July 17, 2012
Blogs
July 13, 2012
The iPad as a video and web conferencing device
By Jim Lundy The last two days at our Aragon Research offsite, we had a need for video sharing with a remote colleague and we did not have a room based or dedicated video conferencing system. To make a long story short,
July 9, 2012
Tablet Wars: User Experience Expectations are High
By Jim Lundy In the Tablet Wars that are coming, the expectations of users of how a Tablet behaves are very high. Just ask anyone that has used an iPad and then tried to use something else. This blog post is the result
July 5, 2012
Diesel Generators, Amazon and Cloud Computing
By Jim Lundy There have been numerous accounts of what went wrong in Amazon's Virgina Cloud Data Center last week. Diesel Generators, always important, are emerging as a vital part of the Cloud Computing story. It is
July 2, 2012
Kaizen at AragonResearch.com
By Jim Lundy We have a culture at Aragon Research of Kaizen (Japanese word for continuous improvement). Over the weekend, we updated our website with a new look and feel. So far, we have gotten great feedback, but we woNokia Contingency Plan: RIM vs Google
By Jim Lundy *Please note, this post was written prior to Microsoft's rebranding of Nokia. Nokia mobile is now Microsoft Mobile.* Nokia's Chairman Risto Siilasmaa was on Finnish TV on June 28th talking about Nokia a
June 29, 2012
RIM: Time to plan your Enterprise Exit Strategy
By Jim Lundy RIM (Research in Motion) reported poor earnings this week, but more importantly, they announced a slip of the new QNX powered Blackberry 10 Phones until 2013. Technology markets can be brutal and today, a
June 25, 2012
Yammer sold to Microsoft for $1.2 Billion in Cash
By Jim Lundy Yammer is no longer an independent company, as it was announced today that it is being bought by Tech Titan Microsoft. Yammer will land in the Office division, where Microsoft Office President Kurt Delbene
June 20, 2012
Mobile Ecosystem Wars About to Claim More Casualties
By Mike Anderson Mobile Ecosystem There is a war taking place in mobile and the battle ground is the Mobile Ecosystem. Mobile ecosystems are the key to success in mobile. Devices grab the headlines, as Microsoft did thi
June 15, 2012
Cisco Live Summarized in Four Words: Execution, Network, Cloud, Jabber
By Jim Lundy Cisco held its annual Cisco Live Networking Education Event this week and we were in attendance at the San Diego Convention Center. Cisco had over 17,000 customers and partners in attendance as well as a n
June 6, 2012
SuccessFactors Analyst Day Summary
By Jim Lundy SuccessFactors held an analyst day on June 5th as part of its SuccessConnect customer event in San Francisco. Events like this are a preamble to messages delivered to customers. I walked away with a good se
June 4, 2012
BYOD and Mobile App Personality
By Mike Anderson BYOD Movement BYOD (bring your own device) promises more personalized approaches to business computing as people engage with tools that suit them best. One factor behind this movement is how well new m
May 30, 2012
WWDC 2012: iOS 6, iPhone 5 and Mountain Lion
By Jim Lundy Apple's annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2012) is nearly here. There are many people that make a business of following Apple and with their resurgence there is daily speculation about new produc
May 22, 2012
BYOD and the Aragon Globe on Enterprise Mobile Management
By Mike Anderson Our Aragon Research Globe Report on mobile management is in the works. We will be evaluating more than 25 providers of Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) software. This remains an embryonic market, wit
May 21, 2012
The Consumerization of Voice and Video
By Jim Lundy Consumerization has arrived in the realtime video and voice collaboration space (aka real time collaboration or UC&C). Consumers can do things today that are as good or nearly as good as the features
May 16, 2012
Crowdsourcing Market Forecasting: The Open Forecast Project
By Jim Lundy Anyone who buys or sells technology products or services is always keen to know how the market for those goods is going to behave. It is a great business for forecasters, but as many that focus on market va
May 15, 2012
Siri: Putting it to Work
By Jim Lundy While on a flight today I was doing some last minute texting (via Apple Siri) before the doors closed. I sat next to an executive who put her Blackberry down next to me. I asked her how long she planned to
May 11, 2012
Interop 2012 Hot Topics
By Mike Anderson Interop 2012 was held May 6 through 10 in Las Vegas this year, and BYOD was with me again throughout the show. Interop had a broad agenda including cloud computing, networking, wireless and mobility, vi
May 8, 2012
Tablets and TVs: why your next Television might be from Apple
By Jim Lundy Tablets were not on most peoples' radar when Apple introduced the iPad in 2010. Apple is very clever in how it prepares to enter established markets. It caught the PC industry completely off guard when
May 3, 2012