Inside the BriefcaseThere are way more cloud success stories out there than you realize. You won’t read about them, because some consultant gave his word not to reveal the details, or perhaps he signed an NDA. That said, I can state that cloud computing is having huge amounts of success out there, but you would not know it because those who are successful with the cloud are not talking.
With all the hype and increasing popularity of SaaS BI, organizations are used to hearing the positive aspects of using a SaaS BI solution. Some of these include: 1. BI as a service vs. the effort required to develop and deploy an in-house solution 2. No additional hardware required 3. Lower initial implementation costs 4. Subscription licensing models 5. Professional services expertise
Tweet By: Dennis Howlett I’ve been scratching my head over Forrester’s The State of ERP in 2011: Customers Have More Options in Spite of Market Consolidation report. Larry Dignan focuses on the key finding that: The enterprise resource planning (ERP) market is heating up in 2011, but despite more on-demand offerings from SAP and Oracle’s […]
Tweet In case you need the full monty as CRM 2011 keeps rollin’: here are the two links to the oh so passé past. The original rules and contest ideas, judges and prizes. Update #1 Now here are the latest updates: Additions to the Judges Lets give a big round of applause to Larry Ritter, […]
Tweet It may be true that “the clothes make the man,” as the old saying goes, but can anything similar be said of a user’s computing preference? Indeed it can, at least if a recent Hunch survey is anything to go by. Mac users are generally a much more interesting bunch, according to Hunch’s “Profile […]
Tweet If you haven’t heard, we launched CRM Idol 2011 as of Monday – this past one that is. What is both lovely and surprising is the amazing response we’ve gotten from all involved – the potential contestants, the media, the vendors, the influencers – the entire ecosystem that’s risen in support of helping some […]
Tweet Virtualized environments are much different from those based on physical infrastructure. They are much more fluid, offer a great deal of flexibility and allow for more efficient use of available resources. By their nature, then, they are highly complex — a fact that is brought into focus as soon as you apply standard management […]
Tweet I’ve long touted the App Revolution as being the single biggest market in the history of the planet and even published a book called 50 Stocks for the App Revolution. In the four months since I published that book, the stocks in that report are up some 20% vs. the S&P 500 and the […]
Tweet Wealth management firms increasingly are adopting CRM software, spending more on it and using it for much more than just tracking business contacts, says a new report by Aite Group that also identifies the best-in-breed software for different-sized firms. About 61% of the independent advisors that Aite Group surveyed use CRM software, relying on […]
Tweet Amazon Web Services is operating normally for most customers and the company said it will post a detailed post mortem on what went wrong in its Northern Virginia data center. On its dashboard, Amazon Web Services (AWS) wrapped up a multi-day outage with the following post: “As we posted last night, EBS (Elastic Block […]
Tweet I got lots of feeback on my last blog, “Desktop Virtualization vs. Physical Desktops: Which Saves More?” Paulk from SF asked: 1. Won’t there be client OS licensing costs for the virtual desktops or is that covered in the desktop virtualization software cost? 2. Does the $400/seat client operational/maintenance costs cover the operation and […]
Tweet Today Paul Greenberg launches CRM Idol, creating an opportunity for sixty CRM (and Social CRM) companies to bypass the usual channels and directly reach a large audience quickly. Small companies – at least in the CRM software related world – and that means social software world, in this case, too – abound. There are […]
Tweet It’s hard to believe that it was only about six months ago that LibreOffice was born. The free and open source productivity software suite was created, of course, in response to Oracle’s (Nasdaq: ORCL) unclear intentions regarding OpenOffice.org, which had long been the community’s suite of choice. At the time, Oracle chose to keep […]
Tweet When a FOSS company gets to be the size of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), pretty much every move it makes is of interest to those of us here in the Linux community. So when said company unveils plans to create an alternative to none other than Java, well, let’s just say everyone sits up […]
Tweet Here in the world of technology, it’s an everyday occurrence to see new companies and organizations spring up out of nowhere and begin to play an active role. What’s far less common, however, is to see one disappear — particularly one that has been an extremely productive and well-respected part of the community for […]
