Lack of emissions reporting from (some) cloud providers is a supply chain risk
We at GreenMonk spoke to Robert Francisco, President North America of FirstCarbon Solutions, last week. FirstCarbon solutions is an environmental sustainability company and the exclusive scoring partner of CDP‘s (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), supply chain program. Robert pointed out on the call that there is a seed change happening and that interest in disclosure […]
Authentication as a Service: Slow Progress, But Are We There Yet?
Authentication as a Service solves a problem every Cloud Developer, mobile or desktop, has to solve. As one player in the space, AuthRocket, puts it: Do you really want to write code for users, forgotten passwords, permissions, and admin panels again? To that I would add, “Do you really want to have to be a world class […]
News Analysis: Understanding The Microsoft and Salesforce Partnership From The Customers POV
Microsoft’s Platform DNA and Salesforce.com Quest For User Productivity Drive The Strategic Partnership On May 29th, 2014, the Redmond based mega vendor Microsoft and the San Francisco based Cloud pioneer salesforce announced a partnership. From the teleconference call with CEOs Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff; and in conversations with over 50 key executives, partners, and […]
Cloudbuy — Digging Into the Amazon-Besting Rhetoric
It’s amusing being a spectator on the sidelines of the current tech investment bubble (granted, some air was let out of it a few weeks ago). Last time around, I was in the midst of it working for a company called FreeMarkets, which had one of the most successful IPOs in history. I also found […]
Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy
Cloud computing is booming. Cloud providers are investing billions in infrastructure to build out their data centers, but just how clean is cloud? Given that this is the week that the IPCC’s 5th assessment report was released, I decided to do some research of my own into cloud providers. The table above is a list […]
SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy
Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]
The Digital Business Disruption Ahead Preview – NASSCOM India Leadership Forum (#NASSCOM_ILF)
A 10-Minute Preview Video Interview Of The Digital Business Disruption Ahead From The #NASSCOM_ILF Team On January 17th, 2014, the NASSCOM team interviewed Constellation Research about the digital disruption ahead. The short 10 minute video covers key topics including: Convergence of the five pillars of digital business drive the current digital disruption. The end of […]
The eBay Turnaround that Never Had to Be: Now Here’s the Rest of the Story
Read an interesting account of John Donahoe’s turnaround at eBay in Business Insider. It’s a fascinating discussion that revolves around relatively few premises for how the turnaround was accomplished. Here are the money quotes: He de-emphasized eBay’s auction business and started describing the company as a “technology partner” to retailers small and large. eBay added clients Home Depot, […]
Quips: What the Google Motorola – Lenovo Deal Is Really About
Google Enters China Via Lenovo While Counter Balancing Samsung On January 29th, 2014, Mountain View based Google announced it would sell it’s Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese based Lenovo for $2.91 in cash and stock. The deal cuts across many spectrum including mobile OS, computing wars, and search. Here’s 12 talking points: Source: Not sure, […]
Good Customer Experience Trumps Good Customer Service. Bad CUX Trumps All. A Tale of Chukka Boots and Photoshop.
Good Customer Experience trumps Good Customer Service, even if you are Zappo’s. My wife quit buying shoes from Zappo’s after they sent her the wrong pair of shoes for the third time and she had to return them. They didn’t do it all on the same transaction, it happened over a fairly long period of […]
