The Real Danger of Cloud Applications

This week I ran into an interesting problem. My email stopped working. That is, my Microsfot Outlook and Lync could no longer communicate with our cloud-based Office 365 Exchange server. Microsoft support was flummoxed. I eventually found the solution and it lay in...

Is it the cloud or the fog and should customers care?

The fog was a 1980 horror movie that was remade in 2005. The basic plot line was a fog rolled in and started killing people and wreaking havoc on a small town. While I have not seen the movie (either the original or the remake), I can’t help but think that the cloud...

Salesforce.com Wave May Matter A Lot… Or Not At All.

This week at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce event, amongst the all the charity appeals and hugging, alongside the usual advances in Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud, there was one announcement that was truly interesting. While the other technology advancements were...

IBM and SAP Sitting in a Tree

An important announcement was almost was lost in all the noise that spews from the Salesforce.com Dreamforce technology/charity/inspirational/damn-near-religious event. IBM and SAP announced that they had partnered up to offer SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud applications on...