Unrealistic expectations for cloud: Don’t be ruled by fear

Earlier today Salesforce.com experienced a downtime incident. Specifically na19 and na20, which serve the greater Boston area were down most of the morning. As with most public IT problems there was considerable reaction on Twitter and other social media. This is...

Informatica Goes Private

Today, Informatica announced that it has agreed to be acquired by international private equity firm The Permira Funds and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The all-cash deal, which values Informatica at US$5.3B, takes the company private. Private equity...

Chatter for Collaboration but Not Sales

[sdm_download id=”5653″ fancy=”0″] Throughout the recent history of enterprise social networks, two modes of operation have been advocated and observed. The first, freeform collaboration, holds that employees are more productive when they can...