Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many customers do you have in total? How many customers do you service from your entire IT infrastructure? Lee Congdon: Internally or externally? SM: Externally. LC: Certainly, [we have] hundreds of thousands [of customers] around the globe.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Definitely. Let’s talk about collaboration. What is your current collaboration configuration, let’s say, or infrastructure? What are you using? What trends are you seeing? Collaboration is one of the areas where we are seeing the most adoption of cloud computing. Lee Congdon: We attempt to use open-source products. Our email infrastructure is Zimbra. We use

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mal Postings, CTO, IT Advisory, Ernst & Young (Part 5)

SM: What you’re talking about is the consumerization of technology and the fact there are so many devices coming into the enterprise [world]. Will the enterprise support the applications on these devices? How does that plug into the enterprise Internet, Intranet, whatever, enterprise IT system? There’re two slightly different questions. The question I was asking

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Twitter Needs To Accelerate Monetization

I haven’t said all that much on Twitter thus far. The hype machine on the Internet, meanwhile, does constantly spew stuff about the microblogging service. But I will start covering Twitter once a quarter as part of our Tech Stocks coverage, alongside a few other private companies, including Facebook. Facebook has more than 500 million

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Top 10 Social Web Trends For The Decade

How do you achieve that delicate balance between the old and the new and find both depth and lightness – depth that moves at an emotional and spiritual level, lightness that moves us forward? From Top 10 Tech Trends For The Decade: Over 500 million people on Facebook indicates a massive shift in how consumers

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1M/1M: Need Twitter Help

Readers, we need your help with helping spread the 1M/1M movement through twitter. We have 88 ambassadors in the 1M/1M LinkedIn group at the moment, and 95 requests to join. We also have 100+ supporters who are not actively working on the project but are nevertheless helping spread the word. Over the last four months,

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Deal Radar 2009: EQAL

Social media entertainment company EQAL (pronounced “equal”) was founded in April 2008 by Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried. Beckett, who was working as a plastic surgeon resident at the Loma Linda Medical Center outside of Los Angeles, quit to pursue his dream of working at the intersection of entertainment and technology. He moved back to

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Winners of “Entrepreneur Journeys” E-Book Promotion and Instructions to Enter Draw for the Second Volume

Thanks to all those readers who retweeted the story. We randomly picked the following 15 winners for “Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume One”.