Who Owns Your Data, Really?
I'll forgive you if you think my asking who owns your data is a rhetorical question. I'm quite sure that an esteemed reader such as yourself…
Articles by Pam Baker
Mon, 14 November 2011
Fri, 11 November 2011
How to Rank Your Apps and Processes According to the Fire Alarm Scale
There you stand, figuratively speaking, with a fistful of sticky labels all bearing the words "mission critical." Now, what to affix them…
Thu, 10 November 2011
How to Reduce Your Mission Critical Footprint
Abstract labels are useful in conversation but no so much in practice. Take the mission critical label, for example. In abstract, mission…
Thu, 29 September 2011
Getting Started With Public Clouds
Looking to spin up a virtual machine and get that project done in a hurry but not sure what your choices are in terms of cloud…
Wed, 28 September 2011
My Favorite Collaboration Apps
Collaboration apps are not new but they are gaining prominence in this brave new world where crowd-sourcing trumps individual pontification…
Tue, 27 September 2011
How App Graveyards Produce Zombies
Apps are everywhere, on desktops, smartphones, laptops, tablets, netbooks and soon to be in cars and TVs as well. So many apps on so many…
Mon, 26 September 2011
The Future Desktop
The PC era is here to stay as long as the Internet lives. That is not to say however that it won't go through some physical changes along…
Fri, 23 September 2011
Birth of the Hybrid Desktop
Many companies not comfortable leaping completely into the cloud are keeping one foot on the ground (aka a hybrid cloud environment). This…
Thu, 22 September 2011
Why the Desktop Will Never Die
The current cries heralding the death of desktops and the rise of the Post-PC Era ring hollow to anyone of the Video Killed the Radio…
Wed, 21 September 2011
The Future of Instant Customized Software
For years, the culture of the U.S. has been all about instant gratification. But it is only fairly recently that manufacturers began to…
Tue, 20 September 2011
The Cloud as Software Pirate Police
Piracy has been the bane of software companies since the first CD was bought and underhandedly passed along to friends. Certainly…
Mon, 19 September 2011
SLAs Throttle Cloud Adoption
The cloud is hiccuping its way forward for lack of buy-in by vendors. You wouldn't necessarily know that from the pat and parceled messaging…
Mon, 1 August 2011
It is All About the API, Not the App
As IT becomes more consumerized and cloud computing becomes more of a reality, the app itself is becoming almost irrelevant across…
Mon, 27 June 2011
Twitter for Newsrooms is a Masterful Stroke
In a savvy sashay of marketing brilliance, Twitter was able to attract more journalists' eyeballs to its platform than anything short of…
