Most of 2010 was consumed with the religious wars between Private Cloud and Public Cloud, debates about the best ways for businesses to build (or consume) the next-generation of IT services. But wit...

This blog was jointly authored by @Chirag_Mehta (Independent Blogger On Cloud Computing) and @rwang0 (Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research, Inc.)Part 1 was featured on Forbes: 2011 Cloud...

Posted by jennita Earlier this month we gave you the top SEOmoz posts from 2010 based on the total number of thumbs up, traffic, backlinks and tweets. But that wasnt enough, and the community asked fo...

Google tests a new ad block below messages. It's not available to everyone, so Google probably tests its effectiveness.Jordon, a Gmail user who spotted the new ad format, thinks it's "a bit more direc...

Here’s a list of things I wish we would stop doing and thinking as of December 31st: Social media Social media cause people to waste time at work. Companies have a long and pointless history of res...

What a year it has been. So much has happened this year in social media – arguably 2010 was the year of the infographic. Sure, it isn’t the first time infographics have been abound, but the prol...

Tim Ferriss is an angel investor (Twitter, StumbleUpon, Evernote, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek. In his spare time, Tim has doctors s...

Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year’s Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end — at the hands of machines, of course? Well, we weathered that storm and then som...

I’ve long been a fan of Geoffrey Moore’s classic business books about the evolutionary path taken by emerging technologies and the companies that champion them. Especially now that several of the...

14 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2011 from Chirag Mehta and R Ray WangReadWriteWebCloud computing blogger Chirag Mehta and Constellation Research Group principal analyst R Ray Wang published today a...

TweetPhil Simon is a technology cupid. Whatever your company’s issues or objectives, he can recommend the optimal platform, rollout strategy, and operational considerations. In his work as a tech co...

I’m a great believer that a business’ greatest source of growth is its existing customer base and anyone that knows me knows that I can ‘harp’ on about it all day and what it takes to harness...

If the cloud is to fulfill on its promise we need to start thinking of it as a cloud, not as an aggregation of its components (such as VMs etc.)As mentioned in a previous post I‘ll use some of my up...

Cloud computing blogger Chirag Mehta and Constellation Research Group principal analyst R "Ray" Wang published today a list of their cloud computing predictions for 2011. The pair sees public cloud a...

As one of the leaders in the group-buying space, LivingSocial has had a great year, ending the year with $175 million in investment from Amazon earlier this month. But like many success stories, Livi...

It’s that time of year where predictions peer into the future. With 2011 only days away, here’s a quick glance at what’s to come for social media in 2011. How do you see social media advancing i...

If you have RSA in your environment, here is some cool news.  The new iPhone version of the RSA soft token can now accept standard .SDTID files as an email attachment to import a user’s token seed....

It's a given that next year will see a significant uptick in cloud computing – the start of what looks like a decade-long transition from static enterprise infrastructure to a more flexible, dynam...

Tweet Competition.  Unless you’re Microsoft selling an OS for a PC you probably have some.  And even then Microsoft has substitute products as anyone who has taken Econ 101 will tell you. So if yo...

Top 10 IT technology trends to watch in 2011 1. Private Clouds 2. Virtualization 3. Social Business 4. Mobile Computing 5. Storage Trends 6. Advanced Business Analytics 7. The Personalized Web 8...