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Comment: Re: Just as well - Mitch Wagner - 10/31/2012
Comment: social commerce - jwallace - 10/31/2012
Comment: ummm - jwallace - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Just as well - jwallace - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Post mortem - Kim Davis - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Post mortem - Mary Jander - 10/31/2012
Comment: Post mortem - Karyl Scott - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Internet of darkness - kq4ym - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Just as well - Mitch Wagner - 10/30/2012
Comment: Internet of darkness - mtechie - 10/30/2012
Comment: Just as well - Kim Davis - 10/30/2012
We're Rescheduling Today's 7DEE Session for Another Day
Editor's Blog  
10/30/2012   6 comments
We'll let you know the new date. The change is due to Sandy, of course.
Sandy Will Put Cloud Services to the Test
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/29/2012   9 comments
Enterprise eyes are on AWS, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Rackspace as the storm of the decade makes landfall in the northeastern US.
Data Protection Relief for EU Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/29/2012   Post a comment
As the EU looks to extend the scope of its data protection laws, the European Justice Commissioner holds out hope of relief for some SMBs.
Comment: Sandy - slfisher - 10/29/2012
Comment: Re: Head in a cloud? - jabailo - 10/24/2012
 Vala Afshar, Chief Customer Officer, Enterasys Networks
Smarter Analytics Clan Radio  
10/24/2012   100 comments
Vala Afshar is chief customer officer for Enterasys Networks. Afshar is responsible for worldwide services operations and technical support functions, including contact center operations, field engineering, support engineering, and infrastructure technologies. Afshar and his team have implemented an award-winning (CRM Magazine Elite Services) cloud computing customer relationship management framework that uses business and performance management analytics to achieve best-in-class customer satisfaction and employee retention.
Comment: Re: Head in a cloud? - jabailo - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Head in a cloud? - Kim Davis - 10/23/2012
Comment: Head in a cloud? - jabailo - 10/23/2012
7DEE: Getting Clued In to the Cloud
Editor's Blog  
10/23/2012   7 comments
7DEE: Getting Clued In to the Cloud is a seven-day online course that will teach you what you need to know about deploying the cloud in your enterprise, including security, customization, public vs. private vs. hybrid, and more.
Comment: Re: How many tools? - Mary Jander - 10/22/2012
Comment: How many tools? - Kim Davis - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Cloud manager - Mary Jander - 10/22/2012
Comment: Cloud manager - nasimson - 10/22/2012
Comment: Is this news? - DavidSilversmith - 10/21/2012
Comment: Re: innovation - slfisher - 10/20/2012
Cloud Management Challenges IT, Despite Progress
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/19/2012   6 comments
Despite progress, IT cloud management remains a challenge in many enterprises.
Comment: hype cycle - slfisher - 10/19/2012
Comment: innovation - slfisher - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Insider Behavior - Kim Davis - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Finding it painful - kq4ym - 10/19/2012
IBM Announces New Security Solutions, Focuses on Cloud, Mobile, Big-Data
Todd Watson  
10/19/2012   Post a comment
IBM made a move designed to reduce the biggest security inhibitors that organizations face in implementing cloud, mobile, and big-data initiatives with the announcement of a broad set of security software to help holistically secure data and identities.
Comment: Insider Behavior - Kim Davis - 10/18/2012
Comment: Finding it painful - Mary Jander - 10/18/2012
Comment: Re: Missing something - Ariella - 10/18/2012
IBM Addresses Insider Threats in Emerging Technologies
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
10/18/2012   16 comments
New solutions from IBM target (among other things) the growing threat from dishonest enterprise insiders.
Cloud & Mobile Might Make Windows 8 a Yawner
Ron Miller  
10/18/2012   32 comments
Enterprises are lukewarm about the latest version of Windows, perhaps because desktop operating systems matter less.
Comment: Re: The big Mo - jabailo - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - jabailo - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - mtechie - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Kim Davis - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - mtechie - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - jabailo - 10/16/2012
Comment: What bothers me... - smkinoshita - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Hear, hear! - Tom Nolle - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Hear, hear! - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Hear, hear! - Kim Davis - 10/15/2012
Comment: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Hear, hear! - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Hear, hear! - Tom Nolle - 10/15/2012
Wal-Mart Reportedly Doubles Down on OpenStack
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/15/2012   17 comments
Word that Wal-Mart has lined up to use OpenStack for data analytics prompts questions about IaaS adoption by enterprises.
Comment: Hear, hear! - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Yahoo Needs Tech Leadership
Second Shooter  
10/15/2012   6 comments
Yahoo needs to have a technical approach to the mobile cloud, not a management theory lesson.
Comment: LOLing Malware - stotheco - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: PayPal Too - stotheco - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: PayPal Too - ChrisTOP - 10/13/2012
Comment: following links... - mhhfive - 10/12/2012
Comment: PayPal Too - Kim Davis - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: On Twitter - Mary Jander - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: On Twitter - Mitch Wagner - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: On Twitter - Mitch Wagner - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Missed my point - Ron_Miller - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Next-gen privacy - JFlaherty - 10/11/2012
Christensen, Levie Tell IT to Embrace Disruption
Ron Miller  
10/11/2012   17 comments
