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There’s an increasing perception across the enterprise that the role of the CIO as we know it won’t survive the decade. This isn’t anecdotal evidence, either, as respected institutions like the Harvard Business Review, the Economist and others are publishing studies that show that the average CEO is unhappy with the status quo of their […]

After so many years in technology, I find it hard to see the newest trends as completely new. I’ve become a cynic about hype. Things have cycled so many times in my career that every new fad reminds me of  highly touted ‘movements’ like CORBA and artificial intelligence, and once-hot platforms like MySpace and AOL. […]

Cloud is red hot. You can’t attend a conference or take two steps out of your house without hearing something about cloud computing. It isn’t a shocker, as the concepts behind Cloud form a compelling argument for the way business needs to be run. It lets anyone, regardless of upfront spend and infrastructure, be a […]

Larry Ellison declared famously in 2009 that, “All that cloud is is computers in a network.” He also used the words “fad”, “nonsense” and “gibberish” on the record when dismissing cloud. But times change and so has Larry’s opinion. Even cloud’s most vocal opponents are starting to realize that cloud computing offers something entirely new: […]

Just today CA Technologies announced that it acquired Layer 7, an API management company, making Layer 7 the second acquisition this week after Intel bought Mashery. For those not familiar, API stands for application programming interface and describes the interfaces used by software components to communicate with each other. For software companies, an API is […]

“Big data is any data that when you pile it up reaches into the Cloud.” This was the opening statement for Jack Norris, CMO of MapR at the Cloud Connect Conference in Santa Clara today. He was paraphrasing the analysts but it was the ideal frame up for the Big Data Track at a Cloud […]

The following is a guest post by Frank Quinard. Spending time at Cloud Connect today in Santa Clara, the overwhelming impression I took away was how mature the cloud market has become over the past couple of years. Just recently, many cloud offerings consisted of one type of service that was typically based around an […]

“Cloud projects are failing.” Ian Rae, CEO of CloudOps Research when talking about the hype and offering advice on how to execute cloud strategy. The Keynote Panel at Cloud Connect today seemed to be in universal agreement that moving to cloud isn’t the same as flipping a switch. It involves considering what’s best for the organization […]

Google knows what it’s doing. The Chromebook Pixel represents a step towards a completely cloud-based future, so much so that I’m willing to bet that in the next 5 years it will usher in Cloud Cities; towns and communities where the entire population have fully embraced an always on, mobile and cloud based infrastructure. The […]

A torrent of conversations are taking place across every form of media about technology change rapidly taking place. You may think it’s always been that way, but there’s something much faster and more urgent happening right now. Some of those conversations come as discreet bits like this week’s rumor about the Apple ‘iWatch’ and others […]

Forrester analyst Brian Hopkins today blogged his Top 15 technology predictions for the next 5 years leading up to 2018. I didn’t find too many rolls of the dice. For many there will be no big surprises; Mobile (tops the class for disruption), Social, Cloud, Big Data but here Brian splits the pack down further […]

Just today it was announced that Salesforce.com acquired the French content integration solution EntropySoft. First reported on VentureBeat, this story shows how CRM continues to be an expand from its initial boundaries as a way to manage one enterprise’s sales funnel and forecast. EntropySoft brings Salesforce.com an ability to normalize access to content repositories with […]

Matt Quinn is CTO at TIBCO in Palo Alto, California. His role includes creating a common, corporate-wide vision for all of TIBCO’s products and technologies. His past experience includes the role of global architect, responsible for delivery of some of the company’s largest implementations in transportation and logistics, energy and finance. Federated Cloud is a […]

A very good read in today’s GigaOM provided an impassioned defense of cloud computing. In The delusions that companies have about the cloud author David Girouard, former President of Enterprise at Google, makes the bold statement: …whether it’s service reliability, data protection, or regulatory issues, there remains to this day an insane resistance to cloud […]

Unless you’ve been living in the woods for the past year, you’ve been hearing more and more about the arrival of Cloud computing as the next big wave to hit the software marketplace. We’ve barely recovered from social media, mobile and big data as the reason to panic and here we are, trying to wade […]

In the last 12 months we’ve seen a big push from the new media marketers and enterprise social vendors towards promoting both the connected enterprise and the connected customer. Mobile and social paradigms are shaping the industry landscape at phenomenal pace and businesses are seriously struggling to keep up. But there’s a massive disconnect between […]