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How to Really Solve a Problem with a Mobile App

How to Really Solve a Problem with a Mobile App

By Quinton Wall on May 5, 2014

While the sheer number of mobile devices in the marketplace is growing in a staggering way, what’s truly important to understand isn’t how many people have phones. It’s what the devices can do that’s really game changing. With computational power greater than NASA used to put a human on the moon, developers and app builders […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged Featured, IT, mobile app

FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps

FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps

By Quinton Wall on April 17, 2014

Mobile devices, whether you’re talking about smart phones, tablets, or other form factors, present unique development and design challenges. The kind of information, the actions you can take, the way the interface looks and works, needs to be fundamentally different in a mobile environment. Which is why, at salesforce.com, we’ve identified what we believe are […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged Featured, IT, platform

APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap

APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap

By Quinton Wall on April 15, 2014

Almost overnight, it seems, our lives came to revolve around social networks: We scan our Facebook feeds for updates from our families and relevant news, use Twitter to follow friends and celebrities, and pin the latest fashions or home-improvement ideas via Pinterest. Behind it all is the desire to drive engagement, to stay connected with […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged api, facebook, FitBit, Geoffrey Moore, IT, oauth, platform, salesforce.com, twitter | 1 Response

Make smart business decisions like a picky consumer

Make smart business decisions like a picky consumer

By Vineet Jain on August 19, 2013

As a consumer, you have choices for everything right at your fingertips. You decide it’s a “healthy” day so you substitute a salad for the fries. Or at Starbucks, when a plain latte just won’t cut it, you order a grande, double pump caramel, soy latte. In the consumer world, you don’t have to sacrifice […]

Posted in Your POV | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, egnyte, Enterprise, File sharing, IT, smbs

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New Meme: Business Users Are The IT

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 23, 2013

For the past two years, I have been advocating PaaS as the future of cloud services and how developers are the face of the IT in the PaaS era. I have long argued that as PaaS takes over the IT infrastructure in the organizations, we will see a shift in who holds the key to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged business, business users, developers, devops, insights, IT, ops, services | 1 Response

From Bricks to Building Blocks…

From Bricks to Building Blocks…

By Christian Reilly on July 6, 2011

It’s quite amazing to think and reflect on that fact that I’ve been in the business of helping build big stuff for the best part of 16 years. When I say building big stuff, it’s not big, shiny new stuff like your Salesforce or your AWS but, y’know, real big, knock-your-socks-off awesome stuff like airports, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Bechtel, cloud computing, IT

When Network Is Part of Your Social Graph

When Network Is Part of Your Social Graph

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 22, 2011

Technology is completely reshaping both our personal lives and business activities. We are living in an era where the rate of technological evolution outpaces our adoption rate. We are soon going to be living in a world where technology completely automates the way we live and change our lives in ways we cannot comprehend today. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged enterasys, infrastructure, insights, Isaac, IT, network monitoring | 1 Response

Wikimedia Foundation Is Building Dev Test Infrastructure Using OpenStack

Wikimedia Foundation Is Building Dev Test Infrastructure Using OpenStack

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 3, 2011

I am very optimistic about the potential of OpenStack (see previous CloudAve Coverage) and how it can help create open federated cloud ecosystem. Even though OpenStack’s Object Storage is ready for production use, its Compute platform is not. It is bound to change in the first quarter of this year but the code in the […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, case study, cloud computing, iaas, IT, open source, openstack, wikimedia foundation

Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud

Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 20, 2010

On the sidelines of Dreamforce, I had a chance to talk to two people who have their hands dirty in the enterprise IT. During our conversation, one of them mentioned to me that he wouldn’t be surprised if an analyst firm comes out and says that all the enterprises are active in cloud computing in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged ca technologies, df10, enterprises, IT, large enterprises, private clouds, public clouds, survey | 1 Response

Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be

Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be

By Dan Morrill on September 30, 2010

One of the research projects I am working on is how schools, business and people align themselves to develop the skills needed for the workers we need today, and going into tomorrow. Like most forward projecting projects, the data gets fuzzier as you move deeper into the future, but there are some interesting aspects of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged College, crystal ball, education, employment, future, Georgetown university, h1b, Hiring finding a job, IT, it outsourcing, job market, joel on software, longish rant, prediction, profession, research, rice university, talbee report, thoughts | 1 Response

Imagine there’s no I.T.

Imagine there’s no I.T.

By Mark Fidelman on May 10, 2010

Imagine there’s no IT responsibility, it’s easy if you try No software to install, only cloud software to buy Imagine all your employees, working on the fly Imagine there’s no Microsoft Office, it isn’t hard to do Nothing to download and install, and no updates too Imagine all of your employees, working online to get […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged cloud computing, humor, imagine, IT, john lennon, saas | 2 Responses

Gartner Talks About The Role Of Cloud Computing In IT Organizations In The Coming Years

Gartner Talks About The Role Of Cloud Computing In IT Organizations In The Coming Years

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 14, 2010

The analyst firm Gartner has made some predictions regarding how IT organizations will shape up in the next few years of this decade. Some of these predictions are about how Cloud Computing will transform IT and I will highlight them here in this post. One of the most important predictions by Gartner is that 20% […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged 2010, cloud computing, gartner, India, IT, prediction | 2 Responses

Smaller Firms trending towards Cloud Computing

Smaller Firms trending towards Cloud Computing

By Dan Morrill on January 7, 2010

If you are in Information Technology (IT) at all, then Cloud Computing is going to be one skill you need to start working on yesterday. As more companies start seeing the economics behind cloud computing, and as computing moves towards a more utility format, this is one skill that if you do nothing else in […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged 2010, cloud computing, Hiring finding a job, hot jobs, hot skills, IT, job, skills, work | 2 Responses

Government 2 point 0 Apps dot Gov Opens its Doors

Government 2 point 0 Apps dot Gov Opens its Doors

By Dan Morrill on September 16, 2009

Image by bensheldon via Flickr Give the government some credit sometimes, the new Apps.gov web site is an open shopping portal based on cloud computing and web 2.0 applications. The web site is clean, sharp, and looks like it will serve a useful purpose if government agencies can get past the old way of doing […]

Posted in General | Tagged apps.gov, cloud computing, Government, gsa, IT, USA, web 2.0 | 1 Response

Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?

Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 5, 2009

Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming up to Cloud technologies. No, they are not queuing outside the Amazon headquarters waiting to order public cloud infrastructure, like the Amazon’s EC2 offerings, yet. But, the idea of private clouds and the advantages of tapping the public clouds for non mission critical operations like testing are slowly making […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business, CIO, cloud computing, enterprises, IT, private cloud

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