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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Microsoft, Oracle and EMC decide to support Apple
As regular readers will know I have been strongly of the opinion that there are some key elements that are driving the current radical or disruptive change. Principally this comes down to a front office revolution in using technology to empower mobile workers using smartphones and tablets with the flexibility of ‘orchestrated services’ from clouds as opposed to remote access to back office monolithic apps. The last couple of weeks seem to have proved that …
Google goes to hardware and Microsoft moves to the Android – what’s the game?
Google made three announcements in the last couple of weeks, all of which show a new focus towards hardware, not quite what we expect from a company which is at the forefront of the ‘online services’ revolution. The simplest was that the new Android 3.1 release incorporated new capabilities to manage hardware extensions such as an inbuilt USB hub. Next up was a new initiative called Android@Home which focuses on embedding Android into household appliances, …
Social CRM and hosted virtual machines seem to be ‘crossing the chasm’ moving towards becoming mainstream
Do you remember the book, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ by Geoffrey Moore? If you don’t remember it, or have never read it, this was the defining book on the uptake of technology and its life cycle from earliest adopters through to maturity and retirement. It explained the nature of technology adoption through various stages and at the time was the perfect handbook for those struggling with the adoption of the PC, together with what seemed like …
Clouds – a simple explanation
The topic of clouds has been a recognisable part of the debate on how to improve business using technology for some two years now, ample time for clarification on the topic and identification of the core issues and benefits. Yet if anything it has become less understandable with the passage of time, as the hype cycle attempts to remake almost any product or technique as a new technology to be considered under the ‘cloud’ label. …
Sony and Amazon; are you a victim or in control?
The past week has not been a great one for the ‘technology society’ where everyone is connected and able to develop and use various technologies. First Amazon Web Services goes down for a USA region and then Sony PlayStation customers get their full identities stolen. Not good, as the saying goes, and probably has resulted in a large number of CIOs saying something like, ‘I told you that you shouldn’t be using AWS’, whilst anxiously …
