Rackspace Guarantees 99.99% Uptime on Private Cloud
Rackspace is so confident with the new release of its private cloud software on its cloud computing open source OpenStack creation, it’s guaranteeing success for enterprise workload production.The San...
View ArticleRackspace Guarantees 99.9% Uptime on Private Cloud
Rackspace is so confident with the new release of its private cloud software on its cloud computing open source OpenStack creation, it’s guaranteeing success for enterprise workload production.The San...
View ArticleThe Metamorphosis of the Social Enterprise
The Social Enterprise is dead … but it hasn’t disappeared. Rather, it has been replaced by a remarkably similar concept: the Digital Workplace. According to Gartner, the Digital Workplace "enables new...
View ArticleIs Box Too Distracted to Care About Deal with Oracle?
You’d think that Aaron Levie would find it significant that Oracle has announced the integration of its Marketing Cloud with Box. But we haven’t heard a peep about it from Levie or anyone else at his...
View ArticleOracle has Finally Figured Out the Cloud #OOW14
It was just six years ago that Larry Ellison famously dissed cloud computing at an analyst conference. But this year’s Oracle Open World is all about the cloud and Oracle today made sure all 60,000...
View ArticleIT Gets Strategic (Again)
The CIO of a global Medical Device manufacturing company recently said to me, "I don’t want to have to install another piece of software at this company unless I absolutely have to." "You want to hear...
View ArticleHow Many Layers in Oracle’s Cloud? #OOW14
SAN FRANCISCO — The tech pundits here are happy to focus on the soap opera of management shifts including new roles for Oracle founder and chairman — former CEO and current CTO — Larry Ellison and...
View ArticleIs it the Market or is it Box? More IPO Woes
Everyone from Bloomberg to the Wall Street Journal to TechCrunch is reporting that Box has delayed its initial public offering (IPO), yet again. Most cite market volatility as the reason. It’s the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Makes Office 365 Cheap Enough That You Can Ignore Google
Keeping a schedule set at its Worldwide Partner Conference in July, Microsoft has finally released service plans that will make it cheaper for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use Office...
View ArticleSyncplicity Defines File Sharing Success [Video]
How do software vendors measure success? It depends whom you ask. Sales managers will brag about record-breaking quarters. CFOs will extol big bottom lines. Product development managers will rave...
View ArticleTop 10 Strategic Predictions for 2015 and Beyond #GartnerSYM
Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo 2014 in Orlando, Fla. is in full swing — and the Twitter stream is abuzz with snippets and quotes from keynotes and sessions focusing on a digital first world, business units...
View ArticleGartner ECM MQ’s Challengers, Niche Players and Visionaries
What’s the difference between a Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) Leader and Challenger? A Challenger and a Niche Player? A Leader and a Visionary? These may sound like trick questions or something for...
View ArticleGoogle Counters Office 365 Price Cuts With New Partnership
Google has responded to Microsoft’s price cuts of Office 365 for SMBs by launching a new partnership with Rackspace. Rackspace is offering US customers fully managed IT services for the Google Apps...
View ArticleEmbracing SharePoint and OneDrive in Hybrid Clouds
Last month, a colleague and I were recalling a conversation we had at a SharePoint conference a few years ago. At the time we were debating whether Office 365 would have more success than its...
View ArticleTop 10 Strategic Tech Trends for 2015 #GartnerSYM [Infographic]
Can’t get enough of lists? Another Top 10 was revealed during Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo 2014 in Orlando, Fla., this time focusing on technology trends for the coming year. “It all starts with digital...
View ArticleCloudera + Teradata = Big Data Love?
Hadoop may make many promises, but Teradata delivers solutions that enterprises trust. We’re not saying this to ruffle any feathers because it isn’t an either or game. Every now and then we see...
View ArticleWill SAP HANA + Birst Blow Salesforce and Oracle Analytics Away?
Salesforce boss Mark Benioff better have a pretty remarkable rabbit in his hat next week when he makes a much anticipated announcement about how his company will deliver big data analytics in the...
