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Blog posts about Cloud Computing

Matt Mullen

Dark Data provides Lucid moment as Big Data turf war heats up

Added By Matt Mullen on 10-May-2012

WARNING: If you're already getting "Big Data" buzzword sickness, look away now, as Lucid Imagination -- the professional open source distributor of the Apache Lucene/Solr search platform -- has announced a beta program for its formal entry into the "Big Data" turf war. It's called, predictably, ... Continue Reading

Matt Mullen

Revival of the fattest? Addressing new threats to site performance

Added By Matt Mullen on 1-May-2012

I've just written an advisory briefing for our subscribers, "Address Emerging Threats to Website Performance", which reviews some web development trends that are increasingly having a negative effect upon website user experience ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Google, Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, and others battle in the cloud

Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2012

Google finally released its much rumored Google Drive, a new competitor in the increasingly crowded cloud-based file sharing and sync marketplace. As with all things Google, the Drive announcement generated a huge amount of hype across the blogosphere and twitterverse.

Many commentators compare Drive with Dropbox and to some extent Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple's iCloud. However, there are many, many more choices ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Free Webinar - How Cloud, Mobile, and Social Will Change the World of Information Management

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Apr-2012

Cloud, Mobile, and Social are three of the most common buzzwords in today's IT lexicon. The words are here to stay, but will the underlying concepts really bring about fundamental changes to the way we manage information? Or, are they more hype than substance? ... Continue Reading

Kashyap Kompella

Clouds finally gathering on the Broadcast horizon?

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 15-Apr-2012

Surprisingly for a field that is rich in technical and engineering talent, the media and broadcast sectors are definitely not early adopters of new IT technologies (if they adopt at all!) and models. But now as broadcasters look to boost their bottom line, they are increasingly exploring whether and how they can leverage cloud technologies and models, as media systems consultant Al Kovalick points out here. ... Continue Reading

Kashyap Kompella

Everyday High Resolution - Walmart as a Media Content Management Vendor

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Apr-2012

Your friendly neighborhood Walmart may perhaps be the best kept secret in the world of cloud and content management. Walmart is already the largest distributor of videos in the offline world, and now with the upcoming roll out of the disk to digital (D2D) initiative, it is turning into a content management vendor for videos in the cloud ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Google Apps - After the Hype...

Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Apr-2012

Google has been promoting its broad suite of "Google Apps for Business" as -- among other things -- an enterprise collaboration and social computing offering, aiming to compete with the likes of SharePoint.

To that end, Google has won a handful of big deals, but in discussions with some larger early adopters, a hype cycle appears to be playing out: ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Can OneCloud from Box Bring Cloud and Mobile Together?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Apr-2012

Well, that's a buzzword-compliant question...but an important one nonetheless.

Consider that:

  • Mobile has been a big driver of cloud
  • Tablets (iPad in particular) have become increasingly prevalent within enterprises
  • Enterprises are paying more attention to cloud and mobile

Since Box wants to become more enterprise-y ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

Will SaaS WCXM ever reach cloud nine?

Added By Irina Guseva on 1-Mar-2012

In the highly-fragmented Web Content & Experience Management marketplace, cloud or SaaS vendors do have their niche. But that niche remains quite narrow. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

UK Government Cloudstore - not yet ready for prime time

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2012

The IT press here in the UK have heralded the remarkable launch of the government's G-Cloud Cloudstore. The timing was certainly impressive: In just four short weeks this online services directory and procurement application went from contract to launch.

Yet I remain a bit puzzled as to why the service has gone live at all, since ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

eXo Platform quietly goes for Cloud and Mobile

Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2012

The open source eXo portal platform released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant

Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012

Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jan-2012

We've just released an advisory paper, "Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?” ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

File Encryption Compromises in the Cloud

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jan-2012

There is of course much interest these days in both the cloud and more general usage of hosted/off-premise environments for managing electronic documents. Indeed it's an area that we have been receiving many more inquiries from our advisory service customers over this past year. Yet despite the interest, one area I find few buyers investigate thoroughly enough is that of file encryption ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

When your vendor does not do cloud

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jan-2012

Not surprisingly, most architects have taken an intense interest in cloud-based computing, across both its public and private (and hybrid) incarnations. These same architects typically also participate in software selection decisions. Then here's what happens: architects immersed in planning cloud-based futures often get surprised to discover how poorly traditional software vendors fit into that world ... Continue Reading

Kashyap Kompella

Is social software vendor Telligent really gaining Leverage here?

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Dec-2011

There is usually a common theme that drives M&A in the technology sector and this season it is the "cloud." For example, in the last couple of months Oracle bought RightNow (cloud-based customer service) and IBM acquired DemandTec (cloud-based retail analytics). The trend seems to be spreading to the social software space as well ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

2012 Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011

It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How accurate were our 2011 predictions?

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011

Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

No liftoff for SaaS Web CMS

Added By Irina Guseva on 23-Nov-2011

Every few years, someone declares one type of Web Content Management (CMS) software on the verge of "liftoff," to take over the entire space. Early last decade, people tried to convince me that open source was going to dominate the world "by 2005." ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

EMC Documentum vs IBM FileNet vs Oracle WebCenter Content?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2011

Recently I fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an actor (minor parts - small films) and I finally came to understand the meaning of the thespian question, "What is my motivation?"

