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.
Chat With the Experts: Answering Key Questions on Cloud IE Radio 4/30/2012 132 comments What's better for your enterprise? A private cloud or a public one? Which cloud is more secure? More cost-effective? With the "cloud honeymoon" coming to an end, CIOs are going to be expected to have the answers to these questions. Please join us for this live chat session with cloud expert Mary E. Shacklett, president of Transworld Data -- led by Internet Evolution's managing editor Mary Jander -- where we'll begin to answer important questions about cloud computing.
The Smarts for Big-Data Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 4/30/2012 3 comments With adoption of business intelligence by small to midtier enterprises growing, the question is whether lack of know-how is impeding the evolution to big-data analytics.
How Clouds Speed Up Workflow for Large-File Apps Scott Koegler 4/30/2012 8 comments For large-file app users, such as creative workers, new clouds feature a high level of integration between applications and storage platforms, removing location dependence and speeding workflow.
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.
Why Clouds for Tablets Won't Work for All Alan Reiter 4/24/2012 27 comments Cloud services that bring office applications to tablet users offer advantages but could be improved in performance, support of key Office features, and other areas.
Designing the Shape of TV to Come Editor's Blog 4/19/2012 26 comments The television of the future will be a virtual package of content retrievable on any device with a screen.
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.
Mobile Management in the Cloud Internet Evolution Midmarket Clan Poll 4/19/2012 Post a comment Vendors are testing midmarket interest in cloud-based management solutions for mobile devices.
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.
A Cloud of VoIP Hype Drifts Into View Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 4/16/2012 8 comments Whether they're hyped-up versions of older services matters not; VoIP and clouds are going to market together from now on.
Rick Peltz, CIO, Marcus & Millichap IE Radio 4/12/2012 101 comments Rick Peltz serves as chief information officer of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. In this capacity he oversees the design, development, procurement, implementation, and support of information technology. With over 20 years of experience, he's received myriad industry recognitions including the CIO 100 Award in 2011 and 2005. He was ranked 62nd in Information Week's Top 500 in 2010. Computerworld also named him among the nation's premier 100 IT leaders in 2002. We'll talk to Rick about his IT priorities for the year ahead, including his goals to connect mobile computing with various forms of video communications to help his sales force. We'll also discuss the enterprising work that went into launching the firm's iMpact mobile app for real estate agents.
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.
Teri Takai, CIO, Department of Defense IE Radio 4/5/2012 126 comments Teri Takai is the CIO of the Department of Defense. In that role, she provides strategy, leadership, and guidance to create a unified information management and technology vision for the Department and to ensure the delivery of information technology based capabilities required to support the broad set of Department missions. Previously, Ms. Takai was the CIO for the State of California where she helped modernize and transform the way the state does business with its citizens.
Hail to the Data! Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 4/3/2012 10 comments The White House's "big data" initiative is cheap, scattershot, and may obscure the true value of analytics.
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.
Chat With the Experts: Answering Key Questions on Cloud IE Radio 4/30/2012 132 comments What's better for your enterprise? A private cloud or a public one? Which cloud is more secure? More cost-effective? With the "cloud honeymoon" coming to an end, CIOs are going to be expected to have the answers to these questions. Please join us for this live chat session with cloud expert Mary E. Shacklett, president of Transworld Data -- led by Internet Evolution's managing editor Mary Jander -- where we'll begin to answer important questions about cloud computing.
The Smarts for Big-Data Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 4/30/2012 3 comments With adoption of business intelligence by small to midtier enterprises growing, the question is whether lack of know-how is impeding the evolution to big-data analytics.
How Clouds Speed Up Workflow for Large-File Apps Scott Koegler 4/30/2012 8 comments For large-file app users, such as creative workers, new clouds feature a high level of integration between applications and storage platforms, removing location dependence and speeding workflow.
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.
Why Clouds for Tablets Won't Work for All Alan Reiter 4/24/2012 27 comments Cloud services that bring office applications to tablet users offer advantages but could be improved in performance, support of key Office features, and other areas.
Designing the Shape of TV to Come Editor's Blog 4/19/2012 26 comments The television of the future will be a virtual package of content retrievable on any device with a screen.
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.
Mobile Management in the Cloud Internet Evolution Midmarket Clan Poll 4/19/2012 Post a comment Vendors are testing midmarket interest in cloud-based management solutions for mobile devices.
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.
A Cloud of VoIP Hype Drifts Into View Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 4/16/2012 8 comments Whether they're hyped-up versions of older services matters not; VoIP and clouds are going to market together from now on.
Rick Peltz, CIO, Marcus & Millichap IE Radio 4/12/2012 101 comments Rick Peltz serves as chief information officer of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. In this capacity he oversees the design, development, procurement, implementation, and support of information technology. With over 20 years of experience, he's received myriad industry recognitions including the CIO 100 Award in 2011 and 2005. He was ranked 62nd in Information Week's Top 500 in 2010. Computerworld also named him among the nation's premier 100 IT leaders in 2002. We'll talk to Rick about his IT priorities for the year ahead, including his goals to connect mobile computing with various forms of video communications to help his sales force. We'll also discuss the enterprising work that went into launching the firm's iMpact mobile app for real estate agents.
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.
Teri Takai, CIO, Department of Defense IE Radio 4/5/2012 126 comments Teri Takai is the CIO of the Department of Defense. In that role, she provides strategy, leadership, and guidance to create a unified information management and technology vision for the Department and to ensure the delivery of information technology based capabilities required to support the broad set of Department missions. Previously, Ms. Takai was the CIO for the State of California where she helped modernize and transform the way the state does business with its citizens.
Hail to the Data! Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 4/3/2012 10 comments The White House's "big data" initiative is cheap, scattershot, and may obscure the true value of analytics.
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.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
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
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
Chat With the Experts: Answering Key Questions on Cloud
