Cloud Talk

Why Enterprise 2.0 is Bogus

andreyee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:44 -0500

There's a debate brewing around Enterprise 2.0 or the shortened moniker E2.0 (which I'll use here use since I'm lazy). As far as I can tell, it started here with Dennis Howlett's post labeling E2.0 as a bunch of crock....

Are All Applications Suitable For the Cloud?

andreyee — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:19:05 -0500

Since I'm both a proponent for the cloud-based model and work for a leading SaaS company, I'm inclined to say yes. But Forrester released a new report indicating that at least for the Records Management industry, the SaaS model has...

Google Report Reveals SaaS Impact on Enterprise IT

andreyee — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:39:19 -0500

Last week, Google released its 2009 Communications Intelligence Report, covering the impact and current state of cloud applications/SaaS on IT. It was based on a survey of 1125 IT decision makers and perhaps predictably, it offered a positive commentary and...

SaaS Vendors: Not All Created Equal

andreyee — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:29:18 -0500

It's my pet peeve - industry pundits talking about issues related to SaaS/cloud-based applications in a generalized, homogenized way. They talk about issues like whether SaaS is suitable for "large enterprises" or whether cloud based applications are "sufficiently secure" as...

How Would You Define a Social Network?

andreyee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:09:47 -0500

On his Web Strategist blog, social media expert Jeremiah Owyang asserted that despite having 300M members, "Facebook isn't the largest social network, email is". He makes his case on the basis that there are three primary features that define social...

Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source?

andreyee — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:40:59 -0500

Gartner's Andrea Di Maio seems to think so in his blog post a couple of weeks ago. According to Di Maio, the primary advantages for open source - vendor independence (since you have the source code) and cost (it's "free"...

McKinsey: How Companies Are Leveraging Web 2.0

andreyee — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:06:23 -0500

New study from McKinsey published last week highlighted how the use of Web 2.0 technologies are benefiting companies worldwide. The report is based on a survey of 1695 executives from companies of varying sizes, industries and geographic location. Frankly, I...

Are Private Clouds Really Cloud Computing?

andreyee — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:47:08 -0500

Point of confession here - I don't really get private clouds. There, I said it. It's not that I don't get the value of virtualization or virtualized data centers. I absolutely do. I think the challenge I have is two-fold...

What the Latest Figures from the Browser Wars Tell Us

andreyee — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:50:56 -0500

Remember a decade ago when IE was the only browser game in town? Keeping up with the browser market was like watching paint dry. Conventional wisdom was that Microsoft had the market wrapped up and Netscape's slow demise only confirmed...

Digital Body Language - Effective Marketing in a Web 2.0 World

andreyee — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:01:12 -0500

What's the key to effective marketing in a Web 2.0 world? My colleague Steve Woods, the CTO/founder of Eloqua believes it's about something called the Digital Body Language (also the title of his newly published book). For today's marketer, it's...

Cloud Computing Security Risks - Are They Real?

andreyee — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:54:07 -0500

Security is the cloud computing issue that won't go away...nor should it. For all the paradigm shifting promise of cloud computing, security is still a concern for many IT managers. Here are a few real issues that few are talking...

How the Social Web Will Evolve

andreyee — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:18:16 -0500

Without question,there's inordinate interest around how we use and measure social media today. However, for some of us, it's just as intriguing to consider how social media will evolve over the next 3-5 years. What will social media look like...

Gartner Survey Issues SaaS Reality Check

andreyee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:50:41 -0500

Recently, Gartner conducted a survey of 333 enterprises. It yielded interesting results from the respondents on their consideration of Saas applications - Overall respondents registered a satisfaction score of only 4.7 out of 7.0 scale...which isn't particularly indicative of happy...

Every Social Media Platform Has a Profile

andreyee — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:04:52 -0500

Do you use Twitter in a different way from how you might interact on Facebook? Of course you do. In terms of content, do you share different information on Facebook from what you might share on Twitter? More likely than...

Google Will Change the Way We Use Twitter

andreyee — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:13:07 -0500

Despite its incredible hype, Twitter has experienced its share of negative news lately. From it's dismally high attrition rate (the Twitter quitters) to the less than positive Harvard study on Twitter trends, it's brought the skeptics out of the woodwork....myself...