Enterprise Collaboration Technology Deployment Scenarios
I’m seeing a few trends around how organizations are deploying enterprise collaboration platforms. Typically one of four paths are taken which are: a unified solution, multiple solutions (not connected), an aggregator solution, or multiple solutions which are integrated together. These are explained in more detail in the table below. What is it Pros Cons When [...]
MadeiraCloud Raises $1.5M From Sequoia Capital To Help Cloud Users Better Deploy Their Cloud Diagrams
MadeiraCloud, a new cloud management player, today announced it has raised Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. MadeiraCloud’s unique cloud management service enables drag and drop tools to allow users quickly and easily design, provision, manage and monitor cloud infrastructure resources. The company also announced full support for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud [...]
Node PDX – Introducing Scott Hanselman, Tracy Abrahms, Matthew Lyons & J Chris Anderson
Welcome to iteration 3 of introductions. Scott Hanselman is presenting… Azure for the non-Microsoft Person – How and Why? Scott Hanselman Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works on Azure and ASP.NET for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland. Scott has three podcasts, [...]
The Future of Work is NOT About Replacing Sharepoint and Email
Some still believe that the whole point of investing in enterprise collaboration tools and strategies is simply to replace existing systems that organizations are currently using such as Sharepoint and/or email. Let me be clear that it is about far more than that. At the core; we are talking about the future of work. Technology [...]
Intel CIO presents the path to #Rockstar IT
Most CIOs focus on buying technology and making it work in the enterprise. Although technology is the foundation of IT buying tools, delivering projects, and preventing system downtime do not create CIO greatness. More important than “feeds and speeds” is the CIO’s ability to drive strategic business goals such as increasing revenue, enabling innovation, and [...]
Node PDX – Introducing Jason Denizac, Thorsten Lorenz, Eva Giselle and Peter Braden
Here’s the second of a series of introductions for the upcoming Node PDX Conference while I train ride up to Seattle today. Jason Denizac presenting… Programming With a Purpose Jason Denizac I met Jason over a year ago while he was in Portland at a coding conference. Since then we’ve kept in touch, and everytime [...]
The Gap Between the Consumer Web and the Enterprise
Much of what we are seeing in the enterprise is being fueled by the consumer web. For example if there would have been no Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin, chances are there would be no Jive, Yammer, Chatter, or any other enterprise collaboration platform. The behaviors we exhibit on social media channels are also making [...]
Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud
Adobe and SAP head towards the cloud Not unexpected but with the idea of the subscription model to even out income at Adobe, and the success of other cloud ERP providers SAP had to do this, expect more large companies to watch this roll out and see what happens. I have not gotten into Adobe [...]
Node PDX – Introducing Ward Cunningham, Nexxy, Jerry Seivert and Hannah Fousanon!
Here’s the first of a series of introductions for the upcoming Node PDX Conference here in bright and sunny Portland, Oregon! …and no, that isn’t sarcasm, it’s the summer time now so we’re allowed to have sun and warm weather! With that, the speakers for Node PDX! Ward Cunningham presenting… My Sensors Love Node.js Ward [...]
Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy
Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. The industry finally has [...]
In The Early Days, Don’t Forget To Pay Yourself, Too
When I co-founded my first company, way back in the dark stretch between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, we got a terrible deal, from a dilution and valuation perspective. Yes, we raised $9m to get the company off the ground, but we had to sell just about everything to pull it off. The trade-off from [...]
Does the Internet really need a Delete Tool?
Does the Internet really need a Delete Tool? Every once in a while someone comes along with an idea that makes sense, but given the value of the data we put out there for governments, employers, and marketing folks, I don’t think a delete tool for the internet is going to happen. I am sure [...]
The Origin of Email
I have a surprise for you. The inventor of email did not invent email. Email was actually invented by the Bell System and was in commercial operation long before the Arpanet even existed. This is an interesting story… False The invention of email is widely credited to be Ray Tomlinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tomlinson) in 1971. In one especially [...]
The Damaging Psychology of Down Rounds
Yesterday I wrote a post about proprietary dealflow for VCs. In the article I discussed the downside of raising capital at a too high of a price and referred people to a previous article I had written encouraging founders to raise “At the Top end of Normal” as opposed to stratospheric prices. In the comments [...]
Find the data, aggregate the data, make the data useful
I was in New York in March, taking part in GigaOM’s Structure:Data event. As usual on these trips, I spent the day before the event walking around the city, soaking up some air, getting rained on, using coffee to stay awake, and meeting with a number of local companies. Of the companies I met that [...]
