Inside the BriefcaseToday’s leading tech, marketing and advertising firms — built and led by the disruptors of our time — still don’t know quite what to make of the mobile computing disruption sweeping the world.
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The “business intelligence” space is loaded to the gills with software and service providers that promise to provide “insight,” “discovery,” “analysis,” and all sorts of other wonderful sounding things that are designed to let people make better decisions.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe newspaper “Die Welt” drew a picture. Of 100 eBay stars. 23 are filled, 77 are empty. One star is 10 percent. 10 stars are 100 percent. A star can be filled. Each star has 5 spikes. 2 spikes are 4 percent. 10 values are to be starred. The biggest value is 28 percent. That’s roughly 3 stars. Complicated? “Die Welt” thought so, too. For 20, 19, 18, 17, and 15, they simply filled 2 stars completely.
Blogs, Featured BlogsDespite their (often) vast resources, it’s sometimes nearly as difficult for large brands to develop a coherent social media strategy as it is for a small mom-and-pop company.
Featured BlogsYammer’s new offices across three floors near “Silicon Roundabout” have been opened by the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. According to Tech Week Europe, the prince claimed to have used Yammer to organize a dinner party for 200 guests.
Blogs, Featured BlogsWe are almost 30 days away from Constellation’s flagship event -Connected Enterprise 2012! This event from November 9th to 11th, 2012, celebrates innovation in the enterprise and the impact of disruptive technologies on business. Our theme for 2012 and 2013 centers on the “Art of the Possible”.
Featured BlogsAs we have been discussing recently, big data is old news: some organizations have been leveraging their big data to extract tremendous business value, for probably as long as computers have existed. But the operating word here is “some” organizations – not all of them. And these organizations tend to belong to the wealthiest industries – financial, retail or travel to name a few. For these businesses, harvesting and processing vast amounts of diverse data drives them to obtain a competitive advantage that translates into measurable return on investment.
Who would have thunk it. The OpenStack Foundation now has a 24-person board, $10 million in funding, and, oh, yeah, 5,600 members. This is becoming more than momentum in the cloud computing market, and it certainly exceeds my expectations from when the standard was first launched.
Featured BlogsMarket forecast says SOA governance market will keep growing by more than 10% a year.
Featured BlogsIs the Federal Government trying to put round pegs in square holes? That certainly seems to be the case with the acquisition and contract writing systems they are buying.
Blogs, Featured BlogsI like to think that we are beyond ‘defining’ cloud, but what I find in reality is that we still argue over basics. I have conversations in which people still delineate things like “hosting” from “cloud computing” based degrees of single-tenancy.
Featured BlogsNew CompTIA study reveals 28% of corporations plan to hire outside IT experts to manage the storage capacity, speed and type of ‘Big Data’ they sent or receive.
Featured BlogsOur world is becoming more social every day. And while companies like Facebook and Twitter have led the social revolution for consumers, a number of innovative companies are creating social transformation within the enterprise.
Featured BlogsMore results from LogiXML’s recent survey of more than 750 IT professionals on business intelligence (BI) trends and BI users.
Blogs, Featured BlogsIT silos tend to get a bad rap in the data center these days. In an age of ever-increasing consolidation of physical devices (servers, storage, and networks) into one big family of shared resources, the legacy of IT silos is viewed more and more as one of great inefficiency, and as an example of how not to do things
Featured BlogsGamification — the application of gaming approaches to addressing business problems — is now a big part of business computing. Projections show seven out of ten Global 2000 businesses will be employing gamification in their operations by 2014, and one out of four business processes will be incorporating games by 2015.
Featured BlogsI’ve been a big fan of “Weeds” on Showtime, now in its eighth season. If you’re a fan, you know that the show have went back to its original theme music, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds: “Little boxes on the hillside/Little boxes made of ticky tacky/Little boxes on the hillside/Little boxes all the same.”
Featured BlogsYou may know what a VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is; you probably don’t use one. You really should be using a VPN, and even if you don’t think so now, at some point in the future you may consider it as important as your internet connection.
At the dawn of database technology in the late 1960s through the 1970s hierarchical and network databases emerged. Hardware was really slow and really expensive. To get databases to perform for an application, one denormalized the data and made sure that all of the data you wanted for the application was physically adjacent on the same disk drive. In the end, the database design worked for one and only one specific application.
Blogs, Featured BlogsWhen it comes to the task of managing performance, many organizations still find themselves fixated on the past rather than planning for improvement in the future.
Featured BlogsWritten by Brad Morris, director of social marketing and analytics for Tidemark, which sells cloud-based enterprise performance management applications.
Featured BlogsThe Hadoop community recently promoted YARN — the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework — to the status of “sub-project” of the Apache Hadoop Top Level Project. The promotion puts YARN on the same level as Hadoop Common, the Hadoop Distributed File System, and MapReduce. It had been part of the MapReduce project; the promotion means it’ll now get the spotlight and developer attention its proponents believe it deserves.
Blogs, Featured BlogsThere’s a lot of concern, much of justified, about the fate of IT jobs as cloud computing gains traction.At one extreme, some analysts predict much of IT will move outside the organization.
Featured BlogsIT may still be wrestling with the notion of cloud computing, but chief financial officers already believe. According to a Google-sponsored study, 96 percent of CFOs believe that “cloud computing provides their business with quantifiable benefits.”
Featured Blogs“Enterprise Social Networking” is the use of one Online Social Network within the same Business
Featured BlogsWhen LogiXML asked more than 750 IT professionals this very question, most said “Pacman – traditional, but entertaining,” or “Call of Duty – cool and sophisticated, but hard to use and somewhat violent.” Others said “Pong – traditional, but useless,” “Solitaire – one man operation,” “Minecraft – new and agile,” or “Frogger – move or die.”
Blogs, Featured BlogsOn August 10 -11, the first two-day OpenStack Asia-Pacific Conference (OSAC) was held in Beijing and Shanghai concurrently. This conference is jointly organized by CSDN (Chinese Software Develop the Net), the world’s largest Chinese IT technology community and the OpenStack user group (COSUG).
Blogs, Featured BlogsLet’s face it, there are no guarantees around the success of SOA technology within the enterprise. We pay our million-plus dollars for huge license agreements, prior to one server going online, and then find out after implementation that the technology has fallen short and the project a failure.
Featured BlogsAround the beginning of this year I had offered some predictions about where networking might venture in 2012. Perhaps a tad behind schedule, but as if on cue, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged at the front and center of networking this year, with VMware’s acquisition of Nicira. In this blog post, I am here to suggest that over a billion dollars later, this marriage’s ability to realize the software-defined networking vision remains, shall we say, incomplete. But you gotta start somewhere.
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