January 2011
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13 Reasons Not to Go to the Cloud →
I honestly think that buying your own hardware is rarely the good choice for a small to mid-size company… there is a hosted solution for almost any use case and it is impossible to get the same service for a comparable price.
Unless… you meet one of the 13 criteria (tnx @BobWarfield)
Normally I am a tremendous fan of the Cloud and advocate it for almost everyone. However, Michael...
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E-mail and cloud computing: time to get rid of the... →
Competition pays of: the new kid in town pushes the decennia-longer leader in new directions. Making the cloud yet another viable option for a key business use: e-mail.
Google Apps or Microsoft BPOS: what’s right for you? The verdict
Google Apps, for now at least, seems to have the most complete offering (email/calendering/docs) , excellent desk-less functionality (no client side applications...
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FourSquare for the Enterprise: Give it 2 Years,... →
The key take-away for me is the following statement:
Hutch Carpenter of Spigit says it is a two-year lag before the enterprise adopts a social computing trend.
The trick is to knowh which social computing trends will be adopted :)
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New Waves of Growth!? →
Accenture identified 4 area’s we should be looking at:
an aging population, growing resource scarcity, exploding technology advances and emerging markets.
An interesting read to get the helicopter view!
“Nothing is impossible, untill you stop believing in it”
– me