I generally avoid editorializing about business. Too many years writing “objectively” about the technology industries makes me gun shy about taking an un-reported stand. But since I covered Hewlet...

Last week I checked out the HubSpot double feature: the Inbound Marketing Summit (IMS) followed by the HubSpot Users Group Summit (HUGS).  I even had the honor of moderating the Social CRM panel duri...

There are two generally opposed schools of thought when it comes to free website building tools and services. The first is of the mindset that you get what you pay for; that unless you hire a profess...

Have you been looking for ways that your social connections influence your search results? Did you Google it? You might have even Binged it? But I don’t think anyone ever Yahooed anything? And are y...

DevOps Cafe Episode 19 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 AT 11:30PM Direct download Follow John Willis on Twitter: @botchagalupe Follow Damon Edwards on Twitter: @damonedwards Follow Jesse Robbins on T...

Bing is not a bad search engine. I repeat: Bing is not a bad search engine. But when you’re wondering directions to a place, shopping for something new, or just curious about what this or that means...

USA Today spotlights the data center industry in a feature story published today. The story by Judy Keen uses the Digital Realty Trust building at 350 East Cermak in Chicago as the jumping off-point f...

To kick off its PuppetConf, taking place this week in Portland, Puppet Labs is announcing Puppet Enterprise 2.0. With 2.0, Puppet Enterprise adds a graphical user console, new provisioning features an...

From time to time you find studies that put a handle on the sheer volume and effect that certain social/web applications have had on the marketplace. Understanding adoption rates for new media technol...

"The thing to do is focus on those who remain, service them incredibly well, and start building from there. The hot app crowd may or may not be back. Your loyal users will."

The OpenStack Project is moving a bit closer to its proprietary competition with the Diablo release, out today. In addition to improving the three core projects, OpenStack is now adding a Web-based da...

B2B Demand Generation | The Future is Mobile In the classic movie, The Graduate, a young man named Benjamin (played by Dustin Hoffman), fresh out of college was approached by a business man, Mr. McGui...

Brian Clark joins us for another exciting episode of Inbound Now, HubSpot's social media and inbound marketing podcast! Brian is CEO of Copyblogger Media. He runs Copyblogger.com, an awesome copyblogg...

Can you guess which version of this ecommerce store page template convinced 18.7% more customers to purchase? If you’ve ever wanted to test a single big benefit vs multiple bulleted benefits, this t...

BrightPearl‘s Salman Malik penned a thoughtful piece on the topic of the safety of business data in the cloud. Sadly and even now, I get questions that remind me of the tooth tortu...

When Adam and I started Cloudscaling, we had big ambitions.  At the time (mid-2009), we weren’t sure what the journey entailed, but as time has gone by the mission has become clearer and clearer. ?...

Industry opinions around the topic of big data analytics range from wild-eyed enthusiasm to hardened cynicism. My personal take? The cynics should move on and find something better to grumble about; t...

Exclusive: Visible Measures, a third-party online media measurement solution for advertisers and publishers, is announcing $13 million round of funding, led by DAGVentures with participation from new...

Cross posted @ The Rackspace Blog Last week I wrote about some issues that were raised at a recent CloudCamp I ran in Australia. Last week I looked at the contention (of some) that Software as a Ser...

News that salesforce has acquired service desk vendor Assistly in a move that many of us had an inkling about well before DreamForce – it seems that dotting the I’s and crossing the t’s of the d...