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José 'PepeOlalla' Olalla (pictured) seems like a happy camper this week. He's the CIO of the huge banking group, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). BBVA has just signed a deal with Google, which will see the multinational bank migrate 110,000 users to Google Apps -- the cloud-based collaboration platform. Let's take The Long View...
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In this final post of my 2012 predictions, I'll touch on the impact that cloud computing is having on collaboration (and vice versa), as well as what it means for the enterprise.

CES 2012 is coming and it seems Apple will dominate once again, even without being there. That's because the firm already offers products and services that match those trends we'll see emerge as ever so, ever so important this year.

Wondering which cloud storage provider to go with for your business? The data services company Nasuni has run tests, and it shows Amazon on top, just nosing out Microsoft.

As of January 1, Google's idea of using a public cloud-based service as the aggregation point for highly sensitive personal health data is dead. Will other initiatives follow?

The enterprise markets have never** been more willing to accept solutions from one-time black sheep now new-super-hot-date, Apple, driving a resurgence in Mac sales all buoyed by a focus on good honest standards, such as HTML 5. There's a growing ecosystem of providers preparing business-focused solutions for Apple devices:

Listen up, Android fans: The makers of the popular Astro File Manager for Android have a new cloud sync service in the works, and you can be among the first to try it out.

Google usually offers tweaks to its various online apps in dribs and drabs, without much notice -- a new feature here, a slightly revamped one there. But its new redesign of Gmail, Google is pushing out several rather radical changes in one swell foop.

Oh ****, where's all this spam coming from? It looks like Carbonite, Inc. has been giving out customers' personal information. The company's admitted giving my email address to a third party, despite promising that it wouldn't. Should you be worried? Let's take The Long View...

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IBM (NYSE:IBM) has launched its unstructured-data cloud service, based on Hadoop. Called BigInsights, it's essentially MapReduce for Dummies, which is no bad thing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers welcome their new pachydermic overlords. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: Fight For The Future...

Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff says enterprise software should be more like Facebook. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit, he said social media features are cruicial, but couldn't be goaded into more jabs at Larry Ellison. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers seem disappointed there weren't more fireworks.

Does cloud computing actually save energy? Would moving some of your data center workload to the cloud reduce your CO2 emissions? Let's find out, in The Long View...
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Apple introduced the world's smartest smartphone yesterday, with a faster processor, faster graphics, better camera and world-changing voice assistant technologies -- but many in the analyst and media communities are disappointed. Why? Because Apple didn't change the shape...really?

Apple's iCloud means your persona digital life and professional digital life just became completely portable, on any Apple device, anywhere you happen to be. That's a pretty big deal.

Microsoft showed today just how serious it is about dominating cloud services, paying companies $150 per seat to switch to its cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and launching a cutting, tongue-in-cheek video ad targeting VMWare's virtualization tools. INSIDER (free registration requested)