SAP Calls Itself an Innovation Company and Compares Itself to Apple
The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP's CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great - suave and smooth. He pointed to Max and his band. "Mighty Max!," he said. He told Max that what he loves about hi...
What it Takes to Power the Cloud [Infographic]
Our infographic to end the week is one of the better ones I've run across recently. It's about data centers, one of the more talked about topics in recent months. This one explores power consumption by making comparisons between standard usage and wha...
5 Reasons Why Skype Will Be an Office Hit
When Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype, it marked another turning point for many early adopters who have known the simplicity and usefulness of the service since its first days of availability back in 2003.
What the acquisition also repres...
What the Social Business Professional Gets Paid [Infographic]
The 2.0 Adoption Council created an infographic this week to show who is driving the use of social business technologies in the enterprise. The findings are based upon the responses from 96 people.
The results show that the median salary is about $11...
Poll: Are Google Chromebooks a Good Deal?
The question is coming up a lot. Google Chromebooks are priced at $20 per month for students and $28 for business. Is that a good deal?
It's considered a deal for the school systems that have tried it. Rachel Wente-Chaney, CIO of High Desert Educatio...
White Paper: How the Miami-Dade School District Became a Virtualization Pioneer
The Miami-Dade School District is a virtualization pioneer by any standard. But that was not the organization's goal when it first adopted virtualization technology five years ago.
The organization was simply just running out of room in its data cente...
5 Reasons Why it is Tough to Get Greater Adoption for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions
The innovations in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) have helped better its perception compared to a few years ago when it clearly had an image problem.
Most of this was due to the poor experience people had. You could clearly tell the difference b...
Toy Robots and Programmed Light Bulbs – Google Embraces the Internet of Things
Google is making a significant investment in the Internet of Things, with everything ranging from toy robots to programmable light bulbs. The news came at Google I/O today. Among other things, Google introduced Android@Home, which will turn Android de...
Google App Engine Now Supports Go Programming Language
Google App Engine now supports Go, the programming language developed by Google and designed for scaling applications and multi-processor systems.
It's one of a number of features as part of Google App Engine as part of its 1.5 release announced toda...
Google Chrome Experiments: Animated Globes with 3D Geo Data Spikes [Visualization]
Google introduced a new way this week for developers to use geospatial data through its Chrome Experiments initiative.
The new project is called Web GL Globe, an open visualization platform for geographic data that runs in Web GL-enabled browsers like...
Poll: Which Ruby Platforms Will Be Victors Once the Mist Clears?
You'd have to change your list almost weekly if you were to put together one of all the cloud computing platforms.
Andy Hu put together a list that includes more than 50 platforms across multiple programming languages and frameworks. It has been upda...