Tweet VMware’s announced Cloud Foundry — an open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) — strengthens the company’s standing in the developer and open source communities. The Palo Alto, Calif virtualization giant stepped into the development and open source arena with the acquisition of SpringSource in September of 2009. This deal brought VMware a top Java development framework […]
Tweet Now that Canonical has adopted Unity for its next Ubuntu release, it seems likely that no desktop environment in history has ever launched to as much scrutiny as the new GNOME 3. Indeed, the GNOME project’s latest contender made its long-awaited debut last week, and the reviews have been coming fast and furious ever […]
Tweet Quite a while ago, I spoke with the executives of VirtualLogix about the use of virtualization technology to better support mobile or handheld devices such as smartphones. In September 2010, VirtualLogix was acquired by Red Bend, the supplier of a portfolio of device and software management products for mobile environments. Recently, I had the […]
Tweet Two hours into Convergence 2011 and I was wondering why I’d come. The keynotes, while beautifully crafted and 100% buzzword compliant, were like one of those Chinese take away meals where you feel stuffed from overindulgence but ultimately unsatisfied. It wasn’t helped by the fact Kirill Tatarinov, who leads the Dynamics team, got himself […]
Tweet Here are two new words to add to your IT lexicon: Digital Oil. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is using the phrase “digital oil” to describe the current state of information technology. “What do you mean by that?” Alan Marcus, a senior director with the World Economic Forum USA, asked Kundra during a morning session […]
Tweet There’s nothing like an anniversary to inspire a trip down memory lane, but after 20 years of such milestones, the effect tends to be even more pronounced. No wonder, then, that the occasion of Linux’s 20th birthday this year has provoked so much reflection. Numerous Linux fans, of course, were busy kicking off celebrations […]
Tweet Recently, Inna Kuznetsova, Vice President, IBM Systems Software, presented a webinar about the changing economics of virtualization. When IBM speaks about virtualization technology, I always find time to listen. IBM clearly was one of the companies responsible for the innovative notion that functions could be placed into an artificial or virtual environment. IBM was […]
Tweet Fragmentation has long been a criticism of Google’s Android mobile platform, but until recently, its reputation for openness had been relatively undisputed. Of course, it’s not hard to be seen as open when your principal competition comes from Cupertino. On the other hand, recent decisions in the Googleplex are making that distinction less and […]
Tweet Okay, everyone. Sit down and listen close….C’mon. Sit already. God, this is like herding cats. Shhhhhhh. I have a big announcement…or should I say WE have a big announcement. You’ll understand what I mean in a minute if you just sit down and shut up. Starting now, we are opening the doors for the […]
Tweet Cloud computing solutions require a diverse set of technologies (networking, server management, virtualization, etc.) and skills (integration, multi-tenant application development, etc.) working together in harmony to bring optimum solutions for customers. Necessity of multiple technologies working together challenges large technology companies with profitable on-premise products to integrate efforts in the conceptualization, development, selling and […]
Tweet The Linux blogosphere is never a boring place to be even on the most ordinary of days, but when April Fools’ Day comes around, let’s just say there’s no end to the excitement. Take this year, for example. April hadn’t even yet arrived for those of us here in the U.S. when a series […]
Tweet There’s nothing like a splashy success to make the lawyers start crawling out of the woodwork, and that’s just what we’ve been seeing in spades with regard to Android over the past few weeks or so. Just recently it was the hullabaloo over Android’s licensing and headers, of course, and now it’s starting to […]
Tweet A while ago, I had a chance to speak with some folks from DataStax —Matt Pfeil, CEO and co-founder, Ben Werther, VP of Products, and Michael Weir, VP of Marketing. It was an interesting discussion of something DataStax was announcing and an exploration of one of the newer catch phrases, NoSQL, and what it […]
Tweet Firefox 4’s victory is “just another sign that Microsoft is past its prime when it comes to generating excitement,” opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot. “For decades users have internalized the ‘upgrading Microsoft products can put you in a world of hurt’ meme: ‘What I’ve got works. Let someone else be the guinea […]
Tweet While Microsoft is rolling out a number of test builds of various private-cloud building blocks this week, the company also is poised to deliver a beta of Server App-V, one of its public-cloud foundation technologies. Microsoft posted for download on March 22 the documentation for its coming Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) beta […]
