By Charlie Bess on March 17, 2015
I posted the other day on the Enterprise CIO blog an entry about the CIO’s role and the self-driving business that got me thinking about the Enterprise architect and the processes (e.g., TOGAF). There seems to be a lack of any real automation thread. Do you see one? This clearly needs to be addressed. One […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analytics, Architecture, automation, Business value Generation, Chief information officer, CIO, context, EA, gartner, ibm, Infrastructure, Red Hat, services, Technology / Software
By Dave Kellogg on November 18, 2014
It took me a week or so to get to it, but in this post, I’ll take a dive into the Hortonworks S-1 filing in support of a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of their stock. While Hadoop and big data are unarguably huge trends driving the industry and while the future of Hadoop looks very bright indeed, […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Credit Suisse, Database, Goldman Sachs, hadoop, Hortonworks, Initial public offering, IPO, NoSQL, Open source, Red Hat, startups |
By Louis Columbus on March 3, 2014
2014 continues to be a year marked by the accelerating hiring cycles across nearly all cloud computing companies. Signing bonuses of $3K to $5K for senior engineers and system design specialists are becoming common, and the cycles from screening to interviews to offers is shortening. The job market in the cloud computing industry is leaning in favor of applicants […]
Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Acronis, Alert Logic, Amazon Web Services, Asigra, AT&T, Avalara, AVG Technologies, Blue Coatl, Carbonite, CenturyLink Technology Solutions, CipherCloud, Cisco Systems, Cloud Computing, cloud computing landscape, CloudScaling, Comcast (Upware), EMC, Engine Yard, EVault, financialforce.com, Glassdoor.com, google, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Intacct, Intronis, LogMeIn, Louis Columbus' blog, Marketo, microsoft, MuleSoft, NaviSite, Nebula, netsuite, NTT Communications, oracle, Parallels, Pivotal Software, Rackspace, Red Hat, SaaS, saas economics, salesforce.com, sap, Software AG, software as a service, Tableau Software, Trend Micro, Veracode, Verizon (Terramark), Websense, workday, zoho, Zscaler |
By Louis Columbus on February 17, 2014
The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Fusion-IO (NYSE:FIO), Qualys (NASDAQ:QYLS) and Workday (NYSE:WDAY). A $10K investment in Akamai on January 2nd of this year is worth $12,901 and $10K invested in F5 Networks is worth $12,509 as of market close yesterday. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP share […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Akamai Technologies, Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, Citrix Systems, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Stock Index, Earnings Per Share, EMC Corporation, enterprise software, F5 Networks, Fusion-IO, ibm, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Qualys, Rackspace Hosting, Red Hat, Riverbed Technology, SaaS, saas economics, salesforce.com, sap, software as a service, Symantec, VMware, workday |
By Louis Columbus on July 15, 2013
Comparing the latest Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) List Of Top 100 Global Software Leaders published in May of this year with current Glassdoor ratings based on employee feedback provides valuable insights into the best software companies to work for in 2013. The Glassdoor ratings of the percentage of employees who would recommend their employer to […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Aart J. de Geus, ACI Worldwide, Acision, adobe, ADP, Amdocs, Ansys, apple, Ariba (Acquired by SAP), Aspect Software, autodesk, Avaya, Bentley Systems, BMC Software, byline=Louis Columbus, CA Technologies, Cadence Design Systems, Cegedim, Cerner, Cisco, Citrix Systems, Cloud Computing, CommVault, Compuware, Concur Technologies, Dassault Systèmes, Data Driven, EMC (excluding Vmware), enterprise software, Epicor, Ericsson, ESRI, FICO (formerly Fair Isaac), Fidelity National Information Services, Fidessa, Fiserv, fujitsu, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Glassdoor, google, Greg Bentley, GXS, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, hp, ibm, Infor, Informatica, intel, Intergraph, InterSystems, Intuit, invensys, JDA Software Group, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Kaspersky Lab, Kronos Inc., Louis Columbus' blog, McKesson, MEDITECH, Mentor Graphics, Micro Focus, Micros Systems, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, Misys, mobile, NEC Corporation of America, NetApp, Neusoft, NICE Systems, Northgate Information Solutions, Nuance Communications, OpenText, oracle, Pitney Bowes Software, PTC, Quest Software (Dell), Red Hat, Sage North America, salesforce.com, sap, SAS, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Software AG, Sophos, Sungard, SWIFT, Symantec, Synopsis, Synopsys, Tech, Teradata, Tibco, Trend Micro, unisys, Unit4, Verint Systems, VMware, Wincor Nixdorf, Wolters Kluwer
By Louis Columbus on February 24, 2013
Hiring great people and creating a culture of achievement that is fun, focused and able to get challenging tasks done is not an easy task. Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes a unique leader that consistently earns trust and respect. Those are the qualities I think of whenever I’m asked to […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged aaron levie, AppDynamics, bill mcdermott, byline=Louis Columbus, Citrix Systems, Cloud Computing, customer relationship management, Data Driven, enterprise software, Glassdoor, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Jim Whitehurst, Louis Columbus' blog, NetApp, Red Hat, SaaS, Tech, VMware |
By Dennis Moore on July 6, 2012
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Dell is buying Quest Software. The “Toad” company. Oracle loses another court case, this one involving resale (in the EU) of “used” software downloaded over the Internet. This could have wide-ranging impact on all digital media, not just software. There are still a lot […]
Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged .NET, 10gen, ABAP, adobe, Amazon, android, Apache, apple, Ariba, Big Data, Cassandra, citrix, Cloud, Cloudera, Dell, google, hadoop, HANA, Hitachi, Hortonworks, ibm, Infor, Informatica, IT, Java, jobs, Linux, Lucene, MapR, microsoft, MongoDB, netsuite, Open source, oracle, Patent, Quest, Red Hat, RIM, samsung, sap, Solr, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, VMware, workday, Yahoo
By Michael Coté on April 12, 2011
“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is multi-cloud – private and public – and no one cloud is architected, out of the gate, to be extensible to many different frameworks […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, cloud development, Cloud Foundry, Cloud.com, CloudBees, enterprise software, Eucalyptus, GitHub, ibm, Java, microsoft, Open source, Press Pass, Quick Analysis, Rackspace Cloud, Red Hat, salesforce, Spring, SpringSource, The New Thing, VMware
By James Governor on March 30, 2011
A core research thesis for me is that the best packager in any tech wave wins, and wins big. The number one position in a market, with all the network dominance that implies, goes to the best packager, not the best inventor. Packaging is where you cross the chasm- where geek stuff goes mainstream. Tim […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon, aws, Cloud, ibm, iPad, Linux, Open source, opensource, Packaging, R/3, Red Hat, RedHat, sap
By Evangelos Simoudis on December 14, 2010
Long gone are the days when Dreamforce was a smallish conference devoted to SaaS; the first conference 10 years ago had fewer than 1000 attendees. This year’s conference had over 30k attendees (business users, IT users and vendors) almost 70% higher than last year’s. The lines in and around the Moscone, the hotel rates and […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, microsoft, Red Hat, SaaS, salesforce.com, VMware |
