Category: cloud
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Heartbleed: What You Need To Do
Most of us have heard the news about the “Heartbleed” vulnerability, which possibly allows hackers to retrieve your login password or other personal information from many popular web sites. So what’s it all about? “Heartbleed” refers to a vulnerability in an encryption library that’s used by many different web servers. The library is called “OpenSSL,”…
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Cloud for Small Business – Hot or Not? Redux (UPDATE 2/24/14)
Google Apps. Microsoft Office 365. What are they and why do we care? Interesting questions. What does every modern office need? A productivity suite to create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations. A messaging system, for sending email and enabling chat. A calendaring system, to facilitate time management and shared scheduling. A collaboration system, to…
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Ever what?
Many of my friends know that I recommend Evernote unequivocally. Evernote is my personal repository for all kinds of information, accessible from just about anywhere. Evernote runs on Windows & Mac, iOS & Android, and even as a web application (Windows Phone, PalmOS, BlackBerry, Windows 8 Touch, Safari, Chrome and Firefox too!). Regardless of the…
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Dark clouds on the horizon?
To punctuate my previous two posts on cloud solutions, CIO Magazine offers up this observation: Unfortunately, too often cloud applications and services are bought by people who really shouldn’t be buying. Sure, they may have the budget … but that doesn’t mean they necessarily have the training to make good IT decisions, let alone the…
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Cloud for Small Business – Hot nor Not?
Last week I offered Rodney Roger’s perspective on the place of cloud computing in the enterprise. His premise, with which I completely agree, is that current “enterprise” cloud offerings lack the breadth and depth of on-premise systems. To paraphrase him, Salesforce and Workday are not ERP. He’s absolutely right. He also points to emerging cloud…
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Cloud: sexy – Enterprise: not so much
I read this article several weeks ago. I’ve pondered it. I’ve read it over again. Here’s a quote: If you unnaturally extend or generalize cloud solutions to me, or if you pontificate cloud idealisms without providing tangible platforms that can service what I am, then you waste my time. When you waste my time, I…
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“An Oddly Perverse Dynamic”
Aaron Levie, the founder of Box.net wrote a guest post on TechCruch yesterday discussing his perspective on the enterprise software business model. He describes the sales cycle as “… an oddly perverse dynamic where the vendors with the most feature-rich solutions win the contracts, but the users lose due to the complexity of the technology.”…