Salesforce's Benioff Delivers at Dreamforce. Revenue Builders or Social Fodder?
November 19, 2009
Salesforce.com Announces new Social Applications | www.thestandard.com
Salesforce.com announced major initiatives with Computer Associates,Facebook and Twitter all around their new Chatter feature which Mark Benioff calls the greatest changes since Dreamforce.com began 8 yrs ago. But are these additions social fodder or new streams of revenue for the CRM giant?
Bing Challenges Google Again? Don't Hold Your Breath.
October 7, 2009
Google refines search results to counter Microsoft | www.businessweek.com
Microsoft continues to roll out features for its Bing search engine, and Google seems to be able to leapfrog them without a second thought.
Misleading Equinix (Data Center) Statistics
July 28, 2009
Upward Trend in Colo Revenue: Equinix Making $200 More Per Cabinet | www.datacenterknowledge.com
Revenue growth at Equinix and in the data center business is strong, but are you sure it's not just increasing power and cooling consumption? How do you know?
Twitter's Problem With the Google Cloud
July 15, 2009
Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com
Regardless of how careful a cloud provider is with security, all it takes is one or two persons with weak passwords to lead critical information. Although blameless, cloud computing in general and Google in particular are likely to suffer from this incident.
Is Google Wave Good News or Bad News for Carriers?
July 15, 2009
Is Google Wave Good News or Bad News for Carriers? | www.ipcom-insights.com
Google Wave represents a real threat to both service providers and the established order of vendors providing various forms of communications and collaboration solutions to enterprises. Wave provides a 2.0 solution to 2.0 communications challenges and for many, will be a better way of doing things. This is not good news for the likes of Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, IBM, etc., and signals an important shift in validating open source and the cloud as viable alternatives to the status quo.
A Killer App for Cloud Computing?
July 14, 2009
IBM's Data-Crunching Cloud Plan | www.forbes.com
Cloud computing is already successful in the consumer and SMB market, but still has not penetrated the enterprise market. One or more killer apps could change that. IBM’s move to tie business analytics to the cloud could have a major impact on the SME market.
Nuance Speech Capabilities Can Fend off Microsoft, Google
July 13, 2009
Nuance Communications Acquisition Facing U.S. Probe | www.bloomberg.com
Nuance can expect to continue to grow by acquisition. With Philips, Dragon, and IBM's speech capabilities, they already control a significant swath of language technology. Plenty of acquisition opportunities remain in the application space, however, and there are no antitrust reasons to stand in their way, especially in light of the fact that Google and Microsoft remain potential competitors in everything they do.
June 15, 2009
Brocade Crushing Cisco In High-End Storage Switches | blogs.barrons.com
The repercussions from Cisco’s foray into the server market may be happening somewhat sooner and possibly on a larger scale than anticipated. It’s too soon to draw definite conclusions, but Brocade is taking market share from Cisco for some reason!
Is There Security in the Cloud?
June 8, 2009
It's 6 O'Clock -- Do You Know Where Your Cloud's Data Center Is? | www.informationweek.com
One of the biggest hindrances to rapid adoption of cloud computing, particularly for enterprises, is the level of security available. The question that inevitable arises is “Is my data safe?” The answer appears to be “Sortof!”.
Cloud Computing: Beyond the Hype
June 2, 2009
McKinsey Cloud Computing Report Conclusions Don't Add Up | www.cio.com
Cloud computing is here to stay, but isn’t likely to take over the IT world. Every new technology seems to go through a hype cycle where it will allegedly solve all the problems in the IT world. Then later it quietly settles into an appropriate niche. Cloud computing seems likely to follow this same pattern.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009