Michael Porter

This isn’t new news given that this article was published back in July.  But hey, if you missed it like I did then it’s new to you.  CRN has an article with some quotes from a business partner and some stats.  Basically, Google continues to expand it’s enterprise play with Google Search Appliance, Google Apps, […]

This isn’t new news given that this article was published back in July.  But hey, if you missed it like I did then it’s new to you.  CRN has an article with some quotes from a business partner and some stats.  Basically, Google continues to expand it’s enterprise play with Google Search Appliance, Google Apps, […]

Forbes has a nice article on why Louis Columbus and Alex Williams thinks Salesforce is Winning the Cloud Platform War.  They have a lot of great points but one of the most telling is Louis’ focus on developers. I’ve started to look at the developer area as the crucible or foundry for future apps.  While […]

In the enterprise world, a lot of time and effort goes into ensuring that systems stay up.  The golden standard is 99.99% but in order to achieve that, you pretty much need to ensure that you have no single point of failure and that you can still scale even after you have lost a server […]

I’ve been a user of Neat’s scan receipt software and hardware for years. It’s simplified my expenses and given me a certain amount of flexibility when I travel.  Like many other vendors, they constantly stive to make their niche more relevant.  For them, that means rolling out cloud and mobile services in late 2012.   […]

Microsoft announced yesterday their new lineup of Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro.  I’ll give you the highlights of the hardware and then focus on what it means from a cloud standpoint.  As you may suspect, they made it faster, lighter, thinner, and generally better.  Both have fantastic displays and enough processing power to handle […]

Ryan Duclos posted a blog about Microsoft’s new offers to Non-profits to let them use email, hosted public sites, hosted intranets, online storage, and office apps.  After some thought, I believe this can have a real impact.   Take a group near and dear to my heart, Teton Valley Ski Education Foundation (TVSEF).  TVSEF’s purpose […]

I just posted a short article on the leaders in Social Networking by Gartner over on my Portal blog.  Microsoft made the leadership quadrant because of it’s breadth of functionality, Yammer’s ease of use, a great vision, and a tremendous user base that shows no signs of slowing growth.   One of the strengths noted is […]

Gartner just released their Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant.  (warning login and $$ required to gain access.)  Alternatively, Jive also offers it with your company information.  I don’t want to just copy what Gartner has to say so let me just focus on the use cases for Social Software and the leader quadrant. […]

It’s almost a given now that we must take into account Legal Discovery.  Governance and technology comes into play and everyone must keep content for a specific period of time. All that content must be discoverable wherever it may lie.  When you move your entire collaboration and social world to the cloud, that requirement comes […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for telling  me about this post.  ZDNet has an article about large organizations using PaaS and that it’s not just a small company kind of thing.  The interesting point they make deeper in the article is that PaaS can be used for more than just hosting a site or set of functionality […]

CRN has a longish article about Gartner’s ranking (Note: you need to pay for the research) of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors.  Microsoft made the the list as a visionary.  Now before any Microsoft fans complain about Azure not being in the leadership quadrant, remember that Azure started out as a Platform as a Service […]