By Louis Columbus on December 20, 2019
Tim Steinkopf is CEO at Centrify, where he leads the management, strategic direction, and execution of the company’s vision. Tim initially joined Centrify as Chief Financial Officer in October 2011 and took over as CEO in January 2019. Before Centrify, he held CFO positions at Secure Computing Corporation (acquired by McAfee), SumTotal Systems, Purfresh, and […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Centrify, CEO, cybersecurity, CyberSecurity CEO, google cloud platform, Louis Columbus' blog, Microsoft Azure, Multi-cloud Privileged Access Management, privileged access credentials, security breach, Tim Steinkopf
By Louis Columbus on December 15, 2019
TensorFlow is the most popular tech skill of the last three years, exponentially increasing between 2016 and 2019 based on Udemy’s Udemy sees robust demand for AI and data science skills, in addition to web development frameworks, cloud computing, and IT certifications, including AWS, CompTIA & Docker. SAP expertise is projected to be the fastest-growing […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 15, 2019
An all-time high 48% of organizations say cloud BI is either “critical” or “very important” to their operations in 2019. Marketing & Sales place the greatest importance on cloud BI in 2019. Small organizations of 100 employees or less are the most enthusiastic, perennial adopters and supporters of cloud BI. The most preferred cloud BI […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 14, 2019
Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud service market will grow from $182.4B in 2018 to $331.2B in 2022, attaining a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6%. Spending on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is predicted to increase from $30.5B in 2018 to $38.9B in 2019, growing 27.5% in a year. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is predicted to grow […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 19, 2019
Retail Innovation Continues To Improve As Budgets And Margin Grow Over 40,000 attendees gathered at Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City for the annual big show (see Figure 1.) The show kicked off with a keynote from BJ’s Wholesale Club Chairman, President, and CEO Chris Baldwin. Chris conveyed the impact of retail on […]
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By Louis Columbus on October 14, 2018
Cloud computing platforms and applications are proliferating across enterprises today, serving as the IT infrastructure driving new digital businesses. The following roundup of cloud computing forecasts and market estimates reflect a maturing global market for cloud services, with proven scale, speed and security to support new business models. CIOs who are creating compelling business cases […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 4, 2014
Microsoft’s Platform DNA and Salesforce.com Quest For User Productivity Drive The Strategic Partnership On May 29th, 2014, the Redmond based mega vendor Microsoft and the San Francisco based Cloud pioneer salesforce announced a partnership. From the teleconference call with CEOs Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff; and in conversations with over 50 key executives, partners, and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 5, 2014
Management Team Changes Provide A Breath Of Fresh Air To Culture, Customer, and Products Over 4000 customers, prospects, and partners gathered April 27th to 30th for the flagship Epicor customer conference, Insights 14, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event provided the $968M revenue, 20,000 customer, Austin based software company […]
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By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2014
Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 12, 2013
Non-US Based Organizations And Even Some US Organizations Will Not Tolerate Snooping In A Post PRISM World Since the Edward Snowden PRISM revelations, Constellation has received a steady stream of inquiries on cloud strategy. In fact, nervousness runs high among many non-US based companies using services from US based cloud companies across the cloud stack. […]
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