Inside the BriefcaseTweet When Microsoft releases the next version of its customer relationship management product in mid-January, a cloud-based version of Dynamics CRM 2011 will finally be available as a competitor to Salesforce.com. But Microsoft’s sales pitch will highlight, in part, that Dynamics CRM is not just on the cloud. Read more of Nick Eaton’s blog post
Tweet After all the many open source missteps Oracle has made this fall, one might think the company would be at least starting to get a clue right about now. We’ve seen the lawsuit against Google; we’ve seen the demise of OpenSolaris. There’s been the emergence of the MySQL fork known as SkySQL; there’s been […]
Tweet EMC and Aspera have teamed up to address the needs of organizations having requirements to move large amounts of data from site to site. EMC is supplying the storage virtualization technology and Aspera is supplying tools to accelerate data transfers (see Aspera – High speed data transfers for more information about Aspera’s technology). I […]
Tweet Google today unveiled new features for its Chrome browser and offered a sneak peek at what’s coming with Chrome OS, a new Web-only operating system that was first announced last year and will be launched in notebooks from Acer and Samsung by mid-next year. The company covered a lot of ground during an event […]
Tweet Energy Secretary Steven Chu called today for more government action to promote green technology and warned that a failure to do so would damage U.S. potential to cash in on the new green economy. Chu, a Nobel Laureate in physics and former University of California-Berkeley professor, told a National Press Club audience that the […]
Tweet What makes the Wikileaks furor appear insane to me is that there appears to be little focus on bringing the folks in government behaving illegally to justice. I wonder how many of us really want to live in a world where people think someone who clearly made a mistake because he was immature and […]
Tweet Hey y’all. The final requests were in by the night of November 30…or so. I admit, I cut a few companies – those that requested extra time – a little extra time. What was amazing was that since I announced the open nominations, I had 88 companies request to be included on the candidates […]
Tweet Should American customers pay for European control? The United States is moving to LTE 4G networks, and a programmable SIM card is the way to go. The programmable SIM card opens up competition and, as a result, will bring down some of the outrageous costs that currently exist. Read more of Jesse Herman’s blog […]
Hewlett-Packard has dropped plans to offer Microsoft’s next version of Windows Home Server OS, codenamed Vail, in its products, after retiring a line of servers carrying the current version of the OS, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
Tweet Microsoft seems to think so…. Brian Madden just posted Microsoft’s “User State Virtualization” is a joke on his blog. As another recipient of Emails from Microsoft’s PR firm telling me that a Microsoft executive or representative had just posted something on a blog, I came to similar conclusions. I’ve also been following various forms […]
Tweet Complex multi-tier applications and components communicate with one another using the network infrastructure in the datacenter and between datacenters. Often, these communications paths are the bottleneck that reduces both scalability and application performance. Many network virtualization suppliers have emerged to address this challenge. I had a chance to speak with Raj Kanaya, CEO and Co-Founder […]
Tweet Energy Secretary Steven Chu called today for more government action to promote green technology and warned that a failure to do so would damage U.S. potential to cash in on the new green economy. Chu, a Nobel Laureate in physics and former University of California-Berkeley professor, told a National Press Club audience that the […]
Tweet Now I’m starting to reconsider the garden hose thing. Maybe buying a new CRM system is NOT like buying a garden hose. Thinking about it further, I’ve come to a new realization. It’s like a buying a new car. Because when you’re buying a new CRM system, just like when you’re buying a new […]
Tweet Ingenuity has always been a hallmark of the Linux world, but sometimes the community really outdoes itself. Take the 233-line patch to the Linux kernel’s scheduler that was recently created by developer Mike Galbraith, for example. With the ability to reduce the average latency of the desktop by as much as 60 times under […]
Tweet We’ve been staring a simple truth in the face for a few years but generally trying to ignore it because the implications are big. That truth: If we are to get the most out of highly virtualized, cloud-ready environments we are probably going to have to rethink the way parts of IT are organized. […]
Tweet It used to be that whatever Web functionality you got over your mobile phone was a scaled-down rendering of what was available to desktops. Now, thanks to monumental advances with smartphones, and the rise of HTML5, the equation has flipped — a lot of innovation is happening in the mobile space, and the work […]
Tweet Although most IT organizations are still in the early stages of testing out the concept, the shift toward private cloud computing is also going to cause more than a few IT organizations to rethink their virtualization strategies. One of the issues confronting IT organizations as they embrace cloud computing is how dependent the whole […]
Tweet As you have probably heard by now (especially if you happened to glance at the other posts on NoJitter), Microsoft and Cisco made some news this week on the unified communications and collaboration front. While other NoJitter posters have done a tremendous job covering the highlights and impacts, I wanted to drill down a […]
This is an interesting blog on green tech and is open to anyone that can share new ways and ideas to escalate the use of IT for a greener & better global society.
