Predictions

I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to Australia, where I visited with our teams in Sydney and Melbourne, met with partners and customers, co-hosted an executive summit featuring Flight Centre, joined a Deloitte-hosted roundtable with TAL Australia, and spoke with members of the media. It was a fantastic, productive week filled with countless…

“Holistic.” “Strategic.” “Ruthless.”  According to experts at Okta, those are the kinds of mindsets business leaders will need to adopt in 2023. Because as the new year dawns, companies are facing a dizzying mix of headwinds: high inflation, surging interest rates, a global threat of recession, and the ongoing pandemic, to name just a few. With…

Like most offices on Monday mornings, ours tends to be abuzz with talk of Sunday night television. We have a faction of Game of Thrones fans, some Walking Dead-heads and our marketing team is anxiously awaiting the second season of Netflix’s House of Cards. And that’s only part of the reason why we enjoyed our CEO Todd McKinnon’s latest…

2012 is little more than a week old, but there’s already been plenty of cloud news. Predictions for 2012 continued to roll in — and not all of them are favorable. Simple cloud management, however, can solve many of the nagging issues that are holding the cloud back. Meanwhile, 45,000 Facebook profiles were compromised, mostly in the U.K. and…

Today, in Forbes, I offer my predictions for what’s to come in cloud during 2012. It will be a year of firsts: major acquisitions, rapid cloud adoption, a new class of cloud employees and major security breaches are all in store. Here’s a preview: 1. More Clouds Across Businesses Everywhere Over the past few years, we’ve seen cloud technologies…

It’s that time of year again. With 2012 upon us, industry leaders, writers and analysts are all placing their bets for what’s to come during the next 365 days. I’m expecting this to be a year of first for the cloud, but let's save my 2012 predictions for tomorrow. For now, I’d like to take a look back at my 2011 predictions to see how I fared. 1…

The calendar’s switched over, which means it’s that time of year again: full work weeks and prediction pieces for where cloud computing’s headed in the coming year. A few predictions caught our eye: Picking up on the security threats to businesses, IT Business Edge’s Mike Vizard, citing security firm Blue Coat Systems, offers four security trends…

Okta CEO, Todd McKinnon, has a great set of cloud computing predictions for 2011 over on Forbes.com. The whole article, with explanations of each prediction, is definitely worth a read, but here is a quick preview: On-demand enterprise software revenue will break the $10B barrier The unemployment rate for top talent will remain at 0% 2011 is the…