Monthly Archives: July 2014
Jason Bloomberg: Seven Reasons Why the Internet of Things is Doomed
InsightaaS: Who doesn't love a curmudgeonly cynic? Well, there are probably many people in that category, but Across the Net is cynic-friendly, and we...
DC for less than the price of power?
Notwithstanding the industry’s fixation on growth in cloud services markets, the colocation business is alive and well. While many individual players are executing on...
The Economist: Unplugged and unproductive
InsightaaS: The Economist is one of the world’s most respected sources of insight into business and social issues, and often achieves the rare feat...
Wikibon: People & Relationships Just as Important as Data for New CDOs
InsightaaS: Wikibon is one of the Internet’s best sources of IT industry insight — an open source community of world-leading analysts that has its...
Vitamin Y: An alliance analysis of IBM/Apple
Context: On July 15, Apple and IBM announced a "global partnership to transform enterprise mobility." It spanned several different areas of collaboration: "industry-specific enterprise...
Roger Kay on Forbes.com: Form Factor Epiphany
InsightaaS: Roger Kay is one of the world's leading experts on client technology, including PCs, tablets and mobiles. Formerly a senior executive at IDC,...
Building network basics
Case studies serve a dual purpose. As a technology showcase, they provide a vehicle for vendors to educate the market on state-of-the art offerings....
The Sunday Infographic: The Current State of Cross-Channel Commerce
InsightaaS: Earlier this year, Across the Net featured a post from the blog site of software developer Gigya, published by content marketing manager Rachel...
Juniper Research: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Mobile Devices to More Than Double by 2019
InsightaaS: It is our practice to feature a sustainability-themed item in each Sunday's Across the Net. It isn't our practice to carry press releases...
John Hagel: The Disruption Debate – What's Missing?
InsightaaS: I want to start this post off with a confession - I've been a big fan of John Hagel since I first read...
Chuck's Blog: Towards A Unified View of "Software Defined"
InsightaaS: Chuck Hollis is a former EMC executive who is now chief strategist for VMware’s SAS (storage and application services) business unit, and author...
Building cloud security from the end up
In the spring of 2009, Gartner identified data security as one of the top five inhibitors to broader adoption of cloud computing. Research commissioned...
Krigsman: Brand promise, customer experience, and CMO lessons for the CIO
InsightaaS: Regular readers of Across the Net are aware of our respect for Michael Krigsman, well-known IT expert and author of the widely-read Beyond...
Dean Bubley: So-called "Platform Neutrality" – nothing to do with Net Neutrality, and a...
InsightaaS: On Wednesdays, Across the Net often turns its attention to IT policy issues - and no IT policy issue is hotter today than...
Automation overdrive: from IaaS to Blueprint engine
"Automation is the lifeblood of cloud," according to David Shacochis. "It’s like liquidity in the financial sphere — if we had to barter and...
