IBM to Acquire Real-Time Data Compression Provider Storwize Todd Watson 7/29/2010 1 comment With Storwize, analytics applications can improve decision making by scanning many more years of historical data from multiple sources without the need to add additional storage equipment
A New Take on Cloud Standardization Jeff Kaplan 7/29/2010 10 comments By supporting the end-user perspective against vendor lock-in, the Open Stack Initiative may be headed in the right direction
Midmarket Uses BI to Tame Healthcare Costs Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 7/26/2010 2 comments There is no market-wide panacea, but integrating business intelligence might just save a few midmarket companies from flatlining
Cloud Takes on Image Editing Scott Koegler 7/26/2010 11 comments A couple of applications showed this author that there may be hope that graphic editing can move from desktop to cloud sooner rather than later
Enterprises Still Risk-Averse to Cloud Executive Clan Editor's Blog 7/23/2010 4 comments Issues related to security, privacy, and data location are still blocking CIOs from moving applications and data to the cloud
New Z, Smarter Data Center Todd Watson 7/22/2010 Post a comment The new hardware allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7, and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system
Real Clouds Todd Watson 7/19/2010 Post a comment The average enterprise devotes up to 50% of its entire technology infrastructure to development and testing, but up to 90% remains idle
China's Giant Tencent Keeps on Growing Xuefei (Michael) Peng 7/16/2010 5 comments Already an online success story of the first order, China-based Tencent continues its push into enterprise and overseas markets
Another Spam Record, Another Shrug Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/14/2010 17 comments Spammers apparently won't be content 'til they push the global email threshold closer to 100 percent
Protecting Your Data With BlackBerry Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 7/13/2010 4 comments A new security application could ultimately prove useful for small companies and consumers, if it makes it out of beta
Norman Nie, CEO, Revolution Analytics IE Radio 7/13/2010 80 comments As one of the inventors of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, Norman Nie helped automate data analysis in the mainframe era. Now, as CEO of Revolution Analytics, he's using the open-source R statistics language for predictive analytics; he'll talk about the role of the Internet and how the R language scales to any budget size or business requirement.
All the Security You Can Afford Gideon J. Lenkey 7/8/2010 20 comments Keeping enterprises safe online is a constant tradeoff between what you require and what you can afford
Google & China: On Again Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/7/2010 22 comments The political thriller continues as the search engine giant tries to renew its license for operations in China
Enterprises Start to Unravel Windows Ecosystem Michael Bennett Cohn 7/6/2010 8 comments Enterprises need to start thinking about office technology as a series of interlocking but independent systems, each of which is replaceable
IBM to Acquire Real-Time Data Compression Provider Storwize Todd Watson 7/29/2010 1 comment With Storwize, analytics applications can improve decision making by scanning many more years of historical data from multiple sources without the need to add additional storage equipment
A New Take on Cloud Standardization Jeff Kaplan 7/29/2010 10 comments By supporting the end-user perspective against vendor lock-in, the Open Stack Initiative may be headed in the right direction
Midmarket Uses BI to Tame Healthcare Costs Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 7/26/2010 2 comments There is no market-wide panacea, but integrating business intelligence might just save a few midmarket companies from flatlining
Cloud Takes on Image Editing Scott Koegler 7/26/2010 11 comments A couple of applications showed this author that there may be hope that graphic editing can move from desktop to cloud sooner rather than later
Enterprises Still Risk-Averse to Cloud Executive Clan Editor's Blog 7/23/2010 4 comments Issues related to security, privacy, and data location are still blocking CIOs from moving applications and data to the cloud
New Z, Smarter Data Center Todd Watson 7/22/2010 Post a comment The new hardware allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7, and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized system
Real Clouds Todd Watson 7/19/2010 Post a comment The average enterprise devotes up to 50% of its entire technology infrastructure to development and testing, but up to 90% remains idle
China's Giant Tencent Keeps on Growing Xuefei (Michael) Peng 7/16/2010 5 comments Already an online success story of the first order, China-based Tencent continues its push into enterprise and overseas markets
Another Spam Record, Another Shrug Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/14/2010 17 comments Spammers apparently won't be content 'til they push the global email threshold closer to 100 percent
Protecting Your Data With BlackBerry Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 7/13/2010 4 comments A new security application could ultimately prove useful for small companies and consumers, if it makes it out of beta
Norman Nie, CEO, Revolution Analytics IE Radio 7/13/2010 80 comments As one of the inventors of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, Norman Nie helped automate data analysis in the mainframe era. Now, as CEO of Revolution Analytics, he's using the open-source R statistics language for predictive analytics; he'll talk about the role of the Internet and how the R language scales to any budget size or business requirement.
All the Security You Can Afford Gideon J. Lenkey 7/8/2010 20 comments Keeping enterprises safe online is a constant tradeoff between what you require and what you can afford
Google & China: On Again Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/7/2010 22 comments The political thriller continues as the search engine giant tries to renew its license for operations in China
Enterprises Start to Unravel Windows Ecosystem Michael Bennett Cohn 7/6/2010 8 comments Enterprises need to start thinking about office technology as a series of interlocking but independent systems, each of which is replaceable
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
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.
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.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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Norman Nie, CEO, Revolution Analytics
