- The Growth of Mobile Marketing and Tagging – infographic via Microsoft Tag
April 18, 2011
As you know I’m a huge fan of QR Codes but let’s not forget about Microsoft Tags. Like QR Codes, Microsoft Tags have a similar value in allowing mobile users to easily scan and interacte with mobi...
- Stop Using NPS (Net Promoter Score) But Please Save the Question!
April 18, 2011
As the Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) analyst in the Market Insights Team, I get a lot of questions about Net Promoter Score (NPS). Most market insights professionals struggle with "the ultimate questio...
- InfoWorld reviews Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware virtualization solutions
April 18, 2011
Last week InfoWorld published the results from a test comparing the solutions from Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware held at the Advanced Network Computing Lab at the University of Hawaii. Each so...
- AVAILABILITY: Microsoft Office 365 hits Public Beta
April 18, 2011
Back in October 2010, Kurt DelBene, president, Microsoft Office Division, and Chris Capossela, vice president, Microsoft Office Division, announced Office 365, Microsoft's next generation productivity...
- Cisco’s Flip Cam Failure and the Consumerization of IT
April 17, 2011
Cisco Systems’ decision this past week to shut down its Flip video camera business generated plenty of attention because of its implications on multiple levels for the networking company and the IT...
- Cirtas, Iron Mountain & EMC Atmos Storage Services: The Sky is Falling! Or Not…
April 18, 2011
In the children’s fable, Chicken Little has an acorn fall on his head and, from that one little data point, declares the sky is falling! That is a trap a lot of us tend to fall into–having one...
- Collective heads in the Cloud - Boston Globe
April 18, 2011
Collective heads in the CloudBoston GlobeCloud computing refers to the shift of data storage and management from the personal computer to remote servers and networks, with individual users needing lit...
- The Five Keys to Telling An Engaging Story, from Quentin Tarantino
April 17, 2011
Over the weekend, I finally got around to watching Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, a rather interesting flick about a group of rogue US soldiers who specialize in killing...
- Winning More Deals via Email Negotiations
April 17, 2011
Crazy-busy people are forcing us to negotiate via email -- and most of us are totally unprepared to do it right. In fact, 50% of email negotiations fail to get the business. Check out the article belo...
- Cisco’s Flip Cam Failure and the Consumerization of IT
April 17, 2011
Cisco Systems’ decision this past week to shut down its Flip video camera business generated plenty of attention because of its implications on multiple levels for the networking company and the IT...
- HOW TO: Give Your Digital Life a Spring Cleaning
April 17, 2011
Mollie Vandor is the Associate Product Manager at Cooking.com. Prior to that, she helped launch Ranker.com, where she served as the Product Manager, amongst many other roles. You can reach her @mol...
- 27 reasons case studies always make great content
April 17, 2011
Many people have opinions on what makes great content. One of them is to include case studies. But case studies usually aren’t at the top of the list.
They are gener...
- 101 Thoughts about the "Cloud Foundry" Announcement
April 14, 2011
[This is still a work in progress - the blog post, not Cloud Foundry ]This weeks Cloud Foundry announcement has the Cloud Computing community buzzing about the OpenPaaS framework driven by VMware. Co...
- What it Takes to Run the Top Visited Web Sites [Infographic]
April 17, 2011
Datacenters. What's all the fascination about? To some degree, we can thank Facebook's OpenCompute project. Facebook put data centers in a new light with its huge promotion efforts and declarations t...
- Most Federal Agencies to Adopt Cloud Within 12 Months - Forbes (blog)
April 16, 2011
Forbes (blog)Most Federal Agencies to Adopt Cloud Within 12 MonthsForbes (blog)Driven by the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative, this transition is being technically supported by the National Institut...
- Cloud Poll: How Disruptive Is Cloud Foundry to the Platform Market?
April 17, 2011
VMware surprised a lot of people this past week with the unveiling of Cloud Foundry. Shrouded in secrecy, the announcement left competitors a bit flat footed as they soaked in the news.
It's a signif...
- Super high end hardware for commodity public IaaS? You’re doing it wrong.
April 17, 2011
In the past few weeks I’ve run across a number of people building public clouds that plan on using the highest end hardware possible. The fastest processors, IO, memory, SSD’s, infiniband, redun...
- Cloud Poll: How Disruptive Is Cloud Foundry to the Platform Market?
April 17, 2011
VMware surprised a lot of people this past week with the unveiling of Cloud Foundry. Shrouded in secrecy, the announcement left competitors a bit flat footed as they soaked in the news.
It's a signif...
- RIP Google Video: Download Your Videos by May 13 or They’re Gone Forever
April 16, 2011
Google‘s decided to shut down its Google Video service, and in an email sent Friday night (4/15/2011), reminded those who’ve uploaded videos to the site that they have until May 13 to download...
- How Yelp has used human beings, not the Internet, to grow, grow, grow
April 16, 2011
It was reported yesterday that location reviews, discussion and deals service Yelp is in the early stages of preparing to float on the stock market. With significant competition from the likes of Goog...
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