I first had the pleasure of meeting Professor Terri Griffith around eight years ago when we stumbled across each other in that biggest of global melting-pots, Twitter. Terri is a professor of management at Santa Clara University – a…

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When WalkMe started out, theirs was a simple kind of a proposition: they helped drive software adoption by offering contextual guidance within applications. Instead of having to refer to an instruction manual or some other third-party offering, for example,…

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As I write this, IT admins across the world (but especially in Europe) are looking bleary-eyed as they try and work around a serious outage that Microsoft’s cloud suffered in Northern Europe. According to the Microsoft advisory: A subset…

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Yesterday I was critical of a report that Dr. Owen Rogers, noted cloud economist (yes, there is such a thing) and respected analyst at 451 Research came out with. A synopsis of my views is that Rogers made some…

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Well, this is awkward – after spending years playfully eviscerating 451 Research analyst Owen Rogers, finally, I’m taking him to task “for reals.” Some research he’s just completed, while empirically correct in its findings, is intrinsically flawed in its…

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Living in a country that derives the majority of its GDP from primary production, I’m pretty interested in the opportunities and threats that technology introduces to agriculture. I’ve spoken at length about the very real threat that synthetic protein…

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Late last year I received an email from a PR agency asking me to try out Kiwi for Gmail. Now I’m not sure whether the name of the product is a none-too-subtle attempt to gain coverage from this proud…

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I’m spending a couple of days in Thailand at Huawei’s Asian Innovation Day. That’s somewhat ironic since this morning the New York Times ran a story about Facebook offering deep user access to four Chinese vendors, including Huawei. I…

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News today from cloud data management vendor Druva who is further delivering upon its market opportunity with a strategic acquisition of CloudRanger, a backup and disaster recovery vendor that focuses on Amazon Web Services (AWS). CloudRanger may be a…

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Microsoft (you’ve probably heard of them, they’re a gargantuan technology company founded by a guy who is now intent on giving his fortune away to make the world a better place) announced today that the rumors circulating over the…

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