Last week Google announced that it would be dropping its own custom operating system in favour of Debian Linux for its SAAS compute engine - a move roughly timed to coincide with the release of the latest version of Debian, 7.0. The compute engine is used by customers of Google App Engine; a similar offering to Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure, to name but two.

Everyone has, at some point in their life, been asked this question. Everyone will no doubt be prepared to give their answer.

So how do you know that YOUR answer is, in fact, the ACTUAL reason why said chicken made the journey which has been questioned for so long?

"An Apple a day, keeps the doctor away" goes the old saying. And when people think Tablet PCs, the iPad is still one of the most revered solutions available. However, it may be that, in order to remove your mobile access headache, there's a better tablet for the job.

Deciding which one, though, is still a minefield.

An enterprise business ditching its old CRM system for another vendor is rarely dramatic news for the wider business world. But IBM’s decision to retire its Siebel system in favour of SugarCRM is noteworthy.

This was, after all, the largest Siebel implementation in the world – a 67,000-seat global implementation running sales, marketing and CRM, that pre-dated Oracle’s $5.8bn acquisition of Siebel in 2005.

The world was on the edge of its seat on 14th October 2012 as Felix Baumgartner slowly rose to the edge of space ready to make history by jumping from the edge of space.

After around two-and-a-half hours, he reached the jump height of 128,177ft above the New Mexico desert and then plummeted faster than the speed of sound to get back to solid ground in under ten minutes.

As SugarCRM's top UK Partner, we are pleased to announce that the annual UK SugarCRM Acceleration Event is once again upon us.
Plans are well under way to make this one of the most interactive Acceleration events yet, with breakout sessions during the day tailored for existing customers, developers and potential new clients. So why not come and join us?

Team GB's Jessica Ennis has been all over the world's media in the last few days, following her achievements in the London 2012 Olympic Heptathlon.

At first view, there may be no apparent similarities between the Olympic medallist and the Customer Relationship Management package but, as you will see, if you start to look for them they are there.

In its standard "out of the box" format, SugarCRM is configured to act as a B2B (Business to Business) system. Most organisations who use SugarCRM use it in that manner. However, more and more organisations are starting to look to SugarCRM as a cost-effective, scalable, customisable CRM system for their B2C (Business to Client) activities.
If you've wondered how to make this change, then this is the blog for you.

How does it affect your data?

Most firms are now using cloud computing in one format or another, but one area cloud customers aren’t closely monitoring is the impact of legislation on company data stored in the cloud. According to a V3 reader survey, 80 per cent of firms are unaware of data protection law changes and their effect on data stored outside of the EU.

The US has also rolled out its own law, the Patriot Act, which gives the government the right to access sensitive data, meaning an extra complexity for UK firms choosing US cloud partners.

Recently, in one of the LinkedIn groups to which I am a member, a question was asked about customers which got me wondering how companies view their customers.