By William Toll This week, I had the great opportunity to meet 12 UK Cloud and SaaS companies as they visit the US on a "Cloud Mission to Boston and Silicon Valley." The UK Trade and Investment gover...

Detailed Feature after feature compare vSphere 4.1 with Hyper-V R2, Citrix Xen 5.6 and Red Hat 2.2 A new pdf which I discovered (I guess someone tweeted that on Twitter) which compare...

HP’s off-the-charts $2.35B buy of 3Par is why Dave Donatelli gets the big bucks and you don’t. Mr. Donatelli, late of EMC, has big plans. But what are they? We can tease out part of Donatelli’s...

We touched on some quick tips for accelerating Ecommerce Website performance in a previous blog post, but we still receive a lot of questions about how a faster website load time directly BENEFITS an...

Many organizations have the bad habit to use resource pools to create a folder structure in the host and cluster view of vCenter. Virtual machines are being placed inside a resource pool to show some...

 After three years of operations and $29 million in losses, Federal Express gave up trying to compete head-to-head with air-cargo leader Emery Air Freight. Instead, it decided to focus the company on...

Author: Chris Herbert Audience: Senior Executives, Marketing and Sales Professionals, Reference Program Managers and Practice Leaders. Purchasing a technology “solution” is known...

B2B marketers unite! You have nothing to lose but your lousy response rates. There’s never been a more exciting – or a scarier– time to be a B2B marketer. It’s not about social media, the web...

Google Apps is launching two-factor authentication, allowing the capability to verify a person's identity with a code sent to the user's mobile device. Most Web-based services still use systems that...

Every online retailer should be obsessed with improving its checkout process. The following are 10 of the most common hiccups, is your store guilty of any of the following? 1. No persistent cookie As...

Today we're starting a new interview series on ReadWriteWeb, focused on product innovation on the Web. I'll be interviewing a number of startup founders over the coming weeks, all of whom have create...

As Facebook enters into the location market with Facebook Places, the world’s largest social network will help to make the edgy concept of checkins and location-sharing a mainstream practice.Faceboo...

Here is the latest infographic out from Flowtown, this time on how Adults are using mobile phones, and with it, comes a few interesting stats to take notice of… Like the 90% of 18-29 year olds that...

I have seen many definitions of marketing, but my favorite is this one: “Marketing is a social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want.” What appeal...

Or how, in the words of Dr. Peter Sandman, ignorance can lead to enthusiasm as easily as to panic. He was the first to define how risk in this context equals hazard plus outrage. In other words, p...

As marketers adopt more and more marketing technology in their work, particularly cloud-based applications, with many choices and many different opinions about what software is best for a particular p...

Surprise! It looks like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which will be running the tablet-incompatible Android 2.2, or Froyo, OS, might have some issues with applications. Samsung already mentioned that some a...

It may sound strange, but I believe that one of the tricks to success is to learn how to fail. As a generation or maybe as a society we are taught that failure is bad but when I think back some of the...

On September 15th between 11am-12pm EDT Forrester held an interactive TweetJam on the future of cloud computing including Forrester analysts Jennifer Belissent, Mike Cansfield, Pascal Matzke, Stefan R...

While Mark Hurd was seen as a channel booster at HP, Sun VARs don't expect him to change Oracle's direct-sales culture. Mark Hurd - Oracle Corporation - Oracle - Hewlett-Packard - Su...