Inside the BriefcaseTweet That’s the view of Richard Soley, CEO and chairman of the Object Management Group, expressed in a recent interview with TechTarget’s Jack Vaughan and Kaitlin Bunsden. Soley ought to know something about these paradigm shifts — he’s been leading the distributed-computing and service-orientation game a long time, and was one of the original proponents […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Birthdays and anniversaries are a natural time for reflection on what has been and what is yet to come. When they mark major milestones such as 20 years, however, there’s a considerable temptation to think bigger. So it’s been in the Linux blogosphere, where our favorite operating system officially turns 20 today. Happy Birthday, […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet In my “Automation as Manna” blog post in June, I criticized the “scare tactics” used in a survey sponsored by automation software vendor UC4, which claimed in so many words that unless IT shops automate their operations, they will not be able to initiate their cloud plans. Now CA Technologies has sponsored another pro […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Disruption to traditional (or transactional) CRM, caused by social business technologies, was among key themes discussed at the recent CRM Evolution 2011 conference. The panel I moderated, called Disruption and the Lean, Mean CRM Machine, offered advice to help software vendors and enterprise buyers navigate the changing CRM landscape. Click here to read more […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Asking most IT managers or techies whether they think they need a private cloud, reminds me of that scene in The Three Amigos where El Guapo asks Jefe if he knows what it means to have a plethora. Jefe, in fact, did not know what it means to have a plethora. And, most managers […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet The Linux-oriented blogosphere reacted swiftly to HP’s news that it’s cutting webOS devices and mulling the sale of its PC division. A brief sound-bite sampler: “No competent management left,” “HP blinked,” “What were they thinking?” “Now it’s simply too late,” and “It’ll be sad to see them go.” Suffice it to say, then, this […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet After considerable outcry by its customers over proposed licensing changes, VMware recently backtracked and modified some of the new conditions it is introducing as part of its vSphere 5 virutalization product. But Microsoft officials are still finding fodder for vSphere licensing and pricing critiques — even after VMware’s latest updates. Click here to read […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet The CRM Idol competition reminds me of similar contests held at business schools, as well as one held last year at Dreamforce. This whole process may be another indication of both the wiki-fication of business and just how embedded the wisdom of crowds is becoming in our culture. There’s also a degree of risk […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet We’ve all heard the expression, “New day, same old stuff,” or some variation thereof. In some ways that statement can be applied to CRM, or so says one marketing writer. While acknowledging that “CRM has evolved extensively” over the last few decades, Nick Balletta, in his MarketingTool blog on Tuesday for Media Post, documented […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet “I see Linux going into a smaller, simpler OS, with a good base of apps integrated to the web,” predicted Mobile Raptor blogger Roberto Lim. “The standard for ease of use won’t be how close it is to MS Windows and Office, but how similar it is to the iPhone or Android.” The home […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Whether you like it or not, in the world of business, especially technology, but pretty much all business, subject matter experts of varying kinds have a lot of clout (that’s with a “c”, not a “k.”). They could be analysts, journalists,, academicians, consultants. But they are influential – and, regardless of your opinion of […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet A few months ago, I shared ideas with you on how to find the right partner to help you establish sales in cloud services. Now, I’d like to expand on the cloud opportunity by relating three specific actions you can take now to help your organization profit from the cloud computing revolution. Click here […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Google+ may still be in its invitation-only early days, but with all the wild excitement and skyrocketing numbers of users, it’s awfully hard to tell. Quibbles about real-name policies notwithstanding, eager users from virtually every walk of life seem to be flocking to the new social network — even those of us who are […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet I’ve known Sage since before they were Sage so to speak. I was a SalesLogix Technology Partner back in ‘99 – in other words when men were men and cocktails were hooch (I don’t know what that means.). When it comes to CRM, they are, without a doubt, one of the most enigmatic companies […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet “First Adobe’s off, then on, then off, then on again… Does anyone there know what they are doing?” wondered blogger Robert Pogson. Sixty-four-bit computers are “pretty standard these days, and GNU/Linux and Android/Linux are making waves. Doesn’t Adobe want their product to be where it’s happening? Isn’t the game about maximizing share to exclude […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Everyone has his own reasons for wanting to move toward a virtual infrastructure. Are there reasons that are better than others for doing so? Yes, there are. There are a lot of very bad reasons to move to a virtual infrastructure. Some of those very bad reasons are quite compelling. But, there are five […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Is your virtualization strategy to mirror the efforts of those around you or do you have valid reasons for taking the plunge? Only you know the answer. You’d better ask the right questions before throwing your physical dollars into virtual black holes. Read more…
