Reddit Crashes During Historic Obama Chat IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/30/2012 32 comments Reddit's site caved in under the weight of traffic from a chat session with President Obama -- forcing questions about proper IT preparation.
IBM to Buy Solid-State Storage Supplier TMS IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/16/2012 29 comments Big Blue upped the ante in solid-state enterprise storage with the planned purchase of a key player designed to help with big-data systems.
Why Private Clouds Aren't Really Private Stephen Lawton 8/16/2012 20 comments Cloud services present security challenges to enterprise customers, but they are typically surmountable. Sometimes a service is even more secure than on-premises servers.
NASA: 'Use the Right Cloud for the Right Job' Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/13/2012 5 comments Finally, NASA's manager for data services answers all questions about the agency's use of commercial and homegrown clouds – and discusses what really happened during the Curiosity mission.
How to Know When to Make Big IT Changes IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/10/2012 2 comments Understanding when to move toward or away from a particular technology or approach is an important skill for IT professionals.
Storage or Cloud? Internet Evolution IT Clan Poll 8/8/2012 Post a comment Some enterprises are opting out of cloud services, instead investing in sophisticated internal storage and data management systems. What's your choice?
Woz Badmouths Cloud Internet Evolution Cloud Clan Poll 8/8/2012 Post a comment In a recent interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called storage in the cloud "horrendous" and predicted "horrible problems in the next five years." How does that comment grab you?
NASA Rides the Cloud Beyond Mars Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/7/2012 Post a comment The Curiosity mission highlights just one of several uses NASA is making of cloud services, both commercial and internally developed.
FBI Sentinel: Case Study in Executive Failure Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/1/2012 7 comments The FBI has finally rolled out its new case management system -- 12 years late, and hundreds of millions over budget. It's time for a management review.
Reddit Crashes During Historic Obama Chat IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/30/2012 32 comments Reddit's site caved in under the weight of traffic from a chat session with President Obama -- forcing questions about proper IT preparation.
IBM to Buy Solid-State Storage Supplier TMS IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/16/2012 29 comments Big Blue upped the ante in solid-state enterprise storage with the planned purchase of a key player designed to help with big-data systems.
Why Private Clouds Aren't Really Private Stephen Lawton 8/16/2012 20 comments Cloud services present security challenges to enterprise customers, but they are typically surmountable. Sometimes a service is even more secure than on-premises servers.
NASA: 'Use the Right Cloud for the Right Job' Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/13/2012 5 comments Finally, NASA's manager for data services answers all questions about the agency's use of commercial and homegrown clouds – and discusses what really happened during the Curiosity mission.
How to Know When to Make Big IT Changes IT Clan Editor's Blog 8/10/2012 2 comments Understanding when to move toward or away from a particular technology or approach is an important skill for IT professionals.
Storage or Cloud? Internet Evolution IT Clan Poll 8/8/2012 Post a comment Some enterprises are opting out of cloud services, instead investing in sophisticated internal storage and data management systems. What's your choice?
Woz Badmouths Cloud Internet Evolution Cloud Clan Poll 8/8/2012 Post a comment In a recent interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called storage in the cloud "horrendous" and predicted "horrible problems in the next five years." How does that comment grab you?
NASA Rides the Cloud Beyond Mars Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 8/7/2012 Post a comment The Curiosity mission highlights just one of several uses NASA is making of cloud services, both commercial and internally developed.
FBI Sentinel: Case Study in Executive Failure Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/1/2012 7 comments The FBI has finally rolled out its new case management system -- 12 years late, and hundreds of millions over budget. It's time for a management review.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
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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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
