Cloud Talk

Apparently, there's no slowing down the social media frenzy. Remarkably, even after making huge inroads in the past year, social media will be even hotter in 2010. We're talking about increased investment, broader adoption footprint with greater corporate buy-in. Here... Read More..

My friend David Linthicum got into the game early, publishing his list of cloud computing predictions while I was still enjoying my eggnog... others have weighed in with their own list. Since it's still relatively early in 2010, I thought... Read More..

Obviously, since I work for Eloqua, I'm a big believer in SaaS - the quick deployment, lower TCO and the subscription payment model are compelling. But with all the advantages of SaaS, there's a big problem that has emerged as... Read More..

There's no question whether SaaS is mainstream today - proponents love the fast deployment and low cost of entry. Companies of all sizes now deploy SaaS in one form or another but uptake is particularly strong among SMBs. Larger enterprises... Read More..

There's a debate brewing around Enterprise 2.0 or the shortened moniker E2.0 (which I'll use here use since I'm lazy). As far as I can tell, it started here with Dennis Howlett's post labeling E2.0 as a bunch of crock.... Read More..

Since I'm both a proponent for the cloud-based model and work for a leading SaaS company, I'm inclined to say yes. But Forrester released a new report indicating that at least for the Records Management industry, the SaaS model has... Read More..

Last week, Google released its 2009 Communications Intelligence Report, covering the impact and current state of cloud applications/SaaS on IT. It was based on a survey of 1125 IT decision makers and perhaps predictably, it offered a positive commentary and... Read More..

It's my pet peeve - industry pundits talking about issues related to SaaS/cloud-based applications in a generalized, homogenized way. They talk about issues like whether SaaS is suitable for "large enterprises" or whether cloud based applications are "sufficiently secure" as... Read More..

On his Web Strategist blog, social media expert Jeremiah Owyang asserted that despite having 300M members, "Facebook isn't the largest social network, email is". He makes his case on the basis that there are three primary features that define social... Read More..

Gartner's Andrea Di Maio seems to think so in his blog post a couple of weeks ago. According to Di Maio, the primary advantages for open source - vendor independence (since you have the source code) and cost (it's "free"... Read More..