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Comment: Re: Full Disclosure - jwallace - 7/31/2012
Comment: Re: Full Disclosure - jwallace - 7/31/2012
Comment: Re: Full Disclosure - Kicheko - 7/31/2012
Box Adds $125M to Fund Global Enterprise Domination
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
7/31/2012   2 comments
Box has added a whopping $125 million to its funding, which it plans to use for further enterprise market expansion.
Comment: In my case - Michael P. Kassner - 7/31/2012
How to Get Corporate Content Providers & IT Working Together
Mary E. Shacklett  
7/31/2012   20 comments
Digital media and IT departments are working together more closely in many organizations, with "scrum" meetings binding those ties.
Comment: Re: Responses - Mitch Wagner - 7/30/2012
Comment: A great concept - Mary Jander - 7/30/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Kim Davis - 7/30/2012
Comment: Re: Scrum - Mary E. Shacklett - 7/30/2012
Comment: Re: Scrum - nasimson - 7/30/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Mary Jander - 7/30/2012
Comment: Re: Scrum - Mary E. Shacklett - 7/30/2012
Comment: Scrum - nasimson - 7/30/2012
Scrum Brings Social MediaThinking to Projects
Mary E. Shacklett  
7/30/2012   8 comments
The very low-tech "scrum" project technique introduces "crowd talking" to projects.
Comment: Re: Responses - chuckgregory - 7/29/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Paul Whyte - 7/29/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - chuckgregory - 7/29/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - magneticnorth - 7/29/2012
Comment: Chick-Fil -A flunks - nasimson - 7/28/2012
Comment: RIP - Mitch Wagner - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Ancient? - Mitch Wagner - 7/27/2012
Comment: Ancient? - Joe Stanganelli - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Mitch Wagner - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Kim Davis - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Mitch Wagner - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Kim Davis - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Bolingbroke - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - smkinoshita - 7/27/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Mitch Wagner - 7/26/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - smkinoshita - 7/26/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - Kim Davis - 7/26/2012
Comment: Re: Responses - smkinoshita - 7/26/2012
Comment: Responses - Kim Davis - 7/26/2012
Chick-Fil-A Flunks Social Media Test
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
7/26/2012   35 comments
The Chick-fil-A restaurant chain confronts a PR nightmare but fails to make good on social networks.
The Analytics Boom
Internet Evolution Analytics Clan Poll  
7/26/2012   Post a comment
Surveys predict astonishing growth in analytics software, to $50 billion by 2016.
Comment: Re: Full Disclosure - Ombra - 7/25/2012
Comment: Victor Hugo - Kim Davis - 7/25/2012
Comment: Re: Full Disclosure - medortch - 7/25/2012
Comment: Full Disclosure - Bolingbroke - 7/25/2012
Why Getting Older Is a Workplace Superpower
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
7/25/2012   49 comments
We're levelheaded, we have connections, and we have experience re-inventing ourselves. Also, if you're looking for someone to get those kids off your lawn, we're your guys.
Business Analytics Goes Boom!
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
7/24/2012   2 comments
Reports suggest a booming analytics market, which is surely driven by more than just hype.
New IBM Study: Enabling a Flexible Workplace
Todd Watson  
7/24/2012   7 comments
A recent IBM survey asked, "What is a flexible workplace?"
Softer Networking
Todd Watson  
7/24/2012   Post a comment
A glimpse of the software-designed datacenter.
Comment: Workable - abdlah - 7/23/2012
Comment: Re: Servers & Tools - Kim Davis - 7/23/2012
Comment: Re: Be Proactive - pcharles - 7/22/2012
Comment: Automatic approval. - hounhosp - 7/20/2012
Comment: Re: Servers & Tools - hounhosp - 7/20/2012
Comment: Re: Servers & Tools - hounhosp - 7/20/2012
Comment: Servers & Tools - Mitch Wagner - 7/20/2012
Comment: Re: Be Proactive - SteveGNYC - 7/20/2012
Comment: Re: Be Proactive - SteveGNYC - 7/20/2012
Microsoft's Results Show Enterprise Strength, Internet Weakness
Editor's Blog  
7/20/2012   26 comments
Microsoft's latest earnings report shows Redmond struggling against Google but maintaining a hold in the enterprise.
