RightScale recently published the results of its annual survey, State of the Cloud. The report reveals increasing cloud adoption from both enterprises and SMBs, and a preference for hybrid deployments. This… Read more »
It’s deja vu all over again. Microsoft is dropping support the Google Talk and Facebook chat integrations fom the Outlook.com email service in the near future. Reminds me of when they… 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 »
Amazon Web Services recently announced that its customers who pay by Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards can now be billed in their choice of 11 non-USD currencies. AWS claims… Read more »
InterConnect 2015 Las Vegas is the combination of a few IBM conferences. Past conferences carried quite a bit of overlap in content. As the conversations blurred, it made sense to combine… Read more »
As many analysts and enterprise strategies look to IoT as the third wave of the internet, one way to assess the potential of IoT is to take a look at how… Read more »
One of the key attributes to a successful cloud deployment is thinking about the strategy holistically. In my post ‘CIOs are getting out of the data center business’, I introduced the… Read more »
Sony announced last week that it will release Android-compatible ‘smart glasses’ in March. Called, perhaps unsurprisingly, SmartGlasses, the augmented reality head gear is being released as a developer edition for $840,… Read more »
I’ve been working closely with others at Gigaom Research on our research agenda for 2015, and one topic that has risen to the top is digital transformation. Other research — such… Read more »
One of the biggest time wasters at work is status updates. The most pernicious version of that is status update meetings, where each participant updates everyone on their status. Yawn. Thankfully,… Read more »