Benioff Vs. Ellison: Tech TKO?
By Tony Kontzer In the end, both executives were really exchanging what amounted to a lot of hot air. After all, the two men, and their companies, operate in different paradigms.
Emerging Tech
October 7, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011 6:49 PM/EST
October 3, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011 8:11 PM/EST
Data Analytics at the 'Speed of Thought'
By Susan Nunziata What, exactly, is speed-of-thought? Would that be "speed-of-thought" before or after you've had your morning coffee? Has Oracle discovered that thought travels at breakneck speed -- much like those little neutrinos which some physicists suspect are able to travel faster than the speed of light?
September 2, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011 1:30 PM/EST
The Social Enterprise: Big Ideas, Fuzzy Details
By Tony Kontzer What we didn't really hear at Dreamforce 2011 was how Salesforce's smorgasbord of tools comprises a comprehensive platform that can be used to build a social enterprise, which is what I believe they're getting at. Unfortunately, Benioff & Co. didn't offer a lot of practical advice for CIOs on how to make this happen.
September 1, 2011
Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:19 AM/EST
Vivek Kundra at Dreamforce: Ex-Fed CIO Touts Social Media Revolution
It sure sounded like the seeds of a revolution were being planted by none other than former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra during a panel discussion Aug. 31 at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2011 conference in San Francisco. No, Kundra didn't suggest Americans take to the streets and seize the country by force--it wasn't that kind of revolution he was talking about.
June 22, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:56 PM/EST
Apple's iCloud: What's So Special?
By Tony Kontzer As long as Apple maintains its Apple-as-the-center-of-the-universe approach, the service will remain the iCloud, not The Cloud.
April 5, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:53 PM/EST
Uncle Sam's IT Dashboard
By Tony Kontzer CIOs from 38 states and territories are interested in downloading, testing and evaluating the Feds' IT Dashboard and TechStat Toolkit.
February 17, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:13 PM/EST
OK Watson, Game's Over. Now, Get to Work
By Susan NunziataIBM clearly didn't put years of research dollars and brainpower into Watson simply to snag a killer product placement on a popular gameshow.
February 1, 2011
Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:27 PM/EST
Science Aptitude & the Future of U.S. IT
By Tony Kontzerthe news last week that science aptitude is in the toilet among American elementary, middle and high school students doesn't bode well for the nation's long-term economic recovery, or the future of IT.
January 4, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:05 AM/EST
Will the FTC's 'Do-Not-Track' Alleviate Privacy Woes?
By Tony Kontzer It's possible that the FTC is on the money with its suggestion that consumers need a more pervasive and easier-to-understand mechanism that will help them preserve their privacy as they go about their business on the Internet.
December 17, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010 8:06 PM/EST
RehabCare Group Takes Cloud, Enterprise Mobility to the Next Level
By Tony Kontzer RehabCare Group CIO Dick Escue has decided to replace employees' desktop and notebook PCs with consumer devices, issuing them iPhones, iPod Touches and IPads, and began using iTunes as an application management tool.
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