Comment: Re: Keep it simple - Kim Davis - 7/20/2012
Comment: Re: Be Proactive - nimantha.de - 7/20/2012
Comment: Keep it simple - Mary Jander - 7/19/2012
Comment: Re: Be Proactive - Kim Davis - 7/19/2012
Comment: Re: Be Proactive - Mary Jander - 7/19/2012
Why US Firms Are Using Fewer IT Services From India
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
7/19/2012   3 comments
Decline in growth among Indian IT service companies reflects changes brought on by cloud computing and changing demand for outside IT help.
Comment: Be Proactive - Joanne Goldman - 7/19/2012
 Andrew Blum, Author of Tubes
IE Radio  
7/19/2012   130 comments
Andrew Blum is the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first book-length look at the physical heart of the Internet itself. When not immersed in the Internet’s depths, Blum writes about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel. Since 1999, his articles and essays have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Business Week, Metropolis, Popular Science, Gizmodo, The Atlantic Online, Architectural Record, and Slate, among others. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and in human geography from the University of Toronto, and lives in his native New York City with his wife, daughter, and a black shepherd mix.
How to Cope With IT Support Cutbacks
Maria Korolov  
7/19/2012   18 comments
Support desk cutbacks can reduce productivity. Here are some ways to avoid that scenario by helping users to help themselves.
IT Should Evaluate On-Screen Keyboards
Reiter's Block  
7/19/2012   9 comments
On-screen keyboards are getting a lot more complicated, and IT departments should consider evaluating them.
Comment: Interesting - abdlah - 7/18/2012
Here's Help for Mobile Security
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
7/18/2012   1 comment
Our Web Wise World tutorial is a comprehensive introduction to securing the mobile enterprise.
Too Much! Gartner Overoptimistic on Cloud Spending
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
7/17/2012   4 comments
Gartner insists that public cloud services are an enormous market for enterprises. I beg to differ.
 Peter Bendor-Samuel, Founder & CEO, Everest Group
Smarter Cloud Clan Radio  
7/17/2012   109 comments
An author, industry speaker, and respected industry analyst, Peter Bendor-Samuel founded Everest Group in 1991. An expert in outsourcing and global services, he has won a variety of awards. He formerly worked at Ernst & Young and EDS.
Comment: Amazing - Michael P. Kassner - 7/16/2012
Hadoop Harnesses Big-Data
Maria Korolov  
7/16/2012   10 comments
Hadoop has turned into a preferred way for vendors and businesses to gather unstructured data for analysis.
Comment: Re: Confused - Kurtkeys - 7/15/2012
New IBM Software Transforms the Digital Experience
Todd Watson  
7/13/2012   Post a comment
The IBM Intranet Experience suite combines social networking with analytics, mobile computing, and front office operations.
Comment: Re: Let HTML be HTML - jabailo - 7/13/2012
Comment: reminds me - slfisher - 7/13/2012
Comment: Analysis & Design - RufusJones - 7/13/2012
Comment: Re: Target Audience - KMT568 - 7/13/2012
Comment: Target Audience - abdlah - 7/13/2012
Comment: Re: Let HTML be HTML - jabailo - 7/13/2012
Comment: Re: Spot on - Mansur Hasib - 7/12/2012
Comment: Re: Let HTML be HTML - mtechie - 7/12/2012
Comment: Let HTML be HTML - jabailo - 7/12/2012
Comment: Re: Shiny and new - mtechie - 7/12/2012
Comment: Re: Shiny and new - Mary Jander - 7/12/2012
Comment: Shiny and new - mtechie - 7/12/2012
What Responsive Web Design Can't Do
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
7/12/2012   24 comments
Responsive Web design, a popular trend for developing content for multiple devices, may not be efficient for everyone.
Comment: Re: Definition - Kim Davis - 7/12/2012
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Dr. Satnam Alag!
Editor's Blog  
7/12/2012   Post a comment
Our Smarter Cloud Clan Radio show with Satnam Alag is now live. Please join us!
Join Us for IE Radio With Satnam Alag at 2:00 PM ET!
