Michael Porter

Microsoft has an interesting set of research they published for their partners on Successful Cloud Partners.  The respected research firm IDC created and published this information for Microsoft.  I’m not going to bore you with what it takes to be a successful partner.  I do want to highlight a couple stats on cloud growth.  Doubtless […]

Gameinformer has an interesting article on Xbox One.   The article covers many topics but I want to focus on just one.  Here’s what he has to say about the cloud capabilities.  See if it sounds familiar. “Both Kinect and Cloud as it relates to indie has been really interesting,” Spencer says. “If you’re a […]

Obviously there’s a lot of excitement going on with the upcoming release of Xbox One.  Ryan Duclos has a new post out about it’s potential outside of gaming and entertainment which frankly is where my mind lies as well.  In my portal world, I seem to spend about 50% of my time with healthcare clients […]

I recently blogged on interesting avenues in which you can use Windows Azure to more easily move software that was originally on-premise to the cloud.  No sooner do I finish that than I read an article from @sharepointrich on SharePoint vs Sitecore.  In his post, Rich mentioned that Sitecore Azure runs on Windows Azure.  That […]

Rich Wood (@sharepointrich) has an interesting article on when to choose SharePoint and why you would choose Sitecore for your consumer or customer site.  I don’t want to steal his thunder so just let me say that I agree. This might be a fairly surprising statement from a guy whose public Twitter handle references SharePoint […]

Short but fun video about a client of ours.  I have to admit that Cars.com continues to make the car buying experience better. We recently bought a car and the best place to find enough valid information to figure out where to go and buy a used car is cars.com.   Their use of custom […]

You may hear this from almost any vendor whose original software was built for an on-premise installation.  “Look, we are on the cloud. Our product has an image on Amazon AWS. It takes just minutes to provision this pre-existing image and you are off and running.” I love the concept of that. I love the […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for pointing me to this. ZDNet has an article about Microsoft’s recent announcement raising the upper limit on file size from 250 MB to 2 Gig.  They now also allow you to upload .exe files.  At it’s face, that’s a pretty easy thing to report but I think that raising the limit […]

Ever since cloud came onto the scene, I’ve loved the concept but have always been a bit put off by high availability.  You can’t simply install your on premise software into an image and think your are done.   Quite simply, high availability techniques on premise do not translate perfectly into rich and growing tools […]

Liz Herbert and Chris Andrews at Forrester just put out a research article entitled, “Picking a Salesforce.com Services Provider: Business Transformation Matters Most”  (Warning, you either need a Forrester Subscription or be willing to pay for the individual research) I’m not going to repeat wholesale what Forrester has invested in researching but I wanted to […]

CRN has an article about the private beta Salesforce is running with their Chatterbox file-synching services.  You could also call it Salesforce Files.  What I like is the approach they have taken. Rather than create a duplicate service that looks exactly like Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon Cloud Files, SkyDrive, and Box; they have chosen to […]

So continuing on my SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro kick, I want to focus today on why having an API in SkyDrive gives extra value and opens up many opportunities.  Here’s a short list. BoxCryptor BoxCryptor provides secure encryption for your files.  They work with all the major vendors (SkyDrive, Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox)  This […]