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Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
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 IDC analysts predict that by 2020 there will be 15 quintillion files in existence. That kind of volume has brought us to a point where we are using a term like “exabyte” (and quintillion!) to describe how much data exists. How much of that data will your organization own and how will y...May. 4, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,735 |
 We are using Confluence for both our internal Wiki as well as for our external Community Portal. I just came across a very nasty performance bug in the version we are running on our external system. We run 3.2 and the User Search Feature keeps me waiting several minutes each time I sea...Jan. 24, 2011 03:47 PM EST Reads: 3,480 |
 Some of the best web performance tools are still largely being run as browser plug-ins. If those tools can make the leap to becoming real-time and can be made to consider user context, the industry will have something truly powerful on its hands.
Initiatives like Yahoo’s YSlow and Goo...Jan. 20, 2011 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,180 |
 CNN recently reported on a funeral for Internet Explorer 6.
Anyone who has been in the business of Web software development will tell you it's a bittersweet thing -- except without the bitter part.
When we were designing an earlier form of WorkXpress, no less than 20-30 percent of ou...Mar. 10, 2010 11:47 AM EST Reads: 2,294 |
 "At Google, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments at any given time on Google sites all over the world," notes a Google spokesman in a recent statement on The Google Official Blog. "Right now, we are running a small experiment of a new Google homepage design that shows links when ...Nov. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 7,571 |
 There are some 300 companies out there selling digital signage software, and Lord knows how many more home-grown, in-house solutions. So ... how do you make sense of it and make the right decision for your company? I sell the pots and pans for one of those software firms. That means I ...Apr. 6, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,034 |
 So, you have just lost your most business critical application or worse yet the entire data center. What do you do? Unfortunately I have experienced these exact situations more than I would like but here are ten tips to get you through and more importantly what not to do.Mar. 25, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,733 |
 This year can be labeled something like “Rich Internet Applications meet Enterprise Database by the way of full text search”. We are slowly getting used to the fact that off-the-shelf and free software can find related data out of million records within a second. The fact that the foun...Mar. 17, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,580 |
 The surprise three-to-one margin that overwhelmingly returned Yahoo’s board to office last Friday at the shareholders meeting proved too big for Capital Research & Management to swallow. It’s demanding a recount, according to the Wall Street Journal blog All Things Digital, which has b...Aug. 5, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,433 |
 George Orwell didn’t specifically mention enterprise search in his visionary book "1984", but he made a statement that still resonates today. When it comes to relevant search query results, "it's not about the statistics." Sanity comes from the human element. Until recently, this conce...Jul. 31, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,955 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 35,083 Replies: 6 |
 My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher 'Googles' for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google's obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can fo...Dec. 11, 2007 01:30 AM EST Reads: 15,186 |
As more and more businesses strive for a top ten Google ranking, it's becoming harder and harder to achieve. This is especially true for smaller businesses that simply don't have the budget for a big link popularity campaign. But hope may be just around the corner. If a top ten ranking... Aug. 31, 2005 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,881 |
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