Blog Archives

The State of Password Security

October 3, 2013

Business

Chief technology officer, cloud computing, evernote, Key derivation function, linkedin, Platform as a service, Services, Sony

I’ve written in the past about security in the cloud and the fact that moving to the cloud doesn’t remove all obligations from users to ensure their data is safe. While undeniably using cloud services means that users can…

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Thousand Eyes Launches Internet-Wide Performance Management Product

June 19, 2013

Business

AppDynamics, evernote, ExtraHop, Lew Cirne, network, NewRelic, Performance management, ServiceNow, Software as a Service, twitter, zendesk

We all now the drill. The rise of cloud application has meant that performance monitoring, formerly all about delivering metrics from one stack, has been blown apart and needs to become much more modular and distributed in nature. Companies…

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Cloud and SMBs

June 23, 2011

Business

cloudcomputing, dropbox, evernote, google, Google Talk, skype, syncplicity, tripit, tungle.me, Xero

A little while ago Christina DesMarais from Inc magazine asked a question on focus.com about the best small business applications out there. I live SMB so this was a question right up my alley. It seemed worthwhile to recount…

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How Software SHOULDN’T Be Sold

July 6, 2010

Business, marketing, SaaS

evernote, mindmeister, remember the mil, rescuetime, shoeboxed, the small business web, timebridge

I’m a member of the school of though that says that SaaS brings true value to a small business. As such it troubles me when I see people selling based primarily on price – it does them, and the industry, a disservice. I’ve posted about this previously, begging vendors to articulate the value of their apps.

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Blog Archives

The State of Password Security

Thousand Eyes Launches Internet-Wide Performance Management Product

Cloud and SMBs

How Software SHOULDN’T Be Sold