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The Web 2.0 Journal News Desk keeps you up to speed with all that's happening in the world of the read/write Web and all its mushrooming new facets - from social applications, tagging, wikis, mash-ups, and image-sharing to "Advertising 2.0," podcasting, and The Writeable Web. On the surface, everything seems fine. If you do a search, you’ll see lots of people offering support for cloud-centric application frameworks. But, when I speak with companies actually moving Java applications into the Cloud or trying to create new Cloud services based on Java, I get ...May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 770 |
 Okay – this is easy… or is it?
Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true ...May. 16, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 450 |
 Overuse tends to a suck a phrase of meaning, and the same may be said of “collaboration”. As an executive, you’ve probably been inundated with articles on “collaboration software” and its business possibilities. But it seems to mean different things at different times. Sometimes it mea...May. 16, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 657 |
 When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data.
So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their servi...May. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 764 |
 Early adopters have been evaluating TwitPolls for the last several weeks. I’ve tested it out with our @CTOvision account and see great promise for this easy to use engagement tool.
TwitPolls is powered by the technologies and leadership team of WayIn, so it is based on a great/scalab...May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 529 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...May. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,919 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strate...May. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,033 |
 What do the CTO of the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, ...May. 16, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,569 |
 As far as we have been able to determine, the phrase “Word-of-Mouth Advertising” was coined by Ernest Dichter who, in 1966, published an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled, “How Word-of-Mouth Advertising Works”
Dichter was a psychologist by training. His firm focused on ...May. 15, 2012 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 133 |
 Edward Burman recently sent me a very interesting email in response to my article about the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So I bought his 2003 book Shift!: The Unfolding Internet – Hype, Hope and History (hint: If you buy it from Amazon, che...May. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 678 |
 For the past two years I have been predicting that M2M (machine to machine) communications will eventually become important and ultimately merge with enterprise mobility. Why? Both involve remote and often mobile sources of data coming into the enterprise.
A few weeks ago, SAP made ...May. 15, 2012 06:03 AM EDT Reads: 515 |
 The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market tren...May. 14, 2012 11:10 PM EDT Reads: 428 |
 Late today the FedRAMP Program Management Office released the first list of certified Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs). These companies are accredited to perform initial and periodic assessment of cloud service provider (CSP) systems per FedRAMP requirements, provide eviden...May. 14, 2012 05:41 PM EDT Reads: 389 |
 Four CEOs in five years! Yahoo was a symbol of innovation and success in its first few years of life. Founded by two Stanford Ph.D. students (Yang and Filo), Yahoo defined the Internet era of communities and sharing. It still has an enviable community using various services like email,...May. 14, 2012 03:50 PM EDT Reads: 525 |
 Most technology companies - especially Software companies do marketing all wrong. They make marketing all about "them". I call it "me-me-me" marketing.
Marketing for technology should be about "the customer" - and how to make the customer successful.
There are a few examples of so...May. 14, 2012 09:48 AM EDT Reads: 769 |
 As the role of cloud computing is growing around the globe, many CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure -- to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. A new international study by Cisco Systems...May. 14, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 Major changes have taken place in the network in the past 15 years. The type of data that users are passing across the pipes is significantly different in size and composition. And, the coming “data explosion” promises to put even the most robust networks to the test.
When you add in ...May. 14, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 833 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...May. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,885 |
 Like cloud two or three years ago, SDN and OpenFlow is dominating the discussions. During a show that’s (in theory at least) dedicated to networking, this should be no surprise.
