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Ryan Bott, Director of Channel/OEM Development

Ryan BottDirector of Channel/OEM DevelopmentFusion-io What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

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?

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer

Howard BruckChief Information OfficerHUDSON VALLEY BANK What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Bank Tech Companies - who will be left standing?

September 29, 2009

Mergers: Conflicts Becoming A Core Reality | www.banktechnews.com

7,000 US banks and credit unions represents a lot of customers for the banking technology companies. While banks may be hurting, their technology needs only increases. With so many recent mergers are there too few providers left? Who has the advantage banks or the providers?

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer

Howard BruckChief Information OfficerHUDSON VALLEY BANK What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Dell/Perot, HP/EDS what's the difference?

September 21, 2009

Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion | money.cnn.com

Dell, buying into the notion that hardware is now a commodity and they have already optimized that business, believes they need to diversify. So they buy a large business/technology consulting firm. Do they now bring any more value to the Perot business?

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer

Howard BruckChief Information OfficerHUDSON VALLEY BANK What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Interesting niche software solutions find ways to sell even in this environment

September 16, 2009

SuccessFactors: Small cap, big plans | money.cnn.com

While core infrastructure, telecom, and enterprise system maintenance revenues have been relatively stable even in this market, discretionary tech spending is challenged.However, tech buying is strong with a few interesting technology solutions that can provide tangible short term benefits.

Michael Horsch Fizz, Senior Advisor

Michael Horsch FizzSenior AdvisorFCI Inc. What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Cisco's advantages and challenges. Comparisons to Juniper, ProCurve, Brocade.

August 5, 2009

Cisco’s Sales Will Drop as Much as 17%, Chambers Says | www.bloomberg.com

Cisco's strengths and challenges for their first fiscal quarter and beyond can be further defined when we compare them to their competition.  Juniper, HP ProCurve, Avaya, Brocade (Foundry), Nortel, 3COM are vendors that can help us define and understand Cisco. Cisco's success may very well be due to the weakness of their competition versus the strengths of Cisco.  In addition, with $30 plus billion of cash they are better positioned than most.

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor

Hans van RietschoteFormer Technical AdvisorQLAYER BVBA What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Carriers running scared of Google (voice)

July 28, 2009

Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone | theappleblog.com

Carriers are running scared of Google entering their market with Google Voice. They are trying to block the Google Voice app for the iPhone but they don't seem to bother with the Android phones or the blackberries. Why is this?

Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer

Howard BruckChief Information OfficerHUDSON VALLEY BANK What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Missing the boat - deduplication is only one piece of the puzzle

July 27, 2009

EMC outlines where Data Domain will fit | blogs.zdnet.com

The hype around Data Domain that brought it $2.1 Billion, over-emphasized the role of deduplication. The technology is nice, but it is neither unique nor complete.

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor

Hans van RietschoteFormer Technical AdvisorQLAYER BVBA What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

As the Twitter security breach and Sarah Palin's email account show: passwords are evil!

July 16, 2009

Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com

Passwords are evil: they are either easy to guess or the password recovery service allows the hacker easy access, as was shown by the Twitter "security breach" and the break-in into Sarah Palin's yahoo email address. But there are companies out there solving this problem, one of them is a stealth start-up called FortKnock.

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor

Hans van RietschoteFormer Technical AdvisorQLAYER BVBA What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Why has Yahoo allowed themselves to become the RC Cola of search?

July 16, 2009

Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me | www.nytimes.com

Companies providing only Internet search do not have a long lifespan. Microsoft's main interest in acquiring Yahoo was not their Internet search technology but rather to use them in their fight against Google.

Hans van Rietschote, Former Technical Advisor

Hans van RietschoteFormer Technical AdvisorQLAYER BVBA What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Less desktops being sold but more netbooks/laptops being sold, what is going on?

July 14, 2009

Desktop PC Sales Decline For the First Time Since 2001 | gizmodo.com

PC desktop sales in Q1 2009 declined 8.1% compared to Q1 2008. And this is not due to the recession because sales of notebook PCs (laptops and netbooks) are up 11.7% for the same quarter.  So what is going on?

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