More Thoughts On SaaS, PaaS and Cloud Computing
Last July, I offered my views on the similarities and differences between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing. This past week, I had an opportunity to elaborate on the relationship between...
View ArticleDaydreaming About the Cloud and Salesforce.com
As I recover from yesterday’s Thanksgiving festivities, I’ve been struck by two thoughts regarding last week’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com’s new Chatter social computing functionality may be...
View ArticleKey Competitive Battlefields in the Clouds in 2010
As the new year and decade get underway, here are a few of the areas of the cloud computing market which I think will be important competitive battlefields for established and emerging players:...
View ArticleSuccessFactors Escalates Acquisition Efforts
SuccessFactors, Inc. announced today that it is acquiring Inform Business Impact, an Australia-based provider of workforce analytics and planning solutions. Here are my quick impressions about the...
View ArticleHandicapping HP CEO Candidates
Mark Hurd’s sudden resignation as HP’s CEO has opened a floodgate of speculation regarding who the company will select to succeed him. Because his departure wasn’t anticipated, there are no clear-cut...
View ArticleHP Attacks Oracle's New World Order With Apotheker Appointment
When Oracle announced its intention to acquire Sun Microsystems in April 2009, CEO Larry Ellison proclaimed the acquisition, “transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and...
View ArticleDell Delves Into Data Integration Market With Boomi Acquisition
Dell’s acquisition of Boomi today is the latest example of the tech industry’s herd mentality. In the same way that Dell followed HP’s example when it purchased Perot Systems after HP acquired EDS,...
View ArticleCisco's Flip Cam Failure and the Consumerization of IT
Cisco Systems’ decision this past week to shut down its Flip video camera business generated plenty of attention because of its implications on multiple levels for the networking company and the IT...
View ArticleOpSource Teams With VCE to Accelerate Service Provider Cloud Migration &...
OpSource and the Virtual Computer Environment (VCE) Company announced an alliance today which will offer joint solutions aimed at helping service providers (xSPs) launch public cloud services more...
View ArticleOpSource Acquisition Aimed at Accelerating Dimension Data's Global Cloud...
Dimension Data’s acquisition of OpSource marks the end of an era and illustrates how the Cloud Computing competitive landscape is expanding to encompass every type of tech vendor and service provider....
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