Blogs
Oracle Needs to Learn Lessons From Its Team's America's Cup Victory
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-09-26
NEWS ANALYSIS: Oracle can learn important lessons from its namesake sailing team’s epic come-from-behind America’s Cup victory as it migrates to cloud-based IT services.
TEDx Conference Organizers Can Teach the IT Vendor Show Promoters
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-09-19
NEWS ANALYSIS: All the promoters of sleep-inducing IT vendor conferences could learn from the format of the recent volunteer-organized TEDx conference in Cambridge, Mass.
VMworld's Cloud Computing Message Was Clear Even From a Virtual View
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-08-30
NEWS ANALYSIS: VMware Used its annual VMworld conference to get its messaging straight about using its products to build a private to public cloud strategy.
Ballmer's Exit Revives Arguments for a Microsoft Breakup
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-08-29
NEWS ANALYSIS: News of Steve Ballmer’s retirement has fired up talk about more than potential successors. There are renewed calls to break up Microsoft.
BlackBerry World's Problem Is a Lack of Support, Not Quality
By Michelle Maisto | Posted: 2013-08-27
One source is responsible for more than one-third of the apps in BlackBerry World. Users are already aware of the problem.
Open-Source Adobe Brackets Web Development Comes to Linux
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-14
After a decade of mostly ignoring Linux, yet another really interesting Adobe-sponsored open-source Web development tool is coming to Linux.
Open-Source Apache Web Server Hits Ignominious Milestone
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-12
By at least one measure, the widely deployed Apache HTTP Web Server now is used by slightly less than 50 percent of all Websites on the Internet. Why is Apache declining, and does it really matter?
IT Market Forecasting Gets Dicey in Cloud Services, BYOD Era
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-07-17
NEWS ANALYSIS: Measuring customer sentiment can mean more than trying to predict spending these days when enterprises are moving to cloud services and supporting more mobile devices.
Cell Phones With X-Ray Vision, Mega-Speed WiFi Feasible: MIT
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-07-10
Cell phones that can detect movement through solid walls and WiFi networks that run 10 times faster than current speeds are possible, said an MIT researcher.
'Journey Management' Becomes Part of CIO Job Description
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-06-17
Fox's CIO outlines his company's ongoing journey to a hybrid private-public cloud infrastructure.
A Microsoft Upgrade Worth Considering
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-06-06
Most of the upgrades Microsoft unveiled at Tech Ed are worth looking at, but the one that seems to offer the most bang for the buck is SQL Server 2014.
Apple, Amazon, Walmart and the Art of the Killer Deal
By Michelle Maisto | Posted: 2013-06-04
As the Apple trial gets under way, the idea of readers being robbed of the opportunity of devastatingly cheap books provides food for thought.
TechEd 2013: Microsoft Backs Development Strategy Built Around Azure
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-06-04
At TechEd in New Orleans, Microsoft showed it is aligning the company's previously on-premise development tools and systems to the Azure model.
SAP Must Make the Most of Its 'Two-Year' HANA Advantage
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-05-30
SAP should keep in mind that gaining an initial head start doesn't mean it will succeed in getting its HANA enterprise data architecture firmly entrenched before competitors catch up.
Five Big New Responsibilities for Today's CIO
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2013-05-27
The 10th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium revealed five trends that will give CIOs new responsibility to bring order to cloud deployments, big data and the bring-your-own-device movement.
