- Dimension Data Releases Q3, Year-to-Date Unaudited Trading Results
August 19, 2011
...the scope of our service offerings - both organically and through acquisitions. During the quarter, we acquired OpSource to accelerate our cloud strategy. Our focus on cloud services aligns with ou...
- F5 Friday: If Only the Odds of a Security Breach were the Same as Being Hit by Lightning
August 19, 2011
#v11 AJAX, JSON and an ever increasing web application spread increase the odds of succumbing to a breach. BIG-IP ASM v11 reduces those odds, making it more likely you’ll win at the security table...
- Pricing for Brightbox Cloud (and last call for private beta)
August 19, 2011
In preparation for the official launch (more on that to follow soon), we’re announcing the close of the private beta phase of Brightbox Cloud.
We’ve had around 750 beta testers taking part in the?...
- Microsoft: Here's what caused our cloud outage this week
August 19, 2011
Microsoft is informing customers hit by its Office 365 cloud outage this week that a “networking interruption” caused the problem, and that the company is planning to offer them a 25 percent credi...
- Data Center Migrations: It’s in the Plan
August 19, 2011
Data center migrations are much more successful with deep planning and managing expectations, i.e. planning for contingencies and expecting some level of things not going as scheduled.
- Bad Landing Pages? No Landing pages? Then Do Something About It!
August 19, 2011
Many websites that should make liberal use of landing pages do not. Many websites that could substantially increase their conversion rates with simple landing page A/B testing do no s...
- Conversion Triggers: Persuasion Strategies for Digital Marketers
August 16, 2011
Mike Grehan welcomes the crowd. Thirty years ago IBM released the first PC. Last year smart phones and tablets outsold the PC. By 2020, it’s estimated there’ll be 50 billion compu...
- AdWords goes graphic in Gmail
August 19, 2011
Google Adwords has seen many developments lately: from the adwords video to adwords express.If you check your Google mail account you see adwords ads in gmail on top of the menu bar and on the right h...
- Social Media for Business – a B2Bento INKAST
August 19, 2011
TweetYou have seen our infographic, Quickstart Guide to Social Media for Business. Now watch our INKASTTM (we think).
Using filmed ink sketching and voiceover narration, this video takes you through...
- Content Marketing Optimization: SES San Francisco 2011, Day 3!
August 19, 2011
Solo presentation by: Lee Odden, SES Advisory Board CEO, Top Rank Online Marketing
The third day of the SES SF 2011, session 2 saw a solo presentation by Lee Odden (@leeodden), SES Advisory Board CE...
- Sun Tzu’s Competitive Advice
August 19, 2011
3 Competitive Analysis Tools You Must Have
Are you actively monitoring your competitors as part of your marketing strategy? Do you analyze this information and adapt your marketing plans to maximize t...
- Using Metadata to Manage Data Integration Change
August 19, 2011
Last week, a long-time Informatica customer told me about how he is managing change in his data integration environment on a truly massive scale. The story he told reminded me of someone doing a hea...
- Whither Cloud Gateways?
August 18, 2011
Farm tractors and military tanks share an intertwined history that started when some smart person proposed the tracks on some farming equipment as imagethe cross-country tool that tanks needed to get...
- Citrix Not Focused On Server Virtualization. That’s Absolutely Correct.
August 19, 2011
Recently, our CEO Mark Templeton, and CFO David Henshall presented the Citrix Q2 financial results on an earnings call with a number of respected analysts. As part of this, and in their usual manner,...
- VMware vCloud Powered Program Gains Traction with Service Provider Ecosystem, Delivering Customers a Broad Array of Public Clouds Compatible with VMware Platform
August 18, 2011
VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that more than 30 service provider partners offer... Read more at VMblog.com.
- HP To Apple: You Win.
August 19, 2011
As I write this, I’m sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on laptops — four of them are MacBooks. Four other people are using tablets — all four are iPads. Welcome to the Post-PC...
- With HP out of the PC business, which vendor becomes Microsoft's new champion?
August 18, 2011
The biggest PC vendor, HP, is getting out of the PC business. What’s this mean, if anything, about the future of Windows?
- Containerized Data Center: Soon to Be the New Normal?
August 18, 2011
10 Steps to Increasing Data Center Efficiency and Availability A systematic approach to building data center infrastructure management. Economic pressures are pushing data center infrastructur...
- WordCamp San Francisco Rocks!
August 15, 2011
Joel and I were in San Francisco for the 2011 WordCamp and had an absolute blast! I am utterly amazed at the friendly and supportive nature of this community. I’ve been to a lot of conferences and t...
- How Small Businessses Are Using Social Media [Infographic]
August 18, 2011
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