HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play
I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and HP’s awful few weeks around the Autonomy debacle. Alongside my theme du jour of traditional enterprises (and traditional vendors) being disrupted by new, more flexible and adaptable [...]
Yes, You Can Measure Everything. Marketing, PR, Dev, Lead Efficiency. Do It.
One thing so many people tell you, in small and big companies alike (especially the big ones), is “you can’t measure [XXX]“. PR firms always tell how you can’t measure the value of press. Engineers tell you that you can’t measure development, it’s a soft science. Corporate marketers tell you that you can’t measure the [...]
Why Cyber Monday’s Days Are Just Getting Started
We recently celebrated two of the busiest shopping days of the year here in the U.S., Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) where millions of people flock to stores to find great deals, and Cyber Monday where millions of shoppers find amazing prices online. IBM stated that sales on Cyber Monday we’re up “30.3% from [...]
Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support
CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said I am aware of a couple of announcements coming up today in the PaaS space.