Category: Cloud

The Cloud is in many ways a reengineering platform. Technology reengineering in the form of trading proprietary data centers and help desks for those remote. Financial reengineering in trading IT capex for opex. But for the most part companies have stayed away from large business process engineering projects around cloud... Read More»

Ten years ago, this month, the technology world was shaken a little bit. The behemoth of an industry known as Information Technology was poked in the eye by Nick Carr, who famously hypothesized that “IT Doesn’t Matter”. Perhaps if the article did not have a provocative headline or did not... Read More»

by Andrew O’Driscoll, CEO and Founder of Clear Task. See Andrew analyze the topic in this video. Five Steps to Running Your Entire Business in the Cloud I founded Clear Task 8 years ago to help companies move to the cloud, which at the time was in its infancy. Through... Read More»

Looking at our daily lives, it is clear that we're experiencing rapid change driven by technology. Nowadays we get breaking news on Twitter before it shows up on CNN. We manage our relationships on an online forum versus a Rolodex. We monitor our physical fitness through Fitbit or an app... Read More»

Fifty years ago Marshall McLuhan described the idea of the global village emerging out of the new media. At first we could all see the same things because of television, but that was a one-way connection from broadcaster to viewer. Now, in the YouTube age, everyone is a broadcaster and... Read More»

A new study from IDC sheds some light on the challenge that companies face when they try to manage their own datacenters. While the study is meant to spotlight technologies for data center management, it serves as another proof point for cloud computing vendors. Datacenters are the beating heart of... Read More»

Like many of you, I have been glued to CNN, watching pictures of Sandy’s devastation and marveling at the pluck of survivors. In addition to the ravaged coastlines and devastated infrastructure, the storm took its toll on the web too, knocking more than a few websites offline. In addition to... Read More»

As a hype-generating product, Windows peaked in 1995. I was a reporter for CNBC then, and the story was all over the news. I must have done a dozen live shots from Redmond that day. It was as big as a tech story could get. Fast forward to 2012, and... Read More»

The tablet wars are definitely getting hotter. Microsoft started taking orders for its Surface tablet, without its innovative cover/keyboard, for $499. The entry-level RT sold out in pre-order. An expert interviewed by Computerworld was nonplussed by the early demand: "’The entry-level product includes no typing solution and is pretty transparently... Read More»

A new report from Forrester shows that the enterprise is struggling to keep up with a tidal wave of mobile devices from workers. Forrester says that 66% of workers use two or more devices at work, and 12% use tablets. Here is a summary of the study’s main conclusions: IT... Read More»