Tweet While it’s easy for bad celebrity tweeters to attract headlines, average citizens also are finding that wayward social networking is an easy way to garner their 15 minutes of fame — even if that is not their intent. Dawnmarie Souza was fired from her job after posting negative comments about her supervisor on her […]
Tweet When thinking about their 2011 IT initiatives, many firms I’ve spoken with are continuing to build out their virtual server environments. My collegue, Gene Leganza, has written an excellent report entitled The Top 15 Technology Trends EAs Should Watch which includes system management as a driver of continued virtualization. In addition, it is now […]
Tweet If there is one company you would expect to have a lot to say about the potential green impact of collaboration and networking technology on corporate sustainability goals, it is Cisco. So, I suppose I’m not surprised that so much space is given to this topic in the press materials for its new 2010 […]
Tweet Dare I make my first green tech blog prediction for 2011? It is this: technologies and applications for managing water quality and consumption will find more backers and more real customers. Which means you’ll read more about them here in this column. Increasingly, electricity efficiency and water efficiency will vie for our attention. Read […]
Tweet Well, I’m announcing the CRM 2011 Watchlist Preseason. (Dramatic music with a sports theme). For the first time ever, I’m going to publish my list of candidates for the final Watchlist and then give you the chance, in the name of crowd sourcing and/or vendor self-promotion – a chance to expand that list of […]
Tweet Plug “social BPM” into Google and you get a plethora of pundits pontificating about the meaning of the term and technology vendors plugging the latest development in their business process management system. Systems provider Oracle, for instance, announced back in June that they had their BPM suite “enable teams to collaborate on all the […]
Tweet Being a geek “implies passion for what you do and a genuine interest in the subject,” said blogger Jeremy Visser. “Being a geek is not just something you do from nine ’til five. Nor is it something you only do in your spare time. It’s a state of being that governs your thinking, your […]
Tweet It can be tough to get business stakeholders on board with technology initiatives, especially if they are faced with a confusing array of tech acronyms and feel the effort is being pushed by an IT department that simply isn’t making a compelling-enough business case. Thus I’ve been following with interest the posts of IT […]
Tweet Let’s start with Customer Relationship Management itself. The strategies and technologies for managing your relationship with your customers and clients have been around for a while. The evolution of the book full of names and addresses, through the Rolodex and into the computing world has brought us major platforms from big software vendors, many […]
Tweet The creativity of the technology industry in reinventing end-of-line products by tossing them into fast-rolling bandwagons apparently knows no bounds. Today we learn that the latest addition to the catalog of cloudwashing infamy is the cloud PC, the clunker formerly known as the ‘thin client’. Terminal manufacturer Wyse’s fake sorry cloud PC strikes me […]
Tweet Blog Post By Dana Gardner WSO2 recently announced the debut of WSO2 Carbon Studio, an Eclipse-based integrated developer environment (IDE) for WSO2 Carbon. The new offering allows users to build service-oriented architecture (SOA) and composite applications based on WSO2 Carbon. [Disclaimer: WSO2 is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] Highlights of WSO2 Carbon Studio include […]
