Inside the BriefcaseTweet Blog by Paul Greenberg I wrote this sitting at the Toronto airport about a month ago. I had just spent the day before on one of the best panels I ever sat on at the launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in Canada. Not only was it run by Frank Falcone, Microsoft’s CRM lead […]
Tweet Blog post by Ken Hess As a system administrator and long-time user, administrator and manager of virtual machines of all types, I know firsthand how difficult it is to manage a virtual infrastructure. I feel your pain. Users nipping at you constantly for more resources, management nipping at you for more automation and family […]
Tweet Opinion by Rob Enderle Some days I just sit back and watch some of this stuff go on and wonder what the hell folks are thinking. The Cisco Flip thing was bad, Oracle just seems to have a death wish all of a sudden, and Sony’s actions make the other two firms look sane […]
Tweet Blog post by Dana Gardner While more than 90 percent of companies are using — or plan to use — cloud computing, the cloud model is raising some concerns, as well as some paradoxes. Unsurprisingly, security is the leading concern, while integration and governance issues are close behind. The paradox arises because industry executives […]
While more than 90 percent of companies are using — or plan to use — cloud computing, the cloud model is raising some concerns, as well as some paradoxes.
Tweet Blog by Dave Linthicum I’ve previously talked about the move to private cloud computing as corporate America’s first-generation cloud attempt. After all, you control it completely, you don’t have to worry about security, and you can laugh at all those cloud outages. However, private clouds are very much like traditional computing: You have to […]
Tweet Recent predictions from research firms Forrester and Gartner imply the “cloud” is hardly a fluffy thing, with the global market for cloud computing expected to grow six-fold in the next ten years. That’s great news, for people who understand what the cloud is. Turns out, you probably do know what the cloud is – […]
Tweet In the commentary about the recent catastrophic crash of Amazon’s cloud computing network, it was hard to miss both an elevated level of harshness and a barely suppressed exultation. Just to quickly summarize what happened: the East Coast wing of Amazon’s massive cloud server network, EC2, which handles the operations of many high tech […]
There 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
Looking forward to the Redhat Summit this week in Boston with a theme of “Platform, Middleware, Virtualization, Cloud”. The cloud market is dominated by a lot of startups, with some goliath-size companies still waiting in the wings. Depending your point of view, they are either lumbering dinosaurs unaware of the next evolutionary shift, or if you are like me, I think they are poised to strike.
Many managed hosting services providers have seen the cloud computing light, which means that they can get a much higher valuation if they spin their way into the cloud. Recently, Savvis has been moving in this direction, along with other managed hosting services players, and — cha-ching! — a multi-billion-dollar offer. You can’t blame them, really.
Is corporate social media ethical? Is there a “Tom Sawyer syndrome” at work in which people are suckered into doing work thinking that it’s something to be enjoyed?
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 […]
Rackspace is the second largest provider of IaaS (infrastructure as a service) after Amazon Web Services. On track to make $100 million in revenue this fiscal year, Rackspace’s IaaS business is roughly one tenth that of Amazon’s, a number that does not count the revenue Rackspace accrues from its more traditional hosting business — where the company began and from which it derives its differentiation in the cloud space.
Tweet Every overhyped technology has good and bad aspects. The trouble is that few are willing to fill you in on the bad aspects. Doing so is often met with several dozen rounds of being called a hater. Cloud computing is no exception. Here are the three major cloud computing secrets: Some public cloud computing […]
Business Process Management (BPM) can seem daunting at first. What are business processes and why might one need software in order to manage them? The team at BonitaSoft strives to answer these questions by offering accessible, intuitive, open source BPM solutions that a wide range of organizations can use. In the following blog post I’ll explain how businesses just starting to use BPM (or perhaps even trying it for the first time) can reap tangible benefits from using Bonita Open Solution — in just one day.
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 […]
The demand for mobile applications designed specifically for enterprise use is continuing to grow and we are now seeing mobile devices and their applications relevant to every type of business activity.
IT concerns are fast moving from mobile device management (MDM) to mobile application management (MAM) as part of a shift in thinking from whether to allow mobile devices in to how to best take advantage of them.
Tweet Sensitive data management within the public sector and especially in organisations which allow flexible or remote working has improved somewhat, a new survey shows. Becrypt carried out research to discover whether there had been a shift in attitude towards dealing with data security due to the rise of mobile working. While in 2007, half […]
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 […]
Organisations are increasingly feeling the pressure to report environmental impact in clear and measurable terms. Regulation means many large organisations are obliged to comply with reporting standards, whether self imposed internal obligations, external voluntary entities or from the government. Meamnwhile, many organisations and industries are seeking to be seen as ‘carbon transparent’ whereby they commit and report to specific environmental goals.
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 […]
