disruptive
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment And finally, having the IT director or CIO be a co-leader in identifying those sorts of disruptive moves that a company can produce in order to drive real competitive advantage. Those CIOs who are able to help their... [18 Nov 2009]
TCS and Cloud Computing
White Paper While the technology foundations of Cloud Computing can be considered as a gradual evolution, TCS firmly believes that the business models will prove to be potentially disruptive. Cloud could be a... [12 Nov 2009]
What Hackers Know That You Don't: Web 2.0 Weaknesses and Opportunities
White Paper Yet, to call this acceleration of data and applications disruptive would be an understatement. Web-based applications, always-connected mobile devices, social networks, user-generated content, and the speed in which... [12 Nov 2009]
Consumer VoIP and Beyond: Service Provider Challenges and Opportunities
White Paper However, complicating matters is the fierce competition among various players that range from ILECs and VNOs to those "Wild cards," such as Skype and GoogleTalk that have the potential to be highly disruptive forces in... [09 Nov 2009]
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]
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]
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]
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]