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When a community promotes or participates in a community based service like Twitter or Facebook,it's the community which controls spread of any misinformation. If there is no truth to it, the participant in that community will either disregard it or move out of the community. We can’t blame the social media platform, we as the participants take the blame or take credit for the things we do there.

As part of my blogging focus here at ebizQ, I will be covering Business Technology Optimization. Here is a brief description of Business Technology Optimization:

Wikipedia Definition:
Business Technology Optimization (BTO) is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. BTO is part of an emerging business philosophy to manage IT resources as a business rather than as a service bureau.

Here is an HP definition of Business Technology Optimization:
It is an approach to IT management that reduces costs and produces business outcomes by helping your IT leaders:

* Allocate IT spend and resources based on business priorities
* Automate key processes across IT strategy, applications and operations
* Measure IT effectiveness and efficiency from a business perspective

ZdNet Whiteboard Video from Mercury (Now HP)

I'm interested to know if you have implemented any Business Technology Optimization Services/Product from vendors like HP, BMC or any other vendors. Leave a comment here.

Thanks Phil, I will check CohesiveFT out. Also would love to see your thoughts on McKinsey 's report on Cloud Computing.

Lately, my big question for IT professionals is: do you really care about private, public or Inter-Cloud right now? I'm sure you understand what private and public clouds are, so what is Inter-Cloud? Inter-Cloud is a new term coined by Cisco and it's defined by Cisco as "Bringing Cloud Providers together and allowing them to inter connect each other; this creates a Inter-Cloud." Here is a link to a Cisco video about this vision recorded in December 2008. Recently Cisco started promoting this term and Inter-Cloud Vision to bloggers, analysts and media around last December and early January this year. If you are following David Smith's blog at Gartner you must have noticed an interesting blog conversation between David and James Urquhart. To really understand Cisco's vision you have to read this comment posted by James Urquhat at David's Blog:

"At some point in the not horribly distant future, some service providers will offer 'virtual private cloud' services to allow 'private clouds' to consume resources in the service provider infrastructure, while maintaining the illusion of being a part of the customer's private cloud. This is simply extending 'intranets' to consume services over the Internet without exposing the content to the general public-kind of like VPN? (Not a perfect analogy, to be sure.)"

The network technology to enable the linkage of enterprises to all forms of public cloud offerings (not just virtual private clouds) in a way that takes the unique nature of cloud computing and running IT workloads in mind is called 'cloud internetworking.'"

In "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Inter-Cloud," Cisco's vision for Inter-Cloud is a federation of clouds based on open standards: Naming/Discovery, Trust and Exchange/Peerings. I hope we will hear from Cisco on open standards from a networking and infrastructure perspective soon. Recently at ebizQ we posted the question "Who should define standards for Cloud" in our Forum. Avigdor Luttinger of Magic Software, Phil Wainewright and Matt Shanahan posted some very good comments.

"I tend to think of the Cloud as an aggregation of technologies and practices, not as some kind of a monolithic entity. Standards exist already for many Cloud elements, and new elements will get standardized as the existing ones were, depending on their adoption level and technical complexity. Just let it be, and the stakes will do their work."

"The cloud market is too new for a committee members to have common, credible experience on what is really required."

"What's important right now is to fuel innovation around interoperability so that customers have lots of options to choose from. Then the best solutions will rise to the top."

Cloud Market is new, and maybe in few years from now if these terms become popular, I might be writing this blog entry using Google Docs from a private cloud. If you've got some questions or suggestions please let me know, by leaving a comment here.

In my recent blog post iPhone in Healthcare. I had a chance to write and discuss security and privacy issues related to Healthcare Apps in iPhone with the ebizQ audience. If you are a Senior Executive or Enterprise IT Planner managing Mobile Infrastructure and Devices for your enterprise , I'm sure you would like to manage and control your work force's mobile devices accessing your corporate data and enforce security policy to control or disable specific features of the iPhone, such as camera , itunes or the installation of additional applications by business users. Apple is yet to release tools for Enterprise IT planners or designers or Deployment specialists to implement iPhone deployments at a large scale. I'm sure Apple will release a deployment product soon or it must be in its early release stages. I believe it will be based on their existing technologies borrowed from the deployment of Xserves and Mac. Some of the features Enterprise customers will need in an iPhone Management and Deployment tool are:-

• Protect data or remotely wipe business data
• Control to install and uninstall applications remotely
• Ability to push software/application updates automatically
• Acccess control updates (If an iPhone is stolen and if the password is wrong after a number of tries the phone should lock down)

If you are an Enterprise iPhone Business user only few applications are built for iPhone. Some applications are hybrid, a combination of web and iPhone App. Here is a list of few applications:-

NetSuite SuitePhone
SuitePhone capability allows NetSuite subscribers to access their Netsuite Applications using the Apple iPhone. The new SuitePhone capability provides native support for Safari - iPhone browser. SuitePhone is more of a hybrid using the power of Safari browser and Netsuite support for Apple Safair Mac and iPhone platform.
Salesforce CRM Mobile v3
It's a Mobile version of Salesforce CRM. Salesforce provides Mobile and Lite version of your Salesforce application to manage and keep track of your sales Leads/Contacts.
SugarCRM 5.1
SugarCRM lets iPhone users to view and edit records in a company's Sales Force Automation solution, including Opportunity, Contact, and Account Management.

A few other bloggers have also posted a listing of Enterprise Apps for iPhone here and here. If you are a deployment specialist or Enterprise IT Planner let me know what are the features you want in a Mobile deployment product.

According to a Wall Street Journal article  “A coalition led by IBM that’s pushing something called the “Open Cloud Manifesto.”   To be more precise this Cloud Computing Manifesto was kicked off by Reuven Cohen and team, Reuven claims this manifesto is supported by dozen of companies including IBM.   This manifesto, which is to be released early next week, is a document, which explains about a necessity for Open Standards for cloud computing, it doesn’t recommend or define standards for cloud computing.   Steven Martin at Microsoft intentionally leaked this document with a disappointment that this manifesto lacks openness.   If you are CIO or IT Manager or a IT Professional confused why so much news coverage on this manifesto by publishers and bloggers, the answer is, this manifesto is a simple five page document describing cloud computing and it’s challenges. The best way to clear this confusion is to read the document itself, download here [Scribd, Registration required to download].   Below are few links where you can keep track on this Open Cloud Manifesto.

The Open Cloud Manifesto: Much Ado About Nothing
Cloud computing: What we learned from Manifestogate

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