Friday, June 12, 2009 7:13 AM/EST
There's a lot of talk about the impact that cloud computing and software-as-a-service is going to have on enterprise software, but most of it is overly focused on the financial impact to the providers of such software. It's become...
Monday, June 08, 2009 6:55 AM/EST
For those old enough to remember Ken Olsen, the iconic founder of Digital Equipment Corp, (DEC), these must seem like very odd times indeed. One of the things that led to the demise of DEC was Olsen's insistence that...
Friday, June 05, 2009 1:15 AM/EST
The launch of Google Wave represents an admirable attempt to advance the state of collaboration on the Web, but as a complex application Google's latest attempt to move into the application space is so complex as to be "anti-Web."...
Monday, June 01, 2009 11:51 AM/EST
The future of IT of services companies may have a whole lot less to do with integrating systems and a whole lot more to do with orchestrating services. One of the industry's leading systems integrators, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC),...
Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:08 AM/EST
Everybody these days seems to be all a twitter about what the right business model for the Twitter messaging service is going to be going forward. After all, the assumption is that the people running this service need to...
Friday, May 08, 2009 8:25 AM/EST
With advent of so many software-as-a-service and cloud computing platforms now becoming a standard element of the enterprise, the role of senior IT executives is continuing to evolve. Rather than being seen as the leaders of sprawling amount of...
Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:52 AM/EST
One of the things that has become clear is that as organization continue to mature in terms of how they think about IT, they need to change the way they think about managing IT. To that end, most IT...
Monday, April 27, 2009 4:08 PM/EST
Once in a great while somebody comes up with a notion that just naturally seems to make a great deal of sense given what is happening in other spheres of IT. The folks at Heroku have finally made their...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:38 AM/EST
With the vast quantities of data that IT organizations are now being asked to manage, thanks in part to rise of compliance and multimedia data types, a lot of organizations are asking themselves if there's a better way to...
Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:21 AM/EST
For the last year or so we've seen the movement towards cloud computing basically leave traditional hosting companies behind. For whatever reason, it seems like traditional hosting companies have been content to sit back and watch as Amazon and...