James Maguire

The VMworld conference, for the five days it runs, is like a city unto itself. Some 23,000 professionals gather from around the globe: vendors, analysts, investors, managers, and – dreaming of the free lunches – the journalists who cover it all. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated […]

Date: August 27, 1:30 PM PST Big Data is touted as the Holy Grail of modern competitive business – a multi-faceted tool that produces exponential profits for those companies smart enough to leverage this smart, hip technology. But wait – that sound you’re hearing is profound backlash. Big Data, still new and still quite immature, […]

Also see: Hadoop and Big Data: 60 Top Open Source Tools And: 15 Hadoop Vendors Leading the Big Data Market And: Hadoop and Big Data: Still the Big Dog Hadoop and Big Data are in many ways the perfect union – or at least they have the potential to be. Hadoop is hailed as the open […]

SEE TRANSCRIPT BELOW:    Adoption of private cloud computing is clearly growing, yet not without criticism. Some tech experts say that investment in private cloud is no more cost effective than investing in a traditional datacenter, and that private cloud lacks the easy on-demand scalability of public cloud. Countering this, advocates of private cloud point […]

The recent Google Next event in San Francisco offered no big news, no splashy announcements of bold initiatives. But the presentation at the intimate Warfield Music Hall did showcase a cloud provider very invested in aggressively growing its business. Clearly, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the Big Three, with AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. […]

To know the best strategies to use social media to promote your business, it helps to learn from the masters. For this video roundtable, we’ve assembled leading social media practitioners. Brian Fanzo was listed as one of the Top 25 Social Business Leaders of 2014 by IBM & The Economist Intelligence Unit. Yifat Cohen, known […]

See transcription of video, below: The so-called Third Platform, comprised of social, mobile, cloud and Big Data, is radically disrupting computing at many levels. This emerging toolset enables smaller, nimble companies to gain competitive advantage against larger rivals. It also decentralizes computing to an enormous degree. To explore this trend, I’ll talk with Bernard Golden, […]

Below: Read the full transcript of this video roundtable. This event took place Wednesday, May 20 at 10 AM PST. The event was sponsored by Progress Business Rules Management software (BRMS) offers essential competitive advantage by enabling businesses to create adaptive and reusable business rule flows. A top-flight BRMS solution is essential to staying current […]

The security threats facing the technical infrastructure of today’s businesses seem to grow more complex with time, ranging from cloud security to mobile device management to the rise of the Internet of Things. To address these concerns, four technology journalists covering security on a regular basis will discuss current business strategies regarding IT security. We’ll […]

There’s no lack of naysayers about the private cloud. I’ve heard many tech pundits – actual cloud experts – say that private cloud is a waste. To build out a private cloud is merely replicating the expense and headache of an in-house datacenter. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage […]