If there are things that Oracle OpenWorld 2013 will be remembered for, it’s probably the record number of 60.000 attendees flooding the city and – of course – Larry Ellison’s unapologetic absence from his Cloud keynote as...
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Extreme Application Landscaping
By Ron Tolido
I hope you are familiar with our Application Landscape Report? The 2011 edition provided a lot of useful insights around the state of the nation of typical application portfolios within major organizations across the world. To us, one of the most...
Read moreSuper Techies Go Wow Again
By Ron Tolido
2CommentsWhen Alice Fredenham auditioned for Brittan’s Got Talent she supposedly was too shy to let anybody else know. But she undoubtedly had talent, and it took only three, mesmerizing minutes of performing My Funny Valentine on stage to convince the...
Read moreSkySight And the Meaning Of Life
By Ron Tolido
Today – while writing this short post at our Les Fontaines premises, north of Paris - is a very cloudy day. An appropriate backdrop indeed for our announcement of SkySight, quite an interesting and ambitious cloud orchestration service...
Read moreClose To The Edge
By Ron Tolido
It may be a matter of getting used to it, but clearly the hay days of cloud evangelization are over. Our own research and daily experiences* show that especially at the business side the benefits are very well understood, including many that surpass...
Read moreGoogle's Art Of The API
By Ron Tolido
Already last year it became clear that Google’s I/O conference has taken pole position, leaving Apple behind when it comes to show, highly anticipated announcements and overall coolness. And although the 2013 conference was just as big, to some...
Read moreWhy the Cloud is causing a Split in the Role of the CIO
By Ron Tolido
Businesses with high levels of "digital maturity" can reap significant financial rewards. According to Capgemini Consulting research with MIT, companies implementing digital initiatives such as engaging customers with technology and...
Read moreObject of Desire
I sincerely hope you like our new website? We’ve gone to great lengths to redesign it, not only to make it the perfect tool to connect to our clients and all of the outside world, but also as a showcase of how a website nowadays fits in an...
Read more4 Ways To Keep The Cloud Simple
You may remember that we published our latest Cloud research end of last year? Although we weren’t exactly the first – nor the last, rest assured – to investigate the state of the Cloudscape, we thought the findings were quite intriguing....
Read moreIs BlackBerry Hitting The Right Keys?
By Ron Tolido
SalesForce has M.C. Hammer. Intel has Will.I.Am. And now BlackBerry has Alicia Keys. Obviously, the Canadians are going to great lengths to establish BlackBerry as a contemporary, cool brand, especially now it is also in the business of selling...
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