Turbo's Virtual Round at Augusta Todd Watson 4/10/2013 Post a comment Turbo talks to an IBM executive about what it's like to play Augusta National, and tries it himself -- on the Electronic Arts Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2012.
Winning in Europe & Oklahoma Todd Watson 4/10/2013 Post a comment IBM announced a deal with Itella, a European business services provider, to streamline business operations using cloud computing. Separately, IBM announced an agreement to provide infrastructure optimization for the state of Oklahoma.
Gladly Pay You Tuesday... Todd Watson 4/3/2013 Post a comment For every dollar companies spend on IBM Smarter Commerce, they receive $12.05 in returns, according to a recent study by Nucleus Research.
Batten Down the Hatches! IBM’s X-Force 2012 Trend & Risk Report Todd Watson 3/29/2013 4 comments From the discovery of sophisticated toolkits with ominous names like Flame to cross-platform zero-day vulnerabilities, both consumers and corporations have been inundated with advisories and alerts regarding emerging threats.
Building a Bigger, Better Cloud in Ohio Todd Watson 3/21/2013 2 comments Ohio has selected IBM for a $267 million 10-year modernization of the State of Ohio Computing Center (SOCC) through the development of a private cloud computing environment and the use of other hardware, software, and services from IBM.
6 Keys to Effective Reputational & IT Risk Management Todd Watson 3/20/2013 Post a comment While it may take 10 minutes or 10 hours to recover from an IT failure, the reputational impact can be felt for months or even years. Here's what companies can do to mitigate the risk.
Brackets & Blades Todd Watson 3/19/2013 Post a comment It's time to do your brackets, if you can take your mind off of golf long enough.
Live @ IBM Pulse 2013: A Q&A With IBM Tivoli GM Deepak Advani Todd Watson 3/6/2013 Post a comment Turbo and IBM Tivoli GM Deepak Advani discuss infrastructure and asset management and utilization, and how more effective visibility, control, and automation fo systems can help turn opportunities into business outcomes.
Opening Up the Clouds Todd Watson 3/5/2013 Post a comment IBM has announced that all its cloud services and software will in future be based on OpenStack.
IBM Unveils Comprehensive Mobile Portfolio Todd Watson 2/21/2013 1 comment IBM has unveiled a comprehensive mobile strategy, including security, analytics, and application development software, with cloud-based services and mobile expertise.
Golf Gate Todd Watson 2/20/2013 1 comment Tiger Woods doesn't share many details about his recent golf outing with President Obama, something inquiring minds want to know about.
Taking the Pulse on Mobile Todd Watson 2/19/2013 1 comment Attendees can stay connected before, during, and after the upcoming IBM Pulse 2013, courtesy of a new social networking platform: Pulse on Vivastream, available now.
Go, Danica Todd Watson 2/19/2013 7 comments Sprint Cup driver and GoDaddy spokeswoman Danica Patrick broke another record this weekend.
One Big MOOC Todd Watson 2/19/2013 4 comments IBM CEO Ginny Rometty asked the IBM workforce to pursue 40 hours of continuing education in 2013, a goal simplified by massive online open courses.
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
Civil libertarians are outraged at the revelation the NSA is reportedly spying on more than one-third of Americans -- obtaining phone records from phone companies, in case it might need them for later use. Edward Snowden, the man who leaked details of that program, also revealed a second effort dubbed “Prism,” which represented a more aggressive grab of email and other communications. (See: Prism Exposes Unwritten Privacy Rules.)
In the past few weeks, Evernote, Twitter, and LinkedIn have implemented an optional security feature: two-step verification. It's time -- perhaps even past due -- for enterprises to consider offering this feature as well.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
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.
So here we are, the last day of the 2013 US Open Golf Championship at Merion, and Phil Mickelson -- who has been a US Open runner-up five times now but never taken the trophy -- is right up there at the top of the leaderboard.
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