Category: Blog Posts
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Steve Jobs – Cool Products that Work
I absolutely refuse to write Steve Jobs obituary or predict the demise of Apple Computer. Nor do I intend to list out Mr. Job’s and Apple’s countless innovations and claim that I saw any of them coming. Had that been the case, I would not be writing this blog post.…
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Cloud Transformation
Cloud Transformation Clouds can form quickly, but transforming your business takes time. We are witnessing a significant transformation of Information Technology. Like the Industrial Revolution of the 17th and 18th century when production of goods moved from single unique/custom units to mass produced commodity items, computing power and the manner in which…
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Does SaaS make too much sense?
As software as a service (SaaS) continues to make significant inroads into enterprises and organizations of all shapes and sizes, it seems that there are some technology companies that are not necessarily interested in seeing, or at least accelerating, this trend. Phil Wainwright made an interesting observation in a recent article, The elephants…
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Extending Microsoft Licensing Mobility to the AWS Cloud: Now You Can Run Several Windows Server Applications on AWS
Great News! Microsoft License Mobility with Software Assurance program has been extended to the Amazon Web Services cloud. In a nutshell, this program allows you to move Windows Server applications licenses between your on-premises environment and the cloud. A number of applications are available in the program including Microsoft Exchange…
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Gartner Says Worldwide Software as a Service Revenue Is Forecast to Grow 21 Percent in 2011
Gartner is projecting a 21 percent increase in SaaS revenue growth in 2011 with revenues in excess of $12 billion. By 2015 Gartner is projecting revenues from SaaS based solutions to be in excess of $21 billion. Tom Eid, research vice president at Gartner attributes the growth in this manner,…
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Barriers to Cloud Adoption – Is Connectivity the Next Big Issue?
For the last two years, security and privacy have dominated the discussion concerning barriers to Cloud adoption, but has connectivity been overlooked? The Register published a new report, Cloud Connectivity – Carefully Does It, that explores this question and whether or not organizations are overly optimistic about their existing communications infrastructure being able…
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Is Cloud ERP’s Next Big Thing?
In Steve Ranger’s recent blog post, ERP: Long, difficult, expensive. Is cloud ERP’s next big thing? Or just a case of slicing costs differently?, he draws attention to one of the biggest misconceptions in our industry — that the Cloud is the silver bullet for all of ERP’s* challenges. He accurately explains…
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The Internet Matters
In advance of a series of upcoming G8 meetings, the McKinsey Global Institute published a fascinating study called, Internet Matters: The Net’s Sweeping Impact on Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity. In a nutshell, the research concludes that in addition to changing the way we live, meet, socialize and work, the Internet is also creating…
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Cloud Security
One of the questions we field most often at Lawson is, “Is the Cloud secure?” The answer is a resolute “yes.” The more detailed response, in fact, is the Cloud is more secure than most enterprise IT organizations. A bold statement? Absolutely. However, when you analyze the security efforts of…
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Will All Things Come to PaaS?
Since Salesforce.com’s acquisition of Heroku in December 2010, the interest in Platform as a Service, commonly referred to as PaaS, has been steadily growing. January brought Elastic Beanstalk from Amazon Web Services. In April, VMware introduced Cloud Foundry, and just last week Red Hat announced OpenShift. These recent entrants join Microsoft Azure, which moved into…
Heath Brownsworth 