After reading about the AWS outage, it occurred to me that while much attention has been given to the effects, little discussion of the fundamental cloud principles at work has been offered. It seems...

My colleague Josh has organized the first Boston CSA meet at CA's offices in Framingham next Wednesday at 6pm. There are two great speakers lined up: Bhargav Shah from KPMG will talk about risks and c...

I’m reading through Twitter streams, Amazon Forums, and other news sources trying to get a sense of how users are responding and what their problems are.  It’s pretty appalling out there.  B2B c...

Data can be so meaningless. The U.S. budget deficit, death counts, the total amount of carbon we produce all have one thing in common. The numbers by themselves are empty. They need context to make t...

2011 is set to be a big year for the BBC’s online operations outside the UK, as the international version of the corporation’s iPlayer on-demand video service prepares to launch. Meanwhile, last w...

Canonical Adds OpenStack Support to UbuntuReadWriteWebThis post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by In...

Fast-growing location-based startup Foursquare may be looking to cash in on its cachet. It’s reported to be exploring a $20 million to $40 million funding round at a $500 million valuation.Citing...

Things Fall Apart: Amazons Epic Cloud Failure Reveals Shortsightedness by ...XconomyAs this weeks massive failure of Amazon Web Services cloud-computing infrastructure continued to roil the Web today,...

As this week's Amazon Web Services outage demonstrated, Website uptime is not something to be taken for granted. Whether it's caused by a service provider going down, a DDoS attack or a sudden surge...

Study finds the brands to be leaders in creating engagement.

Part 1 of a 2-Part Series By Ellen Rubin In our discussions with industry insiders, we’re hearing more and more about the need for a cloud gateway — technology that provides a bridge between an or...

As a follow-up to a recent piece I wrote about why prospects want pricing first, I found an interesting article by Dave Brock and supporting article by Ardath Albee. Dave Brock, President and CEO of P...

Without context in strategy planning for the new social buyer persona, we are left with a factual approach to identifying target social buyers.  We will attain indications on what social buyers are d...

That seems ridiculously high, but it underscores the huge opportunity that lies in presenting an offer to consumers while they’re looking for something on the go.

Three awesome open-source Content Management Systems (CMS) but who wins? This is a question I often get asked and I’ve been lucky enough to use all three, and while I’ll provide SEO insights, I??...

It seems that when Samsung stated it was considering filing a counterclaim in response to a lawsuit by Apple, it was already preparing its legal team to draw up the necessary documents. Today, the ele...

Advertise here with BSA We lay increasing importance on doing things in the user’s best interest and meeting their expectations, but we often forget that content and design is the window to a websit...

As social media starts to weave itself into the fiber of corporate culture, companies are beginning to recognize the need to make organizational changes in order to evolve as social b...

Hosting.com Introduces a Fourth Cloud Supersite to its Geographically ...San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Hosting.com, the leading provider of cloud hosting and recovery services, today announce...