Alsbridge digs deep into the guts of the Cloud with Telwares acquisition
A subtle, but decisive, shift took place in the sourcing advisory landscape today, with Alsbridge’s announcing the acquisition of leading telecoms/networking sourcing advisor, Telwares, to firmly place Alsbridge as the main contender to ISG at the helm of the independent boutique advisor market.
VMware plots datacenters without wetware
Anyone who earns their livelihood in a data center should listen carefully to what’s being said at this week’s VMworld because it puts their job on the line.
Network Adoption from Oxford University
There’s news coming out of the Said Business School of Oxford University about a study of product adoption with Facebook. The research is said to document a herding instinct that can turn on and off. The research was conducted using 2007 data from Facebook users adoption of Facebook Apps for their Facebook pages. Unfortunately, the [...]
How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur
I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes? To what? I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch! Lowering? And then it’s still $1,000? [...]
Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud – Apply to Present / Discount Tix Here
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc. This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus [...]
2.0 Adoption Warfare – can military tactics help?
A few weeks ago, as part of Social Media Week, Alan Patrick and I ran the very well received Social Media in Enterprise event (which we’ll run again!). It provided 8 different perspectives on collaboration in the enterprise using the new tools. Amongst the many issues raised in a night of some great discussion and [...]
EuroCloud UK members making sense of Cloud standards and security
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA‘s cloud [...]
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
What is it?As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for the [...]
Friday Rant: I’m Not Going to Pay for Your &*%&ing Contacts
I tend to think of myself as a rationale person, who at least usually tries to always do the right thing when it comes to serving as a bridge for others to connect. Now, the right thing might not always be on someone else’s ideal timeline, but if the…
HP, the Disruptor?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 17, 2009
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices that must be [...]
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