Managing Your Data Growth by Migrating to Cloud Storage
Despite attempts to limit and even delete stored data, archived business data continues to grow exponentially. Once companies have eliminated unnecessary data and implemented an information lifecycle...
View ArticleThe Cloud: A Place For Your Stuff
Comedian George Carlin was not far off the mark when he dismissed the modern home as “a place for your stuff”. A place to keep your stuff, your personal files and data, is an important part of day to...
View ArticleCloud Movers And Shakers…
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ...
View ArticleThe Other Cloud Issue – Availability – And What You Can Do About It
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett, legendary investor and one of the richest...
View Article3 Keys To Cloud Computing
As businesses large and small start to explore the cloud, you need to understand not only the benefits, but also the changes brought by moving to a cloud delivery model. by Sameer Dholakia...
View Article5 Pillars of IT Services for the SME
One of our IT services clients recently shared with Brightfire its vision of what IT services companies should offer SMEs. They are: Security – This extends beyond just hardware and software security...
View ArticleQuantitative Market Research VS Qualitative Market Research
The process of conducting primary market research and collecting market research data and information can be broken down into two methods; quantitative and qualitative research. Each method involves a...
View ArticlePicking the cloud’s winners and losers: From SaaS to SDN
A group of technology executives played the cloud computing and enterprise IT version of “hot or not” during a Wednesday afternoon session at GigaOM Structure. While hardly a scientific study, their...
View ArticleCloud Computing… How to Make the Most Out Of It
In recent times, one of the most popular concepts mentioned in the IT environment has been, without doubt, that of Cloud Computing. This is a set of technologies based on infrastructure as well as on...
View ArticleStill Afraid Of The Cloud? Start Using it Right
The following guest post is by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of Blue Fountain Media. There’s no doubt the “era of cloud computing” foretold by Bill Gates (and many others) is here. The cloud has taken the...
View ArticleHidden Costs Of Cloud Computing, Revealed
The business case for cloud is compelling. Even after all the numbers for the obvious things get crunched, one has to ponder what “gotchas” could result in higher costs than originally planned....
View ArticleWhy PR is your best marketing weapon — and how to use it
Our corporate motto should have been, “We’ve never heard of you either.” At least, that is how we joked at my first startup, Seer Technologies, which we founded in 1990. We had broken records by...
View Article4 ways to build your global community
Omer Shai is a serial entrepreneur and the CMO of web-publishing platform Wix. In the past, being an international company meant you had offices, employees and activities across the planet. Today,...
View ArticleEnterprise cloud computing isn’t the same for every enterprise
I have been discussing, writing about and working on cloud computing for almost seven years. It takes a lot to shake my basic beliefs about the importance of cloud computing, and how its adoption will...
View Article8 ways to perfect your work-life balance
This article originally appeared on The Next WebEditor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ilya Pozin, the founder of Ciplex, and a columnist on entrepreneurship and marketing. Sometimes, busy...
View ArticleTapping Into Your Creativity
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus Do you...
View ArticleWhat CFOs Don’t Know: Top Cloud Myths
Many companies have embraced cloud technology for everything from human resources tocustomer relationship management, yet the finance department isn’t jumping on board. What’s holding them back and how...
View ArticleHere’s Why You’ll Be Hooked On Wearables By This Time Next Year
I bought a Fitbit Flex about a week ago. In case you haven’t heard of it, Fitbit is one of these “wearable computing” companies. It’s a small little device that sits in a rubber wrist band which you...
View ArticleHow Cloud Computing Is Going To Change The Future Of ERP
Large businesses depend a lot on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and every decision taken by them is solely based on information extracted by using ERP application. There is no business domain that...
View Article6 Emerging Trends In Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship
When you live and work in Silicon Valley, it’s easy to get caught up in trends billowing from within the echo chamber. Around here, the availability of capital resources helps trends popularize and...
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