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet While LibreOffice continues to move forward, “OO just hit another oh-oh — they have to see what, if any, code they can use from Symphony,” noted Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. “More delays, when they’re already behind. Yes, people are saying that the code donation by IBM was a sop to Oracle, and that may […]
BlogsTweet The rapid rise of cloud computing and near-ubiquity of software-as-a-service (SaaS) has breathed new life into the integration space, or so says Gaurav Dhillon, chairman and CEO of SnapLogic. SnapLogic is a cloud integration company making a name for itself with technology that can “containerize” data, making it easier to move in and around […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Well, the Fourth of July has come and gone for another year here in the stars-and-stripes section of the Linux blogosphere, where persistent scorching temperatures are beginning to make certain reporters despair. Rather than raging at the heavens, however, Linux Girl is using the current infernal weather as an excuse to spend more time […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Connected, a young startup tackling personal CRM with a fresh social twist, has just closed its first round of funding — $500,000 in a seed round led by Trinity Ventures. 500 Startups, Ignition Partners, and angel investors Christopher Michel, Michael Hoydich, and Mark Gray also participated in the round. Connected will use the infusion […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet For those of you who’ve followed along on my virtualization posts, you’ve noticed that I’m a fan of certain types of virtual desktop infrastructure implementations. This was not always the case. In fact, if you Google my name and VDI, you’ll find that for most of the past three years, I’ve come out strongly […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Cloud computing is the next big thing in the computing world. But there’s a small little economic problem that needs solving. The idea that we can all put everything into the cloud and then access it from anywhere is quite delightful. Hard drive failures become someone else’s problem for a start. But a part […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet It was just the other day the suggestion was made that Linux is best-suited for bachelors. That assertion set off quite a little storm of controversy, as alert readers may recall, both here on these virtual pages and elsewhere throughout the blogosphere. The latest match to be tossed onto this tinderbox of a topic? […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet ‘Tis the season to fix your virtual environment and there’s no better way to start that process than with a “to do” list. And, you know you need one. So, here’s your list for those dog days of summer, when you want to heat things up even more. You won’t solve all ten of […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Blog by Katherine Noyes Say “Linux” these days, and most people automatically think, “Ubuntu.” Such is the level of mainstream awareness and success Canonical’s distribution has achieved, even as such goals have proven more elusive for other distributions. Of course, it can’t be denied that the fact that mainstream users think *anything* when they […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Blog by Paul Greenberg Like any technology company – any company for that matter – salesforce.com has an agenda that they are pursuing and they drive their agenda by making business decisions along the way that are designed to benefit their company, their shareholders and their other stakeholders – a broad and fuzzy term […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Blog by Gene Marks A few weeks ago Microsoft bought Skype for over $8 billion. And a lot of people are trying to figure out what they intend to do with this new technology. Marketer Jeff Valentine is hoping that they use Skype’s Voice over IP technology to put them ahead in gaming. Gigaom’s […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Blog by Katherine Noyes You just never know on any given day what’s waiting for you in the Linux blogosphere. Some days, it’s fresh, awesome news of FOSS’ growing mainstream acceptance. Other days, well, it’s not. Take last Thursday. Linux Girl was scouting around the blogosphere, as per usual, listening in on thread after […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet I’d like to coin a new industry term: “cloud coupling”. This noun (and also a verb) describes the conjoining of two or more (generally large) data sets across various applications, cloud services and social media streams. So, “cloud coupling“, say it with us now ☺ This term was thrown up after reading up on […]
