Saturday, January 22, 2011

Stuff I harmonized with George Colony singing at Forrester event this week January 17-21 2011

Apple CEO Steve Jobs to take medical leave of absence

Battling 'BPM backslide'
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13167785/2433922

Social BPM and the HIMS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13167796/2433922

Ballmer Leads Microsoft's Cloud CRM Charge
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71645.html

Pega's Cloud Has an Open-Door Policy
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71661.html

To BW or Not To BW

A Guide to Evaluating BI Products

Move to cloud increasingly requires adoption of modern middleware to support PaaS, dynamic workloads

The 10 biggest hoaxes in Wikipedia's first 10 years

Happy 25th birthday, IETF

The Internet of Things and the Cloud CIO of the Future

"Stealing Wi-Fi" isn't about Wi-Fi

Experts: Gov't trusted Internet identities a long way off

HP Will Show 'Future of webOS' with Tablet and More

Apple's App Store Nears 10 Billion Downloads

Study: Femtocells May Boost More Than Just Cellular Coverage
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1611725/5553367/158412/0/

Verizon Dumps Renewal Upgrade Option
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1602348/5553367/158019/0/

When Patents Don't Equal Innovation
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1602348/5553367/158021/0/

DNA Molecules Can 'Teleport,' Nobel Winner Says
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1602348/5553367/158022/0/

No-Glasses 3D Tech Makes You Blink Really Fast
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1602348/5553367/158025/0/

Where are those Windows Azure Appliances?

DEFINING THE MICROSOFT HYPER-V CLOUD
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13168966/2433922

EMC Attacks Tape's Last Major Hideout With First Storage System for Backup and Archive http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4503030&access=EH

EMC Delivers World's Most Powerful, Trusted and Smartest Storage Array http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4503031&access=EH

Microsoft Launches Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Cloud Service Globally http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4502737&access=EH

USAGE, IMPLEMENTATION TOP LIST OF ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13175205/2433922

Don R. Crawley: Death by water cooler

11 Steps To Calculate Cloud ROI

Alinean Introduces Social Media ROI Calculator http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4503759&access=EH

5 Big Themes in BI for 2011

IDC Identifies Decision Management as a Key Enabler of the Intelligent Economy

http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=prUS22652411&sectionId=null&elementId=null&pageType=SYNOPSIS

In 2011, SQL Server market trending toward cloud, virtualization

http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/news/2240030719/In-2011-SQL-Server-market-trending-toward-cloud-virtualization?asrc=EM_EDA_13170538

Microsoft turns up the heat on Salesforce.com, Oracle

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205361/Microsoft_turns_up_the_heat_on_Salesforce.com_Oracle?source=CTWNLE_nlt_entsoft_2011-01-17

EMC Debuts New Entry-Level Storage, Plans To Recruit Thousands Of VARs

Internap Launches Storage On OpenStack; Rackspace Open Source Cloud Hits Milestone

Microsoft Goes Global With Its Dynamics CRM Online Cloud Application

Rackspace, Amazon Butt Heads Over Cloud Support

Talari Seeks Channel Splash In WAN Optimization

Symantec Expands Storage Appliance Line, Plans Security Appliances

Midmarket Embraces Cloud Computing, Increases IT Budgets

IBM's Database Security Strategy: A Closer Look

A Textbook Case For Monitoring

OpenERP Aims to Bring ERP to the SMB Masses
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71668.html

Apache Launches Version 0.7 of Cassandra

Alacritech Launches New NAS Accelerator Appliance

3X Updates 500 and Tera Series Remote Backup Appliances

Is An Apps Shakeup Ahead At Microsoft?

Identity Ecosystem: How the government is trying to stop online-payment fraud

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4962&tag=nl.e036

SQL Server 2008 R2 – Master Data Services

New EMC Products May Mean a New Era for Backups

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=102006NO2MEU&nl=2&full_skip=1

Internet 'Kill Switch' Could Cause Chaos
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1623979/5553367/158765/0/

PushToTest Drives Application Performance Insight by Embedding Jaspersoft Business Intelligence
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4503419&access=EH

Ford's Distracting Dashboard Needs a Risk Disclaimer

Private Clouds Taking Off

Microsoft Steps Up Competition With Dynamics CRM 2011

EMC 'Doubles-Down' On Storage

Creating a Business-Relevant Data Strategy

The BI Revolution: The Rise of the BI Builder

BI Leadership Shake-Up

Q&A: Keys to Data Governance Success

Data Virtualization and NoSQL Data Stores

Q&A: Combining Search with BI Yields Powerful Results

Numbers and Nuance

Don R. Crawley: Avoiding a collision between technology and emotion

Why some companies are ditching their spreadsheets

Microsoft, HP selling $2M data warehouse appliance

EMC combines Clariion, Celerra line in VNX, revamps entire storage line

New Cassandra database can pack two billion columns into a row

RightNow acquires natural language search firm Q-Go

Scenes From EMC's Major Product Launch

Top 10 CPM, analytics and BI stories of 2010
http://go.techtarget.com/r/13181374/2433922

Microsoft, Digital Health Summit Laud Body Sensors, Bionic Hands

A Home for Analytics

Microsoft turns up the heat on Salesforce.com, Oracle

IBM’s cloud computing strategy: Flying blind?

http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/2240030797/IBMs-cloud-computing-strategy-Flying-blind?asrc=EM_NLN_13181292&track=NL-1329&ad=808664

Microsoft, HP Debut Appliances Targeting BI, Messaging Apps

Does Microsoft Deal Signal Death of HP's Neoview?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110119/tc_pcworld/doesmicrosoftdealsignaldeathofhpsneoview

HP, Microsoft Share Strengths in BI, Cloud Offerings

http://www.information-management.com/news/business_intelligence_data_warehouse_cloud_HP_Microsoft-10019523-1.html

Social Network Frenzy Signals Another Tech Bubble

Amazon Web Services Simplifies App Deployment

Steve Jobs and Apple: Beginning of the end?

Android 3.0 Honeycomb sweetens the pot for business users

Amazon EC2 Gains An Elastic Beanstalk

Global CIO: HP & Microsoft Launch Broad Fleet Of Application Appliances

Experian Announces Availability of VantageScore® 2.0 for Financial Institutions http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4506435&access=EH

When Self-Service Goes Horribly Wrong
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/71687.html

EMC combines Clariion, Celerra line in VNX, revamps entire storage line

EMC doubles performance of Data Domain dedupe arrays

The Disconnect of Intelligence and Analytics

Governance Gets Respect from C-Level

Top 10 Government IT Predictions For 2011

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's gutsy moves

Apache upgrades installable Internet apps platform

HP-Microsoft collaboration bears fruit

Schmidt to step aside as Google CEO, Page taking over

Oracle promising 'game-changing' storage announcement

Google Hotpot as a Social Network Needs Time to Cook

Larry Page to be Google CEO in big management shakeup

Google Docs Preparing For Life As A Platform

Analysis: Google Dropping H.264 Support In Chrome Is Shortsighted

HP, Microsoft Team-Up Yields New Appliances