By Chris Bliss We review dozens of cloud-based CRMs every year. Some are great, some are… less great. Thing is, the great ones always seem familiar. They share common strengths. Based on our experience, here’s a list of 5 ways to tell great CRMs apart from the rest. 1. Intuitive navigation. Sof... Dec. 12, 2012 12:41 PM EST Reads: 704 |
By Kevin Benedict
According to FaveQuest CEO Allan Isfan, HTML5 didn’t revolutionize the mobile business as expected, but instead it “over promised and under delivered”. Read Original Content
The QNX CAR HMI framework for the automotive environment features HTML5-based technology and a direct d... Dec. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 961 |
By Bob Gourley By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. CIA invests in mobile security company to keep transactions under wraps - In-Q-Tel made a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Tyfone to “bring mobile security in cloud and NFC transactions to ... Dec. 11, 2012 09:44 AM EST Reads: 777 |
By Bob Gourley By RyanKamauff Here are the top technology news and stories. Apple’s ‘Steve Jobs’ Patent Is in Trouble - The multi-touch patent (one of the keys in the Apple v Samsung dispute) has been invalidated in a preliminary finding. While this finding is not 100% set, it does... Dec. 10, 2012 04:09 PM EST Reads: 2,064 |
By Mark O'Neill This week, my colleague Ed King presented a webinar with Eve Maler ( Dec. 8, 2012 06:40 PM EST Reads: 1,354 |
By Cloud Ventures  A popular spot where the Cloud and Identity domains intersect is the idea of “Personal Clouds”, which would be ideal services to build via a concept of the `X Internet`.
With open standards like SAML providing the building blocks of interconnecting identity systems between application... Dec. 6, 2012 09:28 AM EST Reads: 1,942 |
By Si Chen  Yesterday’s WSJ.com video “Tablet Wars: How Are People Using Tablets?” had a shocking statistic: 98% of the web traffic from tablets comes from Apple’s iPad. Further, most of mobile commerce is from Apple’s iPhone.
Translation: No matter what the sales figures for Android, people jus... Dec. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,082 |
By RealWire News Distribution The partnership deal between CIMtrek and Cloud Technology Solutions has been extended to include new products and capabilities offered by each company. The partnership between Cloud Technology Solutions (CTS), and CIMtrek, encompasses CTS's Email migration from Notes to Google and Exch... Dec. 5, 2012 11:15 PM EST Reads: 1,622 |
By Matt McLarty  A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon describes a threat scenario that allows attackers to exploit cloud-based resources for malicious purposes like cracking passwords or launching denial-of-service attacks. The study has gotten a... Dec. 5, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,139 |
By John Cowan  Jack Clark at ZDnet recently published a great series of articles on the current state of cloud computing, which included an article on utility computing called “Cloud computing’s utility future gets closer“. It’s one of the best reviews of where we are in the progression toward utilit... Dec. 5, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,949 |
By Sven Hammar  For the past few years, our friends at VMblog.com have run an annual prediction series forecasting the trends most likely to drive adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in the upcoming year. This is the second year in a row that they’ve invited me to contribute, and I thoug... Dec. 5, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,685 |
By RealWire News Distribution Unveils Easy-to-Use, Secure Access for SaaS and Cloud Services Builds on Microsoft Active Directory to Enhance Unified Identity Services across Data Centre, Cloud and Mobile, Resulting in One Single Login for Users and One Identity Infrastructure for ITLondon, UK — Dec 3, 2012 ... Dec. 4, 2012 05:25 AM EST Reads: 1,383 |
By Derek Kol  The vast majority of new customers choose to seed their backup via the internet. Once you've configured the lightweight software client we call ZettaMirror with the paths to backup, it begins providing data protection by sending that data to Zetta's data centers and replicating your fi... Dec. 3, 2012 10:52 AM EST Reads: 1,103 |
By Bob Gourley By RyanKamauff Here is the top mobile news and stories of the day. Report: Google Play revenues closing in on Apple’s App Store, up 311 percent - while Apple has adopted the luxury car version of differentiation, Google is taking the Wal-Mart road. They are taking over tablet and smart... Nov. 30, 2012 05:18 PM EST Reads: 1,484 |
