Tag: Cloud Computing
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Head in the Cloud
There is an infuriating post over at Wired’s Innovation Insights titled MDM is Dead, Long Live the (Enterprise) Cloud. Let’s start with the obvious. The author, Israel Lifshitz, is the founder and CEO of Nubo. Who is Nubo you might ask? Nubo is, from their site: REMOTE Enterprise Workspace for all mobile devices. It says that right…
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Episode 10: Accidentally Misunderstood
Wow, it has been a LONG time … but I’m back for a short episode. I’m focusing mostly on misunderstandings about why Apple does what they do and how they go about doing them. In regards to web technologies, or what people think are web technologies. Accidental Tech Podcast iCloud http://bobspeaks-files.s3.amazonaws.com/BSe10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window…
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The Outsourcing Conundrum
The first round of “outsourcing” was focused around the physical shift of employees from their one country to another for cost savings (moving support staffing from the United States to India for example, or moving manufacturing to China). The current round of outsourcing doesn’t necessarily have to do with shifting geography, but from shifting responsibility…
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SaaS: A Double-Edged Sword
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service, Cloud Services, etc.) are a fact of life for most people and companies. If you are using Gmail, or YouTube, or Campfire, or Basecamp, or GitHub … you are using software housed on someone else’s servers. This is wonderful on many levels. You don’t have to worry about the software, they’ve taken care…
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More on IT Partnerships
My friend, Nate Beran, just posted a great article about his views on IT partnerships. I recommend you go and take a look yourself if you have any interest in the seemingly endless talk about shipping more and more things away from internal IT departments to 3rd parties. Here is the salient paragraph for me: So…