Skyence Software

Welcome to the corporate blog for Skyence Software. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-27464662-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

[skyenceinc]

Bessemer Venture Partners recently released their Cloud Computing Landscape graphic.  It's amazing how the cloud computing ecosystem has exploded in the last couple of years.  

This graphic really only represents ~20% of the landscape as far as I can tell.  Just in the cloud storage space, there are over 40 vendors, with only about 15 of those represented on this image.

While incomplete, it's definitely impressive and nice to see in one place.

[skyenceinc]

Symform Top 5 Cloud Storage Predictions

The season of 2012 predictions is upon us.  

Symform, a cloud based storage provider in Seattle, released their top 5 predictions for cloud storage today.  (see link at bottom of the post)

There is some interesting research in this article, and it is well thought out.  Here are our take on some of their predictions:

1. 2012 will mark the beginning of a "cloud storage revolution"

Companies have been hoping for this for the last decade.  While it is true that cloud storage adoption is on a huge acceleration curve for consumers (Dropbox with 45M users http://mashable.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-series-b/), we have yet to see this in the enterprise.  While Symform specifically mentions SMB, I think we'll mark 2012 with a good growth rate, but nothing that we will later mark as a revolution.

2. IT Solution providers will focus on augmenting current service portfolios with innovative cloud offering

We completely agree with Symform on this.  We are at an interesting inflection point within the broader cloud computer ecosystem where there are enough single featured, unique companies, that you can inter-connect company offerings into some really compelling solutions.  While 2012 may not be the cloud storage revolution (see point 1), it very well may be the break out year for cloud computing in general.

3. A wake up call for SMBs

SMBs will continue to act like consumers.  They adopt free solutions and use them to the best of their abilities with their limited technical resources.  The biggest problem with addressing an SMB market with any solution has been education.  While we do not believe that SMB is going to embrace the "secure, scalable, enterprise-class storage and backup" solution model that Symform predicts (and sells), we do believe that there will be greater adoption of different types of cloud storage solutions (backup, collaboration, email attachment augmentation)

No matter how you look at it, 2012 is looking to be another good year for cloud storage companies.  The technology gets cheaper and more robust, and businesses are learning to trust cloud computing and embrace it for it's money savings.

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/symform-forecasts-top-5-cloud-and-storage-predictions-for-2012-2011-12-05

[skyenceinc]

UP 2011 Cloud Conference

Don't forget to what the live stream of the 2011 UP Cloud Conference.  You can also follow the twitter stream with #UP2011 or @CloudSlam

http://www.livestream.com/up2011

The following is the agenda of who is presenting:

Government Clouds: Progress, Insights and Remaining Challenges (Coming Down to Earth) by David L. McClure, Associate Administrator of Citizen Services of U.S. General Services Administration  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=648809725  Megatrends Change Everything by Mark Straton, Senior Vice President of Siemens  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=641053375  Lessons Learned: The impact on the future of Cloud and Standards by Angel Luis Diaz, Vice President of Software Standards and Cloud of IBM Software Group  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=642593353  The Cloud: More than a Technology Decision by Maggie Chan Jones, Director of Cloud Services and Office 365 in the U.S. Marketing and Operations Group of Microsoft  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=648524076  Information Pairing – Smarten up your Website and Enterprise! by Daniel Fallmann, Founder & Managing Director of Fabasoft Mindbreeze  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=640006796  Cloud Assurance by Cara Beston, Risk Assurance, Partner of PwC  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=641188512  Competing In the Cloud: 5 Big Things To Watch by Robert P. Mahowald, Research Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services of IDC  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=641658496  Why Cloud and Why Now! by Marc Silvester, EMEA VP, CTO of CSC  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=640745428  The Cloud Computing Paradigm: Transforming Business, Technology and Industry by Mike Hill, Vice President Enterprise Initiatives of IBM  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=643646066  How are enterprises using the AWS Cloud today? by Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist of Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=645661864  Cyber Security For Virtual And Cloud Environments by Ankur Chadda, Product Marketing Manager of Spirent Communications  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=648536122  How to Execute a Successful Hybrid Cloud Strategy for 2012 and Beyond by Jason Carolan, VP Product Development of ViaWest  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=646672936  Real client innovation in the cloud by Craig Sowell, VP of IBMSmartCloud and Managed Solutions of IBM  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=645166811  Lessons from SaaS and PaaS Cloud Pioneers: 3 Case Studies by multiple speakers, executives of Microsoft  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=645326288  CTO Roundtable: How analytics will enable the cloud with CTO’s from HP, HDS, IBM by Mike Karp, VP and Principal Analyst of Ptak, Noel & Associates  https://cloudcor.webex.com/cloudcor/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=649468548 

[skyenceinc]

VentureBeat Research on Cloud Services

VentureBeat just published some new survey results on cloud services.  You can find the original results here:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/30/cloud-computing-survey/

As usual, the major concerns are still around security and integration between services, however, there seems to be a growing comfort with moving to cloud computing models.