Forget Bring Your Own Device - Try Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled
As consumer devices and services increasingly outstrip their corporate competitors in power, productivity and cachet, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the latest so-hot-you'll-melt trend in the...
View ArticleFasten Your Seatbelt, It's Windows 8 Day
Today will be one of the most important days in Microsoft's nearly 40-year history. The company that ruled the PC era rolls out a long-awaited new version of its flagship operating system that could...
View ArticleCloudStack: Filling Two Niches In Open-Source Enterprise Cloud Management
If you look at cloud computing, you might think, based on the hype, that enterprise-cloud management systems like OpenStack, OpenNebula or Eucalyptus have things wrapped up. But ignore CloudStack at...
View ArticleIf You're Human IT Middleware, It's Time To Find A New Job
Guest author Alan S Cohen is a serial enterprise technology veteran, and most recently a Vice President at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 Billion. Years ago I was delivering a keynote...
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`A Trillion-Dollar Transfer Of Wealth Is About To Hit Silicon Valley'
I was having a drink in San Francisco with Sanu Desai, a longtime Silicon Valley investment banker whose track record includes helping Amazon go public back in 1997. We were talking about how attention...
View ArticleCan A Corporate Giant Help Your Startup Succeed?
Many startups are dedicated to disrupting the businesses of established enterprises by leveraging innovative ideas, processes and strategies. Big businesses, in turn, either ignore pesky startups or...
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Will Autonomy Break HP's Back?
The question of whether Hewlett-Packard can avoid a break-up will be answered over the next six months. That's how long the company has to convince investors its PC, printer and technology-services...
View ArticleWhat's Bugging Online Storage Users? It's Not Always What You Think
While people who use Dropbox and Box worry about security, users of services like Google Drive and Apple's iCloud seem more concerned with implementation issues. Is that a sign of dangerous...
View ArticleThe Enterprise Is Cool Again, and Box CEO Aaron Levie Is Loving It
There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about the decline of consumer Internet companies and the rising interest in companies that sell software to enterprises. After all, Zynga and Groupon, the...
View ArticleWhy Do Tech Companies Dominate "Best Places To Work" Lists?
When the Great Place to Work Institute released its 2012 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list this month, ranking the world's 25 best employers - tech companies ruled. High-tech companies grabbed...
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Cheating DeathWatch: Microsoft Isn't Dead Yet
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're going to take a slightly different tack, and highlight companies and...
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Dell Says BYOD Driving Corporate Interest In Windows 8
The case for Windows 8 is a response to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend? That's the take of Dell founder Michael Dell, who told customers and partners Wednesday that corporate interest for...
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Cheating DeathWatch: The CIO
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're taking a slightly different tack - highlighting companies, technologies and...
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The Lawsuits Are Already Filed: Create Your Mobile Privacy Policy Now!
This month, the state of California sued Delta airlines in a very big way for failure to comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA). The suit alleges that the Fly Delta mobile...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Microsoft Headlines Of 2012 - And The Real Trends Behind Them
While it might be an overstatement to claim that Microsoft news dominated 2012, the company’s drumbeat of publicity around the launch of Windows 8 gave it a disproportionate significance. And Microsoft...
View ArticleHow The Web Makes People Work On Christmas
It’s Christmas Day and amidst the running tots and stress-inducing in-laws, you sneak away for a few moments to... well, check up on work. Nothing too extensive, probably: You draft a few emails, check...
View Article2013: The Year When Things Get Real Again
Sometimes you start off a new year with no idea where things are headed. But this year the tech industry is starting off with a clear agenda. It’s all about the enterprise and B2B, and frankly I can’t...
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Will Windows 8 Bring HTML5 To Enterprise Applications?
When Microsoft gave its first public preview of Windows 8 in 2011, the now-President of Windows Julie Larson-Green sent shockwaves through the Windows development world with just four words: "our new...
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Solid State Storage Is Taking Over The Datacenter - Slowly
Solid-state storage has become ubiquitous in mobile devices and increasingly in laptops as well. But it's also revolutionizing storage in corporate datacenters, cloud computing services and beyond....
View ArticleMicrosoft Crows About Its Privacy Program - But Australia Has Deep Concerns
A Microsoft-sponsored survey released Wednesday found that almost half of Web users felt like they had already lost control of their own data while online - just days after the Australian government...
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