How is Social Media evolving on emerging countries? What countries are leading and how they compare between them? It’s common to find basic benchmarking on the web: total number of facebook users, twitter activity and other. But research on new technologies...

The 2008 trending topic everyone was talking about was the Web 2.0 . On October 23 that same year, Amazon EC2 dropped the Beta label and the story accelerated: Less than 4 months after commercial availability of elastic computing there were over 22 definitions...

The Microsoft Disaster Response is an internal group that assists governments and organizations on global emergencies . The Mexican subsidiary and community volunteers are now working on developing emergency support systems for the Influenza A(H1N1) and...

Vote for your favorites before September 4. Register on SXSW panel picker before jumping to the links. There are over 2200 proposed panels. My selection: Come to my cloud : Supporting half a million visitors from day one. Social Media Interop : Emerging...

As we evolve to a hybrid of internal and external IT Services, companies on developed markets have invested significantly on infrastructure, so they are not rushing to outsource operations. Emerging markets have lower data center investments…Are they...

There is an extensive discussion on what the “cloud” definition and standards should be, benefits and risks, etc. Probably a distraction of really critical issues : How the industry players will collaborate en deliver the software services is a complex...

We all know that CRM and Collaboration are two workloads that have moved to the cloud . This article compares 10 hosted CRM solutions . The battle is now on the cloud. Productivity . Three years ago Microsoft Office was going to be killed by the browser...

The 12th Annual Emerging Technologies Update Day @ Wharton was very helpful on helping us not forget how IT is evolving longer term: Microprocessor . Workloads that required 200 servers 5 years ago can now be executed with only on 13 servers. An increase...

I just realized that blogs will soon be obsolete artifacts . Let me explain why: For over 10 thousand years “writing, painting and talking” have been the most basic communication tools we use to describe our lives. In the early computing days storage...

Can you imagine involuntary mindcasting? Most likely all accounts would be protected; probably Twitter wouldn’t exist at all… Recently I sent a mail to over 200 twitters inside Microsoft asking why we were using an e-mail alias instead of a protected...

The world has changed, but does this means that customers have eliminated all critical IT projects? Quite the opposite. 18 opportunity areas and why databases continue to be big winners: a) Reducing Cost . Some organizations cut IT up to 50% while expecting...

Social Media provides at the end of the year more than enough materials similar to “best of the year”, “top 10 mistakes”, "10 reasons” and other lists. In fact, I liked two more than any others and can also recommend a third one on the decade that...

There are Six main conversations taking place now: Low cost computing in the enterprise . Maximize the efficiency of your IT (Server management, Desktop Management), Use technology to lower the cost of business (UC), Take advantage of technology delivery...

“The information age is an idea that the current era will be characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information freely, and to have instant access to knowledge that would have been very difficult or impossible to find previously” Wikipedia...

@nishshah posted a tweet related to Disruptive Simplicity citing Netbooks and the Flip Mino. Let me add more examples on how a new customer category can be created by “returning to basics”: Netbook vs UMPC. Flip mino vs Camcorders Widgets vs Full software...

A Killer Application is a need of the user group that can be filled, and by filling it, create an acceptance of that tool and the supporting methods/results Let’s not just focus on placing your applications on the Cloud. The j ust is in effect a whole...

I just finished reading “ The next wave of technologies ” by Phil Simon. A great read! It proposes a new Enterprise 2.0 - not related to earlier Web 2.0 related definitions: IT organizations will adopt several new technologies. Cloud computing . No need...

Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more innovation areas are not well known… Is Microsoft losing the cloud apps? Let me share with you the perspective that I have as owner of the Microsoft Cloud initiative...

“Content is king” is the golden rule of the SEO. The semantic web is all about data.  Any web or traditional application has no value without data. Few people have discussed the future of Data, Pat Halland being one of the most prolific ones. Data...

10 years ago IT professionals considered database technology “mature” and analysts were preparing to slide it into a commodity status… But on the Exabyte era, we depend on databases to run packaged applications, custom solutions, end customer data storage...

I searched the internet for “connect and forget”. Wonderbox.net offer is described as a “revolutionary computer server ”… I think of wonderbox as a “ computing appliance ”, but Wikipedia limits the definition to storage and network only. The endpoints...

  What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data?   Let me suggest: http://bit.ly/BigData1 We face a data management problem: IDC 2010 Digital Unverse Study http://bit.ly/BigData2 First reference to “Big Data” I found on the web...

2 years ago I posted “ 16 papers and original articles on Big Data ” It’s now time to review and extend my original list. “Big Data” reached its Peak in 2012, according to the Gartner and based on their Hype Cycle. This is what skeptics are saying:   ...

The Big Data revolution will be more important than the PC or the Internet . While there were many interesting conversations last week at Strata, two new publications captured my attention: “The evolution of data products” by Mike Loukides describes our...