View ArticleWas Amazon Web Services the Winner in Xen Cloud Reboot?
A cloud portfolio management provider has done some Monday-morning quarterbacking through cloud hosting customers affected by the recent Xen hypervisor problem and reboot for major cloud players. The...
View ArticleHere’s What Happens When Employees BYOD
Security-related headaches around BYOD may make users want to BYOB. That’s what you can conclude from a new survey that shows organizations with bring your own device (BYOD) policies have twice the...
View ArticleWill Cloud Foundry Be Key to Computing’s History?
“The times they are a changin’.” For anyone who’s not a fan of rock music history that quote may not resonate, but it comes from a song that Bob Dylan wrote in the 1960s. It describes a period when...
View ArticleLondon Firm Bets Money on the Internet of Things
Gartner expects the Internet of Things (IoT) will be driven by small entrepreneurs rather than big tech companies. And that means funding for those entrepreneurs is going to be crucial. So far,...
View ArticleReal Bedfellows? Salesforce, Office 365, OneDrive & Power BI #DF14
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff knew the conversation would be special, so on the opening day of Dreamforce, Salesforce’s user conference in San Francisco this week, he brought Microsoft Windows Vice...
View ArticleHP, EMC Drop Merger Talk
Hewlett-Packard Co. has walked away from merger discussions with EMC Corp., Reuters reported today. Reuters reported HP has walked away after "months of fruitless negotiations." The news comes as no...
View ArticleCloudwords Localizes the Oracle Cloud
Cloudwords, a startup backed by Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff, has beefed up its integration with the Oracle Marketing Cloud, aiming to automate and organize the process of managing the...
View ArticleCan You Make Google Love Your Global Content?
Nǐ hǎo! ¡Hola! Konnichiwa! Oi! Guten Tag! Bonjour! Ciao! Privét! If your website isn’t translated into at least five of the above languages, you could be missing out on at least double your potential...
View ArticleIBM Stumbles on its Road to the Cloud
The transition to the cloud is not happening fast enough for slow-moving IBM, which today reported disappointing third quarter results: Revenue of $22.4 billion declined 4 percent year over year and...
View ArticleTake a Seat Google, Amazon: Microsoft’s Cloud Wins the Day
Though the new mobile-first, cloud-first Microsoft is more open and plays nice with everyone, it also wants to knock the socks, shirt and hat off of the competition. And, if CEO Satya Nadella is right,...
View ArticleCloudera + Microsoft’s Snuggle in the Cloud Causes Confusion
Anyone that Hortonworks gets into bed with, Cloudera snuggles up to next. This, of course, is not a proven theorem. But it sure seems to be the case lately. Earlier this month Hadoop enterprise data...
View ArticleFind Your WorkType, Courtesy of Jive
“How the heck did I get stuck in this role?” Admit it, you’ve probably run out of a meeting and into your cube, hidden your face in your hands and bitten your lip to keep yourself from screaming these...
View ArticleFollowing SAP and Oracle, IBM Latest to Jump to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft already partnered with SAP and Oracle on its cloud-computing platform. Why not toss in the fourth player in the Big Four? IBM is the latest partner in Microsoft’s enterprise software layer,...
View ArticleJive’s Social Biz Software: You, Me, Community
Collaboration software in the enterprise is a “must have." And many of the big software and service providers have integrated social workplace tools into their products. Microsoft has brought Yammer...
View ArticleConnecting Workers to Information in the Digital Workplace
Two billion jobs will be lost by 2030 … and that’s a good thing? So says Paul Miller, author of the newly released book "The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering Digital Workplace Fit for the...
View ArticleEMC Gets a Hybrid Cloud Play, Will Anyone Buy?
EMC has been blasting its trumpets about the cloud for at least four years. It might even be longer, as anyone who has been to an EMC World from 2010 onward can testify. And frankly, even most Las...
