The growth of big-data, the BYOD phenomenon, and the popularity of social media all present challenges to the notion of defending the security perimeter.
Michael McClurg describes how midsize businesses can leverage Smarter Commerce to serve customers who are empowered by Internet and social media information channels.
Alistair Rennie, general manager of social business at IBM, discusses what it means to become a social business, what makes for a successful social strategy, and how social improves the enterprise and customer relationships.
Sean Hogan, vice president of global healthcare delivery systems at IBM, discusses the fundamental shift happening in healthcare today, how this is impacting businesses, and the role IT plays in this transformation.
Jim Comfort, vice president of global technology services, IBM, discusses the intersection of cloud computing and commerce applications and how this paves the way for better analytics.
Internet Evolution's Alison Diana describes how her daughter and friends are using social media to stay connected with a girl in their social group who's battling leukemia.
Increasingly, companies are using videoconferencing technology to help employees collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers. As a result, demand for technicians is rising, and companies are finding it difficult to retain their quality workers.
YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.
That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.
Software-defined networks, which deliver virtualization functions to enterprise networks, have the potential to dramatically change network design and significantly reduce costs and maintenance.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
Companies need to take advantage of new technologies to simplify interfaces, improve capabilities, and enhance back-office processes. But they can't upgrade their Websites too often.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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