Is it making networking sexy again? Yes, insomuch as we’re at least talking about networking again, which i...May. 14, 2012 07:07 AM EDT Reads: 632 |
 If companies have hesitated to develop a mobile strategy or mobile retail apps over concerns as to their value, this article on a report from ABI Research should send them straight to the phone calling the next available mobile developer. Here is an excerpt from the article, "The resu...May. 14, 2012 06:27 AM EDT Reads: 537 |
 When you first look at the list of mobility vendors that are attending SAPPHIRENOW 2012, it may seem like most of them compete with SAP mobility, but that would be to forget that SAP sells ERP software. Look at where SAP makes their money. They make their money selling and maintainin...May. 14, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 526 |
 Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator that is being used to find the elusive "God particle" generates about 40Terabytes (1 TB=103GB) of data per day from its four main detectors. Assuming an average size of 1GB for a movie, that amounts to a data stream ...May. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 953 |
 Responsive WordPress themes are the current craze in the open source world. But are they a true requirement or just a bunch of hype thrown out to sell more premium themes to unsuspecting buyers? Do WordPress users really need to consider upgrading their existing themes to one that is...May. 11, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 955 |
 Can Google Apps unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange? This CIO article shares insight from the CIO of New England Biolabs, which recently conducted proof-of-concept testing with Google Apps for Business. While New England Biolabs decided to stick with its Outlook/Exchange Server set-up...May. 10, 2012 07:58 AM EDT Reads: 900 |
 In our previous article, SQL Server 2008 Overview, we looked over the different features that the Microsoft SQL Server provides. In this article we will focus on the new and advanced features of the latest SQL Server release – SQL Server 2012. They include, but are not limited to, the ...May. 10, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 913 |
 This is Part 2 in this series with Element Five Solutions' Harish Rau. In this segment, he shares advice and lessons learned during implementations of the Sybase Unwired Platform. He is a true enterprise mobility expert. By...May. 10, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 480 |
 The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
Apple is in roughly the same position it was la...May. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 508 |
 No individual can really track and understand the impact of change in all the emerging technologies like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Agile Methodology and Big Data … You can realistically aim to have an in depth understanding of only a small subset. By in depth und...May. 10, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 994 |
 Have you ever felt frustrated when you’re asked to give a PowerPoint presentation in front of your classmates or collogue? Do you want to become a great presenter like Steve Jobs? A lot of people have asked question about how to make a great PowerPoint presentation on the web like Yaho...May. 10, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 739 |
 Sparqlight, the world’s leading Cloud-Based Enterprise Social Workflow Application, enables sharing, tracking, and assigning goals and to-do’s within a single familiar social interface. We eliminate outdated, unorganized collaboration methods like email and endless meetings and allow y...May. 9, 2012 12:24 PM EDT Reads: 642 |
 It is a fact of modern life: We all run the risk of getting too distracted by our IT, especially IT connected to our social media. Today, for example, my priority is finishing a White Paper for a favorite client, and I promise I will do that, but I just saw this really cool clip on You...May. 9, 2012 08:38 AM EDT Reads: 574 |
 The irony about cloud computing in the higher education environment is that most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even realize it.
Gmail is one example. Yahoo Mail is another. The fact is web-based applications, which many schools rely on for daily commun...May. 9, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,699 |
 I have been in technology marketing since my career began, and there is one word that I have come to loathe because of its misuse by marketing and business leaders in technology – enterprise, (or enterprise-class). I’m guilty of using it – it’s my job to ensure prospects know that we o...May. 8, 2012 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,309 |
 While more than 900 million people worldwide have active accounts, few businesses take full advantage of this enormous marketplace. For most, this is not due to a lack of desire—it stems from a lack of knowledge. When industry stalwarts such as Anthony Robbins and Frank Kern sought to ...May. 8, 2012 03:24 PM EDT Reads: 421 |
 On May 22, my new book, The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace will be published. Coauthored by Brad Fay, it is a book about the hugely important social wave that is rolling across the world of business today. But unlike many books and articles ...May. 8, 2012 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 445 |
 Has Apple, by filing so many patent / IPR violation suits against Samsung in so many countries, marked Samsung as its equal?
For those of you who read Harry Potter, here is the parallel. Remember the prophecy? …
“…The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…Born to th...May. 8, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,484 |
 Ontario Province has recently become more proactive in asking the local industry for innovative new Cloud solution type models, such as UCaaS – Unified Communications as a Service.
This provides the ideal stimulus for development of the local Cloud supplier base, and to identify whe...May. 8, 2012 09:21 AM EDT Reads: 698 |
 For the past several years, companies have been making use of cloud computing solutions. Cloud solutions offer agility and scalability that are often hard to duplicate in-house, and they offer a way for companies to meet specific business functions without large capital investments. Cl...May. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,024 |
 About six years ago I wrote a blog titled “I have no idea what Web 2.0 means“. That blog had link to a video where IT leaders were helplessly trying to explain what Web 2.0 means. One guy said something like this, “Everyone wants to do it, and you can’t find e...May. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,694 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now five weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strategy ses...May. 7, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,878 |
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