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Google Apps Gives Customers the Option to Defer Feature Updates Google announced today a new process for Google Apps feature releases. Administrators will now be able to choose between a "Rapid Release" option that pushes new features to users automatically, or a "Scheduled Release" option that gives admins more control over when new features are pushed out. Continue reading... IT Poll: Can HP Reinvent Itself as a Software Company? Earlier today we told you about HP's new strategy focused on software and cloud-services. This is a departure for HP, which is mostly known as a hardware company but which has been steadily moving into IT services for the past few years. New CEO Leo Apotheker brings several years of enterprise software experience to the company from SAP, but HP's past isn't promising. Also, I recently read this article by RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady: "How Important is Software? Generational Differences Between Software Producers." O'Grady tracks the recent history of software considers whether software has become so commodified that it no longer confers a strategic advantage. If this is the case, then is becoming a software company really what HP should do? Continue reading... 4 Ways HP Will Execute Its New Strategy: WebOS, Clouds and Big Data Today HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced HP's new strategy: cloud, connectivity and software. Mobility, consumerization of IT and big data will all play a role in this new strategy. In particular, HP's WebOS and Vertica acquisitions will drive it forward. Here's a look at the specific plans Apotheker discussed. Continue reading... Big Data Team-Up: IBM Netezza and Revolution Analytics Brining R to the Data Warehouse IBM Netezza and Revolution Analytics announced today at the Predictive Analytics World event that the two companies are working together to integrate the statistical programming language R into Netezza's Netezza TwinFin data warehouse appliance. The companies want to make it possible use R to process data on the data warehouse  appliance without moving to another system. This should enable much faster data processing. Although no release data has been set, representatives from the companies say work on the project has begun in earnest. Select customers will beta test the integration in the coming months. Continue reading... 5 Video Platforms Vying to Be the YouTube of the Enterprise Although enterprise video adoption is slow, several platforms are competing to bring the simple video sharing experience of services like YouTube to business users. Here's a look at five of them. Each of these solutions give uses the ability to upload video, encode it, view and share it online and track analytics. Continue reading... iPad Business App Round-Up: Adobe SiteCatalyst, Rackspace Cloud 2.0 and More Looking for an excuse to buy an iPad 2, which hit the streets today? The iPad continues to be used as a device for business as well as pleasure, and several enterprise apps were either released or updated since our last round-up. Take a look and see if any of them justify the expense of a new tablet. Continue reading... Good News for Data Geeks, Bad News for Everyone Else Last week we told you that enterprises are investing more into business intelligence and analytics initiatives. This week there's more good news for professionals in this area: according to KDNuggets, salaries are rising for analytics and data mining professionals. Based on a poll with approximately 250 respondents, KDNuggets found that salaries are up from its 2010 poll in North America, Western Europe, Asia and Latin America. (There is no mention of Eastern Europe, Africa or Antarctica.) It's a good time to be a geek, particularly one with a background in statistics, analytics and data mining. But a bad time to be almost any other type of worker. Continue reading... Adobe Adds Social Analytics Tools to Online Marketing Suite HooteSuite wasn't the only company to announce a social analytics suite yesterday: Adobe announced the addition of a new product called SocialAnalytics to its Online Marketing Suite. SocialAnalytics will ship in Q3 and monitor Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many other sources. Online Marketing Suite already features various tools for social media monitoring, but this new package extends the suite's capabilities by adding features for determining a business' top influencers, tracking sentiment over time and calculating how much revenue is generated by social media campaigns. Continue reading... Should You Invest in Better Tech, Or In Better Call Center Conditions? "Call centers treat agents like slave labor," writes Forrester analyst Kerry Bodine. She suggests that instead of spending money on the latest technology - cloud, mobile, social analytics and all that stuff we like so much - companies should invest more into their call center employees. Why invest in those employees, instead of advertising campaigns, better websites or social CRM? Because those call center workers reach more customers each month than any marketing campaign. Continue reading... Top 10 Tech Priorities of CIOs in India Want a more global perspective of enterprise technology trends? Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey included responses from 2,014 CIOs across 50 countries and 38 industries. In a recent announcement, Gartner detailed the responses of 36 top CIOs in India. Cloud and mobile technologies beat more traditional concerns like enterprise resource planning and network communications. Continue reading... IT Poll: Do You Still Use Internet Explorer 6 in Your Workplace? Last week Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer 6 Countdown website, celebrating the dwindling use of the decade old browser. But as we've reported, there are a few reasons that IE6 persists in the enterprise: the cost of upgrades, mission-critical legacy applications that aren't compatible with newer browsers and, oddly, social control. Are you still stuck with IE6 in your workplace? Continue reading... HootSuite Moves into Social Analytics HootSuite is launching a social analytics platform for monitoring Twitter, Facebook, Google and other services through 30 individual modules accessible through a new design bar. The modules are available to all users, including Basic, Pro and Enterprise customers. The modules are made accessible through a point system HootSuite developed. Points are used to purchase the modules. More complex modules cost more points. Users may use the points at any time for any combination of modules. Continue reading... VirtelaPredict Wants to Solve Your IT Problems Before They Happen IT services company Virtela announced today a new IT infrastructure management service based on predictive analytics. VirtelaPredict will monitor system logs and event data for both on-premise and cloud based infrastructure and look for patterns that signal trouble. The company will then correct issues, hopefully before an outage ever occurs. Continue reading... The Tyranny of Consumerization and the Weapon That is the iPad - Not! Stories about the plight of IT remind me of commercials that feature the haggard, overextended information worker who really could manage the work if he had eight minds working for him at the same time on the tasks at hand. With each new device comes another load of work to support the people who bring in the new smartphone or increasingly, the iPad. The work is ever mounting. Continue reading...	Sponsored by
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