Social CRM is a hot topic these days. A couple of days ago, I was able to talk to Jan Sysmans, director of product marketing at Sugar CRM in Cupertino, California. Jan was able to take me through a major…
To deploy a new cloud can be time-consuming. With Joyent, things may change greatly for service providers. The last visit of our November press tour in Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated…
Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre. Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the…
Our 4th visit of innovative companies in Silicon Valley was devoted to i365, a Seagate company. The presentation was delivered by Terry Cunningham, President and GM of i365, George Hoenig, head of products and services and Valerie Fawzi, head of…
I know I shouldn’t get angry, this is not done. Yet, the recent flurry of self-proclaimed “experts” in the Social Media arena is getting on my nerves, to say the least. These people are purely and simply making my life…
Fusion-io isn’t just about flash io-memory technology, it’s about scaling up. On November 16, we paid the scale-up a visit. Fusion-io is the epitome of these successful technology companies as can be found almost only in the US and which…
Cloud washing is just like greenwashing for cloud computing. On November 15, after Zscaler, we visited StorSimple, provider of Hybrid Cloud technology. Ursheet Parikh is one of the 2 co-founders and the CEO of StorSimple, a promising start-up operating in…
Here it is, Hootsuite will cease to be a free application. Here is the e-mail I received today and here is the price structure. There are pro and basic accounts, but I can’t see mentions of enterprise accounts with more…
On November 15, I was invited with a group of journalist to a press tour in the Silicon Valley (a sequel to our June 2010 press tour in the Valley). Our first presentation took place in Sunnyvale, Calif. at the…
Large companies are keen on launching social media initiatives. To that end, support form experts is required. Last week, I was attending the Blogwell and SMBC meetings in Philadelphia. I also had an opportunity to sit with Andy Sernovitz, the…
Yammer is big in high-tech. The 4th and final Blogwell presentation which I attended on November 9 in Philadelphia was dedicated to Sungard’s experience. Sungard (the host of the November 10 private SMBC conference; this is a private member event…
Discovery Channel were the 3rd presenters in track1 of Blogwell on November 9 in Philadelphia with Amber Harris and Gayle Weiswasser delivering the presentation. Shark week is one of the longest-running television events (23 years!). How do you bring innovation…
