While the medical record-keeping needs of doctors, hospitals and insurance providers are major impulses towards cloud-based medical information services, patient monitoring is another, separate driver. There have been a number of ...
We have previously (June 2012) discussed Mobile Device Management (MDM) as part of the emerging mobile cloud ecosystem in the enterprise area. A companion area that is growing up is MAM. While some observers have written about a b...
In the Personal Cloud market segment, we are focusing primarily on the mass consumer market. Regarding the Providers in this market, we expect a direct war between the Web Gang and the Mobile Giant Carriers. However, there are als...
In this commentary we provide a brief overview of hospitals and insurers and early activities in the mobile cloud space. Hospitals in general, and large hospitals to a greater extent, bear a resemblance to enterprises when it come...
While there are several ways to break down the analysis of the Mobile Cloud market, we have primarily focused on analysis by segment of four market areas: Personal Clouds (consumer, mass market) Enterprise (large companies, govern...
For the enterprise, based on our interviews and other research, a number of issues emerge. We are interested in issues that are distinct for organizations whether they be corporations, government agencies or other large institutio...
What we call Cloud World is today a growing assortment of clouds of varying types – public clouds, enterprise and other business clouds, as well as personal clouds. Over time we believe Cloud World will come to be permeated by the...
Neustar emerged in the late 1990s as the company chosen to administer the directory of numbers for number portability. Spun out of Lockheed, it became an independent clearinghouse for a number of services to telecom carriers, incl...
The basic concept of BaaS is to make it easier to develop applications by simplifying the coding of “backend” functions (server-facing). This involves reusable code, including access to code repositories such as GitHub, to minimiz...
A major thesis of our studies is that there has been a long-term intensifying struggle between the computer/IT/Web based industry and the major telecom, now wireless, carriers. This struggle, which is now focused on the future of ...