Guest author Chris O’Connor is chief executive of mobile solutions provider Taptera.The booming mobile applications market is a hot topic right now at many a water cooler in Silicon Valley and beyond. I've toiled in the mobile market since 2007 and in those years I've witnessed more than my fair...
Box CEO Aaron Levie has been on a one-man crusade to make the enterprise sexy again. Based on the 2012 Crunchie Award winners, it worked. While a number of nominees and winners were consumer-facing startups that will likely be passé by next year, the enterprise startups on the ballot sheet...
Guest author Marcus Austin is a technical writer at computer security training firm Firebrand Training.Among the more popular products to debut at last month's Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, were cross-over machines, tablets and PCs designed for double-duty - to be used at home and in the office.The...
Guest author Ed Lee is lead architect for virtualized storage vendor Tintri.Virtualization and flash memory are disrupting the staid storage industry. First embraced in slick consumer products like the iPod, flash memory is now the new darling of enterprise IT. One reason is speed.Flash is more than 400 times faster than...
If you're not hearing a lot about social enterprise these days, it may be because no one can figure out what the hell social enterprise is.On paper, the concept sounds reasonable, even important: take popular social media tools (microblogs, wikis, blogs, etc.) and use them for internal collaboration, project management...
Research In Motion is getting all of its ducks in a row ahead of its BlackBerry 10 announcement later this month. It has refreshed and renamed its app store, BlackBerry World, attained FIPS 140-2 certification for BB 10 and released a technical preview of BB 10 for enterprises and government....
"Change it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fall that's all"- The Who, "Won’t Get Fooled Again"With Washington festooned over the weekend with banners and parties alongside the serious national dialogue about the issues of the day, we all understand that the world...
The enterprise has always been buttoned-down, conservative. And that's a good thing. Let the wacky Web crowd dabble in new-school technologies. Eventually they'll be back, begging for a white paper or two to explain best practices of green screens and mainframes. Right?Not even close. As Forrester analysts Jeffrey Hammond and...
It took Amazon Web Services (AWS) eight years to hit $650 million in revenue, according to Citigroup in 2010. Just three years later, Macquarie Capital analyst Ben Schachter estimates that AWS will top $3.8 billion in 2013 revenue, up from $2.1 billion in 2012 (estimated), valuing the AWS business at $19...
IBM spends over $1.5B every quarter in research and development (R&D) expenses. SAP? Closer to $700M. Oracle? Assuming we don't count the tens of billions it spends buying other companies, its actual quarterly R&D budget comes in just over $1B - around $900M. Microsoft, which has printed billions of dollars...
When Microsoft gave its first public preview of Windows 8 in 2011, the now-President of Windows Julie Larson-Green sent shockwaves through the Windows development world with just four words: "our new development platform." The reason? That platform was based on HTML5 and Javascript.To casual observers, that makes sense. HTML5 is...
With all the recent teeth gnashing about startup investment shifting from consumer to enterprise technology, it's worth noting that successfully cracking the enterprise market is no easy task: 70% of the U.S. economy hinges on consumer spending. Even with the pending fiscal cliff, it's kind of hard to ignore the...
Guest author Adam Seligman is vice president of developer relations at Salesforce.com.The tech industry is once again at a turning point. We've moved from a world of big monolithic applications to lightweight, contextual social and mobile apps. Apps, not applications. Apps in your pocket, connected to back-end services and data,...
There is perhaps no person less likely to start and run an enterprise software company than Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie. Which is perhaps the reason he's so well-qualified to disrupt the traditional enterprise content management market.He simply didn't know any better.As Levie noted in a recent interview, Box...
In 2012, IT growth and innovation centered around mobile devices, cloud services, social networking and Big Data. 2013 is likely to see accelerated adoption in all those areas, as many companies move from experimenting and testing to deployment.What follows are 2013 predictions for some of the fastest growing next-generation technologies...
For consumer-oriented startups, 2012 came in like a lion, but left like a whimpering lamb. As the year went on, startups that target the consumer market had an increasingly hard time getting funded.Blame Facebook. Blame Groupon and Zynga. All of them had a discouraging year and their flaccid performance caused...
An estimated 40 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold by Microsoft in the first month of sales, with an indeterminate number sold after that. But it is not clear how many of those licenses will show up in the enterprise vs. the consumer market (or even whether those licenses...
"The easy problems in the world are solved, the hard ones are left, and we're going to need software to fix them."That's how GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner characterized the technological challenges ahead at a roundtable discussion of predictions for the enterprise in San Francisco Thursday.Sounds a hell of a lot...
OptioLabs has just released OptioCore, a secure version of Android, to handset makers. It's pretty cool, but does it mean Android is ready for the enterprise?From a security standpoint, Android has always been a case of untapped potential.The Two Sides Of Android SecurityOn one hand, it's an open and popular...
A Microsoft-funded study by Forrester to be released on Thursday claims that enterprises face significant costs for supporting more than one browser among their employees.The study, which ReadWrite viewed in advance, found that supporting an "alternative" browser carries extra costs when it comes to Web apps. The key metric of the study:...
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