Self-Service Clouds Help Firms Break Into Analytics Mary E. Shacklett 8/30/2012 15 comments Real-time analytics are being offered in public cloud services, and many enterprises are finding this a great way to get going on a strategy relatively cheaply.
Enterprises Lag in Governance, Risk & Compliance Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/29/2012 6 comments Enterprise GRC isn't just about security or internal auditing anymore. But many firms aren't taking meaningful action to broaden its scope as much as needed.
Big Tennis Meets Big-Data Todd Watson 8/29/2012 Post a comment Major sporting events serve as living laboratories for how big-data can translate into big business.
How to Fix Klout Seth Grimes 8/29/2012 29 comments Is reducing social-platform popularity to a simplistic score more than a weak indicator of any real form of influence? Klout thinks so, but it needs to fix that.
Master Marketing With Our New Leadership Reports CMO Clan Editor's Blog 8/28/2012 Post a comment Our two new reports, "Measure Twice, Market Once: Using Metrics for Success" and "Navigating the Shifting Social Media Landscape," can help marketers boost their brands.
BPM Could Change More Than Your Value Chain Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/22/2012 7 comments The integration of business process management with mobility, social networking, cloud computing, and other elements could lead to some big surprises for corporate leaders.
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.
Gil Elbaz, Founder of Factual Smarter Analytics Clan Radio 8/16/2012 76 comments Gil Elbaz is the founder and CEO of Factual, an information-sharing start-up which gathers, stores, and analyzes terabytes of data on a wide range of topics. He was co-founder of Applied Semantics (ASI0, which developed AdSense -- later acquired by Google. As co-founder of the nonprofit Common Crawl Foundation, a repository of openly and freely accessible web crawl data, he seeks to democratize access to web information.
Now That's Some Serious Spin! Todd Watson 8/13/2012 1 comment Steve Lohr with The New York Times explains how big-data has gone mainstream. There's also some news from IBM Research.
Singapore Sling Todd Watson 8/13/2012 Post a comment IBM is going to be hosting a new, first-of-its-kind event at the Resorts World Sentosa Oct. 9-11 in Singapore.
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.
How Big-Data Is Changing Big Pharma (& Other Sectors) Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/8/2012 7 comments A new report addresses how big-data, social networking, and mobility aren't just affecting pharmaceutical companies (and by extension other kinds of businesses). They're changing them fundamentally.
Welcome to the Corner Office Editor's Blog 8/2/2012 3 comments Learn how midsized businesses can exceed customer expectations from IBM's Vice President for Global Midmarket Sales, Michael McClurg.
Self-Service Clouds Help Firms Break Into Analytics Mary E. Shacklett 8/30/2012 15 comments Real-time analytics are being offered in public cloud services, and many enterprises are finding this a great way to get going on a strategy relatively cheaply.
Enterprises Lag in Governance, Risk & Compliance Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/29/2012 6 comments Enterprise GRC isn't just about security or internal auditing anymore. But many firms aren't taking meaningful action to broaden its scope as much as needed.
Big Tennis Meets Big-Data Todd Watson 8/29/2012 Post a comment Major sporting events serve as living laboratories for how big-data can translate into big business.
How to Fix Klout Seth Grimes 8/29/2012 29 comments Is reducing social-platform popularity to a simplistic score more than a weak indicator of any real form of influence? Klout thinks so, but it needs to fix that.
Master Marketing With Our New Leadership Reports CMO Clan Editor's Blog 8/28/2012 Post a comment Our two new reports, "Measure Twice, Market Once: Using Metrics for Success" and "Navigating the Shifting Social Media Landscape," can help marketers boost their brands.
BPM Could Change More Than Your Value Chain Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/22/2012 7 comments The integration of business process management with mobility, social networking, cloud computing, and other elements could lead to some big surprises for corporate leaders.
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.
Gil Elbaz, Founder of Factual Smarter Analytics Clan Radio 8/16/2012 76 comments Gil Elbaz is the founder and CEO of Factual, an information-sharing start-up which gathers, stores, and analyzes terabytes of data on a wide range of topics. He was co-founder of Applied Semantics (ASI0, which developed AdSense -- later acquired by Google. As co-founder of the nonprofit Common Crawl Foundation, a repository of openly and freely accessible web crawl data, he seeks to democratize access to web information.
Now That's Some Serious Spin! Todd Watson 8/13/2012 1 comment Steve Lohr with The New York Times explains how big-data has gone mainstream. There's also some news from IBM Research.
Singapore Sling Todd Watson 8/13/2012 Post a comment IBM is going to be hosting a new, first-of-its-kind event at the Resorts World Sentosa Oct. 9-11 in Singapore.
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.
How Big-Data Is Changing Big Pharma (& Other Sectors) Executive Clan Editor's Blog 8/8/2012 7 comments A new report addresses how big-data, social networking, and mobility aren't just affecting pharmaceutical companies (and by extension other kinds of businesses). They're changing them fundamentally.
Welcome to the Corner Office Editor's Blog 8/2/2012 3 comments Learn how midsized businesses can exceed customer expectations from IBM's Vice President for Global Midmarket Sales, Michael McClurg.
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.
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM announced today the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a technology breakthrough that allows brands to crunch big data in record time to transform the way they engage clients in key functions such as customer service, marketing, and sales.
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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
Gil Elbaz, Founder of Factual
