disruptive
RSS disruptive
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment The internet, as the daddy of all disruptive technologies, heralded a new era of litigation. Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. And that will keep the lawyers... [27 Oct 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Disruptive stuff alright. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. He made the top 10 in 2006; the top five in 2008; and... [08 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile Another panellist said: "Like it or loath it, Facebook continues to be disruptive of so much. As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network really took... [08 Oct 2009]
Transparently Encrypting Data in Mainframe z/OS and Open Systems to Achieve End-to-End Data Protection
White Paper It can be costly, time consuming and disruptive to business operations. In a world of ever increasing large scale data breaches the mainframe z/OS environment is not immune. But securing credit card, social security and... [02 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Benchmark said on its website: "Marten Mickos builds global disruptive businesses. Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database... [01 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News Because BPO deals mean companies trust a third party with running an entire department - such as HR or finance - any unforeseen changes to a vendor can prove very disruptive to a business. Want to avoid getting burned... [30 Sep 2009]
Padmasree Warrior
AS Profile Cisco's Unified Computing strategy is highly disruptive to existing datacentre players like IBM and HP, while its Connected Urban Development initiative takes a technology-enabled approach to the requirements of a... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile One Agenda Setters panellist said: "Spotify works so well it's hard to fault its performance or business model - a true innovation of the age and potentially disruptive force in the media industry! Daniel Ek co-founded... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Yet another dubbed it "a truly disruptive technology", adding it "could impact and change many areas of business, society, politics, economics etc". It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment The tape recorder, CD, MP3, Walkman, iPod, mobile phone player et al are all disruptive and business-changing technologies, and trying to stop them is futile. Compiled at my home on a sunny autumn day over a morning... [24 Sep 2009]
Business Continuity: Are You Always Open for Business?
White Paper This Internet seminar explores how mid-sized organizations can affordably attain business continuity by creating a data infrastructure that is always secure, available and accessible, despite potentially disruptive... [24 Sep 2009]
Surviving the Data Explosion Through Data Reduction
White Paper EMC Celerra Data Deduplication is easy to install and manage and is non-disruptive to end users, enabling the team to be as efficient as possible. Runaway data growth is simply unstoppable. It's forcing organizations to... [29 Aug 2009]
Making Data Storage in the Cloud a Reality
White Paper As the Taneja Group notes, cloud storage frees companies from costly maintenance and disruptive migrations. Cloud storage vendors are storming SMBs and enterprises with solutions offering performance, availability and... [24 Aug 2009]
Transformation of the Enterprise Network Using Passive Optical LAN
White Paper The rapid growth of bandwidth requirements and the changing role of enterprise networking are causing disruptive change in the enterprise Local Area Network (LAN). Enterprises facing such disruptive... [15 Aug 2009]
Client Management: A Maturity Framework - From Fragmented Management to Business Driven Management
White Paper The PC was the most disruptive technology that businesses ever had the opportunity to exploit. How the client domain became chaotic is not a mystery. At first it was a stand-alone device that made typewriters and adding... [15 Aug 2009]
