Jason Brooks

Facebook’s ongoing evolution, the latest phase of which was on display at the social networking giant’s F8 conference last week, merits the attention of enterprise IT departments, in part because, as Salesforce.com’s recent Dreamforce conference illustrated, today’s consumer-targeted social features have a way of turning up in tomorrow’s enterprise applications. [WP_IMAGE] More important, though, than […]

Keynote’s Mobile Internet Testing Environment, or MITE, is a desktop-based performance testing tool that measures the performance of mobile Websites from a large range of mobile devices. Given the diversity of mobile devices represented among companies’ employees and customers, MITE can help developers ensure that their Web-based applications function properly for as many mobile users […]

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with SUSE, where things are now settling downfollowing the Attachmate acquisition of the Linux vendor’s parent, Novell, last spring. Under Attachmate, SUSE and Novell are now operating as separate business units, an arrangement that appears to be sharpening SUSE’s focus. On the server side, the company is […]

The point of platform as a service is to enable developers to focus solely on their application code and data, leaving the maintenance of the underlying stack to the service provider. One of the biggest potential problems with this approach is that of lock-in: Moving from one PaaS (platform as a service) to another, in […]

Over the past few years, NoSQL databases have received a great deal of attention, with countless attestations of their virtues in enabling consumer-facing, Web-based businesses to manage fast-growing user demand and make use of the huge quantities of data that their users create. It’s clear that NoSQL adoption has paid dividends to the Twitters and […]

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 show: [youtube id=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gt7dn88pMk]

Earlier this week, I spoke with Eric Lundquist about the tablet and smartphone landscape in the wake of HP’s WebOS device kill-off and Google’s Motorola pickup on the CIO Insight show: [youtube id=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDaA4Eg6uvI]

Software Plus Services Microsoft may have deprecated this motto in favor of more cloud-centric terms, but “Software Plus Services” is the slogan that best sums up Microsoft’s cloud applications approach. Every component that comprises Office 365 is available in both Microsoft-hosted and on-premises editions, and the organizations poised to extract the most value from Office […]

Over the past several weeks since Google launched its Google Plus social networking tool, I’ve been beating the federation drum. As Google Plus designer Joseph Smarr has explained it, email has its @ symbol, which enables us to communicate with users on different domains, but social networking still lacks equivalent functionality. I’ve pointed out that […]

Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we’ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defining on-premises server and thick-client productivity applications, and in the other corner, we’ve had Google, with its popular Webmail service and […]

Yesterday I spoke with Eric Lundquist about Apple’s MacBook Air on the CIO Insight show: [vimeo id=27863851] Labs’ own Cameron Sturdevant was impressed enough with the system to buy one for himself. If you’ve tested out one of these new MacBooks, we’d love to hear your take on it.

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