December, 2010

ReadWriteWeb — 2011 Predictions: Klint Finley

Thursday, December 30th, 2010 by ginger

December 20, 2011 — 1. Predictive analytics will be applied to more business processes, regardless of whether it helps. Netuitive is applying predictive analytics to IT system monitoring. This is an ideal use for predictive analytics. But Theresa Doyon has written about how survival analysis can be applied to customer attrition and employee turn-over. We’ve… Read more ›

MercuryNews.com — O’Brien: 11 Predictions for 2011, including Google buys Twitter, Yahoo axes Bartz and Facebook hits the billion mark

Saturday, December 25th, 2010 by ginger

December 25, 2010 — Last year, I offered up 10 predictions for 2010 and got five right. Ones I nailed: Palm was sold; Apple released a tablet and Google a phone; Silicon Valley posted gains in the overall number of jobs; the number of public companies in the valley continued to decline; Facebook and LinkedIn… Read more ›

RedMonk — James Governor’s Monkchips: Salesfoce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 by ginger

December 8, 2010 — I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear… Read more ›

Network World — Enhanced trust and data integrity in the public cloud

Saturday, December 4th, 2010 by ginger

December 03, 2010 01:15 PM ET — Can you trust the integrity of applications and data in the public cloud? Certainly trust is a crucial factor for the successful use of cloud computing by any organization. If you are going to allow another entity to process and/or store your data, you need to know whether… Read more ›