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posted in May 2012
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Comment: slippery slope - nathanwosnack - 5/31/2012
Comment: Beyond IT - KMT568 - 5/31/2012
Top IT Time & Resource Wasters
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
5/31/2012   9 comments
Are you running IT efficiently? Take a look at these issues that could doom your organization to budget overruns.
The Virtual US Open: Open for Olympic
Todd Watson  
5/31/2012   Post a comment
The newly launched Website for this year's US Open is powered by IBM's cloud computing technology.
Comment: Linux is old news - RedNorvono - 5/30/2012
Comment: Re: UBUNTU - Mary E. Shacklett - 5/30/2012
Comment: UBUNTU - Mike Acker - 5/30/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - Kim Davis - 5/29/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - Kicheko - 5/29/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - DukeW - 5/29/2012
Comment: Re: me too - Mary E. Shacklett - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - magneticnorth - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: me too - magneticnorth - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: me too - hounhosp - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - hounhosp - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - Mike Acker - 5/28/2012
Comment: me too - Mike Acker - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - scucci - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: Finally! - nimantha.de - 5/28/2012
Comment: Finally! - magneticnorth - 5/28/2012
Linux: Rising Star in the IT Cloud
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/28/2012   36 comments
The Linux operating system offers a series of advantages to IT shops looking to develop and integrate with cloud applications.
IT Puts Public Cloud in the Silo
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/23/2012   5 comments
Better security is necessary for fullscale integration with IT infrastructure.
Comment: Re: Parallelism? - Mary Jander - 5/22/2012
Comment: Parallelism? - jabailo - 5/21/2012
Nasdaq's Under a Cloud, but Clouds Aren't to Blame
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
5/21/2012   16 comments
The Nasdaq OMX system failed to stand up during Friday's Facebook IPO. The fallout calls attention to what might have been done to avoid the snafu.
Comment: Management first - Mary Jander - 5/21/2012
Cost Not the Main Driver for Cloud Adoption
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
5/21/2012   11 comments
Cost may no longer be the first consideration for midmarket firms evaluating cloud computing services.
Comment: Re: Hyperlocal! - Mary Jander - 5/18/2012
Comment: Re: Hyperlocal! - Kim Davis - 5/18/2012
Comment: Hyperlocal! - Mary Jander - 5/18/2012
Comment: Crazy... - DHCIR - 5/17/2012
Comment: The Sky Is Falling! - kq4ym - 5/17/2012
Tying Marketing With Analytics
Gil Elbaz  
5/17/2012   4 comments
Gil Elbaz, CEO of Factual, talks about the importance of data and analytics for marketers.
How Vendor Lock-In Threatens Private Clouds
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/17/2012   10 comments
Vendor lock-in can be a risk for IT pros who use cloud services, just as it can be in any other area of IT procurement.
Profit Trumps Cybersecurity in Canada
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/16/2012   11 comments
The Harper government is turning a blind eye and ear to suggestions that Huawei's involvement with big Canadian telecom firms is risky.
Third-Party Clouds Can't Be Trusted, Users Say
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
5/14/2012   10 comments
Some enterprise IT professionals still would not trust their data to any third-party cloud provider.
Comment: Re: Good news - Kim Davis - 5/14/2012
Comment: Good news - Mary Jander - 5/14/2012
The Midmarket Stands by IT
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
5/14/2012   2 comments
A new survey finds the midmarket continuing to invest in automation and analytics, and showing increasing interest in the cloud.
Comment: Our Internet in 2222? - Mashka - 5/12/2012
The Hybridization of IT
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
5/10/2012   1 comment
If there is one way to summarize the trends in IT, it's the term hybridization. Here's why.
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Tony Cicco!
Editor's Blog  
5/10/2012   Post a comment
We're live on IE Radio with Tony Cicco, global CIO of AEA Group. Come join us!
Join Us for IE Radio With CIO Tony Cicco at 2 PM ET
Editor's Blog  
5/10/2012   Post a comment
We're going live on IE Radio with Tony Cicco, global CIO of AEA Group, at 2:00 p.m. ET, and we hope to see you there!
HPC May Be Headed for Cloud
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/10/2012   Post a comment
Several universities consider offering HPC cloud services to private sector organizations.
Our Internet in 2022
Editor's Blog  
5/8/2012   1 comment
Ten years is a lifetime in the digital era, and the Web we'll be using in 2022 won't look like the one we know today.
The Internet in 10 Years
The Big Report  
5/8/2012   25 comments
From the transformed enterprise to new interfaces to infrastructure changes and more, we examine what the World Wide Web will look like in 2022.
Comment: Makes sense - Mary Jander - 5/7/2012
Xerox & AvFinity Pitch Aviation Cloud
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
5/7/2012   2 comments
The companies have joined forces to offer a cloud-based service for airlines.
IT Innovation Wins in the Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
5/7/2012   Post a comment
Midmarket IT leadership award winners are recognized for exploiting agile, responsive platforms, on-demand applications, and the cloud.
Comment: barnes & noble - slfisher - 5/6/2012
Comment: wow! - slfisher - 5/6/2012
Microsoft Needs Adobe
Rob Salkowitz  
5/4/2012   8 comments
Microsoft's deal with Barnes & Noble could be enhanced by a partnership with Adobe, something that Redmond discussed in the past.
Time to Think About Cloud ROI
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/4/2012   4 comments
CIOs need to be developing their ROI metrics for cloud, because there may be hidden fees.
Comment: Re: Er... - Nicole Ferraro - 5/3/2012
Comment: Re: Just Wonering..... - DukeW - 5/3/2012
Comment: Re: Er... - kq4ym - 5/3/2012
Comment: Re: Er... - Nicole Ferraro - 5/2/2012
Comment: Re: HTML 5 - Robert Morgan - 5/2/2012
Comment: Re: China Down - Kim Davis - 5/2/2012
Comment: Re: Rights? - Kim Davis - 5/2/2012
Comment: Er... - Joe Stanganelli - 5/2/2012
Comment: Re: learning curve - DukeW - 5/2/2012
3 Predictions for Cloud Computing
Editor's Blog  
5/1/2012   9 comments
At the IBM Impact conference, executives and industry leaders ponder what's coming for cloud.
Comment: Re: Rights? - KMT568 - 5/1/2012
PureSystems Makes a Big 'Impact'
Editor's Blog  
5/1/2012   5 comments
At IBM's 2012 Impact conference in Las Vegas, the new PureSystems family is being talked about as one of the most significant developments in the history of IBM and IT.
Comment: Re: Rights? - Mary Jander - 5/1/2012
Comment: $25,000 (hahaha) - Chris Poley - 5/1/2012
Comment: Trust Us. We're Good - kq4ym - 5/1/2012




a moderated blogosphere of internet experts
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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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.

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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.

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