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"The RedMonk guys do impressive thinking & talking." - The Official Google TV Blog: What's new with Google TV?
The Netflix update looks like it'll fix most of my complaints. - API Strategy Evolution at Netflix
- State of the Public Cloud: The Cloud Adopters' Perspective – Whitepaper | Appirio
"To understand the cloud adopter perspective, Appirio worked with Itracks, a leading online market research firm, to survey IT decision makers at 150+ mid-to-large sized North American companies (all with >500 employees, 65% with over 1000 employees) who had already adopted at least one leading SaaS or cloud application. We wanted to learn from these cloud adopters." - Zoho Celebrates 2010 Successes
Zoho wraps up the highlights of 2010: "[a]s the Zoho suite matures and the direct user base surpasses three million users." - Google Code Blog: WindowBuilder becomes new open source project with major code contribution to Eclipse Foundation
Google contributes a significant chunk of GUI builder code to the Eclipse Foundation. - How One CIO Cured His Info Glut Woes
Nice example of "enterprise" data needs from Herbalife, "a $2.3 billion company that markets nutrition, weight-management and personal-care products to 2 million global distributors." - BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation
Note the part about being able to manage databases in Amazon and such. Also, the BladeLogic automation folks are keeping up a somewhat steady pace with extending their platform to new application types. They picked up Phurnace a little while ago giving them the ability to mess around in the Java world. - Cisco, BMC co-develop cloud platform for service providers
- Google demos Chrome OS, launches pilot program
Two items: (a.) this is exactly the play Netscape tried on Microsoft (the browser becomes the new OS and application development platform), Google can probably survive whatever tactics Microsoft would throw out, vs. Netscape – but throw in Apple and things get challenging, (b.) the ratio of pricing to functionality on these things has to be pretty good from an enterprise desktop support stance – I could see a bold IT department saying, "either you can bring your own laptop, or we'll give you one of these" – it's like those crappy pens they give you at work. - Smartphones, tablets to overtake PCs in the next 18 months
Little wonder people are so excited about mobile app development, it's looking like it'll be the new computing platform: "IDC said worldwide shipments this year of app-enabled devices, which include smartphones and media tablets, such as the iPad, will reach 284 million. In 2011, makers will ship 377 million of these devices, and in 2012, the number will reach 462 million shipments, exceeding PC shipments. One shipment equals one device. For PCs, IDC is forecasting 356 million PC shipments this year, and 402 million in 2011. In 2012, there will be 448 million PC shipments." Also, summary of IDC's cloud (private and public) spending forcasts. - Atos Origin buys Siemens IT wing in €850m deal
"Atos Origin said the acquisition would bring in pro forma 2010 sales of around €8.7bn and bump up the company’s staff headcount to 78,500 workers worldwide." - HP inks $1.4bn outsourcing deal with energy firm E.ON
"Under the terms of the agreement, HP will directly manage the data center services and workplace services for more than 80,000 employees. HP also will act as operational integrator, collaborating closely with E.ON’s other key IT suppliers. As a result, more than 1,100 employees will transfer to HP in April 2011."
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