The drive to provide an omnichannel customer experience has become a war for the “everywhere customer,” who uses multiple devices and channels for shopping and expects brands to be everywhere. Forward-thinking companies… Read more »
Mobility, digital-work culture, and collaboration own the ever-evolving work-media landscape in 2015, and influence the business tools we use each day. Read more »
After last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of items: Microsoft’s collection of cloud data announcements (which also… Read more »
Though DIY and hyper-convergence are two contrasting ways to deal with data growth and storage limitations, each has its merits and both can coexist in the same data center. Read more »
Due to agility needs, budget constraints, and compliance mandates, smaller enterprises now have the same need for software-defined principles used the world’s largest webscale data centers. Read more »
Satya Nadella has had a good first year as Microsoft CEO, pushing hard on his bet on a ‘mobile first, cloud first’ strategy. Quarterly (Q2 2015) results for the company were reported… Read more »
Immediately following my weekly update (see Google’s new Inbox goes beyond folders), which was focused on Google’s new Inbox, a replacement UI for Gmail, I learned that Amazon had just announced Amazon… Read more »
This week, Amazon announced their WorkMail solution as a business-class email and calendaring solution in the cloud. Over the past several years, Amazon has produced some amazing solutions. But is WorkMail… Read more »
Today’s retailers must understand and service customers that operate both online and in-store and expect their chosen brands to be available anytime and on multiple devices. Read more »