Ascending the Cloud Computing Learning Curve
If 2012 was a breakthrough year for many organizations to take the plunge and join the “Cloud Rush” by adopting a wide array of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS alternatives, then 2013 will be the year they learn...
View ArticleSerious build and testing automation
Here at Percona we’ve spent a lot of time improving our development and testing practices. Why? Because constant innovation keeps us ahead and more productive. We want to work smarter, not harder. One...
View ArticleLess Feature. More Cloud.
One of my favorite enterprise software executives is Steve Miranda, who heads applications development at Oracle. His title is a bit narrow. He is also a key customer interface and the unofficial CIO...
View ArticleThe big disruption opportunity in book publishing
Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY...
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Intangible Assets Create Social Era Value
Value is being redefined. Value is no longer dominated by the accumulation of money and other tangible assets that appeared on balance sheets. Value is now largely defined by an organizations ability...
View ArticleClassifying a Shape
This is a great essay: Spheres are special shapes for nuclear weapons designers. Most nuclear weapons have, somewhere in them, that spheres-within-spheres arrangement of the implosion nuclear weapon...
View ArticleMobile Capture – It’s all About the Customer -- Guest Post by Bruce Orcutt...
[This is a guest post by Bruce Orcutt, from Kofax. Bruce is Senior Director of Product Marketing, and leads the world-wide product marketing of Kofax mobile products and solutions. He is responsible...
View ArticleRootstock Software Steps Out on Force.com
One of my recent blog posts talked about the emergence of a few natively cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that leverage salesforce.com’s Force.com platform. But looks might be...
View ArticleMorning reading 010313
In the spirit of my only ‘resolution’ for the new year, here’s a quick post on some of what I’m reading this week. Like many security professionals, I read dozens of posts and articles each week, but...
View ArticleThe big disruption opportunity in book publishing
Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY...
View ArticleLooking for Better Data in 2013?
Happy New Year from all of us at Ultra Consultants! As the New Year gets underway, many CIOs and manufacturing IT departments are entering into projects to improve their organization’s overall...
View ArticleLessons in Customer Service: I Come to Praise United, Not to Bury It
United Airlines has hardly been a paradigm of excellent customer service. Most of the time they do what could only be called a nasty job of it. However, once in awhile, in adverse circumstances, in...
View ArticleWill the PC Survive Mobile Mania?
Sales of mobile devices continue to rise, but PC sales are slumping. Indeed, the mobile market—if you believe the hype—seems to be the entirety of the next phase of computing, leaving desktop and, to...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to 2013
TEC analysts speculate about developments to come in a variety of enterprise software spaces in the year ahead. (See also P.J. Jakovljevic’s sneak peek at 2013 and Bob Eastman’s look at what’s in store...
View ArticleMoxa MXview Update Makes Managing Ethernet Networks Easier for Industrial Users
Moxa has released a new version of its flagship industrial network management software that will make it even more appealing and easy to use for industrial users. Version 2.2 of Moxa MXview provides...
View ArticleDCIM and Co-Location: A Roadmap for Success
Co-Location Co-location is nothing new. A highly useful alternative to “do-it-yourself,” it’s a viable option for any company looking to build out the data center. In this challenging economic...
View ArticleCES: The trueconsumerization of the enterprise
Consumerization is defined narrowly by many to cover trends like BYOD where employees are allowed to bring their own flavor of device to work. To me, this new tech savvy employee is far more...
View ArticleHow to rig the game when asking for new software features.
One of the biggest time wasters I’ve come across in my working life are meetings. That’s not to say meetings aren’t important, they are, but when badly run they’re torture. Meetings with your...
View ArticleI need to Thank you all once again...
(Posted January 3, 2013) A 2012 thank you.. again
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Advance Notification Service for the January 2013 Security Bulletin Release
On behalf of all of us here at Microsoft, I’d like to wish everyone a very happy New Year! With 2013 starting on a Tuesday, our monthly bulletin release is upon us a bit earlier than usual. Next...
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