Zoli Erdos
Publisher / Editor @ CloudAve and Enterprise Irregulars.
Industry Observer, Blogger, Startup Advisor, Program Chair @ SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs). In his "prior life" spent 15 years immersed in the business of Enterprise Software, at management positions with SAP, IBM, Deloitte, KPMG and the like.
Customer Focus: the Constellation Supernova Awards
Constellation Research, founded by fellow Enterprise Irregular and star analyst Ray Wang has just announced the ambitious Supernova Awards program, focusing on – what a twist! – customer champions of innovation, rather than vendors. Krish and I both feel honored to have been invited as Judges for the Cloud Computing category. Below is the official [...]
Startup Lifecycle a’la ABBA (Are We in a Bubble?)
Wow, who would have thought 1970′s supergroup ABBA were such good predictors of the Startup Economy:-) No kidding… it all started with a tweet by Box Lead Magician Aaaron Levie: @levie We must be in a tech bubble given how much ABBA I’m listening to. 24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply My first though was: [...]
Should a Startup Have a COO?
It’s rare I can dust off a 6-year old article, find it still relevant and repost it without any changes. But that’s what happened this morning, I felt provoked by this VentureBeat title: Even start-ups need a COO – wanted to respond, than I had that “I’ve already said this” feeling and realized I would [...]
Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something [...]
The LastNews (!) You Want to Hear is LastPass Hacked. Now What?
Password management service LastPass notified users their servers may have been hacked. I take a minute break, let it sink in. Yes, this is the one (Last) uber-super secure system you trust with ALL your passwords. Ouch. But despite the hacking, LastPass says users who had a strong master password in the first place are [...]
Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…
Three years ago I wrote: Windows Seven in 2010. Does Anyone Still Care? I simply don’t get it: Vista is barely out, nobody seems to like it, CIO’s refuse to upgrade, analyst firms tell them to wait, individual users who tried it switch back to XP, others time their new PC purchase so they can [...]
KaaS: Kiss as a Service. Really. Really?
If you think the guy above is slurping down a milk-shake, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong. He is French kissing teaching his computer and a remote device to French kiss. Here’s the formula of kissing digitized: I can see unlimited prospects for a new Cloud-based Kiss as a Service, where you select your [...]
Tungle: an Acquisition Tweet by Tweet.
Tungle CEO, 6 days ago: Hm… looks like a broken iPhone. Get a new one… but is getting a new phone really a life changing moment? @mgingrasMarc Gingras Time for a new smartphone.#lifechangingmoment 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet Reply For Marc it is. And I doubt he’ll be using iPhone, [...]
Out of Left Field: Vmware Acquires Sliderocket
Quick initial reaction: scratching head. Vmware recently shook up the Cloud Computing world with the launch of Cloud Foundry and I think most of us would have pegged them as an infrastructure company. Then all of a sudden they buy Sliderocket, the great collaborative presentations company. Why is this a big deal? Probably not for [...]
Dilbert Shuts SETI Down
I am not kidding… just saw this cartoon a few days ago: … and today SETI Institute CEO announced they are shutting down their famed Alien Telescope Array. Wow. More CEOs should listen to Dilbert.
Simon Cowell Left American Idol to Launch CRM Idol. But He Did Not Make the Final Cut.
Paul Greenberg did. Simon is off doing X-Factor instead Joke apart, if you are in the CRM business, or interested in CRM, or even just social software, chances are you’ve heard of Paul Greenberg. Simply said, he is the Godfather of CRM. And Godfathers get to make decisions. If you follow Paul’s annual CRM Watchlist [...]
Facebook and T-Mobile Launch Bobsled. With Huge Privacy Glitch. Or is it By Design? Skype, Google Voice and Telcos Beware, Anyway…
Out of left field, T-Mobile and Facebook launched Bobsled, a VOIP service that allows voice calls to anyone on your Facebook list for free. At this moment the entire blogging world is busy writing about it, so I skip the basics… and just run to some funny experience while testing it. First, here’s how you [...]
Cloud-in-a-Van
Yes, you can have your Private Cloud. By mail-order? @reillyusaChristian Reilly IBM Smart TV commercial "computing has left the box"…yes, it’s on a USPS truck on the way to me. Yay ! Mail order cloud ! Nah, the best solution is Cloud-in-a-Van: @DEVOPS_BORATDevOps Borat We launch new product ‘Cloud in Van’. Azamat drive van around [...]
