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Justifying Amazon's 16x Greater than Apple P/E Ratio
One of the biggest surprises to me is comparing P/E ratios of tech companies against Amazon. Actually to be more specific, I marvel at Amazon’s P/E against pretty much any company I have seen lately. Now I don’t go around...
Brightcove Sales Reflects well on Video, Cloud, HTML5
What happens when you sit at the intersection of cloud, HTML5 and video - especially when tablets and high-resolution smartphones are being sold by the hundreds of millions? The answer is - if you are Brightcove, that your sales grow...
Are You Ready for the Identity Economy?
With Facebook’s value being pegged around 100 billion dollars; it is easy to see why many are calling identity the new oil of the internet. And one company, UnboundID is looking to become the leader in this bold new frontier...
HP: 50% of Organizations Use Non-IT Sanctioned Clouds
For traditional hardware vendors who have strong relationships with information technology departments, the idea that cloud computing, one of the hottest trends to ever hit the technology space is being purchased without the consent or guidance of IT is quite...
CEO Spaces and Channel Partners
I recently visited Las Vegas and spent time at the CEO Spaces event and Channel Partners. Both events were well attended - CEO Spaces is a great show for networking and education - it really can help execs take their...
Moabcon 2012 Live Blog
Robert Clyde CEO of Adaptive Computing - the HPC and cloud computing company is about to take the stage and begin his keynote session. The conference is located at the Hyatt Escala Resort in Park City, Utah.History of the company...
At Moabcon 2012
I am at Adaptive Computing's 2012 user conference in beautiful Park City, Utah. The Hyatt Escala Resort is the host of the conference and is located on a ski slope in Park City, Utah. The air is fresh, the weather...
Vocalocity: One Cloud Provider's Path to Growth
Cloud computing providers are all the rage these days and cloud communications is no exception. Witness the growth of 8x8 as well as the M&A interest in the space evidenced by the recent acquisition of M5 Networks by ShoreTel and...
Metaswitch Brings SBCs to the Cloud
Metaswitch is relatively new to the SBC game but they already have been thinking of ways of taking session border controllers and making them more flexible and scalable. To that end the company has put its Perimeta SBC in the...
Need a New Car? Win a Mustang at ITEXPO in Miami Next Week
I think I may have one of the best jobs in the world. I admit it is a bit ADHD-inducing as I get involved in lots of areas from new media to the latest technologies in the market as I...
ITEXPO East 2012 Miami Schedule
One of the most frequent question I get regarding TMC’s ITEXPO which takes place next week in Miami – is with all that is going on – how do you make a decision as to which parts of the show...
Bain Capital, Romney, Vulture Investing and 15% Tax Rates
A shout out to investors everywhere I haven’t seen this level of funding in the tech space in years – I would go so far as to say the amount of funding is the greatest I’ve seen since 2000. I...
How Megaupload Takedown Hurts Cloud Computing
How self-destructive US policies are hurting hiring and industryOne of the biggest concerns regarding the passage of SOPA is that entire domain names could be blocked by federal authorities due to a single offending blog or web page. In this...
Why Akamai Picked up Cloud CDN Player Cotendo
Yesterday Akamai picked up CDN Competitor Cotendo, a company with a suite of services which accelerate every bit of the CDN food chain starting from the DNS to small and large objects. The acquisition was valued at 9 times 2011...
Microsoft Live 365 Deal With MasterCard Shows Cloud is Mainstream
Microsoft recently inked a deal with MasterCard which entails the company joining Microsoft's Office 365 program. This means MasterCard will provide a 10 percent savings to eligible small business cardholders when they purchase Office 365 through the MasterCard Easy Savings...
Avaya's Top Communication Trends in 2012
Recently I had a chance to have an in-depth conversation with Avaya about the trends they see for 2012 in the communications space. In particular I spoke with George Humphrey a Director and Line of Business Owner at Avaya and...
With Rypple Acquisition Salesforce on Track to be Cloud-Based Oracle
In the early nineties I was and SQL programmer in a market dominated by companies like Oracle and Informix. At the time these database companies stuck to their core competency. Fast forward a few decades and Oracle sells software in...
Dotcom All Over Again?
This time domain names = IP addresses and dotcom = cloud The idea of cloud is not new – think mainfraimes, ADP for payroll and the ASP market of over a decade ago. This time though the investors are behind...
Salesforce Cloudforce NY 2011 Live Blog
I am headed to NY as I post. Check back for updates throughout the day.Heading to the keynote there was a DJ in the atrium of the Jacob Javits Center playing techno music wearing a shirt that said I Cloud...
Headed to Cloudforce New York. Can't Wait to Hear from Marc Benioff
Tomorrow I head to New York to the Salesforce.com Cloudforce conference where according to the company we will hear how companies such as Facebook, NBC Universal, Burberry and Disney are reinventing themselves as social enterprises with social, mobile and cloud....
Arrived at RightScale User Conference 2011
I just finished most of my meetings at Cloud Expo 2011 here in Santa Clara, CA and juest headed to the RightScale User Conference where I am meeting with company CEO Michael Crandell very soon. As you may recall, the...
Why a Cloud Computing Magazine? Why Now?
I am very excited to be going to the Cloud Expo next week in Silicon Valley - it is always a great show and I have lots of video interviews set up. I have been to the last three east...
TMC Covering Cloud, 4G and Open-Source This Week
Quite often at industry events I hear people say they can’t believe how many events TMC goes to each year and moreover, they ask just how many conferences we cover each year. I haven’t done the math but it’s a...
Zenith's Cloud Computing Event hits New York Tomorrow
TMC has partnered with Zenith Infotech to bring a series of cloud seminars to cities around the US. Tomorrow the "It's Your Cloud" tour kicks off in New York tomorrow and it will be in a slew of major cities...
ITEXPO: 8x8 Buys Contactual
Breaking news from ITEXPO West 2011 in Austin, Texas.Hosted communications, video and VoIP pioneer 8x8 has just purchased Contactual, formerly known as White Pajama. I have been visiting 8x8 for about 15 years and when you enter their HQ the...
