Inside the BriefcaseTechnology giant CSC just released its latest Cloud Usage Index, a survey that looks at the current state of cloud computing. Not only divulging simply interesting facts, the survey found that cloud adoption is being hastened by the desire to access information through multiple devices, marking a clear shift from results of earlier cloud-adoption surveys
Featured BlogsTweet Education may be “the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” in the wise words of Nelson Mandela, but is that true of education in all its forms? That, indeed, has been the question of the day among Linux bloggers, who have recently been debating the value of the traditional […]
Blogs, Featured Blogs“For the vast majority of users, Linux will be a promising first date that turns into a bad, even abusive, long-term relationship,” said Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. “After 15 years, I don’t want to hear any more excuses or how things will get better in the future. “If I’m dual-booting in the future, it will be with FreeBSD, not Linux.”
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet It’s a sad fact of life that none of us are born experts in much of anything, and certainly not in Linux. Noobs are how we must all begin our adventures in the world of FOSS, in other words, much as we may try hard to pretend otherwise. Remember those days? Well the folks […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsAfter Orlando, Barcelona, and before India, Gartner held their Symposium in Australia last week. A much expected session of Symposium, and many other Gartner events, discusses how to deal with mega-vendors.
Featured BlogsI predict that 2012 will be the year that cloud computing loses a lot of its luster for enterprises.
Featured BlogsCompanies must ensure they possess the appropriate technology to suit their needs, which will vary depending on how dependent they are on their IT systems, it has been claimed.
Featured BlogsThe Linux world looked ahead to a future without mobile flash — some with joy, others not so much. “Flash was potentially great technology, but Adobe messed it up by keeping it as a moving target and never getting it right,” said blogger Robert Pogson. Blogger hairyfeet, on the other hand, sees a darker future for content in which freedoms are further restricted.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), considered the official arbiter of economic peaks and troughs, says the most recent recession ended in June 2009. But as many people will point out, it sure doesn’t feel like we’ve been in an economic recovery for the past two and a half years.
Featured BlogsI’m a news junky. And as a news junky I am, of course, following the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests. OWS is a movement unlike any I’ve ever seen with its plurality of messages and demands.
Featured BlogsThough I think the term is generally useless as either an analytical tool or category of computing that large entities can and should use in planning strategy, I’m not quite ready to give up on the idea that “the cloud” does have at least some worthwhile content.
Featured BlogsAny business process (for example, payroll, printing, ecommerce) delivered as a service over the Internet and accessible by one or more web enabled interfaces (PC, smart devices and phones) can be considered as a Business Process as a Service (BPaaS).
Featured BlogsWhere is customer relationship management (CRM) going next? It’s a simple question and, judging by the responses from people in the industry, the answers are pretty simple too.
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet SOURCE: TechNewsWorld If there was ever any doubt as to Canonical’s true intentions with its touch-enabled Unity interface, those doubts were laid to rest last week. Unity has often been described as a “mobile-inspired” interface, and voila! Canonical has finally admitted that it plans to bring Ubuntu onto mobile devices. At last, it all […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Every so often here in the Linux blogosphere, a headline pops up in the news and you just know it’s going to be a rough week. Case in point: “Mobile Proliferation Killed Linux Hopes for World Domination.” Yes, for those who missed it, that was a real headline in the news last week, courtesy […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsWith all the gloomy economic headlines in recent months, one can be forgiven for thinking we’re in a hopeless economic morass. But if you look beneath the surface of today’s technology shifts, you may also see potential for one of the biggest economic booms in a generation. How so?
Featured BlogsMany Android handsets haven’t been updated to the latest OS – but the real problem lies elsewhere
Featured BlogsTweet The most important thing about Ice Cream Sandwich is that “there seems to be a change in the wind insofar as Android being a pure operating system is concerned,” said blogger Roberto Lim. “With Android 1.6 to 2.3, the ‘vanilla’ version was a pretty basic OS, which provided the minimum necessary smartphone functionality.” With […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsI’m pretty vocal when analyst organizations provide hyped-up advice, replete with grandiose claims around the movement to some technology. The advice is both hard to follow by enterprises and many times just plain wrong — which is why I usually loudly criticize it.
Featured BlogsIBM has launched its unstructured-data cloud service, based on Hadoop. Called BigInsights, it’s essentially MapReduce for Dummies, which is no bad thing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers welcome their new pachydermic overlords.
Featured BlogsTweet The passing of Steve Jobs earlier this month triggered reactions that spanned the gamut — from expressions of appreciation and sober reflection to some tasteless extremes of zealotry from a subset of the open source community. We can learn a lot from Steve Jobs, even if we ultimately have different goals. Click here to […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsWe have this debate running about social software and whether it’s, for the most part anyway, a set of features that should be embedded in other products / platforms, or long term stand-a-lone products.
Featured BlogsTweet It’s often the case that anticipating a thing is just as pleasurable as the thing itself, and that seemed to be more true than ever with the latest Ubuntu release. Yes, Ubuntu 11.10, or “Oneiric Ocelot,” made its long-awaited debut exactly a week ago, apparently — though not unanimously — bringing considerable pleasure to […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsIt started out, in an airy room on the top floor of London’s Royal Festival Hall last month, as a discussion of how the cloud will shape the future of application development. It ended up casting doubt on the very existence of the IT department as a separate entity within the enterprise. Cloud, it seems, will transform IT more than most people dare imagine.
Featured BlogsA few days ago, we reported on Forrester Research’s Brian Hopkins’ list of the 10 top technology trends that will define (or redefine) enterprise architecture between now and 2014.
Featured BlogsWe founded Indicee after years of watching the BI industry move from the accessible desktop reporting we created with Crystal Reports to today’s expensive, complex & monolithic enterprise BI solutions that rarely reach the business users who pay for them.
Featured BlogsPlenty of analyst reports are showing the growth of cloud computing, along with the fact that PaaS (platform as a service) is picking up steam in 2011.
Featured BlogsTweet This Friday at 6pm Eastern time, the seven CRM Idol finalists – 4 from the Americas and 3 from EMEA – will be submitting their videos that will pretty much determine who is going to be chosen the first ever CRM Idol finalist from the Americas and from EMEA. There is a lot at […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsIBM is continuously looking for ways to enhance our products and solutions to meet our customer’s need to keep pace with the rate of business change and expand their data storage needs.
Featured BlogsNowadays, outside of developers, does anybody really get excited about new OS launches anymore?
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