Two worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represents one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rest of the vendors in that world. They don’t buy hardware until it makes sense to move off a cloud service and into their own […]
Posted on October 9th, 2012 by admin
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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Planning — Challenges for Remote Office Locations Advances in collaboration and communication technology in recent years have made sharing documents, video conferencing/desktop-sharing and instant messaging second nature to most people who work in the IT market. In a recent Harvard Business Review Blog postion they argue that remote employees are more […]
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Jive CEO Tony Zingale zinged Zynga, Yammer, Oracle and you name who else in an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levie at Boxworks. But the real story comes with Zingale appearing as a mystery guest for the company’s annual event — fueling speculation that the two young enterprise challengers may have some news to share […]
Posted on October 8th, 2012 by admin
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Nutmeg, the UK-based online investment management service that earlier this year raised $5.3 million from Pentech, Tim Draper, Spotify board member Klaus Hommels and Armada Investment Group chairman Daniel Aegerter, opens its doors for business today. It is coming to market armed with a concept it hopes will grab consumers at a time of disillusionment with banks […]
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The fractured state of the Android platform can make it difficult to manage app development. Testing can be a bear but cloud-based services are providing new ways for developers to quickly see how their apps look on any type of device. In its presentation at PIE Demo Day in Portland on Friday, AppThwack’s Trent Peterson said […]
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Editor’s note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream. He is also chairman of Teliris and lead director of Greensmith Energy Management Systems. Follow him on Twitter. I am a large enterprise. I employ many people and make a good deal of money. I am a large enterprise. A vast array of technologies – […]
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Editor’s note: DJ Patil is a data scientist in residence at Greylock Partners. You can follow him on Twitter. The enterprise is back. We’re seeing a resurgence of companies to help support everyday work tasks. Workday is replacing stodgy-feeling HR systems with intuitive software that users can easily navigate. Dropbox and Box are resolving the time-old challenge of file sharing and alleviating the […]
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One of the most frustrating things that can happen at work is finding out that an important email is locked away in a colleague’s inbox, and you can’t get a hold of some crucial information until that colleague comes back online. That’s a problem that startup AffinityLive is trying to solve with its new product […]
Posted on October 6th, 2012 by admin
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Lytics made its debut today at the PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day with the unveling of its real-time analytics service. Lytics, which is in the process of finalizing a seed round of funding, tackles the problem that comes with getting value out of data from multiple sources such as mobile environments, the web, email, social, […]
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Demand for continuity in the supply chain is growing Customer demand for continuity and resilience is an irresistible force. This became clear when a client asked us to supply an automated tool to self-assess their thousands of suppliers. They now use it to manage contractual compliance in both information security and business continuity, providing low […]
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