RightScale had some great data about usage of Amazon EC2 recently that described how cloud computing is evolving, or at least how their portion of that business is progressing. At first glance, it cer...

Zenoss, the corporate sponsor of the cloud-based networking and management project Zenoss Core, has released the results of its 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey. The survey was based on a...

The Clouds Legal LiningCFO.com MagazineAs cloud computing grows ever more pervasive, pricing will moderate and legal and regulatory challenges will emerge, a top technology attorney says. ...and more?...

Today Gartner published a press release about a research note I wrote a few weeks ago: “From Modernization to Survival: Radical Cost Reduction in Government“(full note available here for Gartner c...

I’m pretty sure that in larger companies, aside from the internal use of virtual machines that are mis-labeled as cloud computing, the cloud wave is a wave of talk. Instead of telling us how they...

Just today Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox published the findings of a recent eye tracking study on the reading habits around corporate blogs. Of course, I find this of immense interest both as the blog ed...

So often, beautiful design gets trumped by marketing objectives – and rightly so from a marketing perspective. The graphical elegance of a Web page might be worthy of an art exhibit, but if it doesn...

About a week ago I started seeing a curious number of tweets, links and Google Alerts to a popular blog post I wrote 4 years ago. The reason was that today happens to be the four year anniversary of t...

It’s been a tough week dealing with client questions about collaboration, social software and social media. I’ve covered some topics during my Gartner career that were a little more cut and dried....

Facebook’s long-awaited entry in the location-based sweepstakes is coming soon, a spokesman for the giant social-networking company tells CNET’s Caroline McCarthy. But while CNET says the new fe...

Image credit: Rapportive at The Next Web Conference The following is also my column this week in Advertising Age.Contrary to popular belief, video didn't kill the radio star, YouTube didn't knoc...

Facebook welcomed local officials to a public ceremony last year when it broke ground for its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. Many companies continue to follow what we call the “Fight Club Ru...

How far should Google go when it comes to profiting from the massive amounts of personal data they posses? That’s the question that is discussed in a confidential (not anymore) ??...

When starting out a project we know how important it is to get out of the building, talk to prospects and figure out whether our idea holds any merit. That’s the basis of Customer Development. An...

As I’m looking over Marie Forleo and Laura Roeder’s final launch video for Rich, Happy and Hot B-School, I’m pretty impressed with how they stacked benefit upon benefit via effective bullet poin...

Do you ever find yourself standing in front of the movie theater trying to figure out what movie to go to? Or how about you are in the car with friends looking for a place to eat.  Wouldn’t it be h...

I see this far too often.  Sales managers and sales leaders reactively manage their people.  They reactively manage because they to manage to results.  Results are a trailing in...

Today's Washington Post has a second day editorial from the CEOs of Verizon and Google on their proposed legislative framework first announced Monday. Here it is: Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg - Fr...

As IaaS and PaaS providers continue to grow at rates significantly faster than the overall IT industry – proof that a rapidly increasing percentage of total IT infrastruture resides in and is moving...

I think it would be hard to overemphasize the importance of upgrades and upsells in SaaS product marketing. In an industry where free trials, freemium versions, bargain basement subs...