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...

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...

Cloudera Looks to Business Value as Key to Its Future Growth

Cloudera, focused on Big Data and analytics, held its annual analyst meeting on March 10-11, 2015, in San Francisco. The company, the largest provider of Hadoop-related software worldwide has chosen to focus its energies on highlighting the business side of analytics,...

IBM Verse Launches

IBM Verse reflects the new IBM user-centric design language and principles. Existing IBM Notes and Domino Email customers should consider IBM Verse while others will have to wait.
IBM has a chance of convincing non-IBM email customers to switch to IBM Verse. With the anticipated release of the next generation of Outlook looming and launch of new products such as Inbox by Google, IBM might lose the opportunity to take some customers from Microsoft and Google.