The Decision Model Canvas for disruption presents a visual representation of how to manage the planning and execution of disruptive strategies companies can use in a systematic way to reshape markets… Read more »
For the smart home to ignite the IoT, home automation software platform vendors must provide open APIs. SmartThings and future open-API platforms could be the disruptive players that encourage a tidal… Read more »
The delivery of real-time query makes Hadoop accessible to more users. Its significance goes well beyond delivering a database management system kind of query engine that other products have had for… Read more »
From Facebook to Johns Hopkins University and from Alcatel-Lucent to Procter & Gamble, organizations are coping with the challenge of processing unprecedented volumes of data. Read more »
Facebook just had the biggest initial public offering in tech history. During the week leading up to it, we tapped into the GigaOM readership to see what they thought of the… Read more »
In late March GigaOM Pro conducted a survey for GigaOM readers to get their opinion on the social network and its competitive prospects. This report examines the results of the survey,… Read more »
Several web technology themes and trends were reinforced in the fourth quarter of 2011, including a handful of tech platform wannabes and the rumblings of a shakeout in social commerce. For… Read more »
We’ve already covered the trends that began to shape up in the infrastructure market in 2010 and will really materialize in 2011. Several companies played — and will continue to play —… Read more »
Internal clouds are real and they’re here, but many efforts are still in their early days. The problem is that transitioning to a cloud-enabled environment can involve large degrees of technical,… Read more »
The much-hyped benefits of cloud computing are of interest to a growing number of industry sectors, each of which brings with it a particular set of requirements. Possibly more esoteric than… Read more »