By Lori MacVittie  It is quite difficult to find any environment that is truly homogeneous today. Even home networks, which at one time may have been "all Windows" or "all Linux" today are a mixture of mobile device, Apple, and Windows-based products. As networks grow, the heterogeneity of its infrastruc... Nov. 28, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,449 |
By Brian Gracely  VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced the concept of the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC). This builds on the concept that as more and more of the Data Center becomes virtualized (servers, desktops), delivering greater cost-savings and agility to customers, software-defined automation ... Nov. 28, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,698 |
By PR.com Newswire London, United Kingdom, November 28, 2012 --(PR.com)-- XTime is now using Storage Made Easy's SaaS unified Cloud File Server Platform. XTime is the leading provider of web scheduling and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for automotive service departments in North A... Nov. 28, 2012 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,552 |
By Bob Gourley  On October 24, 2012 Cloudera announced the release of Cloudera Impala and the commercial support subscription service of Cloudera Enterprise Real Time Query (RTQ). Impala is a SQL based Real Time Query/Ad Hoc query engine built on top of HDFS or Hbase. As I watched the demonstration u... Nov. 27, 2012 07:05 AM EST Reads: 2,793 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan  In our previous article, Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features, we introduced some of the many new features that Windows Server 2012 provides to its clients. In this article we will focus on some more, particularly features that ease remote access.
The opportunity to work from a... Nov. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,886 |
By Bob Gourley By MattDevost I’ve been a long-time user of Google Apps and have recommended it to dozens of colleagues and associates. I currently use both the Standard (free) and Enterprise (paid) version of apps for several very high profile and long-standing domains. I’ve always consid... Nov. 23, 2012 04:09 PM EST Reads: 1,081 |
By Si Chen I followed this tutorial on how to do mail merge in Google Apps, and it taught me a lot about Javascript and the future for open source applications. Doing mail merge in Google Apps was a lot of fun! With a little copy and paste and about 15 minutes, I had was sending emails attached ... Nov. 23, 2012 03:13 PM EST Reads: 1,198 |
By Bob Gourley  I recently (finally) received the Google Chromebook in the mail. After over 2 weeks of intense waiting, it is here, and has absolutely matched all of my expectations. The device is thin and light and amazing looking. It is quite and never gets hot, even after extended use. The battery ... Nov. 21, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 5,438 |
By Samuel Vijaykumar Last week, was held in Argentina PyConAr Conference on the Python language. Within the same demonstrations were made on how to program these robots through this language, some modifications to Robot efectuándole Multiplo N6 to allow interactive program published in the 9th C... Nov. 20, 2012 08:08 PM EST Reads: 600 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan BSD licenses are a group of permissive software licenses. What this means is that they are a class of free software licenses that contain very little requirements as to how the software is allowed to be distributed. The very first of these types of software license was used for the Ber... Nov. 14, 2012 09:29 AM EST Reads: 1,006 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan Wisegeek.com explains software licensing as a type of contract which exists between the person of company who produces a type of software, and the end user, or person who purchases or downloads the software to use. It is created to protect the copyright of the software, and actually re... Nov. 8, 2012 08:50 AM EST Reads: 824 |
By Bob Gourley By RyanKamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Samsung Sells 30 Million Galaxy S3 Units in 157 Days - The Galaxy S3 is being sold at 1 per .45 seconds right now. The S3 was Samsung’s attempt to fight back against the iPhone, and it is selling spectacularly. T... Nov. 7, 2012 10:52 AM EST Reads: 1,162 |
By RealWire News Distribution New platform brings App developers and API providers together to build dynamic, engaging Apps with scalable APIsSanta Clara, CA [Cloud Expo] - Nov 6th, 2012 - SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions, today announced the launch of SOA S... Nov. 7, 2012 01:07 AM EST Reads: 1,557 |
