Check on Your SaaS Company’s Hosting Provider, Avoid Firehost
My CNCCookbook blog is experiencing it’s second outage so far this month. That’s a cause for visitor unhappiness and potentially lost business. I use Page.ly, because I believe in SaaS services....
View ArticleNews Analysis: Oracle’s Cloud Strategy – Revisionist History or Cloud Genius?
This is a joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller who looks at IaaS/PaaS and Future of Work technologies for Constellation Research. At a press conference on June 24th, 2013 with Microsoft’s CEO,...
View ArticleBest- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks In The First Half Of 2013
Cloud computing stocks continue to show wide variation in performance throughout the first half of this year. Ten of the twenty companies in the Cloud Computing Stock Index delivered returns to...
View ArticleNSA PRISM Scandal Is Hurting US Cloud Companies And Hastens The Return Of...
Non-US Based Organizations And Even Some US Organizations Will Not Tolerate Snooping In A Post PRISM World Since the Edward Snowden PRISM revelations, Constellation has received a steady stream of...
View ArticleQuips: Why Jeff Bezos Really Bought WaPo…Digital – Analog Convergence In...
There’s Always More To The Obvious Source: Bloomberg/Getty Images Over the past few weeks many have discussed the state of old media. Since Jeff Bezos announcement to buy the Washington Post, the...
View ArticleQuips: What the Google Motorola – Lenovo Deal Is Really About
Google Enters China Via Lenovo While Counter Balancing Samsung On January 29th, 2014, Mountain View based Google announced it would sell it’s Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese based Lenovo for $2.91 in...
View ArticleThe Digital Business Disruption Ahead Preview – NASSCOM India Leadership...
A 10-Minute Preview Video Interview Of The Digital Business Disruption Ahead From The #NASSCOM_ILF Team On January 17th, 2014, the NASSCOM team interviewed Constellation Research about the digital...
View ArticleBest- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks Feb. 10th To Feb. 14th And...
The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Fusion-IO (NYSE:FIO),...
View ArticleWill the road ahead be rougher for Apple and Amazon?
Image by libraryman via Flickr I loved @dasan’s piece on Apple ($AAPL) – this is what market leadership – make that dominance – looks like. It’s a very pretty picture – and it held up today. Apple...
View ArticleWhen will the crowd turn against private cloud?
Following on from yesterday’s Forecasting Fisticuffs webcast (recording here) with fellow Enterprise Irregular bloggers Vinnie Mirchandani and Dennis Howlett alongside Appirio’s Narinder Singh, I...
View ArticleNumbers, Volume 45
$2M for Evernote, Netflix growth, Flash poaching, virtual goods, cloud in the SMB. While we “don’t do numbers” at RedMonk, I come across many interesting ones each week. Here are some: $2,655,000 a...
View ArticleMonday’s Musings: Lessons Learned From Amazon’s Cloud Outage
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the...
View ArticleThe New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions
Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big Thing Social has given us the tools to connect. Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere....
View ArticleEnterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011
Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting...
View ArticleEnterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011, July and August
July and August Enterprise Software and Solutions news. Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the months of July and August: Apple became the world’s most valuable...
View ArticleIs Amazon Slipping?
I’ve been a very loyal Amazon customer for many, many years. I first check the Amazon.com site for practically anything I purchase, and have been a happy Prime member since the advent of the program....
View ArticleEnterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
We invented it Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its...
View ArticleCommunity, Recognition and experiences of a Community Manager
For several years my primary role and concern really was that of being the Community Manager for the SAP Developer Network (SDN) which is now known as the SAP Community Network (SCN); I still work at...
View ArticleWhy customer-obsessed Amazon is our most important business force
“Lifetime achievement” — when it comes to the Oscars or some other popular awards — usually goes to someone who hasn’t won any other awards but has built up a body of work that is so substantial that...
View Article10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Amazon Prime’s Growth
70% of Americans with incomes of $150,000 or more who shop online have Amazon Prime memberships. Amazon Prime international customers will grow at a 56% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2016...
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