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Taming the Chatter cloud

As I wasn’t there I can only go from what’s been reported. But it seems Benioff (no doubt guided by his marketing advisors) has decided to follow the advice promulgated at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco — by no less a figure than ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Salesforce.com Inc,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Can the Economist entirely be trusted?

I think a publication with the renowned integrity and impartiality of The Economist would have the sense to put its hand on its heart and say, ‘We try our best and we’re the best there is, but no, you can’t entirely trust any source.’ But if it were ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Economist

Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus

While most observers portray Microsoft’s sortie into online email and collaboration services as a titanic battle to keep Google off its productivity applications turf, the real target of this week’s price reductions is IBM’s Lotus unit. In a briefing ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Lotus,  Google Inc.,  IBM

Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership

Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several attendees a-twittering. He revealed that the SaaS provider’s multi-tenant application infrastructure ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc

Box.net wants to be the Switzerland of data

“… businesses will be able to add a Box.net app to their Salesforce accounts, allowing them to quickly access their documents, media, and other files from directly within their CRM … businesses need to sign up for Box.net’s enterprise plan, which ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc

What EuroCloud means for SaaS in Europe

Today EuroCloud, a new industry organization that aims to promote cloud and SaaS, launches in seven European countries. I’m involved in the initiative, having agreed to act as UK co-ordinator for the launch. Other groups are launching in France, ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Salesforce.com Inc,  Microsoft Corporation

Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

I’m not saying that privately-hosted cloud computing look-alikes aren’t useful. All I’m saying is, don’t fool yourself that they’ll deliver all the benefits of cloud computing. What’s really insidious is the way that Fool’s Cloud deteriorates so ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  19 Oct 2009

How to avoid the amateur cloud

There’s going to be a lot of amateur cloud in the market for the next few years, and businesses of all sizes will have to be intensely wary of the pitfalls when they go shopping for cloud services. Amateur cloud won’t be easy to spot, and often it’ll ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM

The cloud: no place for amateurs

The boss of Air New Zealand has given us a convenient term for companies that can’t get to grips with the realities of delivering computing as a service: “Amateurs”. His reported comments were addressed to IBM, which failed to restore operations at a ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM

Blind to the elephant in the cloud

… a new way how to ‘throw software over the wall’ again. Many software companies have repackaged their software as Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and relabeled them as SaaS or Cloud Computing. It’s so simple, it’s so clever: Dear customer, here is the ...

From PHIL WAINEWRIGHT, ZDNet,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Larry Ellison,  Oracle

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