How to Really Solve a Problem with a Mobile App
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 […]
FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps
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 […]
APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap
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 […]
Make smart business decisions like a picky consumer
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 […]
New Meme: Business Users Are The IT
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 […]
From Bricks to Building Blocks…
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, […]
When Network Is Part of Your Social Graph
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. […]
Wikimedia Foundation Is Building Dev Test Infrastructure Using OpenStack
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 […]
Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud
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 […]
Three Tiers of IT and where the money is going to be
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 […]
Imagine there’s no I.T.
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 […]
Gartner Talks About The Role Of Cloud Computing In IT Organizations In The Coming Years
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% […]
Smaller Firms trending towards Cloud Computing
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 […]
Government 2 point 0 Apps dot Gov Opens its Doors
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 […]
Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?
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 […]
