The IT market is transitioning, as it always has and will continue to evolve. However the most recent change is a sea change similar, but more drastic. It spans all technologies: the adoption of PCs, mobile phones, virtualization, etc. All of these added up to the...
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...
Google used a video this week to draw attention to its Nearline offering, which it had originally announced on March 11, 2015. The offer, now in beta release, is aimed at enterprise datacenters looking to offload fast-growing unstructured data for cold storage, and to...
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...
[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...