New white paper: BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor
The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. UPDATE: I am also presenting on this topic at the upcoming 13th annual eHealth Summit – Read more. Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing This will focus on the overall best practices for Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing, in particular focusing in on […]
Google Compute enters the IaaS market
Although there are a number of suppliers in the Cloud market, most accept and note the primary dominance of Amazon, and the distinctions in scale of the Cloud that they operate. The Cloud providers market is like McDonalds – S, M, L and Super-size! So while there are announcements all the time about hosting providers […]
Integrated “App to App Synergy” is key to Cloud ROI and enterprise social media strategy
The Forrester report ‘Total Impact of Google Apps‘ provides a framework for identifying the ROI from switching from a legacy mail and collaboration platform to Google Apps. Surveying 200+ organizations with over 1,000 employees, Forrester identified the main business benefits required to build an ROI framework for moving to a Cloud-based service, which essentially broke […]
IDaaS – Identity Architecture for Hybrid Cloud Computing – Cloud Best Practices Network
IDaaS – Identity Architecture for Hybrid Cloud Computing – Cloud Best Practices Network.
Google I/O Product News – Comparing Google+ and Linkedin – Cloud Best Practices Network
Google I/O Product News – Comparing Google+ and Linkedin – Cloud Best Practices Network.
Media Brief: Canadian Cloud Success Story: BoardSuite and Tenzing Successfully Partnering for Mission Critical SaaS Hosting
Reblogged from Canada Cloud: An interview with Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO BoardSuite By Howard Oliver, What If What Next Howard: Tell us about BoardSuite. and your involvement with it. Oscar: BoardSuite is a (www.boardsuite.co), freemium on-demand board portal that allows organizations the ability to manage, organize and share their confidential corporate […]
BYOD Executive Summary
BYOD (Bring Your Own Doctor) will explore the impact of ‘Personal Clouds’ on E-Healthcare, and the potential for this ongoing trend of the ‘Consumerization’ of IT for helping tackle big industry issues. Faced with growing resource scarcity challenges in particular the baby boomer retirement ticking bomb, Canadian Healthcare has the opportunity to pioneer world-class innovations […]
Bring Your Own Doctor – Slides available
This Friday I am presenting at the 13th Annual E-Health Summit. My presentation is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. Here are the slides: Download; BYOD Healthcare Related articles BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor (canadacloud.net) The Creative Destruction of Medicine (canadacloud.net) New white paper: BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor (cloudbestpractices.net)
Building the Open Cloud Ecosystem – My date with Jake Gyllenhaal
This last week I chaired the Cloud track of the NATAS Summit – A very lively forum of investment banking IT professionals in New York City. I confess, while it was interesting the real highlight for me was attending the basketball. Courtesy of the Arachno team I attended one of the recent Nicks defeats of […]
Canada launches ‘Roadmap to the Cloud’
Here is the first version of our Canada Cloud Roadmap with inputs from contributing expert authors. Download : Canada Cloud Roadmap We will continue to add more great content from a wide range of experts, so that ultimately this document offers a powerful roadmap template for planning an enterprise migration to the Cloud. The Roadmap […]
New white paper: BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor
The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor’. UPDATE: I am also presenting on this topic at the upcoming 13th annual eHealth Summit – Read more. Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing This will focus on the overall best practices for Mobile Big Data Cloud Computing, in particular focusing in on […]
Cloud Readiness Assessment – Planning your Cloud TEI (Total Economic Impact)
Our objective here at the Canada Cloud Network is to build a local forum for innovating global Cloud best practices. For example over here at Sheepdog our goal is to build one of Canada’s premier brands for expert Cloud consulting. Central to this is development of the ‘Cloud Readiness Assessment’, a standardized process for helping […]
Forrester Total Economic Impact of a single Identity Infrastructure for employees, customers and partners.
