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Perhaps accurate metrics on the extent of cloud adoption are not important

A lot has been made over the last few weeks about a skew between Microsoft's announcements about sales of cloud SaaS and PaaS subscriptions to enterprise business and the extent to which these subscriptions are actually used. For any readers unfamiliar with the current chatter about Microsoft on ...

Ira Michael Blonder
4 years ago

Facebook adds to its success as a leading medium for online advertisers

A couple of articles published recently point to further gains by Facebook as a leader in the media market for online advertisers. The first of these, titled Why Google Should Fear Facebook's New Product Ads, which was written by Garrett Stone and published on the AdWeek web site, reports on some...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Microsoft and its partners continue efforts to take down obstacles to wider cloud adoption by enterprise business

Rackspace, a leading provider of managed services to enterprise businesses, reported earnings on February 17, 2015. Some remarks from its CEO, Taylor Rhodes, point to what maybe a promising indicator of enterprise business moving towards increased use of cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. Micro...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

NoSQL is, for better or worse, inevitable

The following comments are based on a literal definition of the NoSQL acronym, "Not Only SQL". So readers are advised not to interpret my comments as an endorsement of "NoSQL databases" (MongoDB, DocumentDB, etc). A lot has been written over the last few months on the promise – or illusion of on...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Is it too late for Microsoft to establish a position in the smart car market?

In February, 2014, Ford announced its decision to terminate work on the Sync automobile mobile device controller system, which was a joint effort with Microsoft. Nonetheless, Microsoft has continued to aggressively compete for a share of the smart car market. The work on the automobile segment of...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Don’t look to Facebook at Work to change much in the world of enterprise social, but enterprise recruiting could be a different story

Facebook At Work, should it be released in early 2015, isn't likely to make a dramatic appearance on the market for enterprise social computing solutions. It's not as if consumers of this kind of computing solution have few choices. But the market is constrained and, perhaps, for a set of good re...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Marketers look to be succeeding with customer data and have pressing needs to consume more

During Facebook's Q3 2014 Earnings Conference Call, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO reported $3.2 Billion gross revenue for the quarter, and a 64% year over year increase in their advertising business. In contrast, Google, as Patrick Pichette, Senior Vice President and CFO reported during its Q3 2014 Earnin...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

The Azure cloud wants to power the Internet of Things

Before turning over the Keynote podium at Microsoft's Tech Ed Europe 2014 event to another Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Joe Bellfiore, Jason Zander brought two recent success stories to his audience's attention: the London Underground, "a user of Azure with IoT" Coca Cola "working with sel...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

It takes more than design components to produce online editorial content likely to attract habitual use from readers

Medium and Tumblr both offer visually strong statements to readers. The editorial content published on both sites, from a visual perspective, can be said to be a consistent combination of very prominent images and text laid out with special fonts and background color. Ostensibly the presentation ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago