December 16, 2011
Delivered Innovation loves a good Salesforce success story, and this case study on Citizen School’s usage of Chatter brings to light one of it’s greatest features- collaboration. Citizen Schools uses Chatter to promote staff collaboration while working outside the school at external engagements, such as fundraising, volunteer recruiting, and policy/advocacy. They used Chatter to share their best-practices, support, and news with each other, creating a community and a place to share inspiring ideas even though everyone is working remotely. Moreover, Chatter Desktop application made this process even simpler, because no one had to have Salesforce open in order to post, they could simply do it from their application.
There are five key statistics Business Cloud News wants you to take away from 2011: The size of the cloud computing market will reach $150 billion by 2013, Amazon.com’s AWS expects to earn a total of $750 million in 2011, 7/10 companies currently using cloud services will move new applications to the cloud in the next few years, 54% of respondents listed security as their top concern for adopting the cloud, and lastly, 60% of server workloads will be virtualized by 2014. What do all of these statistics mean? The cloud is growing and expected to grow quicker in the next few years, so perhaps you should consider moving to the cloud, too.
Cloud computing skills are in high demand, and companies are scrambling to hire people with specific skills. Linthicum outlines three jobs in which you will surely find work. The first he lists is Cloud Service Architect, which is someone who understands how cloud providers can autoprovision and autoscale, and apply that knowledge to cloud-based apps and infrastructure. The second job he lists is Cloud Migration Specialist, this individual should be able to take existing legacy applications and relocate them in the cloud, which would allow them to take full advantage of the elasticity of the cloud computing platform. Lastly, he lists Cloud Security Specialist. As we stated above, 54% of respondents listed security as their top cloud concern, so a Cloud Security Specialist who understands the difference between identity and encryption would be very beneficial to any company. Positions in cloud computing are in high demand, so if you are looking for a change, consider educating yourself in these positions.
CSC announced a recent survey that states, “33 percent of survey respondents cited accessibility to information through multiple devices as the most important reason for their decision to adopt cloud computing.” Cloud computing allows companies to adopt to solutions when they need it and only pay for what they use, instead of committing to a specific service or solution. Today, both businesses and people need freedom and flexibility, and the cloud provides this.
It’s Friday, the holidays are around the corner, everyone is busy spending time with family and friends, so there are not too many articles surfacing the internet right now. So, I leave you with this one, one of the funniest iPhone apps I have seen, Jotly. Jotly is used to “Rate Everything,” which means you can rate which ice cube in your glass is the best, which nearby items are the coolest, how great that parking meter to your left is- literally rate anything and everything around you. Click the link below to watch the ad and find out where you can download the app.