Recently Google commissioned Forrester Research to identify the TEI (Total Economic Impact) of moving to Google Apps, polling around 600 mid-sized firms about their collaboration plans. Download the report here: The Google Apps TEI Report from Forrester Research, used to to plan the ROI of moving from a legacy messaging and collaboration platform to Google Apps. This […]
Google Compute enters the IaaS market
Although there are a number of suppliers in the Cloud market, most accept and note the primary dominance of Amazon, and the distinctions in scale of the Cloud that they operate. The Cloud providers market is like McDonalds – S, M, L and Super-size! So while there are announcements all the time about hosting providers […]
Digital Postcards – Social Selling with Linkedin and Google Apps
A popular social media topic that is a great focus area for small businesses and other folks in sales is ‘Social Selling’ – This refers to using social media sites like Linkedin to help with your lead generation prospecting and other sales activities. For example this article How Social Sellers Build Their Pipeline with Linkedin […]
BYOD – Bring Your Own Doctor
The headline theme for our next seminar is ‘BYOD’ – Bring Your Own Doctor. In this March 4th article The Smartphone Will See You Now, the Canadian magazine McLeans reported on the work of the E-Health futurist Eric Topol. Topol describes the growing trend of patients using their own smartphones and e-health apps to self-assess […]
Integrated “App to App Synergy” is key to Cloud ROI and enterprise social media strategy
The Forrester report ‘Total Impact of Google Apps‘ provides a framework for identifying the ROI from switching from a legacy mail and collaboration platform to Google Apps. Surveying 200+ organizations with over 1,000 employees, Forrester identified the main business benefits required to build an ROI framework for moving to a Cloud-based service, which essentially broke […]
Big Data PaaS – Reference architecture for Big Data Cloud Computing
Our next seminar is scheduled for April 24th in New York City, with a headline theme of Big Data Cloud Computing. Specifically the agenda will be how to build a Big Data PaaS – Platform as a Service. This combines the NIST Cloud model for the middleware stack with the corporate agenda to master the […]
MaaS implements Small Data and enables Personal Clouds
Abstract – MaaSTM (Model as a Service) sets a new concept to order and classify data modeling design and deployment to the Cloud. MaaS changes the way to move data to the Cloud because allows to define data taxonomy, size and contents. Starting from data model design, MaaS might guide the DaaS (Database as a […]
Webinar: Going Google Enterprise
Join my Sheepdog colleagues for a webinar on Thursday, March 21st at 12pm EST – Going Google Enterprise. Register here With a customer case study from Joe AbiDaoud, CIO for Hudbay Minerals, this webinar session will provide a comprehensive introduction to the Google+ Apps suite and how your enterprise can leverage their transformational capability. Related […]
Bringing Google+ To Work
It’s often said that BYOD – Bring Your Own Device, is part of a broader trend of “Consumerization”. In short staff are increasingly bringing their own home technologies into work, such as their smartphone, and using them for work purposes. It’s a blended experience where they also continue to use it for personal use too, […]
Social CRM+ : How to master Linkedin, Salesforce.com AND Google+
For any modern entrepreneur I`d suggest the sweet spot of Cloud applications you should master is the holy trinity of these three killer apps – Linkedin, Salesforce.com and Google+ Apps. In short these cater for the end-to-end requirements of a sales operation, so you can begin selling and closing deals. Establishing successful sales teams is […]
Big Data Analytics for E-Health, via Google PaaS
Recently I’ve been lucky to meet with the CTO’s of two important Canadian public sector organizations, Canada Health Infoway and the Province of Ontario. Indeed Dennis Giokas kindly presented on Cloud Computing in Healthcare at our recent seminar in Toronto. This presentation was about the recent CHI Cloud white paper, which is quite visionary in its […]
IBM To Make Its Cloud Services and Software Based on Open Standards
Las Vegas, 4 March 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture. This move will ensure innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of unsecured and difficult-to-manage offerings. Without industry-wide open standards for cloud computing, businesses will not be able to fully […]
Kantara Initiative Call for participation: Cloud Identity and Security Best Practices Work Group
Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the Cloud Identity and Security Best Practices (CloudIDSec WG). Find out below how to join this exciting new group! The core purpose of the CloudIDSec WG is to identify the overlap between the field of Cloud Computing and the Kantara federated identity programs, with a view to defining: * How […]
UberConference Announces Google Apps Reseller Program
SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, 2013 — Firespotter Labs today announced the UberConference Google Apps Reseller Program. UberConference is a next generation audio conferencing service with a unique, visual interface. UberConference’s new channel partner program will be launching with Premier Enterprise Google Apps resellers SADA Systems, Dito, Sheepdog, Ltech and Agosto as its principal partners. “Partnering […]
Always On Canadian Cloud Computing
Our next Canada Cloud Seminar is now scheduled. On March 13th, at the downtown Toronto Business Development Centre, we will introduce ‘Always On Cloud Computing’. Keynote speakers will include Craig McLellan, previously the CTO for Hosting.com and author of the best practice program the ‘Always On Framework’. Read more and register here.
Slides available for E-Health disruptive business models seminar
Courtesy of the Centre for Global EHealth Innovation we held our first CCN seminar last week, entitled Cloud Computing and disruptive business models for E-Health. The seminar focused on the disruptive and transformational impact new technologies like Cloud Computing and Open Data will bring to Healthcare, and the commercialization opportunities this presents for entrepreneurs. This followed […]
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