Enterprise Software News and
Insights:
Here are some of the biggest headlines
of the week:
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U.S. Federal Agency That Switched
From BlackBerrys To iPhones Has A
Rethink: Plans To Test BB10
Devices Next Year: Some good news for embattled
smartphone maker RIM: the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency (ICE) has said it plans to
test BlackBerry 10 devices next year, Reuters is reporting. A spokeswoman for
the BlackBerry maker told the news
agency that ICE will begin a pilot
program on RIM's new line of
BlackBerry 10 smartphones and
BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10
(BES 10) early next year. Read More...
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Intuit CEO: Big Data Can Be "The
Great Equalizer": The conventional wisdom has it
that Big Data has been good for large
enterprises, and very, very bad
for consumers and small
businesses. According Intuit CEO
Brad Smith, though, big data can
also be "the great
equalizer." Read More...
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Google's Coolest Project?
Broadband: According to Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, the most
interesting project going on at
the search giant is its high-speed
broadband trials in Kansas City.
(Missouri and Kansas
versions). Read More...
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What we'll see in 2013 in cloud
computing: Next year, "the cloud" will
finally be ready for enterprise
workloads and big companies will
finally start moving them there.
Data centers will stop being
enclosed by walls and those are
just two of GigaOM's 5 big cloud
predictions. Read on for
more. Read More...
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HP's 'Rent-A-Network' Could Be
The Most Imaginative Thing It's
Done In Years: HP just came up with a really
cool new service to sell
enterprise networks. It imitates
the way Amazon sells cloud
computing.Read More...
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Michael Dell: 64,000 Servers
From Number One Position
Worldwide And An Official
Commitment To OpenStack: Michael Dell said onstage at
his Dell Worldkeynote today that Dell is No.
1 in market share for servers in
North America and Asia and
64,000 servers from the number
one spot worldwide. Read More....
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Why The Enterprise Renaissance
Will Be Big In 2013: "The easy problems in the world
are solved, the hard ones are
left, and we're going to need
software to fix them."That's how
GitHub co-founder Tom
Preston-Werner characterized the
technological challenges ahead at
a roundtable discussion of
predictions for the enterprise in
San Francisco Thursday. Read More...
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Marc Andreessen on the Triumph
of Software: Marc Andreessen, a partner in
the venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz and a
co-founder of the first major
Web browser, Netscape Navigator,
discussed software, unions, the
fiscal negotiations in
Washington and the notion of a
tech bubble with Andrew Ross
Sorkin at DealBook's
post-election conference.Read More...
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Cisco Takes Secretive Role As
"Unnamed Silicon Valley
Industry Titan" In WhipTail's
$31M Round: According to multiple
sources, Cisco has taken a
secretive role as the "Unnamed
Silicon Valley industry titan"
in a $31 million round
forWhipTail, a flash storage company
that also took investment from
SanDisk and others. Read More...
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Amazon gives customers
more detailed billing of
their cloud
services: New AWS billing lets
customers see their cloud
services charges broken out
into more detail - a key
issue for many customers who
want a better look at what's
going on in their AWS
cloud. Read More...
Blog Post of the Week:
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Enterprise Software
Lessons: Simple Is Easy to Understand but Hard
to Build and Hard to Sell: Every other startup in the history
of enterprise software claims to
have the simplest solution to the
domain problem they are solving.
Seriously, have you ever heard
anybody, even Oracle or SAP, say
that their software is complex to
use while selling to a
customer?????? Read More...
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Last week we presented 2 sessions about
cloud computing and mobility at VSLive
Orlando. Our first session was based on
the lessons we learned while building
our enterprise mobility cloud platform:
KidoZen (www.kidozen.com) . The second session was about
Windows Azure Mobile Services and some
of the techniques developers can use to
start leveraging this interesting
technology. Slides coming out soon.....
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