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When things go wrong

When things go wrong

By Paul Miller on July 14, 2015

In technology, as in so much else, things go wrong all the time. Web sites go down, companies lose your data, and more. We all know this and – to greater or lesser degrees – broadly accept that it will eventually happen to us. The real trick, often, isn’t to prevent everything going wrong but to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged customer experience, customer relationship, failure, outage, tftd, transparency

How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

By Mark Suster on September 30, 2013

CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything! Right? Right?!? Of course not. It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. It is not. For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Startup Advice, startups, transparency, vc funding, venture capital | 1 Response

Video: Forecast 2012 Panel On Cloud Transparency

Video: Forecast 2012 Panel On Cloud Transparency

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 2, 2012

Last month Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) held their first conference by name Forecast 2012. I had an opportunity to moderate a panel on Cloud Transparency. Cloud Transparency is still a new idea for people but a vital one needed to build the much needed trust for organizations wanting to move their workloads to cloud. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged cloud transparency, forecast 2012, odca, odca forecast, transparency, video

Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era

Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 9, 2011

One of the biggest worries organizations have about cloud computing is the unexpected outages and the impact of associated disruptions. In fact, some of the traditional vendors use this very issue to push FUD among their customers so that they can lock them in for the foreseeable future. Similarly, if anyone evangelizing cloud tells you […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged applications, business continuity, cloud computing, cloud outage, downtime, iaas, infrastructure, insights, paas, platform, saas, transparency | 4 Responses

Call For Pricing

Call For Pricing

By Christian Reilly on February 25, 2011

One of the most fascinating, yet relatively unchartered areas of cloud computing’s all-out assault on today’s enterprise is the complex beast that is the consumption-based pricing model. Technical, operational and of course, security issues aside, it is easy to see how the advent of pay-for-what-I-use, which is commonplace in pretty much all of the leading Public […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, pricing, saas, saas pricing, software as a service, software pricing, transparency | 2 Responses

How does open source affect company culture?

How does open source affect company culture?

By Mårten Mickos on February 23, 2011

An open source company is naturally a company that produces open source code for others to consume. But how does the notion of producing software code in the open affect company culture?
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Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Your POV | Tagged advocacy, collaboration, communities, corporate culture, InnoDB, management, mysql, open source, openness, transparency

Rethinking the Technology & IT Analyst Industry

Rethinking the Technology & IT Analyst Industry

By Zia Yusuf on February 20, 2011

(Guest post by Zia Yusuf, CEO, Streetline, formerly Executive Vice President, SAP) Over my last twelve years working as a senior executive in the technology industry I have had an opportunity to engage with a broad section of technology and IT analysts and researchers – both from established firms (eg. Gartner, Forrester etc.), smaller more […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts, Your POV | Tagged altimeter group, Constellation Research, enterprise software, gartner, industry analysts, innovation, startups, Technology, transparency | 4 Responses

Firehost Gives Customers A Peep Into Their Security

Firehost Gives Customers A Peep Into Their Security

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 1, 2011

Firehost (see previous CloudAve coverage), the managed hosting provider with strong focus on security, today announced a new feature called “Security View”, available through the customer portal, which will give them a first hand view on how the company blocks hack attacks on the servers and applications. This allows the customers to gain better visibility […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud bill of rights, firehost, kevin mitnick, managed hosting, Security, transparency, virtualization, vmware

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not?  The Backdoor Experiment.

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not? The Backdoor Experiment.

By Zoli Erdos on October 29, 2010

There’s a debate going on about 37Signal’s “hidden” “unannounced” price increase of their popular Basecamp service. Apparently most of the uproar wasn’t so much due to the price hike itself, but the fact that it happened without any announcement. Cinovate Cinovate Cloud Inn. Why did 37 Signal’s Basecamp price double unannounced? http://bit.ly/bLan2a Contact Cinovate for […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged 37signals, Basecamp, pricing, project management, transparency, zoho | 11 Responses

Google Dashboard - It Is Like Having Your FBI File

Google Dashboard – It Is Like Having Your FBI File

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 5, 2009

Google today announced the release of Google Dashboard, an interface from which you can essentially manage your life Google life. According to Google, this offers more control to users In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged google, Google Dashboard, privacy, saas, transparency | 2 Responses

Demand Transparency

Demand Transparency

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 13, 2009

Last week saw the emergence of some news that got the usual critics of cloud computing ecstatic about another chance to call bluff on anything cloud. The first one was an extended outage of the bitbucket service hosted on Amazon EC2 and the other one is the lost data on T-Mobile sidekick. We could make […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged amazon, bitbucket, cloud computing, microsoft danger, private clouds, t-mobile sidekick, transparency | 4 Responses

Not so Nameless or Faceless

Not so Nameless or Faceless

By Dan Morrill on October 11, 2009

Image by ajstarks via Flickr Louis Gray makes some interesting observations in the “Era of Faceless Giant Corporations is Over” on his blog. What makes this interesting one simple statement of intent, which is to be more cautious when dealing with companies and saying things out loud. While we can all joke about the “oh […]

Posted in General | Tagged google. microsoft, social media, transparency

Just How Transparent Can (Should) Your Website Be?

Just How Transparent Can (Should) Your Website Be?

By Zoli Erdos on October 5, 2009

I’ve just finished reading Jevon’s post on the Dachis Group’s new website (Jevon is a fellow Enterprise Irregular and Social Media Maven) – here’s the interesting part: The new site has the beginnings of some new ideas for how our company will grow as a Social Business. If you go to the front page of […]

Posted in Design, General | Tagged collaboration, collaboratory, dachis group, e20, enterprise 2.0, transparency | 4 Responses

Forbes Gaffe: Prints Private Chat Between AP Reporters.  How to Correct Online Publications.

Forbes Gaffe: Prints Private Chat Between AP Reporters. How to Correct Online Publications.

By Zoli Erdos on September 28, 2009

The Forbes Gaffe Ok, now that I got your attention with the title, this is about more than Forbes’ Royal Gaffe. But first things first: Forbes mistakenly printed a “story”, (update: original deleted, see saved copy) which isn’t a story but private chat between two AP reporters, and should not have been published at all […]

Posted in General | Tagged ap, blogging, blogging ethics, Forbes, media, media trust, newspapers, trackability, transparency, version control, wiki, wordpress

Yes, I Like Wine Tasting, but Hate Bait-and-Switch

Yes, I Like Wine Tasting, but Hate Bait-and-Switch

By Zoli Erdos on September 14, 2009

The title of the email was appealing: You’re Invited to a Wine Tasting at the Ritz Carlton But then inside the email: Harness the Power of Virtualization: From Datacenter to Desktop Tuesday, October 6 Ritz Carlton San Francisco San Francisco, CA Oops.. no, thanks.  Even though the event site talks about an “exclusive executive briefing […]

Posted in General | Tagged bait and switch, citrix, marketing, pr, transparency, wine, ziff davis

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