Look Out! The Biggest Dangers of Public Clouds The Big Report 11/12/2012 1 comment Neglecting human factors, trusting to chance, security vulnerabilities, and perimeter exposure are the top dangers of public clouds. Find out more about these risks – and how to manage them – in the latest Big Report.
The Cloud’s Points of Failure Are Showing The Big Report 10/13/2012 3 comments Datacenter architects go to great pains to build in redundancies and prevent failures, but they don’t always foresee some events that sound like long-shot impossibilities and yet still seem to happen.
Do You See That? The Big Report 8/11/2012 6 comments Visualization is hot because it makes data analysis easier, but big-data access capabilities combined with advanced analytics will be crucial to its success.
The Internet in 10 Years The Big Report 5/8/2012 25 comments From the transformed enterprise to new interfaces to infrastructure changes and more, we examine what the World Wide Web will look like in 2022.
The Digital Patent Wars The Big Report 3/27/2012 54 comments Once used as a means of invention and innovation, patents are now being abused by companies as weapons of war.
Google's Mounting Trash Pile The Big Report 3/13/2012 78 comments Google's engineering culture has allowed a range of wasteful projects to be launched only to sputter and fail. But the company's addiction to science projects may finally be taking a toll.
The Internet's Most Wanted List The Big Report 2/7/2012 31 comments For the Internet to have a prosperous future, these 10 politicians, lobbyists, and media big-wigs need to step away from it.
The Government vs. the Web The Big Report 1/9/2012 23 comments Governments worldwide are demonstrating their intent to destroy the Web as we know it.
Cloud Case Study: Multnomah County, Phase I The Big Report 11/15/2011 5 comments Multnomah County embarks on an effort to move its intranet to an open-source platform hosted in the cloud – a bold move for a government agency.
Big Data The Big Report 10/1/2011 5 comments It’s not just about the volume of data. The variety of data and demand for fast analytics are also testing IT teams.
The Web's War on Privacy The Big Report 7/26/2011 17 comments The Internet's hallmark qualities of openness and connectivity continue to breed a range of threats to personal privacy. We look at the potential costs of maintaining a Web presence and ask how we can best keep the rightfully private private.
Opportunities Lost: Why Good Internet Ideas Burn Out The Big Report 4/18/2011 31 comments Many projects that seemed to herald great improvements for humanity haven't materialized on the Web. Here's a closer look at why and what can be done to prevent future ideas from dissolving
Five Techs on Life Support The Big Report 3/22/2011 39 comments It's time to get ready to bid farewell to technologies like dedicated e-readers, virtual worlds, and more (more, more!)
Online Video: Telling Fact From Fantasy The Big Report 1/18/2011 7 comments Will online video remain sustainable under present-day circumstances (revenue models, broadband infrastructure)? Internet Evolution analyzes the industry's high points and worrying pitfalls
What We Loved & Loathed in 2010 The Big Report 12/21/2010 21 comments Calling these high and low points by name, Internet Evolution lists the top 10 and bottom 10 tech happenings of 2010
Web Analytics: A New View The Big Report 12/4/2010 11 comments Basic Web stats are a commodity: Today, IT must deliver customer insights, not just raw numbers
The Web as Crystal Ball The Big Report 10/5/2010 22 comments A look at who's tracking you on the Web, what they know, and what they're doing with the data
Socially Challenged The Big Report 9/25/2010 14 comments IT’s under pressure to deliver Facebook-like social networking inside companies. Yet the biggest worry is getting employees to use it. What’s going on?
Ten Terrible Web 2.0 Buzzwords The Big Report 7/15/2010 53 comments Marketers and Web users alike have armed themselves with a new suite of made-up buzzwords. We're calling out the 10 most despicable
You Need Smarter Apps The Big Report 5/22/2010 3 comments Embedded BI puts analysis software inside ERP and other real-time transaction systems. But you still must ask the right questions and make the right decisions
The Internet Evolution 100 The Big Report 4/26/2010 31 comments Internet Evolution picks the top innovators and influencers in the Internet industry across 10 categories
Digital Cities: The Web & Urbanization The Big Report 3/23/2010 8 comments Here's how Internet is paving the way for more productive cities worldwide, especially in developing nations, where urban growth is fastest
Fine/Over the Line in '09 The Big Report 12/22/2009 11 comments A highly subjective list of 2009's high points on the Web – and a few low ones, too
What Goes Mobile The Big Report 12/5/2009 5 comments Companies are going far past standard smartphone apps, with tools to tackle specific business problems
Cloud Security The Big Report 11/7/2009 3 comments Business users see cost savings from cloud computing, so they’re finding ways to get past this No. 1 concern
The Customer Web The Big Report 10/3/2009 4 comments These organizations – in healthcare, banking, and government – are pushing customer engagement to new levels online
The Internet of Things The Big Report 9/5/2009 8 comments The emerging Internet of Things promises to help businesses spot problems and make decisions. Getting there isn’t easy
Desktop Virtualization The Big Report 8/15/2009 1 comment The ROI isn’t as clear-cut as it is for server virtualization; but deployed well, desktop virtualization can deliver the kind of high-performing, Web-centric PC experience that employees expect
The Right Place for Social Networking? The Big Report 7/18/2009 3 comments IT leaders are wrestling with how to bring informal collaboration into rigorous processes such as global project management and product development
P2P Taste Test The Big Report 7/9/2009 11 comments Three P2P filtering vendors step forward to have their Deep Packet Inspection capabilities tested side by side
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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