Fear & Loathing at the Venetian Todd Watson 4/30/2012 Post a comment Here are some tips for attendees arriving at the IBM Impact 2012 event at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Google's Surprising & Scary Revelation IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/26/2012 20 comments The SDN revolution is very real, and Google stands to win dramatically, thanks to its unique position relative to the Internet. That's a scary thought.
Cloud Moves in on Bioscience Joe Stanganelli 4/25/2012 9 comments At a conference this week, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has unveiled a cloud service featuring data management tools for genomic scientists who aren't programmers.
Internet Hall of Fame Showcases Unsung 'Connectors' Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/25/2012 8 comments The Internet Society's first set of Hall of Fame inductees includes a list of little known but influential contributors to the spread of the Net.
Environmentalists Clash With Cloud Providers IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/19/2012 6 comments In a report on the use of renewable energy by cloud service providers, environmental group Greenpeace points to the failure of Apple and other leading cloud providers to go green.
Daniel Tunkelang, Principal Data Scientist, LinkedIn IE Radio 4/19/2012 142 comments As principal data scientist at LinkedIn, Daniel Tunkelang leads a team of data scientists focused on the "3 Rs: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation" for the social site. Before joining LinkedIn in late 2010, he was a tech lead at Google. Before that, he served as chief scientist at the search application startup Endeca. Daniel earned a BS and MS from MIT and a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Executive Takeaways From the GSA Scandal Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/18/2012 13 comments Enterprise execs should get more than schadenfreude from the organizational problems that threaten the very existence of the GSA.
Cloud Honeymoon Set to End Mary E. Shacklett 4/18/2012 9 comments In the next 18 months, hard questions about cost savings, agility, and speed of deployment will emerge.
IT Jobs: Growth, Change, & Controversy IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/12/2012 6 comments IT jobs are on the rise in the US, but there is controversy about who is taking those jobs and which areas are most likely to expand.
IBM Promises Big Savings on IT Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/11/2012 3 comments With the rollout of PureSystems, IBM is throwing all it's got at the issue of IT complexity and cost.
Tax Issues 'Cloud' SaaS Savings Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 4/10/2012 4 comments Issues of state taxation of cloud services has users and providers wondering when the other shoe will drop.
Senators Seek to Limit Employer Scouting on Facebook Steven C. Bennett 4/10/2012 29 comments A pair of Senators has approached Mark Zuckerberg and federal leaders, calling for an end to employers scouting Facebook for information on prospective employees.
Tips for Surviving Post-Merger Integration Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/4/2012 2 comments Companies that merge or acquire must face the challenge of integrating key systems. Here are some tips from the trenches.
Fear & Loathing at the Venetian Todd Watson 4/30/2012 Post a comment Here are some tips for attendees arriving at the IBM Impact 2012 event at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Google's Surprising & Scary Revelation IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/26/2012 20 comments The SDN revolution is very real, and Google stands to win dramatically, thanks to its unique position relative to the Internet. That's a scary thought.
Cloud Moves in on Bioscience Joe Stanganelli 4/25/2012 9 comments At a conference this week, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has unveiled a cloud service featuring data management tools for genomic scientists who aren't programmers.
Internet Hall of Fame Showcases Unsung 'Connectors' Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/25/2012 8 comments The Internet Society's first set of Hall of Fame inductees includes a list of little known but influential contributors to the spread of the Net.
Environmentalists Clash With Cloud Providers IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/19/2012 6 comments In a report on the use of renewable energy by cloud service providers, environmental group Greenpeace points to the failure of Apple and other leading cloud providers to go green.
Daniel Tunkelang, Principal Data Scientist, LinkedIn IE Radio 4/19/2012 142 comments As principal data scientist at LinkedIn, Daniel Tunkelang leads a team of data scientists focused on the "3 Rs: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation" for the social site. Before joining LinkedIn in late 2010, he was a tech lead at Google. Before that, he served as chief scientist at the search application startup Endeca. Daniel earned a BS and MS from MIT and a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Executive Takeaways From the GSA Scandal Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/18/2012 13 comments Enterprise execs should get more than schadenfreude from the organizational problems that threaten the very existence of the GSA.
Cloud Honeymoon Set to End Mary E. Shacklett 4/18/2012 9 comments In the next 18 months, hard questions about cost savings, agility, and speed of deployment will emerge.
IT Jobs: Growth, Change, & Controversy IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/12/2012 6 comments IT jobs are on the rise in the US, but there is controversy about who is taking those jobs and which areas are most likely to expand.
IBM Promises Big Savings on IT Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/11/2012 3 comments With the rollout of PureSystems, IBM is throwing all it's got at the issue of IT complexity and cost.
Tax Issues 'Cloud' SaaS Savings Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 4/10/2012 4 comments Issues of state taxation of cloud services has users and providers wondering when the other shoe will drop.
Senators Seek to Limit Employer Scouting on Facebook Steven C. Bennett 4/10/2012 29 comments A pair of Senators has approached Mark Zuckerberg and federal leaders, calling for an end to employers scouting Facebook for information on prospective employees.
Tips for Surviving Post-Merger Integration Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/4/2012 2 comments Companies that merge or acquire must face the challenge of integrating key systems. Here are some tips from the trenches.
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
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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Daniel Tunkelang, Principal Data Scientist, LinkedIn
