ESX 4.1 is the latest update, there will be no more updates than that. A strong message is being pushed to the customers about the End of the life the ESX 4.X classic. The full blown...

The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech.  It sig...

A trend circulating among both the cloud computing upstarts and their corporate equivalents is the ability to offer a private cloud infrastructure with a clear and easy glide path to public clouds. We...

Posted by SuzzicksSo here is the deal: Traditional websites frequently rank in mobile search results – especially if you are searching from a SmartPhone. What you may not realize is that the convers...

Last year, I posted about a new Gmail feature that will prioritize important messages. This feature will be available soon and it's called Priority Inbox."Priority Inbox is a new view of your inbox th...

I tackled this important topic last Wednesday in a new post on the Silverpop Demand Generation (DG) blog – a post that also was highlighted on the Savvy B2B Marketing blog in their weekly roundup. S...

Google this evening has launched what it calls “priority inbox” for Gmail. It uses a variety of algorithmic and machine learning techniques to automatically capture and organize “important” em...

RSA launched a Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance, a security and compliance solution for cloud environments, which partners say could be one more arrow in their quiver but won't radically cha...

When it comes to having to scale your service to handle ever-increasing data demands, there may be no better example to look at than Facebook. The social networking giant has grown from a service for...

First session this morning at VMworld was by Howie Xu, RD Director, Virtualisation and Cloud Platform at VMware. Howie is the networking futures guys. There was much expectation for this session with...

The 6 Steps Jep Castelein shared in his section of The Quintessential Marketing Automation Guidebook discussed how to find untapped revenue in your lead database. Building higher eng...

Last week, I started this series of marketing topics to highlight practices that are not in keeping with the times or were at best misdirected efforts. I call them Anti-Patterns. For each of those I p...

I love this infographics case study from Wordstream about how they just got into using infographics as an internet marketing tool. I’ve been recommending friends of mine to small...

Marketing at the enterprise level has a unique set of challenges—lack of agility, decentralized teams, and long approval processes—to name a few.  Lucky for us, we had the opportunity to chat wit...

The New York Times published a story on the practice of retargeting today, entitled "Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites." While not nearly as presumptively negative as the WSJ series on mar...

That doesn’t mean it isn’t hard - it means it’s a different kind of hard.   For many folks in IT it is likely you might find in their home a wall on which you can find hanging a dip...

Intel has acquired Infineon's Wirless Solutions (WLS) business for $1.4 billion. WLS, which provides cellular platforms to global phone makers, will operate as a standalone business, and will continue...

Listen to my conversation with Dan Foody, vice president of product management at application infrastructure software vendor Progress Software. In this podcast, learn about the role of service level...

With high pressure from clients and crazy development schedules for web designers, it is easy to forget to spend the proper amount of time crafting a design. In the interest of speeding things up, it...

Back in 2008, Joe Pulizzi started looking in-depth at blogs that focused on content marketing. He found 81 blogs - and the Junta 42 were the viewed as the leaders in what was then an emerging field. ...