Sunday’s downtime for some of Amazon’s European sites was caused by the failure of several network hardware devices, the company said, debunking reports that the outage may have been caused by el...

In a recent keynote at the 3rd EU-Japan Symposium on Future Internet and New Generation Networks we presented our view about key research challenges in cloud computing. We briefly covered the state...

Dell said this morning that it has a “definitive agreement” to acquire Compellent Technologies (CML) for $27.75 a share, which values the storage vendor at about $960 million. Dell will actually p...

  Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I...

The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? Personally, I believe the answer lies in the nature of circumstances. I...

I was browsing my RSS reader this morning and I came across an interesting post from my buddy John Chow, titled How To Make Your WordPress Blog Load Faster. The post has some practical tips regarding...

Product management is a very important discipline in a lot of technology companies, they are the glue between business strategy and the engineering team. In many organizations they are also closest t...

Often, our industry can appear complicated, and yearns for simplicity.  One such technique to glean simplicity is to develop frameworks which the corporate social strategist can then apply to achieve...

I’ve written about storytelling before. In one post, I wrote about the velocity of real time storytelling. In another, I wrote about the storyteller’s promise in presentations. In another, I wro...

The winners are announced of the 2010 edition of the Slideshare World's Best Presentation Contest. Here are the #1, #2, and #3. Congratulations to each designer: SMOKE - The Convenient Truth View more...

Tweet Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference opened last Tuesday morning to the driving beat of WILL.I.AM and the showmanship of its flamboyant CEO Marc Benioff. Dreamforce is always a lively event...

In the last week, you have read plenty about salesforce and its Dreamforce event and SAP and its influencer event. NetSuite had a small gathering for a few of us in town for those big events. And whil...

Scott Gerber is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, public speaker and author of Never Get a “Real” Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. The content for this post was...

I was telling a few folks about a talk I gave in Singapore last year and decided to just throw the deck up. The audience was a bunch of media people and essentially I went in and told them content doe...

Microsoft’s gambit backfires It didn’t have to be this way.  Microsoft and Oracle and others used the Dreamforce week as marketing opportunities with questionable success showing that it’s bett...

Year-end iTunes Rewind lists: Apple has named Flipboard as the iPad app of the year. Flipboard, is an iPad magazine powered by social media. It has won many praises for its gorgeous information displa...

Hello all – hope you’re having a good Saturday / Sunday wherever you might be. Wanted to finish putting down thoughts, insights, etc from my time at the Gartner Data Center conference this past w...

Nearly four years into Michael Dell's second stint as chief executive, the company finds itself lagging larger rivals like HP and IBM in the race to become one-stop shops for corporate IT needs. -...

A group of bloggers sat at a long table eating lunch at the Marriott Santa Clara, listening to SAP's Vishal Sikka. He commented on Heroku and compared it to SAP's River, built on the "edge" of its Bu...

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