Simon Scullion http://www.simonscullion.com collaboration, social software, ubuntu, sailing, gadgets, geek, husband, dad Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 The beginning of an Enterprise 2.0 journey http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SimonScullion/~3/eVlORWCdSzI/ http://www.simonscullion.com/2009/11/11/the-beginning-of-an-enterprise-2-0-journey/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:33:20 +0000 Simon Scullion http://www.simonscullion.com/?p=703 Here I am about to grab some breakfast before day one of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt, and I find myself both reflecting back and looking forward.

C3: Connect | Communicate | Collaborate

C3: Connect | Communicate | Collaborate

Since early this year I have had the privilege to be part of the team that has brought E2.0 to CSC, in the shape of “C3: Connect | Communicate | Collaborate”. Launched as a pilot back in May, we saw 20,000 employees – 22% of the organisation – sign up in the first 12 weeks. It has continued to see fantastic adoption, and is now moving into a production state.

C3 has consumed me over the last 6 months! It has been both an exhausting and extremely rewarding experience. We are on an interesting journey, and I hope to be able to share some insights going forward.

Now it’s time for breakfast though, before I head over to the #e20s where I’ll be co-presenting the CSCC3 case study with partner in crime Charlie Hope.

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    I have been keeping an interested eye on some of the developments from Amazon with their Amazon Web Services, so when I saw the following tweet from friend/colleague/troublemaker @MasterMark, it made me sit up!

    Oh, dude! It’s a war, and cloud is a battlefield. #orcl swallows #sun, and days l8r, #ibm announces the end of licenses. http://is.gd/ueWt

    He is referring to this article, announcing the availability of IBM technology in the cloud, running on AWS’  EC2 platform, with an innovative approach to licensing.

    On Amazon EC2 you can run many of the proven IBM platform technologies with which you’re already familiar, ….. By choosing Amazon EC2, you can get started in either of two ways. You can pay by the hour only for what you use, through Amazon EC2 running IBM. Alternatively, you can bring many of your own IBM licenses to run on Amazon EC2.

    This got me thinking of the impact that this could have on certain internal applications that suffer from performance and scalability issues. For example, global instances which see spikes as people come online across different timezones. Do you scale for the spikes, or the average load and take the performance hit during peak use?

    Amazon’s EC2, combined with applications such as IBM’s Websphere Portal, is now giving the enterprise an interesting choice. Do we put the application server out in the cloud, and have the flexibility to scale up and down according to demand?

    Yet many corporations are still wary of the cloud, preferring to keep things on the inside, under their watchful eyes. So how would a large organisation replicate and offer something capable of this internally? I imagine virtualisation would be at the heart of any attempt, but the investment required would be significant, if not exorbitant, both in infrastructure and software. Could they even get close to competing on cost, ease of administration, billing…?

    When will we see new expectations – I’ll call them “cloud-induced” -  take hold in the enterprise, where factors such as flexibility, agility, almost-zero required investment, take an increasingly higher priority? It strikes me that it will rapidly become harder for IT departments to provide and manage internally-hosted solutions that meet user expectations, as awareness of the cloud’s capabilities grows in the business.

    Think about it. All Amazon ask of us is a credit card number….

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  • buenos dias tweeps! actually worryingly good to be back and connected after a great week off mostly without t’internet! #

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  • @chuckstar76 cheers Charlie, first time in Lisboa, loving it so far! in reply to chuckstar76 #

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  • arrived in Lisboa, not to look for some food #
  • off to eat and do a bit of exploring before meeting up with @vitorpereira later on #
  • had a lovely wander around Lisboa, now off out for a meal with @vitorpereira #

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  • about to head off south to warmer climes, good wine, and jamon! :-) #
  • @cflanagan np Claire, having fun is easy! Have a good weekend also! in reply to cflanagan #

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