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ClearStory Brings Big Data to the Masses
By James Sullivan | Jul 04 2012
ClearStory Data, a Palo Alto-based Big Data start-up backed by Google Ventures, Andreeseen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures, is set to help average business users make sense of huge, disparate Big Data elements through intuitive graphical… Read More
Key Players in Enterprise Social
By James Sullivan | Jul 02 2012
We uncover top enterprise social vendors who are developing innovative and widely adopted solutions for enterprise social networking and collaboration. Read More
Top Companies to Watch in IaaS - Part 1: Key Players
By N. Rowan | Jun 28 2012
Infrastructure-as-a-Service is certainly not a new field, but with the growing popularity and complexity of the cloud, the IaaS market is in a constant state of flux. In December 2011, Gartner published a Magic Quadrant,… Read More
Social in the Spotlight
By James Sullivan | Jun 20 2012
Social is hot right now. It seems like everyone from industry analysts to corporate executives is talking about the importance of social to CRM and the broader business software market. Read More
Enterprise Software Companies to Watch - ServiceMesh
By N. Rowan | May 29 2012
ServiceMesh's Agility Platform solution helps IT departments in the areas of cloud governance, policy management, security, and auditing across multiple clouds using only a single management interface. In other words, ServiceMesh offers a simple way… Read More
IBM Chooses Cloud Upstart over Oracle
By Darlene Lin | May 03 2012
IBM, a leader in its own right as a software and hardware provider, recently announced that it would be dropping Siebel in favor of SugarCRM as its CRM system. Read More
A Closer Look at the Consumerization of IT
By Darlene Lin | Apr 26 2012
The consumerization of IT does not refer to a particular technology or software; instead, it refers to the use of consumer technologies and devices, such as iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices within the enterprise.… Read More
Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive Entering Cloud Storage Space
By Amanda Andonian | Apr 25 2012
This week, both Google and Microsoft announced their new cloud storage services, bringing up questions of whether rival Dropbox will continue to dominate in the cloud storage and file sharing sphere. Read More
Social CRM Goes Mainstream
By Darlene Lin | Apr 19 2012
Nearly everyone wants to take part in the social revolution that's transforming business, therefore many vendors are now producing social CRM solutions. As a result, social CRM has moved to the mainstream of the enterprise… Read More
The OpenStack Approach to the Cloud and What it Might Mean for the Future
By Amanda Andonian | Apr 18 2012
The OpenStack Design Summit started in San Francisco yesterday, prompting endless discussion on the web regarding what the future of the cloud might be. Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack represents the efforts of… Read More