Win-Win: Tallying the Benefits of a Cloud Application Migration
GigaOm last week updated a benchmark report we had published in August titled, “Costs and Benefits of .NET Application Migration to the Cloud,” authored by GigaOm Analyst Ned Bellavance. That report...
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Android app development growing at a faster rate than iOS (chart)
Apple’s iOS (s aapl) still dominates among app developers, but it may be losing its edge. According to a recent GigaOM Pro survey (subscription required), both iOS and Android (s goog) use is growing,...
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Report: How to define the right multi-cloud strategy for your enterprise the...
Our library of 1700 research reports is available only to our subscribers. We occasionally release ones for our larger audience to benefit from. This is one such report. If you would like access to our...
View ArticleBig Data Poised to Get Much Bigger in 2017
Big Data is only going to get much bigger, so big in fact that companies attempting to deal with massive and more complex data sets are going to find it much harder to manage and derive value out of...
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Real-time Messaging in the Enterprise: Here We Go Again
There was a good Wired article, published yesterday, that bemoaned the rapidly-growing plethora of communication applications centered around real-time chat. Its author lists consumer-oriented...
View ArticleThe 3 modes of enterprise cloud applications
One of the key attributes to a successful cloud deployment is thinking about the strategy holistically. In my post ‘CIOs are getting out of the data center business’, I introduced the idea of a Data...
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The enterprise view of cloud, specifically Private Cloud, is confusing
Enterprise organizations are actively looking for ways to leverage cloud computing. Cloud presents the single-largest opportunity for CIOs and the organizations they lead. The move to cloud is often...
View ArticleChanging the CIO conversation from technology to business
For many years, traditional IT thinking has served the IT function well. Companies have prospered from both the technological advances and consequent business improvements. Historically, the...
View ArticleMobile fourth-quarter 2012 analysis
The mobile platform wars heated up in a big way as 2012 came to a close: Microsoft launched Windows Phone 8, Apple continued to roll out its iPhone 5 around the world, and Android’s dominant market...
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Y Combinator analyzed its data to figure out whether it’s discriminating
Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s most popular business accelerator program for startups, released data to show it’s not discriminating against women, Hispanic and black founders when choosing what to...
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Twitter is tracking the apps on your phone
In its latest effort to improve its ad targeting, Twitter will start collecting information on what mobile apps its users have downloaded. Twitter is tracking the apps on your phone originally...
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The web advertising arms race heats up as Facebook opens its Audience Network...
More developers and publishers can now use Facebook’s mobile ad network. Here’s why that matters. The web advertising arms race heats up as Facebook opens its Audience Network to the public originally...
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Twilio raises $17M to expand communications platform worldwide
Twilio, a cloud communication platform powering a wide array of apps, is capping off a huge year of growth with $17 million in Series funding from existing investors Union Square Ventures and Bessemer...
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What cloud boils down to for the enterprise
As I find myself honored with the opportunity to contribute regularly to GigaOM's cloud coverage, I find myself thinking a lot about what I've learned in those five years. So, for my first post, I...
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Which is the best tablet for you?
It's been 14 months since Apple's iPad debuted, and competitors have finally delivered on their tablet promises. But which is best for you? Based on my experience with all of the tablet platforms, this...
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For today’s business, the API is the new website
In recent years, the increasing abundance of open APIs have changed the way companies do business -- in a major way. Some even say that a company having an API today is just as common, and important,...
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15 Easy-to-Use Apps for Adding Multimedia to Twitter
I love Twitter, but one thing I admit can be lacking from the service is that it doesn't allow for embedded images, audio or video in the Twitter stream. Still, there are plenty of apps to help you to...
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App Brings HD YouTube Video Uploads Without Compression
The iPhone 4 can record video in glorious 720p HD. Unfortunately, when you use the built-in Send to YouTube function, that same video gets compressed to 320p. A new app sets out to remedy that problem,...
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A Quick Look at the New StumbleUpon App
Social discovery engine StumbleUpon has released a new iPhone application, bringing the product's web functionality to mobile devices.For those of you unaware, StumbleUpon, which was established in...
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Are Your Favorite Apps Missing Some Features? Find Creative Workarounds Instead
One of the first things that most people look at before using an app is the feature list. When we look for new tools we’re looking for the bells and whistles we need. But extensive functionality...
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