Cloud rush continues: Symantec launches GoEverywhere Beta!

My take and advice to the consumers

• S-Belly Innovation Cramp to hit big and small: Many large firms are trying to get into this race — Cisco with its Human Networks; Symantec with GoEverywhere and lots of others to follow more of such endeavors. One thing remains to be seen: Who will rise above the horizon when we will start seeing some respite. In the race and rush to grab every half-baked innovation to the outside world, many companies/firms will have to face the wrath of regulators, security experts, and just about everyone who has something to say about their products. Imgae is everything and this vocal community will not space the “fake innovations”.
• Test but Wait [till 2010-2011] for consumer ready goods: This services layer will need maturity–test the betas and get your people involved but do please wait for enterprise deployment. Do PoC, do pilots and adopt gradually.
• Mad dog M&A and Bankrupties to follow: Money is running out. Most of the firms are evaluating their bank balance by the hour. Some will merge, some will get acquired and some may seek protection. There will be larger ones as well, especially ones that are still not able to define thresholds, meaning what should be the criteria to keep that product line etc
• Assess, Assess and Re-assess again: This is the most important of them all. Do take a look in your shop and see what you need. Define baselines for continuity of your services. for instance, everything that contributes to less than 20% of productivity and costs more than 20% in administrative costs, should just be put down. No need to extend the pain. Mny firms is stuck in the mindset that they have to “replace”. You can also retire stuff.
• When in doubt, search the web: Put out structured queries out to your employees and let them talk about it on the web. Let them conduct Cloud conversations.

Anyways here’s the Symantec link

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