Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Google is knuckling down in its efforts to woo enterprises to it cloud-based offerings. The search giant today announced Google App Engine for Business, a more enterprise-oriented version of the original App Engine that’s been used mainly for consumer applications. App Engine provides a complete development environment for companies to build and host applications on…
Microsoft executives have a long tradition of sending e-mails to CEOs and other technology influencers to explain how technology change is likely to impact the future — particularly when that change revolves around Microsoft’s in the Cloud technology. Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Server and Tools Business group, on Monday issued just such…
Two separate reports paint quite a picture of how the way Americans communicate has changed — with dramatic implications for how business communications will be done in the future, as well. One quarter of U.S. homes have given up their landlines and use only a cell phone, according to a new survey conducted by the…
Microsoft on Wednesday officially launched Office 2010 after a three-year wait for the successor to its popular Office 2007 productivity suite. However, Office 2010 is only part of the equation that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) hopes will lure business buyers to adopt the new version. Enter SharePoint 2010, Microsoft’s premier collaboration and content management technology for…
The so-called consumerization of the enterprise trend has many companies establishing an online social networking presence on Facebook, Twitter and other social media as a way to reach customers and even to appeal to a younger, Web-savvy generation of employees. But there are many more tools and services companies could be using to derive value…
IBM is rolling out a new combined hardware and software offering for major enterprise customers like banks, utility companies and brokerage firms that have a serious interest in ramping up their business analytics horsepower — and who are already running their applications in either x86 or mainframe computing environments. Based on IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Power7…
IBM executive Bob Sutor had a message for attendees at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco last week: “Ask the hard questions.” Sutor, despite himself being an open source software enthusiast (his full title is vice president of Open Source and Linux in IBM’s Software group) said, compared to traditional software vendors,…
Just like the late winter sky outside the Paul G. Allen building on the campus of the University of Washington, Microsoft’s future is in the clouds–Cloud computing to be exact. “For the Cloud, we’re all in,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said to students in his first-ever speech on the campus that sits just across Lake…
After what can only be described as a desolate merger and acquisition landscape throughout most of 2009, a new study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts an upswing in both the volume and value of deals this year. And mergers and acquisitions in the high-tech sector will be leading the charge. According to the US technology M&A…
The Cloud Design Service, released this week, follows HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) Cloud Discovery Workshop and Cloud Roadmap Service. Whereas Discovery Workshop was more educational, designed to help people learn about Cloud computing, and Roadmap Service was a planning service to help plan a future deployment, Design Service actually gets into the nitty gritty of implementation….