The real-time mega trend is taking new dimensions with the advent of billions of devices, game clients, digital televisions and really, a kaleidoscope of connected things. A service may drop if the load becomes too enormous. It’s why we see the advent of gateway services that connect applications to apps and end devices. PubNub is ...

We’re live with theCube here at NodeSummit where I caught up with Flowdock’s Founder and CEO Otto Hillska. Flowdock is a communications tools for developers that combines group messaging with data from third party services such as Github, bug tracers, Jira and email. Node.js Angle: Flowdock has always been Javascript focused because it is running ...

Accenture released its Technology Vision Report for 2012 with the call for a new base for IT that shows how the race to the middle continues to evolve. Not surprisingly, Accenture plays the middle throughout the report. I am not convinced their approach is the best one. But, undoubtedly it is realistic. The report is ...

It’s without question that the activity stream represents the modern application. It is a staple of social technology. Twitter, Facebook and new services like Path use the activity stream to engage and build communities. In the social business world, established players like Salesforce.com pump Chatter more than any of its other services. SAP uses activity ...

These are not gold rush days in the tech sector. We can’t expect huge gains from the established tech giants. Modest growth is just fine in this slow market. And that’s just what we got from IBM yesterday. It had modest growth in the fourth quarter and for 2011 overall. Keeping it steady were services and ...

Bitly, which earned its fame as a URL-shortener for Twitter, is making a big play for the enterprise. It’s another signal that the enterprise will continue to attract startups that start as consumer oriented companies but find better opportunities with the business community as service providers.  Box started as a consumer oriented company. So did ...

Google Apps continues to win major contracts in the U.S. Federal Government with the help of Unisys, which continues to focus on integrating Google Apps for Government into a number of federal agencies. Unisys announced today that 25,000 users from the National Oceanic and Atmosphere to the Google Apps for Government email and collaboration platform. Unisys claims ...

A survey by the Linux Foundation and  the Yeaman Technology  Group finds that enterprise customers are using Linux about twice as much than Windows for their big data efforts. The survey explored Linux adoption in enterprises with more than $500 million on revenues. A total of 1893 enterprise users were surveyed. Among the findings: 75% ...

You never know what you might find when in search of a good coffee. RedMonk’s James Governor was none too pleased with the selection on the Walt Disney World “Boardwalk,” here at Lotusphere. With Gary Barnett of the Bathwick Group there was a solid attempt to hack an espresso machine in the deep caverns of ...

Red Hat has JBOSS, Fedora, OpenShift and now Gluster. The distributed storage technology is now Red Hat’s  new pillar for offering storage as a stand alone software or virtual appliance and as part of Red Hat’s core products. Later this month, Red Hat Gluster will release its Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual appliance. And  later this ...