Inside the BriefcaseTweet Another big CES is over. Another gadgets-fest out of the way. Lots of tablets (none however that I believe will overshadow or even remotely be able to challenge the iPad, with the possible exeption of RIM’s PlayBook – assuming it ships sometime in the not too distant future); lots of ‘me-too’ mobile devices; a […]
Tweet Here’s yet another reason cloud computing is not a new idea: For users, corporate computing has always been a cloud. Users have applications they rely on to do their jobs; they load data to crunch on; they interact digitally with coworkers, clients, and partners — and all of it comes from this amorphous blob […]
Tweet The state visit to Washington DC by President Hu Jintao last week was the first by a Chinese leader since 1997, and closes a long loop that began almost 40 years ago–when President Richard Nixon visited Chairman Mao Tse-Tung-in a way that Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s 1997 meeting with President Bill Clinton did not. […]
Tweet Analysts at Ovum have decided that open source enterprise search software is viable and reliable and can stand up against leading commercial players. In a report, Ovum analyst Mike Davis said that free-to-use open source enterprise search and retrieval (ESR) software is a good start when outfits are looking for a search application. He […]
Tweet Sales pipeline. Weighted forecast. Average sales cycle. Qualified Deals. …all the familiar sales analytics. Yet, the deals you expected to close didn’t and some blue birds came in at the end of the quarter. Is this simply the uncertainty of sales? Or is there some science we can apply to better understand and manage […]
Tweet I wrote about the open source OpenStack back in October, based largely on wandering around the main OpenStack site. But there’s no substitute for talking to people involved – especially when they are Lanham Napier, CEO of Rackspace, one of the two instigators of the OpenStack project (the other being NASA). He filled me […]
Tweet SOURCE: InfoWorld Paul Carr from TechCrunch did a good job making the case why some of us may want to reconsider blanket uses for the cloud: “I’ve been growing increasingly alarmed by stories such as the U.S. government subpoenaing Twitter (and reportedly Gmail and Facebook) users over their support of WikiLeaks. The casual use […]
Tweet The power of mobile devices and the speed of networks on which they operate are only two legs of a three-legged stool of advanced wireless services. The third leg is the general availability of increasingly sophisticated mobile applications. Read More of Carl Weinschenk Blog Post
Tweet January 13 is the launch of Microsoft’s WebMatrix open-source-friendly Web-development tool bundle. But that’s not the only new open-source Microsoft deliverable that’s hitting today. Microsoft also is releasing the 1.0 version of its free, open-source “Orchard” content-management system (CMS). Like WebMatrix, Orchard’s goal is to require users to do less coding, making the product […]
Tweet One company dominates the infrastructure services cloud space: Amazon.com through its Amazon Web Service (AWS). When you talk to other infrastructure services providers, they describe their position in the market relative to AWS and even mimic the way AWS deploys its technology. Amazon.com is further taunting the other infrastructure services providers by rolling out […]
Tweet The New Year’s hangover has come and gone, perhaps a few resolutions were broken, but the year still lies ahead of us. There are a few things to think about around cloud computing as we move into 2011. Here are three mistakes to avoid. First, don’t let the hype drive your decisions. These days […]
Tweet Open…and Shut A few years back, a host of open-source businesses raised hundreds of millions of dollars on the promise that they would commoditize old, dying markets, and make a bundle of money in the process. Missing from this thesis, however, was its logical conclusion: winning in a fading market is tantamount to losing, […]
Tweet To Recap the Season So Far: The Yankees didn’t make it to the World Series. The (NY) Giants didn’t make it to the playoffs. I’m tempted to not let any company in a city that beat the Yankees (Dallas) or the Giants (Green Bay?. Ahhh, but I like the Packers) not make the Watchlist […]
Tweet Given its prominence in any discussions around SOA for several years, you might think that by now everyone has acquired an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). However, it is clear that there is still ongoing discussion about the need for an ESB, and questions still remain as to what exactly an ESB is. Cloud computing seems to have […]
Tweet It was all the way back in 2009 that Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared that enterprises represented a “huge opportunity for the management team [at Google] and for me personally,” pronouncing them his company’s “next big-billion dollar opportunity.” Schmidt wasn’t kidding around, and as Chrome OS advances, Android spreads out, and Google Apps get […]