It is an important question that we probably don't ask enough, and buyers might want to ask the same of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) suppliers. Yes, seriously ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Storage Wars in the Cloud

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Nov-2011

OK, I'll admit it. One of my guilty pleasures in recent years has been the American television show, Storage Wars ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Is Box.Net a threat to SharePoint?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2011

We've just published an advisory paper for our ECM and SharePoint subscribers (non subscribers can purchase it here) analyzing the implications of large enterprise buyers considering Box.Net alongside Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

SharePoint and cloud - ready or not...

Added By Shawn Shell on 10-Oct-2011

While SharePoint's "cloud" ambitions started many years ago, the perfect storm of Azure (another major component of this year's SharePoint conference), Office365 and improved development tools have created the fertile environment for adoption.  When Microsoft first announced cloud services like Business Productivity Online Suite and, specifically SharePoint Online, it was a way to stretch the existing SharePoint 2007 product, without the expectation of being truly successful.  It was, however, a good proving ground to enable Microsoft to learn about how SharePoint could play -- or not -- in a shared environment ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

When WCM vendors choke on cloud

Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Aug-2011

Most of the Web Content Management vendors we evaluate claim to have some sort a cloud option.

For many of these vendors, this boils down to one of two things: ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

What dropping support for older browsers tells us about Google Apps

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jun-2011

Google has announced that for Google Apps, it's dropping support of older browsers. Only the current and previous versions of IE, Firefox, Safari, and of course Chrome will be supported. After August 1st, Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3 and older versions will be the first to be dropped. Clearly, this is going to put some customer IT departments in a bit of a pickle ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

5 Cloud Contract Considerations

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-May-2011

In this era of many enterprises moving content to the cloud, it is easy to get caught up in the potential benefits and rush to get started without properly protecting yourself ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

No more content management

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2011

I'm pleased to share the results from some new, path-breaking research we've been conducting this year. Content Management technology is no longer necessary. Read the full release here ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Cloud on the rack

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Mar-2011

What could have been a snoozefest in fact turned into a full-on attack of the value and promise of Cloud Computing ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SharePoint leadership starts with a SharePoint strategy

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2011

On the 28th and 29th March, my colleague Jarrod Gingras and I will be hosting the inaugural SharePoint Strategy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Selecting Software in the Federal Government

Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Jan-2011

I recently had the chance to sit down with the famous John Gilroy of Federal Tech Talk on Federal News Radio in Washington, DC. The 30-minute show aired earlier this week, but you can listen to or download the archive ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How did our 2010 predictions fare?

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Nov-2010

As you may know, we make twelve predictions every year, and every year, we go back to try to assess our accuracy. So, let's see how we did with our 2010 predictions from last December ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

When a SharePoint Cloud is all puffery

Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Aug-2010

As you may have noticed by the slew of announcements from Redmond, Microsoft has placed increasing emphasis on "cloud" computing ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Selecting Social and Collaboration Software

Added By Tony Byrne on 28-May-2010

There's always a high energy level at the semi-annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference, and I expect this June's Boston event will be no exception. Please consider joining me there ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Pathbreaking research focuses on Human Cloud

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2010

I'm delighted to announce today that we have just released new research on emerging technologies that will transfer live human beings to the Cloud ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Google, DocVerse, Jive, and vendor-switching in the Cloud

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Mar-2010

Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago -- but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Understanding SaaS CMS pricing

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Mar-2010

Last week I received a message from a friend discussing the annual fees his firm pays for their hosted Web CMS. The CMS and associated website are served up by a well-known, Software as a Service ("SaaS") WCM vendor ... Continue Reading

Phil Kemelor

Can US Government agencies really use Google Analytics?

Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Feb-2010

Does Google Analytics' new availability on apps.gov mean unfettered availability of the free analytics tool for US federal government agencies? A story in SearchEngineWatch might lead you to think so, but key leaders in the Federal web analytics community point out ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

SharePoint ecosystem extends to SaaS

Added By Shawn Shell on 17-Feb-2010

Two years ago, Microsoft made a big splash with their announcement that SharePoint, among other tools, was heading for "the cloud."  In 2008, SharePoint Online represented Microsoft’s latest attempt to introduce more Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings to the broader marketplace ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

Google vs. SharePoint can be Apples vs. Oranges

Added By Shawn Shell on 12-Jan-2010

Since the birth of SharePoint, Microsoft has marketed it as an internal collaboration platform, during a period when Intranet managers increasingly see collaboration as a high-priority service. Now, players such as Google and HyperOffice are trying to repeat SharePoint's success, using an on-again, off-again "SharePoint Killer" marketing tactic combined with the idea of creating a kind of Intranet-in-a-box alternative. However ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Contribute to key debates in Enterprise Social Software

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2009

At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, MA next week I'll be facilitating a discussion on "Social Software: Key Debates" ... Continue Reading

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