A talk this week by Clayton Christensen highlighted the importance of IT professionals accepting, understanding, and adapting to the disruptions in technology.
Comment: Re: On Twitter - Mary Jander - 10/11/2012
Comment: Re: On Twitter - kq4ym - 10/11/2012
Comment: On Twitter - Mitch Wagner - 10/10/2012
Comment: Re: Ah, yes - Kim Davis - 10/10/2012
Comment: Stating the obvious - ChrisTOP - 10/10/2012
Comment: Ah, yes - Jason Mick - 10/10/2012
'LOL Here's Your New Malware'
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
10/10/2012   20 comments
Malware threatens individual and enterprise Skype users.
Live @ IBM InterConnect 2012: IBM Announces New Cloud Computing, Big-Data Analytics Capabilities
Todd Watson  
10/9/2012   Post a comment
At the IBM InterConnect event being held at the Royal Sentosa Resorts in Singapore, IBM made two significant announcements that will help IBM clients derive more value from their IT investments via improved cloud computing solutions.
Live @ IBM InterConnect 2012: IBM’s Steve Mills on Big-Data, Smaller IT
Todd Watson  
10/9/2012   Post a comment
The IBM InterConnect event got kick started in Singapore as IBM senior vice president Steve Mills hit the stage and outlined the core value proposition behind the event and, more broadly, behind IT in 2012.
Comment: New complexity - Mitch Wagner - 10/8/2012
Comment: Concentration - Mitch Wagner - 10/8/2012
Managed Service Providers Help Tame Cloud Complexity
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/8/2012   1 comment
IBM's initiative to make cloud computing more accessible by providing increased support for MSPs is good news for the midmarket.
Big Cloud Providers Drive Trend to Ultra-Dense Servers
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/8/2012   4 comments
Cloud providers are helping make hyperscale datacenters the target market for server vendors.
Connecting @ IBM InterConnect Singapore
Todd Watson  
10/8/2012   Post a comment
IBM clients, business partners, employees, and others in the IBM ecosystem began landing in Singapore over the weekend to attend the IBM InterConnect event.
How to Recast IT Chargeback to Fit the Cloud Model
Mary E. Shacklett  
10/8/2012   8 comments
Private cloud providers are getting users to think differently about IT costs, forcing IT to make some chargeback changes.
Comment: Success! - DavidSilversmith - 10/6/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - jabailo - 10/5/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Kim Davis - 10/5/2012
Comment: Happy belated IE - ChrisTOP - 10/5/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Ron_Miller - 10/5/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Ron_Miller - 10/5/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - DukeW - 10/5/2012
Comment: Insightful Lessons - stotheco - 10/5/2012
Comment: Happy 5th Birthday! - stotheco - 10/5/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - jabailo - 10/4/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Ron_Miller - 10/4/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Kim Davis - 10/4/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Ron_Miller - 10/4/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - jabailo - 10/4/2012
Comment: Cheers - Mary Jander - 10/4/2012
Comment: It is - Michael P. Kassner - 10/4/2012
Comment: Re: Degrees of DNT - Ron_Miller - 10/4/2012
Why Microsoft's Support for 'Do Not Track' Is Good for IT
Ron Miller  
10/4/2012   20 comments
IT doesn't want employee movements tracked across the Web any more than individuals want it.
Comment: Level-headedness - Mitch Wagner - 10/3/2012
5 Leadership Lessons From Top Tech CEOs
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
10/3/2012   20 comments
CEOs of the most successful technology firms exhibit traits that all C-suiters can emulate.
Comment: And many more.... - mhhfive - 10/3/2012
Comment: Re: Great Work - Mary Jander - 10/3/2012
Comment: Re: Great Work - Mary Jander - 10/3/2012
Comment: Re: Great Work - Mary Jander - 10/3/2012
Comment: Happy Fith Year! - mtechie - 10/3/2012
Comment: Good advice! - antonis - 10/3/2012
Rent-a-Cloud Hardware: Great if You Love Your Vendor Forever
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/3/2012   Post a comment
Big enterprise IT suppliers are offering to rent companies the hardware on which to run private clouds. Vendor lock-in looms.
How to Disaster-Proof Your Network
Rick Cook  
10/3/2012   8 comments
The enterprise wide area network (WAN) is the focal point for most of today's high-speed network failover plans. Make sure yours is up to the challenge.
Comment: Re: Great Work - chuckgregory - 10/2/2012
Comment: Re: Great Work - Kim Davis - 10/2/2012
Comment: Re: Great Work - Mary Jander - 10/2/2012
Comment: Re: Great Work - Kim Davis - 10/1/2012
Take Our Poll on Competing With the Big Guys
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/1/2012   4 comments
Midmarket companies can be more agile than big businesses.
Comment: Great Work - Chris Poley - 10/1/2012
Happy 5th Birthday to Us!
Editor's Blog  
10/1/2012   26 comments
Five years ago today, a brave and crazy dream was born.
Competing With the Big Guys
Internet Evolution Midmarket Clan Poll  
10/1/2012   6 comments
The midmarket stands to reap special benefits from current digital developments.




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Mary E. Shacklett
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   17 comments
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?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   5 comments
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.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 comments
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.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 comments


Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   No comments


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.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


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.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


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.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


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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In the 1970 science fiction thriller
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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.

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