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Rackspace reaches for the stars
Citigroup estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will earn
its owner about $650m during 2010 (about 2.5% of Amazon’s overall revenue). This
probably makes it the leading provider of utility on-demand storage and
computing (infrastructure...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 30th July '10
Metastorm leverages Azure to leap into Cloud-based collaborative modelling
Earlier in July EA, BPA and BPM tools provider Metastorm released two new products, M3 and Smart Business Workspace, that launch it into the middle of a group of vendors now supporting customers' transition to a more open, collaborative approach to...
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 29th July '10
Uwhat?
I have been accused on more than one occasion of being a technophobe. Which is kind of weird, given my profession. However, it is true that my mobile phone is usually switched off (for historic reasons—I used not to be able to get a reliable...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 29th July '10
A Clear Message for Vendors In the SMB Technology Market
We recently wrapped up the SMB Group’s 2010 Small and Medium Businesses Routes to Market Study, which uncovered quite a few interesting trends about how SMBs discover, learn about, evaluate and buy technology solutions and services. We are...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 28th July '10
Adobe acquires Day Software to flesh out enterprise portfolio
Today, Adobe announced its intention to acquire Swiss Day Software in a deal valued at approximately $240 million. The acquisition, which is expected to close in Q4 2010, is designed to help flesh out Adobe’s enterprise software portfolio,...
MWD Advisors | By: Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 28th July '10
Dell KACE Secure Browser-A Free Tool to Help Firefox Users Stop Malware Invasions
Anyone that’s ever unwittingly downloaded malware from the Internet knows that it can bring your PC to a virtual standstill. This horrible stuff can infect your computer by exploiting vulnerabilities in your browser, or by opening and taking...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 27th July '10
More mainframe madness
I'm often a little apologetic over my liking for the mainframe. After all, I used to be told (mostly by people who knew nothing about mainframes), it was only as powerful as an Intel 486 desktop, which made it appalling value for money. True, it...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 26th July '10
Six reasons why encryption vendors have a future - for now
The inclusion of BitLocker by Microsoft in Windows 7 is
perhaps the biggest move yet in the on-going commoditisation of the encryption
market.
As one CISO (chief information security officer) agreed at a recent IT
security forum, when it...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 23rd July '10
IBM breaks down the silos - Part 4, Reuse, Token Licenses and Conclusion
At one session of IBM's Innovate 2010 software conference, Steve Mills (Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software) was asked about how IBM manages (and reduces) the cost of building its own software. The answer, he says, is simply...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 20th July '10
IBM breaks down the silos - Part 3, Systems of Systems
What interested me most at Innovate 2010 (there's a Livestram video channel for the conference here) was the emphasis on delivering software for automating Systems of Systems. This is very much the realm of systems engineering but IBM now seems to...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 19th July '10
IBM breaks down the silos - Part 2, the Security silo
One very obvious silo is security and it is a particular issue because the security silo can be so dysfunctional. Application security is the obvious example: the programmers in their silo assume that the security team looks after security once the...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 16th July '10
Interesting developments at Telligent
It’s like buses isn’t it – no collaboration posts from me for weeks and then two come along at once!
In a piece of news I missed last week, online communities vendor Telligent has strengthened its board with the addition of...
MWD Advisors | By: Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 14th July '10
Active Endpoints continues strong growth
Yesterday Active Endpoints announced its Q2 2010 financial results—in the teasing way that private companies tend to do, typically avoiding absolute numbers and sticking to percentages.
Still, the numbers that are there are impressive....
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 14th July '10
Mindjet revamps Mind Manager to target a wider audience
On Monday, Mindjet announced the next version of its mind mapping software, called Mind Manager 9, which will be released this summer. While electronic mind mapping arguably has a fairly limited appeal, Mind Manager has had significant success over...
MWD Advisors | By: Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 14th July '10
New Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG 2.0)
Creating accessible web content is a challenge. Many of the tools used to author web content make this challenge bigger because they do not give the author any help or guidance in creating accessible content.
The latest guidelines from W3C define...
Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 14th July '10
Dealing with austerity - ensuring the best bang per buck
The recessionary tide may have gone out for the moment, albeit by inches rather than yards, but the detritus of flotsam and jetsam that it has left behind is not a pretty sight.
From whole countries struggling with sovereign debt issues, through...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 13th July '10
IBM breaks down the silos - Part 1, Design for Operations
I make no secret of the fact that I see development these days as more about orchestrating and delivering holistic business services than about writing code—although writing some code is still important, of course, for the components that make...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 13th July '10
Computer Crime Gets Sexy TV Show
I loathe the relentless onslaught of TV cop shows that seem to dominate peak viewing schedules these days, so it was with trepidation that I decided to watch a new show on ITV called Identity. The drama is based on an elite police unit formed to...
Nigel Stanley | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 11th July '10
Blueprint 2010 release takes inspiration from Chatter
A couple of days ago the June 2010 release of IBM BPM Blueprint went live, and it’s interesting to see this Social BPM trailblazer take inspiration from another corner of the SaaS/social software world—Salesforce.com’s Chatter....
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 9th July '10
What is an Online Collaboration Suite, and why should you care?
What is an Online Collaboration Suite?
An online collaboration suite provides businesses with an integrated set of tools that span a range of collaboration needs. While not every collaboration suite includes the same capabilities, they often...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 8th July '10
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