Editor's Blog  
7/12/2012   Post a comment
Today's program will bring you a Smarter Analytics Clan Radio show featuring Dr. Satnam Alag, vice president of engineering at NextBio.
Comment: Re: Hmmm - DukeW - 7/11/2012
Comment: Definition - Kim Davis - 7/11/2012
Comment: size of teams - jwallace - 7/11/2012
Exposing Agile Project Management for What It Is
Brian Margolies  
7/11/2012   22 comments
Far from being a holy grail, agile programming and project management appears to have borrowed and recombined the best software development practices of the past 40 years.
Comment: Re: Confused - Kim Davis - 7/10/2012
Comment: Re: Confused - gckern - 7/10/2012
Comment: Re: Confused - Kim Davis - 7/10/2012
RIM CEO Revises His 'Satisfaction' With Company
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
7/10/2012   4 comments
RIM's CEO clarifies his appraisal of the company's performance.
Comment: Re: Confused - gckern - 7/10/2012
Comment: Confused - Michael P. Kassner - 7/10/2012
Comment: Cruel To Be Kind - jabailo - 7/10/2012
Comment: Very nice list! - DukeW - 7/10/2012
For This CIO, Technology & Security Rule Over All
Gary Kern  
7/10/2012   9 comments
In business today, all decisions require a fundamental knowledge of technology and security.
Comment: Re: Flip side - robjvargas - 7/9/2012
Comment: Re: Flip side - StephenLawton - 7/9/2012
Hiring Advice for the Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
7/9/2012   11 comments
Even in this job market, mid-tier enterprises should think twice before turning down good IT candidates.
Comment: Re: Flip side - Kim Davis - 7/9/2012
Comment: Re: Flip side - jonkman - 7/9/2012
Telecommuting From Paradise
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
7/9/2012   65 comments
Cloud computing offers a way for remote workers to function in parts of the world they love that have been off limits as work places.
Comment: Re: Flip side - robjvargas - 7/9/2012
Comment: Re: Flip side - smkinoshita - 7/9/2012
Comment: Flip side - Michael P. Kassner - 7/9/2012
DHS Sponsorship Boosts Open-Source Security Engine
Stephen Lawton  
7/9/2012   9 comments
A new beta version of the Suricata open-source-based intrusion detection and prevention engine has the benefit of government acceptance and testing.
Comment: Re: Informative review - DukeW - 7/8/2012
Comment: School Computer Teacher - htjk - 7/6/2012
Comment: Collage - htjk - 7/6/2012
Time to Reexamine Email Archiving
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
7/5/2012   14 comments
IT professionals would do well to review their email archiving strategies and services, in light of ongoing headlines involving email.
Comment: Re: Intriguing issue - DukeW - 7/4/2012
Comment: Intriguing issue - Mary Jander - 7/3/2012
Cloud Services Help Mend Internal IT Rift
Jeff Kaplan  
7/3/2012   5 comments
Emerging cloud services can help solve traditional conflicts between network operations and app development teams within IT.
Comment: Re: Security - scucci - 7/3/2012
Comment: Re: Security - davdfoge - 7/3/2012
European Agency Takes Aim at Barriers to Cloud
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
7/2/2012   1 comment
European adoption of cloud services has been lacking, though that may be set to change.
Comment: Re: Top Down - Joanne Goldman - 7/2/2012
Comment: Re: Security - scucci - 7/2/2012
Comment: Re: Security - syedzunair - 7/2/2012
Comment: Re: Top Down - Kim Davis - 7/2/2012
Comment: Re: Security - scucci - 7/2/2012
Comment: Re: Security - syedzunair - 7/2/2012
Midmarket Cloud Choices Still Hazy
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
7/2/2012   4 comments
It's unclear, as yet, whether the midmarket is embracing private or public cloud, or choosing hybrid solutions.
Here's How Resistant IT Can Meet the Big-Data Challenge
Mary E. Shacklett  
7/2/2012   13 comments
In many enterprises, IT hasn't stepped up to the challenge of big-data. Here are some steps to rectify that situation.
Comment: Security - Mansur Hasib - 7/1/2012




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Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   4 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   2 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.
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David Weldon   5/22/2013   14 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.
Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
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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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