As a tech entrepreneur and startup veteran, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to start a new company these days. Assuming an entrepreneur wants to be successful, my conclusion is that the only real choices for the basis of a new technology company are open source, the cloud (including SaaS) or innovation [...]

Apple is not the only one making headlines, systems management still gets some play amongst the noise… Oliver Marks writes an interesting piece discussing Management 2.0: the role of systems management in a world ruled by Web 2.0 technologies and the consumerization of IT Alan Shimel discusses the pros and cons of centralized computing and [...]