New Era At RedMonk: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Donnie!
So today is Donnie Berkholz‘ first day as a RedMonk employee. When we started on the search to hire an analyst with deep analytics skills a few months back I had no idea we’d find somebody so good. We had plenty of outstanding candidates throw their hats in the ring, but Donnie has the skillset [...]
Influence and Business
Last week I was on a vendor briefing call (social media monitoring and response) and the subject of influence and it’s use by business came up in the discussion. It started me thinking again about influence and how (or if)…
Looking Ahead: Today’s Disruptions, Tomorrow’s Enterprise
Today if you ask me what the most disruptive and impactful technology “pillars” are I’d answer much like you’d expect; cloud, mobile, social and big data. In fact I was on a panel at the CRM Evolution conference a couple of weeks ago discussing exactly this topic. If I dug a little deeper, which I [...]
Dell lead 2010 SMB PC share according to new Spiceworks research
Spiceworks posted an analysis of PC (laptops and desktops) market share drawn from it’s its 1.3M user-base today. This kind of Big Data based analytics is a rosey looking future for IT folks looking to get real, “numbers” analysis on what’s going on out there. Previous to this, the company has been putting out more [...]
Scary Technology #2 – A Suggested Code of Ethics
Here’s a starter set of ethical standards for companies that spread your personal data around the world, the web, etc.
Amazon Reinvents ‘Terascale Sneakernet’
There’s been some surprise expressed on the interwebs today that Amazon Web Services has begun encouraging customers to use FedEx to ship it large amounts of data and thus “bypass the Internet.” But this is nothing new. Many years ago, storage guru Jim Gray named this technique “Terascale Sneakernet”, reporting a highly respectable transfer rate [...]
Salesforce Enters the REAL Cloud — I Think
As many of you probably know, salesforce.com acquired Jigsaw a few days ago for an incredible (incredible for Jigsaw that is) $142,000,000. Salesforce.com is making an effort to become not just a PaaS provider, born a CRM provider, but now a complete cloud offering.
Friday Rant: When Data Misleads and Becomes Disruptive
If someone pinned me down and asked my opinion about the broadest and most universal trends in procurement in recent years, I’d have to say that organizations of all sizes and sophistication are gaining access to an ever-increasing amount of informat…
Eight Reasons Why Data-Centricity Is The Future Of Business
The data that our businesses own has become the name of the game when it comes to what ultimately lies at the core of economic value today, now seemingly more than ever before. We appear to be entering the era of the knowledge economy, where most of what we do in business (about 50% of [...]
The Three Waves of Enterprise 2.0: Climbing the Social Computing Maturity Curve
As organizations begin to embrace social tools to collaborate, connect workers together, capture knowledge, and drive innovation they soon encounter a phenomenon that they weren’t necessarily expecting. As critical mass is achieved and general participation rises, there is a subsequent,…
