digital Transformation
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Joyent enables service providers to deploy a new Cloud in a few weeks
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 to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in…
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Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future
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 future A concept Vikram Mehta had described as being the…
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Fusion-io: flash io-memory, flash results, flash growth
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 make this kind of press trips so useful. Fusion-io: flash…
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Cloud computing: StorSimple battles against “cloud washing”
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 the storage domain, based in Santa Clara, Calif. Cloud computing:…
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Zscaler wants to be the Salesforce.com of Internet security!
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 main office of Zscaler, a ground-breaking cloud security provider, which…
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Telecom: Informa analyst describes pacified M2M market
Jamie Moss, a principal analyst at Informa telecoms and media, and columnist at telecoms.com has this interesting story about the m2m market and the positioning of carriers within this market. Informa analyst describes pacified M2M market Moss’s account follows Informa’s “embedded connectivity event” which took place in London in September…
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Arista brings cloud networking in data centre
Arista brings cloud networking in the data centre and increases performance 5 times for 10 times less power. On 3 June 2010 we had the opportunity to meet with some very important figures of the Silicon Valley in Menlo Park California. We had indeed a meeting with the people from Arista,…
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Blade Network Technologies: The network as a business enabler
To BNT, the network isn’t just about pipes; it’s a true business enabler. On June 3rd, 2010, at the end of our press trip in Silicon Valley, we have had the opportunity to meet with Vikram Mehta, President and CEO of Blade Network Technologies (BNT), a four-year-old company dedicated to…
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4 Business Cloud Integrations for Small Businesses
Is the cloud out of reach for small businesses? The cloud has been written off by some as just another business buzzword. However, it far from being a flash in the pan. It is here to stay because the cloud can have extremely important applications for both huge corporations and…
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Increasing brand advocacy with Social Media
On Nov 10th, 2009 I was in Atlanta presenting at Blogwell on behalf of Orange Business Services, presenting our social media strategy and explaining how, why and what we did online to increase our brand advocacy. Increasing brand advocacy with Social Media According to the influencermarketinghub, Brand advocacy is the…
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Google Chrome real thin client: the fat Firefox killer
When I first heard of the release of Google Chrome I thought that this was probably one browser too many. When I tried it this morning (I’m writing with it now) I was really amazed at the simplicity and – above all – lightning fast display of the new Google…
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is user-friendliness a sure marketing bet?
Is user-friendliness sufficient to drive marketing success? Very often, I hear people say that you have to make your end-users’ lives easier to generate marketing success. However paved with good intentions this statement may be, I did ask myself the question of whether making users’ lives easier is a sustainable…
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