Check on Your SaaS Company’s Hosting Provider, Avoid Firehost
My CNCCookbook blog is experiencing it’s second outage so far this month. That’s a cause for visitor unhappiness and potentially lost business. I use Page.ly, because I believe in SaaS services. CNCCookbook is bootstrapped, and I try not to spend any of my time at all doing something that I can easily have done for [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, [...]
The New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions
Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big Thing Social has given us the tools to connect. Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere. Cloud delivers access points to us with a rich array of content and information. Big data provides us with the context [...]
Is Amazon Slipping?
I’ve been a very loyal Amazon customer for many, many years. I first check the Amazon.com site for practically anything I purchase, and have been a happy Prime member since the advent of the program. In addition, the company’s first VP of Customer Service Bill Price, who wrote the excellent book The Best Service is No [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011, July and August
July and August Enterprise Software and Solutions news. Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the months of July and August: Apple became the world’s most valuable company, but Steve Jobs resigned due to health issues. Meanwhile, Google bought Motorola’s cell phone business. Salesforce.com promoted its message of Cloud, [...]
Monday’s Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon’s Cloud Outage
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011
Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes [...]
Numbers, Volume 45
$2M for Evernote, Netflix growth, Flash poaching, virtual goods, cloud in the SMB.
When will the crowd turn against private cloud?
Private clouds will be discredited by year end, I predicted yesterday. I was promptly challenged to put my money where my mouth was. Here’s my considered response.
Will the road ahead be rougher for Apple and Amazon?
I loved @dasan’s piece on Apple ($AAPL) – this is what market leadership – make that dominance – looks like. It’s a very pretty picture – and it held up today.
Apple & Amazon ($AMZN) have been riding high based on their market leading iPod/iPhone and Kindle platforms. And deservedly so.
But even market leaders with great [...]
