Weekly Download 14.2
Posted: April 21, 2014 Filed under: Weekly Download | Tags: Microsoft, SAP Leave a comment
Here’s a recap of news and notes from around the Web that caught my attention over the past week or so.
Cloud technology meets Main Street? Microsoft’s new CEO, in his first public speech, emphasizes a “mobile-first, cloud-first” world, while using an iPad and introducing Office for the iPad. Office for iPad strikes me as a bit late and now irrelevant. Who even knows how or cares to create a Table of Contents?.
SAP is making its business suite available in the cloud via subscription. The branding people certainly didn’t get anywhere near this one…as it is officially called “SAP Business Suite via the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud” (whatever that means).
RIP Windows XP. Windows XP is finally not supported as of 4/8/2014. It was released 10/25/2001—who thought a desktop OS version could last that long? And it will continue on for some time in an unsupported fashion.
Weekly Download 14.1
Posted: April 14, 2014 Filed under: Weekly Download | Tags: Agile, Box, Cisco, Forrester, holacracy, The Economist Leave a commentHere’s a recap of news and notes from around the Web that caught my attention over the past week or so.
Box Files for IPO. This should be interesting to watch. While still losing money after $400M in investments, they are seeking to raise $250M. Almost 34k organizations and over 1.75M individuals are PAYING for the platform. When including free users, totals rise to 225k organizations and 25M individuals.
$1B CISCO Intercloud Investment. Cisco is going to be the “engine inside” many cloud offerings, from Telecom companies to software vendors and traditional distribution partners. This goes well beyond IaaS to encompass collaboration, unified communication, mobility, big data, etc. Of note: Openstack and Hadoop are significant elements of the offerings.
Forrester on Corporate Learning from Cloud Infrastructure Providers
Holacracy. A different way of organizing leverage social technology.
What’s gone wrong with democracy. The Economist looks at the decline of the most successful political idea of the 20th century.
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