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- 10 IT Companies to Watch in 2010
As has become my annual habit, I'm providing a list of 10 companies, most of them relatively small, that I think will be worth watching this year. 1. Psydex. Psydex qualifies as my favorite technology of 2009. The company uses semantic algorithms to parse information feeds (millions of individual records) in real time. It then assigns....
- How Not To Underestimate Apple's Market Share
A couple of years ago I wrote a posting entitled; Apple's Market Share Is Bigger Than You Think. I doubt if Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, read that piece, or if he did, he was in denial about its implications when he spoke to market analysts in July 2009. That's when he equated Apple's market share growth to being "a rounding....
- What is a Service Processor? And Why Should I Care?
You may have no idea what Avocent does, or quite possibly, you have never heard of the company. It flies beneath most people's radar. Avocent is the primary supplier of Embedded Service Processors to the hardware giants - including Dell, IBM, Intel, Lenovo and others. It has revenues of $617m for 2007 and it is growing fast, having....
- What is a Presence Server and Why Might I Need One?
At the HP analyst convention I wandered round the various technology showpieces that HP had on display and ran into a "unified communications" demo. I've discussed unified communications before, pointing out the schizophrenic nature of the market. HP's demo pretty much illustrated the point, as it married Microsoft's messaging software....
- Desktone: Client Virtualization in the Cloud
In some instances there is no doubt that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is the case with the picture below from client virtualization company Desktone. It succinctly illustrates Desktone's proposition, which it calls "Desktops as a Service" . I was quite surprised by Desktone when they presented this to me - it's the kind of....
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- iPhone Flash, Java, SME - There's No App for That
You have to give Apple credit for teaching the world how useful and how much fun smart phones can be. Before the iPhone, they were big, buggy, boring bricks with buttons. Now, a phone store is like a fashion show - a dazzling parade of slim new models, each one sleeker and slicker than the last. But, even so, like a one-named....
- Why Orchestria? CA's Acquisition Strategy
I'm expecting that 2009 will be full of acquisition news, some of it sad, because it will mean that promising companies have found the economic environment too tough to bear. So, some of it will be fire sale activity and some of it will considered business logic behind it. The acquisition of Orchestria by CA, which was announced on....
- Why Google Won In The Search Market
What's a hundred milliseconds between friends? Well if you must know it's an intolerable delay, if your friend happens to be a Search Engine. A hundred milliseconds is a brief amount of time that sits close to the threshold of human reaction time. We can normally react to a stimulus in the 140-200 millisecond range, which is great news....
- How Does Speed Deliver Business Benefit?
Speeding up a business process will often deliver significant business benefits. It is easy to see why. A business consists of many different processes. Increase the speed of any one of these, even in a small way, and you either end up delivering a service to someone faster (another department, a business partner or a customer) or you....