Tweet Familiarity can breed contempt, or so the saying goes. But is it also what makes one piece of software superior to another? That, indeed, has been the question on many Linux bloggers’ minds in recent days. “In many FOSS vs Closed Source project comparisons I have seen to date, ‘user familiarity’ is often referenced […]
Tweet Hosting company Tenzing Managed IT Services has partnered with Apprenda, a cloud middleware company, to help independent software vendors (ISVs) speed their software-as-a-service (SaaS) model migrations and deployment. Raj Atwal, vice-president of engineering and partner development at Toronto-based Tenzing, said the partnership with Apprenda provides ISVs with an end-to-end SaaS delivery platform that enables […]
Tweet On a recent call, an analyst shared a story about a company whose IT infrastructure was completely wiped out in a natural disaster. Forced to start from scratch, the company reinvented the spirit and composition of its enterprise IT strategy, and the set of solutions that emerged from the rubble made their organization inherently […]
Tweet Round up of 2010- After the 2008-2009 recession, the IT Industry fared above average in the past 11 months. The growth of the IT industry appeared to be a bit slow in Hyderabad in comparison to Chennai and Bangalore however the pace seems to have picked up over the last 5 months. Access to […]
Tweet Twitter is certainly growing and Facebook is the 2010 most searched for website and the most searched term, however many doctors are worried about them being used in the medical industry. They tend to stick to phone calls and face-to-face interactions. There are serious concerns over the security of data privacy and protection and […]
Tweet One of the true benefits of the past two weeks is that I have not received my usual 50 or so e-mails in my three different e-mail accounts, which means that I have had time to do some reading and recalibrating of the themes for my 2011 coverage. I’ve already blabbed on about my […]
Tweet I originally posted a Top Ten acquisitions list in September, under the assumption that after the blockbuster HP-3PAR buyout we may have seen the last of the big storage acquisitions for the year. Wrong. The storage industry capped a crazy year of M&A fever with the EMC-Isilon and Dell-Compellent acquisitions. With those additions, I […]
Tweet What does 2011 hold for the technology industry? Mobile will again dominate the headlines as all companies not named Apple will be searching for tablet strategies. Laptop price depreciation will regain steam. On the software front, cloud computing may put the hurt on established enterprise application players. That microcosm will be evident at the […]
Tweet Well it’s 2011 at last, and those of us here in the FOSS community have a great deal to look forward to this year. Android is going nowhere but up, Ubuntu is gearing up to capture the hearts and minds of the masses, and Linux-friendly ARM is poised for even more great things. It’s […]
Tweet Happy New Year, everyone. Another year wraps up, and we now enter a new decade (which technically begins January 1, 2011). The practice of service oriented architecture has been part of the business technology scene for close to a decade. Some may argue that SOA has been around a lot longer than that, but […]
Tweet A few months ago, I wrote about the growing need for business process professionals, observing that a lack of these skills keeps process improvement projects from scaling throughout a company, thus limiting business process management’s positive business impact. I shared some fine advice from Forrester Research analyst and BPM expert Connie Moore, originally published […]
Tweet Continuing to advocate “for all things Open Source or built with Open Source” is on Slashdot blogger yagu’s 2011 to-do list — “and I resolve to call out any and all reaping the benefits of Open Source who don’t give back.” Also, “I resolve to be respectful and humble in regards to everything Microsoft,” […]
Tweet In the early part of next quarter, I am entering a research phase on a topic I have alluded to many times: techniques for Process Architecture. One of the key problems that BPM initiatives suffer from is that, even with all the attention, we end up with processes that still have significant issues — they […]
Tweet Once thought to be the answer to deployment options for just the SMB market, early cloud adopters proved otherwise. Stereotypes about industry, size of company, geographies, and roles no longer hold back adoption. Cloud adoption at all 4 layers of the cloud passed the tipping points in 2010 as a key business and technology […]
Tweet During 2010, I published information on what 55 different companies offering products in the cloud computing and/or virtualization arenas were doing. I also published quite a few posts on various happenings that were in other areas. While reviewing what posts were the most widely read, I was surprised to learn that the rants and […]
