The cloud is disrupting the systems integration market big time, a new study confirms. Will the systems integration industry as we know it look very different in a few years, as companies seek applications and services in bite-sized chunks off the cloud, versus big-budget engagements? The report from Global Industry Analysts observes that “growing awareness [...]
Continue reading → Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN’s San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
Continue reading → The world needs another piece of tech jargon like I need a hole in my head. Still, I like SoCloMo, created by the smart fellas at Aberdeen Research, because it captures in rhyme three out of four of today’s key enterprise computing trends – Social, Cloud and Mobile.* While SAP’s roots are in 80s-era client-server [...]
Continue reading → Red Hat (as opposed to, say, Ubuntu) is about as business-savvy as they come in the FOSS world. I would trust a Red Hat Open Source solution, so long as it were the best choice for whatever I need it to do. There are plenty of projects that wither on the vine in both the [...]
Continue reading → Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning “At The Evil Empire” column for ZDNet, and more recently [...]
Continue reading → The Kusnetzky Group LLC is an independent technology industry research firm that focuses on system software, virtualization and cloud computing technology. Dan’s opinions are based upon research, personal experiences and actual use of technology. They are not based upon the relationships the company may or may not have with suppliers, end user organizations, the media, [...]
Continue reading → Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning “At The Evil Empire” column for ZDNet, and more recently [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
Continue reading → On a Windows PC or Mac with the Skydrive client installed you get a “Sky Drive” folder. Whatever is in that folder syncs to skydrive and all computers with the client. Update a document in that folder and the delta’s update/sync. Mobile clients, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, iTouch…..access the cloud versions via the skydrive apps [...]
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