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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...
Cloud Communications: That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
Seinfeld fans rejoice – I haven’t forgotten about you – and Kenny Bania is now forever immortalized in this blog. He came to mind and his expression “That's gold, Jerry! Gold!” seems so fitting when I get to talking about...
TMC & Zenith Infotech Cloud Computing Seminar Series Launched
Cloud computing is perhaps the hottest and most important computing trend which hand-in-hand with the mobility markets are two of the shining stars of tech. The cost savings and myriad other benefits of migrating apps to the cloud has allowed...
YouSendIt on new Electronic Signature and Cloud Offerings
I recently sat down for a talk with Mihir Nanavati, senior director of Product Management of online file sharing company YouSendIt and got a chance to learn about how the company has expanded its service offering from sending large files...
ITEXPO West 2011 Austin Highlights
Before all ITEXPO events I do a final proofread of the show directory and this one may be the biggest ever at 132 pages with tabs (just doing our part to support the economy). We will post a PDF version...
Latest Trends in Speech Technology, CRM, IVR, Collaboration and Cloud Computing
Speech analytics in greater demand At the recent SpeechTek 2011 conference in New York I gained some great insight into the state of speech technology. For example, Jeff Schlueter of Nexidia told me his company’s speech analytics solutions have been...
Living in a Post-OS World
Two of the major drawbacks to a perfect cloud-based existence where the browser serves all your needs are speed of remote apps/services and UI flexibility. It just so happens, two news items have coalesced recently to help usher in the...
The Real Story on Grasshopper Phone Service
Earlier this month I wrote about a service from Grasshoper called Spreadable which was shut down by the company. Unlike most companies which shut down a division or brand, Grasshopper decided to write a four-part series on why they did...
Quad: The Death of E-mail and Cisco's Social Enterprise Ambitions
Quad moves to the cloud, has native Cius tablet support and offers better interoperability Last week I took a train into the city from TMC’s Connecticut HQ to spend time with the Cisco Quad collaboration team – using Cisco telepresence...
Cloud Expo 2011 New York Video Interviews
I am still conducting video interviews at Cloud Expo New York and all 50 or so will be posted soon. For now, the first few are up and can be found here. You can also click the play button below...
