Cloud Computing Business Opportunities Forum

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Innovation is “the act of introducing something new”. Often disruptive it drives us to the future laying new boundaries in both science and business. Likewise, Cloud Computing stands as a new paradigm which is changing the way we use ICT technology, explore the Internet and think about our “digital reality.”

Cloud Computing model aims to transform ICT  into an elastic, highly available, fault tolerant, secure and multi-tenant platforms. Such transformation poses many questions and challenges, namely: How to secure data and protect user’s privacy? How to render SLA and QoS? How to fulfill new requirements like interoperability, predictability, scheduling and provision?

Seeking the right answers for those questions will present us excellent opportunities to layout new businesses.

EuroCloud Portugal is very pleased to announce the first Portuguese Cloud Computing Business Opportunities Forum. Please visit our web site and find more about this projects.

Cloud Ecosystem

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To live is to be part of an ecosystem able to enhance our ability to communicate, talk, write and read. We need to be able to move from one place to another, we need accountability, we need predictability, we need insurance, to feel secure, and we need trust links. Our ability to have success, to move forward and to develop projects and relationships is 100% dependent on our ecosystem.

To Cloud or not to Cloud was the question raised at the “CloudViews – Cloud Computing Conference 2009″ and to which the correct answer will always depend on our capability to develop an ecosystem with all their components.

Helping Cloud Computing achieve its main goal – transform IT platforms in elastic, highly available, fault tolerant, secure, and multi-tenant platforms. Allowing IT technicians to be able to shift the focus of their work from the technology complexity to their companies core business, will depends on our capability to build a true Computing ecosystem in the Cloud: encryption mechanisms, predictability and provision platforms, SLAs monitoring and agreements contracts, AAI, elastic networks, interoperability frameworks, schedule mechanisms, etc.

Please stay tunned and please book the 20th and 21st of May in your agenda…

EuroCloud Portugal Public presentation – CloudViews moving forward

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As all of you already know it, the cloudviews project  is actively working on the organization of the EuroCloud Portugal association. And as result of our work we proudly announce that Eurocloud Portugal will have its public presentation in two sessions that will take place in Lisbon and Porto. The Lisbon session will be on January 21st at the LNEG auditorium and the Porto session will be on January 22nd at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto auditorium. On both sessions, we will have presentations on the Cloud Computing paradigm made by IDC and presentations made by companies that already have their businesses focused on Cloud Computing. For additional information please use: http://tiny.cc/EuroCloudPortugalPublicPresentation

EuroCloud Portugal would like also to welcome Microsoft as its sponsor. EuroCloud Portugal is sponsored by IBM, EMC and Microsoft.

Cloud responsibilities

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New applications developed under the all-in-one cloud umbrella (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) have several responsibilities that are often referred by IT specialists: They need to be more agile, create new markets and reach far more customers, help lowering Total cost of ownership (TCO), create new business models, etc, etc, etc. than their Off-the-shelf older cousins.

In this large umbrella I’m specially interested in business applications that are used by normal users (non techies). These type of applications have another responsibility: They need to change the way non-IT users perceive and use business software.
I state this because when I talk to friends, coworkers and even family about their use of business software I always have the feeling that they hate working with them (ERPs for example). These users too often become angry users that avoid working with software for as long as they can. Many times they tell me that these business aplications are difficult to use, have too many options (that clutter the user interface) and fail too many times. Some of them even have found ways to taken advantage from software bugs so they can get around some limitations in this systems.
Besides being an IT guy, I’m also an user and to be honest too many times I have the same feelings.

In the cloud ecosystem we already see some players that serve as a good example of transforming these angry users in happy ones. One of them is 37 signals. Their release of basecamp some years ago helped users to move from big systems (like Microsoft Project) to a clean and simpler approach of “less is more” in the project management area.