Disaster recovery specialty firm SunGard announced this week Recover2Cloud, a collection of managed recovery services that provide guarantees to recover your servers including replications and data va...

Most major data centers appear to have remained online throughout Hurricane Irene, despite leaks and utility outages (Image by likeablerodent via Flickr). Key East Coast data centers say they weathere...

Do you wonder how to get your content seen amidst a sea of information? What if you could understand why your audience shares some information and not other? That would make your content stand out fro...

Follow us on Twitter. Like us on Facebook. And soon enough we’ll start seeing +1 or circle us on Google+. I would like to talk about an inflection point in social media that requires pause. I a...

A recent report about the future Internet by the UKs national innovation agency, Technology Strategy Board, has some illuminating information about the emerging Internet of Things. It suggests that co...

Tweet click to enlarge In my job as a Senior Research Manager at MarketingExperiments, I talk to a lot of people who are new to online testing. Before I started, I used to think the most intimidating...

Tweet Case studies are an essential part of your content marketing arsenal, especially if you are navigating the world of B2B where products and services are usually tailored. Case studies are empathi...

When confronted with a new idea, do you: Consider the cost of switching before you consider the benefits? Highlight the pain to a few instead of the benefits for the many? Exaggerate how good thi...

Glenn Weinstein After moving hundreds of companies onto public cloud computing solutions, we at Appirio are in a great position to observe the best of the leading cloud vendors - what makes them grea...

Last August 17, 2011 was a difficult day for the North American users of SkyDrive and Microsoft Office 365 because they experienced a 3-hour blackout on their cloud system. This was still followed by...

Tweet Presenting tempting content online is about capturing attention and that starts with the headline, after that there are a variety of tactics and media to continue to engage your...

Is Paid Search Incremental or Cannibalistic? Earlier this month Google referenced a "study" they did which showed that 89% of AdWords ad clicks were incremental (meaning that they were clicks that the...

Sand Hill Group's latest Leaders in the Cloud survey reveals that not all cloud products and services are gaining traction in the marketplace. And, while some are dominating now, others are right on t...

Shortly after Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO Thursday, stories began pouring in across the web about what this means for the future of Apple. The instinct of some has been to sentimentally recal...

First post from my new base blogs.gartner.com. When looking at public cloud infrastructure as a service it is fair to say that, with some notable exceptions, most off the larger scale activities,...

[Via: Shopping Cart Reviews] Ecommerce Revolution : Timeline and Statistics 1982 – France Telecom invents Minitel – Considered the world’s most successful pre-World Wide Web online s...

Hurricane Irene exposes United Airlines system issues originated on Effective CRM As the powerful Hurricane Irene strikes the east coast, it’s worthwhile observing the systems impact on airlines, tr...

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At VMworld for the last 3 years, the Hands-on-Labs are a huge highlight, and insanely popular (for good reason).   If you want to hear about something, go to the session.  If you’re the type...

As I prepared to fly to Las Vegas for VMworld, I started thinking about which technologies I wanted to learn about, which start-ups I wanted to investigate and which strategic angles I needed to dig i...