This Week in Cloud Computing #27 with Mick Gallagher of LS Technologies

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This Week in Cloud Computing #27 with Mick Gallagher of LS Technologies

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TWICC #27 features Mick Gallagher, managing partner, LS Technologies and Marc Gingras, founder & CEO, Tungle.me.

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News Headlines

Open source provider Red Hat has announced developments in its Cloud Foundations portfolio to promote consistency between enterprise apps and the cloud.

Red Hat’s solution set enables interoperability and portability, recognizing that customers have IT architectures composed of many different hardware and software components from various vendors. Cloud Foundations is offering capabilities that allow customers to use multiple clouds effectively.

Gary Chen, research manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software at IDC says: “In our extensive research, we’ve found that open APIs and interoperability are essential to customers considering the cloud. Our research shows that 80 percent of enterprises cite the lack of interoperability standards as a challenge in adopting cloud computing services. With Cloud Foundations, Red Hat is on the right track with cloud by accelerating interoperability and portability to prevent cloud lock in.”

Q: We have this news, cloud.com integrating w VMWare, Eucalyptus making more waves…what do you make of it?

HP has unveiled a ‘Private Cloud Computing Readiness’ program

They’ve created a scorecard for rating and ranking cloud readiness, but more importantly, they’ve announced a team of cloud advisors to drive future innovations at HP. Among them: Nigel Cook (DMTF Cloud Mgt Working Group); Jamie Erbes (CTO SW & Solutions); Archie Reed (security component of HP cloud initiatives); Lee Kedrie (branding, evangelist HP Tech Consulting); Paul Perez (storage expert) and Mark Shoemaker (20 yr industry vet – cloud services).

Amazon could be making $500m from its cloud

Amazon doesn’t break out its cloud results, but by piecing together numbers from various stories, UBS Investment Research estimates the (AWS) cloud and all its parts will be worth $500 million this year. That’s roughly 2% of Amazon’s revenues. The number is expected to jump to $750 million next year and could even reach $2.54b by 2014.

A recent report from PWC says cloud computing offers a speedy path to business innovation

Cloud computing isn’t just a way to try to save money on IT infrastructure; it’s a way to accelerate business agility and innovation.

Q: Seems that the flexibility and quick deployment aspect of cloud computing has some additional ROI around innovation and speed-to-market. Do most enterprises considering cloud understand this?

Cloud Computing Growth: Too Good to Be True?

Those who sell virtualization, security, storage, and almost all servers position their products in the cloud. Yet I suspect that a lot of the hardware and software products included in these numbers are actually being leveraged for more traditional solutions.

Q: While we’ve been discussing the issues around pushing all technologies to the cloud computing label, should we take the analyst numbers with a grain of salt?

Guest Interview

Mick Gallagher, managing partner, LS Technologies

www.lstechnologies.com

Bio

As CEO of LST, Mick has been involved in numerous consulting engagements with Life Science firms in SoCal helping them to improve their business processes in the areas of Proteinomics, Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, and Clinical compliance.

He has recently developed a suite of software tools to help SMB biotech and medical device companies use the cloud for various functions, from accounting and HR to clinical and regulatory compliance.

Prior to becoming CEO of LST, Mick helped pioneer the vertical life science market for Oracle Corporation.

Additionally, Mick has 22 years experience working with Japanese companies in the technology sector. As Vice President of International for Toshiba Corporation, Mick held P&L responsibility for 27 countries, which included the implementation of Global Business Practices.

Key discussion points:

• What are the top priorities for life sciences co’s looking to invest in cloud computing? What are they trying to accomplish?

What are some of the unique hurdles life sciences co’s face as they consider the cloud?
What are the most frequently asked questions you get from clients?
Where do you see the cloud really benefiting life science technology?
On premise cost vs. On Demand Cost.
We have heard that the On Demand may have a security issue and our CFO does not want our Intellectual property on the Internet.
Medical Device (significant part of Life Science Community) raises the issue of how they can access the Cloud Systems to ensure their GXP Processes are being maintained, documented and validated to ensure in the case of an FDA audit they can validate the system. Are your technical people trained on GXP Processes?
Pharmacuetical Companies ( the other significant part of Life Sciences) is the Vigilence/Transparency into the system for validating the systems for compliance as it relates to 21CFR part 11 Compliance.
Clinical Software and Remote data Capture in a Cloud Environment.
Is the system validated? What is the advantage to remote vs. On Premise?

App of the Week

Marc Gingras (Jingra), founder & CEO, Tungle

‘Scheduling made easy’ ‘Tungle me’ means ‘See when I’m free’

www.tungle.me

On Twitter: @tunglerocks

• Serial entrepreneur with a successful track record as a venture capitalist.

• Before Tungle, Marc was VP Biz Dev’t and Product Mktg for Nimcat Networks, a leader in P2P communication applications, later acquired by Avaya Inc.

• Marc was previously a VC at Innovatech Montreal where he oversaw investments in numerous telecommunication and software companies.

• Prior to joining Innovatech, Marc co-founded Gytek Inc., an e-commerce software company in Waterloo, Canada, which he eventually sold to Entrade Inc.

Tungle highlights:

• Scheduling app that integrates with your existing calendars

• No other scheduling service integrates with every major calendar including Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac, Lotus Notes, Windows Live! and Yahoo! Calendars

• Eliminates back and forth phone calls, emails and double bookings

• Tungle recently announced integration w Facebook events, TripIt and Plancast. Tungle does all the aggregating for you.

• Tungle CEO Marc Gingras calls Tungle.me the ‘go-to platform that reflects your TRUE availability.’

• Let’s talk about social calendaring

• How do you compare to apps like Bump or Timebridge?

• Monetize?

• Tungle.me manifesto: http://calendarofthefuture.com