Security Clan Chat: The Insecure Cloud IE Radio 5/26/2011 142 comments The widespread belief that digital security is better handled by in the cloud overlooks many downsides, including a lack of awareness of the issue among some cloud vendors.
Midmarket Clan Chat: A Look at Cloud ERP IE Radio 5/24/2011 151 comments Midmarket firms looking to migrate their enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools to a cloud-based delivery system should beware. While there are a few appropriate ERP products out there for enterprises with annual revenues in the $10 million to $100 million range, and/or with 100 to 1,000 employees, there are a lot of costs and complexities to overcome. Join Senior Editor Michael Singer and the other Internet Evolution editors for a Live Chat about the pains and pitfalls of midmarket cloud ERP.
Executive Clan Chat: CIOs Jump Into Clouds for Big Data Sharing IE Radio 5/20/2011 174 comments IBM has released its most recent study of more than 3,000 global CIOs. Seven out of 10 CIOs in the US, Japan, and South Korea, and 68 percent in China, now identify cloud as a top priority. Data management, customer analytics, data warehousing, and visual information dashboards are also high on the list for CIOs' top priorities as they try to convert data into better and faster business decisions. Please join Internet Evolution Senior Editor Michael Singer in a Live Chat about IBM's report and what is on the mind of CIOs today.
IT Clan Chat: Climate Change & the Future of IT IE Radio 5/16/2011 275 comments Climate change threatens the infrastructure that supports the Internet as well as enterprise networks. This chat focuses on how IT pros are responding to the challenge to move off traditional power sources.
Security Clan Chat: Facebook's Accidental Leak IE Radio 5/13/2011 223 comments A third party pointed out this week that Facebook has for years been giving away users' personal information to advertisers and other third parties through a flaw in its applications integration system. Join us for today's Security Clan chat.
Midmarket Clan Chat: Google Aims Android, Chrome at Midmarket IE Radio 5/10/2011 229 comments Google is expected to announce updates to its Android operating system and Chrome browser this week at the I/O Developer conference.
The search engine giant is also starting to position its two well known products as primary business tools for midmarket companies.
Join Senior Editor Michael Singer for a chat about Google's push into the midmarket and the significance of Android and Chrome.
Executive Clan Chat: CIOs Offered Alternative 'Big Data' Stack IE Radio 5/6/2011 175 comments Look out CIOs, there's a new way of extracting information from your enterprise that is challenging proprietary business intelligence software... and your IT department. Join Internet Evolution Senior Editor Michael Singer for a live chat to discuss an open-source software approach to tackling Big Data.
IT Clan Chat: Checking Out the 'Dirt' in Cloud Services IE Radio 5/2/2011 196 comments Environmental activist group Greenpeace maintains that providers of cloud computing services, including Apple, Google, and Facebook, are adding to global dirtiness by using coal-fueled utility power, despite their claims of having energy-efficient datacenter designs.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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