ServiceNow wants to be an enabler of business transformation. But that’s a hard challenge when you’re known as a tool for IT. At the recent Cloud Field Days event, I spent a couple of hours visiting with ServiceNow at…

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“Digital Transformation” is, of course, one of the buzzwords du jour. And technology vendors are, en masse it seems, pushing their particular product offering as being just the thing to deliver digital disruption. Of course fundamentally changing an organization…

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Invoca is all about helping organizations sell more stuff. Their particular area of focus is the phone call. Invoca’s Voice Marketing Cloud helps businesses understand customer intent, find out about the caller, and analyze what is being said within…

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Part two of this multi part post comparing and contrasting NetApp and Rubrik looks at Rubrik’s brief history to date. As I wrote in the first part of this series, Rubrik sells a converged data management system and platform…

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Forrester Research has just published a new Wave looking at the subscription and billing space, and the company that essentially invented the term “subscription economy” has cleaned up – Zuora was found to be the leader in the report…

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While attending Cloud Field Days in the Bay area recently, I spent time with both NetApp and Rubrik. I visited NetApp on its campus the day before Cloud Field Days actually started. While there I met with a number…

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A few years ago there was a big trend towards tools that claimed to enable cloud-bursting – the live moving of excess workloads from on-premises infrastructure into the cloud. While that use case has pretty much been dismissed as…

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A couple of months ago I was asked to join a global group around the topics of diversity and inclusion. As someone who comes from a country that, in my admittedly biased view, leads the world in dealing well…

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The current office design trend is for the implementation of open-plan spaces which have little or no pre-assigned space. The idea being that workers can hot-desk as their whims dictate. Want a little bit of privacy, head for an…

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I received an email the other day inviting me to cover the international coming-out of Joviam, an Australian cloud company that is embarking on a mission to enter the US market. Joviam offers a cloud platform for “technically-minded consumers…

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