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Kim Davis
Kim Davis   bio   1/30/2012   17 comments
I read an interesting article this week by Scott Lowe at SearchCIO-Midmarket. I thought he came up with a nice epithet to pin on CIOs who continue to appear reluctant and fearful of exchanging earthbound IT solutions for "X-as-a-Service" up there in the skies.
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Joanne Korman Goldman
Are you skittish about using Facebook’s Timeline because your yearbook picture was inappropriate or growing up you looked like Urkel on Family Matters? Before you dismiss the new format, consider other ways to use Timeline, besides posting your past. In particular, you may find it helps your organization or group to implement social business objectives.
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George Taylor
George Taylor   1/4/2012   9 comments
Last month saw the publication of the UK Cyber Security Strategy, outlining the UK government's perception of national-level threats from cyberattack -- whether "cyberwar" or "cybercrime" -- and its proposals and plans for meeting those threats in the coming years.
Jerry Bishop
Jerry Bishop   12/29/2011   22 comments
When Congress passed the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week, it may have done more for cloud computing than any other organization to date.
Paul Whyte
Paul Whyte   11/30/2011   27 comments
With more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created daily, the full extent of what it means to live in an information age is just starting to sink into our collective consciousness. Little wonder, then, why the term "big data," which is kind of a mild euphemism for this coming information tsunami, is one of the hottest buzzwords in Silicon Valley.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   11/24/2011   37 comments
When I launched my small company in 2004, we needed email, word processing, spreadsheets, and a shared database.
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Mary E. Shacklett
He was in his mid-20s, and he sat across the table from me in a coffeeshop last week while I interviewed him for a job. He had been working in a call center and had recently left his position there, so I naturally asked him about it.
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Clouds Aren't Just for Outsourcing
Mary E. Shacklett
Organizations are gaining experience and confidence with cloud-based solutions. But are they getting the most out of their cloud investments? “Two or three years ago, we were hearing about data safety and overall control concerns, and companies were in the process of still determining what the cost benefits of cloud would be,” said Vijay Takanti, VP of security and collaboration solutions at Exostar , an aerospace industry cloud services provider. “Now there is a much higher knowledge level in the cloud, and most of these initial concerns, with the exception of security, have been resolved -- but there are still business processes that organizations are hesitant to put into the cloud. They are also not leveraging cloud to get the most out of the technology.”
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Bill Gates Wants to Give It All Away
Ron Miller
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. -- Senator Everett Dirksen
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Clouds Aren't Just for Outsourcing
Mary E. Shacklett
Organizations are gaining experience and confidence with cloud-based solutions. But are they getting the most out of their cloud investments? “Two or three years ago, we were hearing about data safety and overall control concerns, and companies were in the process of still determining what the cost benefits of cloud would be,” said Vijay Takanti, VP of security and collaboration solutions at Exostar , an aerospace industry cloud services provider. “Now there is a much higher knowledge level in the cloud, and most of these initial concerns, with the exception of security, have been resolved -- but there are still business processes that organizations are hesitant to put into the cloud. They are also not leveraging cloud to get the most out of the technology.”
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Timeline Means (Social) Business
Joanne Korman Goldman
Are you skittish about using Facebook’s Timeline because your yearbook picture was inappropriate or growing up you looked like Urkel on Family Matters? Before you dismiss the new format, consider other ways to use Timeline, besides posting your past. In particular, you may find it helps your organization or group to implement social business objectives.
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'Androidophobia' Hits the Web Again
David Harley
George Santayana said a great deal more than “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but it’s probably the one quotation that nearly everyone in the security field will remember approximately verbatim.
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New York Mets Climb to the Mountaintop of Bad Marketing
John Barnes
The New York Mets' front office has made itself a villain in its handling of R.A. Dickey's Kilimanjaro mountain-climbing expedition. The solution to the marketing problem: Embrace the villainy.
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