You’re ready to launch your cloud service to the rest of the enterprise and migrate applications at a rapid clip. Unfortunately, your enterprise software vendor has a gun pointed at your head and is threatening to derail the whole initiative. This could get ugly. Read more »
For better or worse, Hadoop has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard. But is the enterprise buying into a technology whose best day has already passed? Read more »
The most encouraging aspect of Sony’s acquisition of Gaikai is that it happened at all. Sony has a long and unfortunately history of devotion to its own home-grown, over-engineered formats and technology regardless of what’s happening in the rest of the market. For Sony to be ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
When thinking about the value of the data a company collects vs. the traditional value of the product it may produce, collecting and analyzing broad categories of customer + product data is becoming equally — if not more — valuable than the product itself. Read more »
Publishers and advertisers have aggressively deployed QR codes in the hopes of engaging mobile users, but their campaigns have largely fallen flat. The technology still holds promise, but the window for QR is closing as NFC-enabled handsets are coming to market in a big ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Publishers and advertisers have aggressively deployed QR codes in the hopes of engaging mobile users, but their campaigns have largely fallen flat. The technology still holds promise, but the window for QR is closing as NFC-enabled handsets are coming to market in a big ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The question of where to build your data center has become increasingly complex as the power demands of data centers themselves have grown, making power the largest operational cost for data center operators after labor. Controlling power costs means building data centers in places with temperate ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
It’s been less than nine months since Zynga started to hint at the strategy that would launch its next stage of growth and reduce some of its dependency on Facebook. In fact, the company is showing steady progress in implementing that vision. Third-party developers and Zynga ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
At Google’s I/O conference last week the company trotted out Android 4.1, showcased a new tablet and offered a demonstration of Project Glass. But technology is a world where a company’s fate can change quickly, and there still important questions to consider regarding Google’s strategy in mobile. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Managing clouds requires human capital, which will dictate new roles in your organization. Rodrigo Flores, a cloud enterprise architect at Cisco Intelligent Automation, argues that cloud builders who pay particular attention to the people part of the equation will emerge as the true winners. Read more »
While much of the industry today is focused on improving speeds and feeds inside the data center, we need to recognize the importance of improving the networks that connect enterprise data centers to each other, and to the public cloud. This post explains why. Read more »
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Google seems to have taken to heart Apple’s emphasis on design. The Nexus Q is a smooth black orb that looks like a small bowling ball with cables coming off it. Positioned carefully to hide the cables it could almost be a piece of pop art ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google is preparing to take on Amazon in the Infrastructure as a Service market, but don’t hold you breath for any impact from Google any time soon going on its past record with Google App Engine. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Verizon insists its $3.6 billion spectrum deal is crucial for its plans to deploy an integrated video offering across TVs, PCs and mobile phones. But there’s precious little evidence that consumers really want to watch video on their ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
In this brief video, Andrew Blum, the author of Tubes: The Journey to the center of the Internet, addresses some of the things he discovered in his global tour of the physical components that are part of the vast, unseen infrastructure that underlie the Internet. Read more »
At the GigaOM Structure Conference last week the main hall was packed for Intel’s VP of Cloud Infrastructure Jason Waxman’s talk about brawny vs. wimpy cores. Waxman opened his presentation by referencing the last couple years’ academic paper wars, which have pitted Google’s Urs Hozle, arguing ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
If Microsoft buys Yammer, it should focus on keeping Yammer a horizontal platform and learn how to adapt to freemium pricing rather than obsess over deeply integrating Yammer across its product lines. If it does, this could be a powerful combination in work ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The Surface’s ability to support multiple input modes and to run software designed for anything from keyboard, to touch, to game-controller input will enable Microsoft to tap existing networks of developers already working in multiple related ecosystems, none more important than the Xbox ecosystem. If Xbox ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Microsoft this week announced an aggressive move to target the tablet market by creating and marketing it own Windows-based devices. But stiff licensing fees may prevent its manufacturing partners to produce other Windows tablets that could compete with the ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Natural gas dipped below $2 per thousand cubic feet in April, the first time in a decade, driven by the expansion in hydraulic fracking, a mild winter and the fact that the U.S. market is largely closed to outside demand because we cannot yet export natural ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The tech giants have arrived in the online storage market and Dropbox and Box are in the midsts of parlaying their features into actual products–and, eventually into big-time companies. Heere’s an inside look at the thinking behind a new product category. Read more »
Building an enterprise app has radically changed in the last few years thanks to the DevOps movement and cloud computing. They’ve taken an incredibly manual process and translated it into reproducible code. But like in the Star Trek transporter, everything still has to go just right. Read more »
Apple surprised a lot of pundits by saying almost nothing about Apple TV at the Worldwide Developers Conference. But Apple’s TV strategy is ultimately platform-based, not device-based. And looked at from that perspective, there has actually been a fair amount of activity lately, including at WWDC. ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Apple’s move to dump Google Maps instead of an in-house solution illustrates how big a battleground mobile mapping has become in the war between mobile operating systems. Here’s what to expect over the next year or ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
If one looked back at the last sixty years and told a story about the electrical grid, it would be a tale of monumental growth as electricity use in the U.S. is about 13 times what it was in the 1950s. Americans now consume about 20 ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Even after Facebook’s IPO “disappointment,” there was a lot of action around social media marketing startups last week. While several acquisitions and fundings are riding the same uber-trend, it’s too simple to just say: “social media marketing technology is hot,” or “get ready for market consolidation.” ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Cloud isn’t just an IT decision, it’s a state of operations. And in this second post from Mark Thiele on why executives need to help choose a cloud management platform, he explains how and why the decision to go cloud should involve the entire business. Read more »
Today, conventional wisdom suggests that cloud computing will bring increased efficiency to computing markets, which will then decrease costs. Cloud computing will allow organizations to cut IT spending and help relieve pressure on IT budgets. But that’s not going to happen. Read more »
The way I’m watching Bonnaroo from my living room has nothing to do with how we’ve defined live TV for so long. Instead, the music festival is flowing into my TV thanks to broadband and an easy-to-sync-up array of gadgets from Apple to Samsung HD. Read more at paidContent »
Once the SmartGlass SDK is available, developers will have what amounts to a write-once, deploy-anywhere development environment to work in. Presumably, apps can be written to the SmartGlass APIs without having to devote additional development resources to creating separate versions for iOS, Android and Windows Phone ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Windows Azure supports Linux, Python, Drupal, Apache Solr, Hadoop, and no you are not dreaming. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
User engagement can be a very slippery statistic. Although sites and apps like to talk about how fast their unique visitors are growing, it’s more important to know how many of those users are actually using the site regularly. Read more »
