A Short Post

I moderated a panel discussion this morning, something that goes with the job I do.  It was with the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (Mass TLC) and the event went really well.  People were engaged, there were good audience questions and the panelists gave well considered answers. The title of the session was “Finding the Right [...]

2011 Say Bye-bye!

Every year around this time I write two columns one on the year that was and another on what I expect the new year to bring.  There is no methodology for this process and I believe this lack of method is important.  I take a blank screen and fill it up with what has been [...]

The Case for Cloud Modeling

Google’s blogger system was down for a couple of days last week and the bloggerati are up in arms about it. They have a point too.  A software system delivered as a service that loses vital data and is down for unspecified periods cannot be relied on and if you can’t rely on cloud computing [...]

CFOs worry about cloud computing

There’s an interesting and short article by Maxwell Cooter at IT World about cloud computing.  Seems that a survey turned up some CFOs who were eager to reap the financial advantages of the cloud but less than sanguine about potential security issues.  It was fine, in the survey’s findings, to send the web site to [...]

Next year is a strategic opportunity

Recessions are always a good time to rebuild your competitive infrastructure and the slow growth/recession of the last couple of years has been no exception.  On the stock market, the technology sector seems to be doing quite well.  After bottoming in the middle of the summer the software companies especially seem to be rebounding.  Microsoft, [...]

Oracle v. SAP

I agree with the decision—you have to pay for what you use.

NetSuite Opens Development Center in Czech Republic

NetSuite is making a savvy bet by opening a dedicated cloud ERP development  center in Brno, Czech Republic for several reasons.  According to today’s announcement the company will build the center out to employ one hundred people in the next 12 to 18 months and the company already has a good foothold in the region.  [...]

#oow10 Part 3 Cloud Orthodoxy

Writing about the seminal event for CRM at Oracle Open World — the public cloud computing debate between Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff respective CEO’s of Oracle and Salesforce.com — is tougher than coming up with rent and alimony.  There are so many threads to pull together and I have so much history following the [...]

#oow10 The Other Fall Classic

Exalogic looks like a real computing beast capable of running all of Facebook on two racks. Exalogic is fault tolerant and boasts a host of added value over its nearest SMP rival from IBM and costs about 75% less but Oracle managed to bury the lede in an avalanch of details that would have been better left for a breakout session.

Cloud computing and multi-tenancy

Cloud computing is breaking through to the general public.  Unfortunately, it’s only the most watered down version that the public is hearing about. Last week I listened to a program on NPR that briefly discussed the cloud and some ‘expert’ who worked for a general circulation magazine was happily telling the interviewer that cloud computing [...]