I’ve covered Sapho, and its attempt to change the game for those poor souls forced to use old and inflexible enterprise technology for years. Sapho’s attitude is that the reality is that enterprises either can’t or won’t rip and…

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I’ve been writing about FinancialForce ever since… well, ever since it has existed, to be honest. The company, a by-product of a love fest between European ERP vendor Unit4, and CRM behemoth Salesforce has been going now for nearly…

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Passwords, huh? The bane of everyone’s existence. Make them secure and you assign yourself to a life of trying to manage a gazillion complex and different passwords. Do the easy thing, and reuse, reuse, reuse and you run the…

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Believe it or not, many moons ago (in 2011, to be precise) telco giant Verizon decided that is was going to be a public cloud player of note and went out and dropped over $1 billion on Terremark to…

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Around a year ago, I spent some time talking to an interesting new startup that, I have to say, I was a little dubious about. The idea of Wasabi was to bring together the knowledge that founders Jeff Flowers…

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It is interesting to look back on momentous occasions and see them as inflection points which, at least to an extent, changed the world. Edward Snowden’s exposing of state-sanctioned surveillance of private citizens opened a massive debate, and forever…

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You might never have heard of Rimini Street. If you haven’t, you might be surprised to know that it isn’t actually a quaint little mountainside location in the mountains of Italy, it is, instead, a technology vendor. But Rimini…

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Matt Asay (a good guy and a respected technology thinker) recently wrote an article positing that serverless computing is one of the biggest threat to containers. For those who don’t geek out on this stuff constantly, serverless computing was…

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Large technology vendors are known for many things, but humility isn’t one of them. Even the most visionary and deeply philanthropic of large vendors has a stroke of hubris alongside their other traits. This is true of Salesforce as…

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I live my life (at least when my laptop is open) in a browser. I write documents using a browser-based app, similarly my back office solutions, calendaring tools and, of course, email, all happen in the browser. I’ve long…

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