM...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Jul 18, 2012

Cloud Computing for Innovation !

Cloud becomes an extension of all services and will be increasingly integrated into our daily lives by a groundswell of major providers of personal computing. You have a Smartphone? A reader of digital books? A player? Soon your TV! Take these examples, they are necessarily connected to the Cloud now. The Smartphone to your contacts, photos … book reader for infinite library of books enough to spend...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Jul 4, 2012

Cloud Computing and personal data ? French touch ?

The main obstacle to cloud computing is security. One associated theme is the access to your data, especially sensitive data like personal data. The last week, the CNIL issued a series of specific recommandations. Recommendation 1: Clearly identify data and treatments that will pass in the Cloud Recommendation 2: Define your own requirements as to technical and legal Recommendation 3: Conduct a risk...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Jun 27, 2012

Modern times ?

Do not you run after time? “It is time to do this, to do that?”, “No, we do not have time for this type of project”, “Time is money”, “Do not waste a precious time “… And if things were not only related to time but rather to the attention that it carries? Look, for example, the Private Cloud example. Beamap found two types of projects: Projects that...

Posted by Patrick Joubert on Jun 6, 2012

Still waiting Cloud Computing Technical innovation ?

Cloud Computing is the highest in terms of expectations according to gartner. In IT is the word most often used said last forbes study and cloud computing is often touted as a technological trend. You said technology? Remind me what are the technical innovation behind the Cloud? It is immediately much more difficult to answer. Virtualization? Already for years, converged architectures? May be the...