View ArticleEMC Should Sell Documentum, HP Should Buy It
EMC made big news yesterday when it announced its hybrid cloud play. Headlines raced across the wires saying things like “EMC Frantically Pivots Toward the Cloud” and “EMC Moves Fast To Retain...
View ArticleOffice 365 Strengthens Mobile Device Management #TEE14
Cloud first, mobile first. Remember that one? If you don’t, let us remind you that it’s the new Microsoft mantra that was chanted first by Satya Nadella on his first public outing as the company’s new...
View ArticleYou May Have Opened the Door to Your Biggest Business Threats
It only takes one employee to create a monumental security nightmare. And that person may already be wreaking havoc at your organization. A quarterly analysis by Skyhigh Networks, a cloud visibility...
View ArticleIBM’s Tencent Deal Could Best Twitter Partnership
IBM announced today that it has partnered with the Chinese Internet Services Provider (ISP) Tencent Holdings — a deal that has the potential to be a lot more lucrative than its recently announced...
View ArticleJonathan Rothberg’s Butterfly Network has raised $100M for medical imaging tech
Noted biosciences entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg has a health startup incubator up in Connecticut, and one of its portfolio companies, Butterfly Network, has recently raised an $80 funding round....
View ArticleCreating Governance Solutions for Hybrid SharePoint Environments
What are the differences between SharePoint governance in online versus on-premises deployments? This question comes up regularly at conferences and events — administrators and business owners alike...
View ArticleHey CIO, CEO: You’re Leaking Data
Of all the vital responsibilities C-level executives have, keeping data secure is a big one. Especially today, when many managers consider data to be the "new gold" or the "new oil”… feel free to add...
View ArticleJive Selects New President as CEO Retires
What do you do after you are appointed as president of Jive Software? “Pack for Disney,” certainly isn’t Elisa Steele’s answer. Instead she’s spending the day talking with investors, discussing the...
View ArticleRackspace Simplifies Deployment of Open Source Applications
Private cloud solutions offer a number of advantages to businesses. They’re deployed on site, which provides improved control and flexibility, yet they also have the cost and scalability advantages of...
View ArticleFew Businesses Use Social and Mobile to Improve Productivity
Enterprises are using social and mobile to improve customer engagement, but not using them to improve productivity. At least that is the conclusion of new research from UK-based Advanced Business...
View ArticleIBM or Twitter: Who Needed the Deal More?
IBM posted disappointing quarterly revenues last month. Twitter hasn’t found a way to make good money. They needed a boost, and they hope it’s each other. But who needed who more? "That’s arguable....
View ArticleBox Wraps Enterprise Files in Snazzy iOS Features
Stop the presses. Box built a new user interface (UI) for its enterprise sync and share apps. Perhaps it’s a little rude to say so, but who cares? Those of us who have been watching the enterprise file...
View ArticleThe Paperless Office? Dream On
The paperless office is only a dream, and we should be setting our sights a little bit lower. That’s how Doug Miles introduces this year’s AIIM Industry Watch report on document management,...
View ArticleAWS Woos Enterprises with New Security Services #reinvent
Amazon is taking steps to ease enterprises’ biggest concerns around moving to its AWS platform. During a keynote at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas yesterday, the company announced three new...
View ArticleSharePoint in the Clouds: Choosing Between Office 365 or Azure
Every time I read about “the cloud” I want to drag out a red pencil and edit the sentence. Why? Because we should really be talking about “the clouds,” plural. There are dozens of cloud hosting options...
View ArticleAWS Supports Hybrid Cloud with EC2 Container Service #reinvent
“Why do developers love containers?” This is the question Werner Vogels, CTO and Vice President of Amazon.com, asked attendees of the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas just before announcing the...
View Article7 Trends to Watch to Stay Ahead of the Digital Era Curve
This is the time of year when you start seeing a mad dash of articles looking back on the trends of 2014 and what to expect in 2015. While this is par for the course, something much more significant...
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