Microsoft-Salesforce Deal is Just Lip Service
Microsoft and Salesforce may have made public amends over their epic patent battles, but that doesn’t mean the war is over. Microsoft is still seeking out ways to push cloud services to clients, while…
In the Virtual/Cloud Age, Computing Services Replace Applications
Virtualization is part of the strategy that internal IT needs to adopt for competing against Cloud services. A second important part of that strategy is to package and price what it provides as services.…
How Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Blow Could Affect Cloud Enterprise
Update: Google has released a statement denying a deal with Verizon, or any other telecom for that matter. The company says it remains a supporter of net neutrality, according to The Guardian. Net neutrality…
Engine Yard’s John Dillon: “Don’t Believe the Bad Press! Ruby on Rails Scales!”
By Tom Foremski
I had a fascinating conversation this morning with John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard, a startup with an agile application development platform that is sold as a service. It’s one of the quickest ways…
RIM Chief Agrees With Us, UAE Ban is Political Contradiction
The stand-off between BlackBerry maker RIM and the United Arab Emirates received a passionate reply from the company’s head. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis isn’t too happy about it. The Wall Street Journal quotes: “This is…
Clearspring Turns AddThis Analytics Into an Audience Platform: Micro-Targeting
When Clearspring closed its Launchpad last year and acquired AddThis, I wondered at the type of recommendations the company would eventually be able to provide. We’re beginning to find out now, with Clearspring’s revelation…
Challenges Inherent to Data Growth
By Jay Livens
One of the biggest challenges with data protection is managing growth. Some of the common factors that drive increasing capacity requirements include: Intrinsic growth – Growth inherent in the environment as users create new…
So Long, Google Wave. See You On the Other Side.
It’s time to say goodbye to Google Wave. The experimental project from Google was fun while it lasted, but didn’t show enough adoption for Google to keep it going. I know many of you…
Cloud Apps are Moving Beyond Just Nice to Have
Earlier this year we published results from a major research initiative trying to understand the impact of Google Apps on traditional on-premise deployment models. On a high level, key findings of that research indicate…
Microsoft Multi-touch?
It looks like the team at Microsoft Hardware (@msfthardware) are having some fun on Twitter with their brand new account. The other day one of the team members posted a message that said “Don’t…