Kristen Nicole
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Data is King – Bandwidth His Gold, and Software His Council
What makes Google and Facebook especially powerful? Their data centers. Built like nothing the world has ever seen, the design behind Google’s server networks and Facebook’s storage security make these two uniquely capable of powering our search queries and social inquiries. Anticipating the need for hyperscale storage, Google and Facebook knew early on the demands ...
Working on the Edges: Where the Cloud Empowers the People Behind SMBs
Even five years ago I couldn’t imagine the freedom mobility has presented my everyday work tasks, putting me, the end user, in charge of my day. In fact, the end user is gaining power all over the place, determining the fate of a brand with just a tweet, forcing new distribution models from print media ...
Michael Dell Takes Back Control: The New Steve Jobs of Services?
It would be naive to think that Dell’s surprising decision to return to the status of a private firm doesn’t impact an entire industry. The PC sector has had the rug pulled from under it, leaving several companies including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and others shifting strategies and rethinking their core business offerings. Indeed, the global economy ...
For BlackBerry, YOU Are Its Path to the Enterprise
What the new BlackBerry needs is a clear path back into the enterprise. It was an easy task a decade ago, when email was the killer app and companies were quick to hand out BlackBerries to employees. Those days have been replaced with employee-driven decisions, like which phone they want to use. And when device selection ...
Dell Going Private in “Dream” Move: Focus on Software, Core Assets
We firmly believe the future of technology is in software-led infrastructure, as hardware costs continue to decline, and the brains behind efficient IT architecture reside in smarter software applications. Michael Dell seems to agree wholeheartedly, going so far as to take his company off the trading floor as it transitions to a software-driven model. The ...
The Ultimate Smart App is One that Anticipates + Answers
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from a recent interview with LucidWorks CEO Paul Doscher, who touches on an important consumer trend that’s hit the enterprise: Smart Apps. Doscher discusses the enterprise’s growing need for software that anticipates end users’ needs, and answers their questions with contextualized data, noting the web as a template for ...
BlackBerry, Facebook Must Rethink Infrastructure If They Want to Win in Mobile
This week was ripe for mobile, with the launch of two new BlackBerry devices and a fresh operating system, along with the very promising news of Facebook’s increased mobile presence, revealed during the social network’s most recent earnings call. Indeed, the mobile world is ringing with opportunity, an alluring sound for BlackBerry and Facebook as they take on ...
Mobile Q&A App for Students Adds Teacher-Verified Answers
Answer Underground, a mobile Q&A service targeting academia, revealed a new feature that enables educators to verify user-generated content. This latest addition will save students precious time that would have been otherwise spent on browsing unreliable responses to their posted queries. “Collaboration is fundamental to the education experience. The nature of how our society functions ...
Did CES Get Its Mojo Back in 2013?
As with most popular events, CES has become arguably “lame” in recent years. Over-hyped, over-covered and over-attended. But this year brought a fresh spin to CES as connected gadgets finally found their calling as service-driven devices. It’s a development we’ve been expecting for some time, given the bubbling interest in Big Data in 2012 and ...
Why Loggly’s CEO Welcomes Rivalries from Splunk and Others
An arrogant New Yorker, Charlie Oppenheimer flippantly took what sounded like a fun gig at Apple, thinking two or three years on the West Coast would suffice. Nearly a decade went by with the Cupertino company, and that Pacific air must’ve gotten to Oppenheimer, because he’s since become your average, run-of-the-mill serial entrepreneur. Interestingly ...