Monthly Archives: September 2011
Dreamforce, VMworld and Customer Value
Last week, I spoke with Eric Lundquist about the product announcements out of VMware's VMworld 2011 and Saleforce.com's Dreamforce 2011 on the CIO Insight...
9/11 Changed How the U.S. Buys IT
By many accounts, the improvements in technology use by the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been few, expensive and mostly...
Fighting 21st Century Cyber-Threats
In the 10 years since hijackers flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into...
What Have We Learned About Data Storage?
Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren't that different from...
Never Again: Today’s FDNY Is Stronger and Better Prepared
When terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, it was the worst terrorist attack to occur on American soil....
Bartz Fired as Yahoo CEO
Yahoo, a Web services pioneer that has been beset with financial troubles for the better part of the last decade, made a change in...
D-Link Offers ShareCenter Pro Unified Storage System
Networking solutions provider D-Link announced the ShareCenter Pro network storage solutions, which support concurrent NAS and iSCSI connectivity and are designed for SMB environments....
Google’s Schmidt, Amazon’s Bezos Help Fund Mashape API Marketplace
Mashape, a San Francisco startup focused on building a marketplace for APIs, has announced $1.5 million in seed funding from an impressive group of...
Averiware, GreenAppX Partner on Suite of Business, Productivity Applications
Business solutions specialist Averiware and cloud services company GreenAppX announced a partnership in which GreenAppX will distribute Averiware's suite of integrated business applications through...
Storage Software Sales Keep Climbing, No Ceiling in Sight
Sales in the data storage industry, as has been the case for more than a decade, continue to travel "up and to the right"...