By RealWire News Distribution Platform transforms business potential with API Management and Developer Community Management via on-premise, Enterprise and Open PaaS, and hybrid deploymentsSanta Clara, CA [Cloud Expo] - Nov 5th, 2012 - SOA Software, a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance ... Nov. 6, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,117 |
By Shelly Palmer First and foremost, my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones during this unprecedented event. The human tragedy coupled with the extraordinary loss of property makes everything else seem unimportant. That said, everyone I know has been in cleanup and rebuild mode since the ... Oct. 31, 2012 03:49 PM EDT Reads: 1,536 |
By David Smith Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be a major, and very dangerous, meteorological event for the US's East coast. Naturally, everyone is looking for the latest information and forecasts. Fortunately, the wealth of public meteorological data available on the open web, combined with real-ti... Oct. 29, 2012 07:40 PM EDT Reads: 1,005 |
By Louis Nauges 23 Octobre : annonces multiples d’Apple, commentée dans mon billet précédent. 25 octobre : annonces multiples de Microsoft, objet de ce billet. 29 octobre : annonces multiples de Google, qui feront aussi l’objet d’une publication. Cette fin de mois d’octobre... Oct. 27, 2012 08:29 AM EDT Reads: 3,837 |
By Chris Bliss Today we’re happy to share a post from Deney Dentel, CEO for Nordisk Systems, Inc. Nordisk Systems provides cloud computing infrastructure, available and accessible for businesses of all sizes and industries. Enjoy! ————— There are many reasons to make the switch to cloud servic... Oct. 26, 2012 10:29 AM EDT Reads: 3,461 |
By Don MacVittie  The Android development community, as might be expected, is a pretty vibrant community with a lot of great contributors helping people out. Since Android is largely based upon Java, there is a lot of skills reusability between the Java client dev community and the Android Dev community... Oct. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,194 |
By Bob Gourley By RyanKamauff Here are the top tech news and stories for the day. Amazon had a big outage in North Virginia on the 22nd - This outage affected Reddit, Pinterest, Airbnb, Foursquare, Minecraft and more. As we rely more on the cloud to deliver services, then we will have to find ways ar... Oct. 23, 2012 03:38 PM EDT Reads: 2,285 |
By Shelly Palmer Maybe you got sick and tired of your BlackBerry, or maybe you just fell for the iPhone’s allure. Either way, now you’ve got this shiny new iToy on your desk, but all of your contacts are stuck on your old, clunky BlackBerry. How do you move all those names and numbers over? It’s easier... Oct. 19, 2012 03:01 AM EDT Reads: 636 |
By Kevin Benedict
The New York Times has rolled out an HTML5 web app for
Apple’s iPad, an addition to the native apps already available. Read Original Content
The preview of Oracle’s NetBeans Integrated Development
Environment 7.3 features new advanced HTML5, JavaScript and CSS devel... Oct. 18, 2012 04:22 PM EDT Reads: 2,626 |
By Don MacVittie  There has been an increasing amount of commentary about the growing shortage of Information Security folks. While the reasons for this shortage are manifold and easily explained, that doesn’t change the fact that it exists. Nor the fact that natural sources may well be causing it to wo... Oct. 18, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,579 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan When you are going to monitor your engine, you probably try first to find some tool that can do it. Very likely, of course, that tool should be able to handle monitoring online and to notify you when the health of your engine is starting to go bad. There are already several well-known ... Oct. 17, 2012 10:18 AM EDT Reads: 2,637 |
By Unitiv Blog  One of the biggest concerns IT managers have about moving business-critical applications into the cloud and away from the data center is the issue of security. What you may not realize, however, is that the same tools for automation and provisioning that function in cloud implementatio... Oct. 17, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,110 |
By Cloud Sherpas Cloud Sherpas study reveals regional IT priorities and trends, including strong interest in Google Apps (2-to-1 over Microsoft Office 365), mobile and cloud storage SYDNEY, Australia – October 18, 2012 – A survey conducted by global cloud solutions provider Cloud Sherpas in... Oct. 16, 2012 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,871 |