I have a couple of quibbles with Simmons' comments: 1. The comment "you have to start with a hypothesis" kind of goes against the big data trend. With high-scale, low-cost platforms, you can capture all the data and use...
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Clearly the impact of Consumerization of IT and BYOD was spawned by the fact that most IT departments were getting hammered to stretch out replenshment cycles to conserve dollars -- and the workforce started realizing what...
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I think you nailed it - patients need ways to help stay engaged in their own health. One way to do this is allow them to control their own medical records and even have some structured data points in place to review prescription...
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From a SaaS perspective, one analogy I've often heard used is ADP, the payroll services provider (and now an HR app services provider as well). Sometimes the ADP analogy has been used by SaaS vendors that companies have...
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A couple of years ago, I interviewed (in person) at Google, and had two interviews. A week or so later I heard from HR, who told me that they weren't going to hire me, but she couldn't tell me why, because that would be...
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Social media is such a very bad place to vent. Breathe and count to 10 before you broadcast your emotional reactions.
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I guess all this does beg the question, At at this point, *should* tape be dead for long-term storage?
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I agree with Kristin. Plus, work is much less fun when everyone's pretty much cut from the same cloth.
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Is anyone else surprised by Twitter's low showing? Short, quick tweets seem like a more natural use of a smartphone versus Facebook. Could it be that mobile users are accessing Twitter via the browser, not the app?
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Is this only a "feature" in iOS, or do Android and Windows Phone devices have something similar in the offing?
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Much time, thought and discussion used to go into naming servers. Do you go with Star Trek or Star Wars characters? Maybe LoTR? Which one gets to be the Precious? It'll be a lost art. No one is going to spend time naming...
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Google may be taking a left turn into acquiisition of robotics companies and automation systems but could its vast datacenters be the ultimate home of these metal marvels? Here's what you might encournter, courtesy of virtualization...
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"Somebody bought a tent. Well, chances are you need other things than a tent. You need chairs, a cooking device, a bunch of sleeping bags," ... That's smart - do most retailers do this, and if so, could I get Macy's...
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Another CIO, besides P&G's Filippo Passerini, who doesn't settle for "or" options is GM's Randy Mott, formerly of HP, Dell, and Wal-Mart. Mott insists on taking on big IT projects -- data center consolidation,...
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Robots are definitely cool but scary too, in terms of how many jobs they will take away from living, breathing people. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Luddite and I know all the arguments about giving robots the tedious jobs...
In reply to: Yes, but will robots take away my job?
@ChrisI get my medical care from Beth Israel in Boston, and they have a very advanced medical record system in place where the docs communicate with each other, and a subset of the notes are available to me.One great thing...
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Charlie, do you think we will see more companies take the approach that PayPal did with OpenShift?
In reply to: More of the PayPal approach?
And that does make sense, Kevin. I can't think of anything that has changed as radically as programming. Old timers like me actually used punch cards in college and thought green screen interactive sessions with text editors...
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Nicely said, but I think vendor product announcements with bad analogies are the real culprit, not Reuven's commentaries. I've waited years to hear a confession of wrong doing there without satisfaction. Many of the major...
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Yes the idea of tailoring security awareness programs to the individual organizations and employees makes a lot of sense. Curious to know if any readers approach awareness in this manner already? If so, how do you design...
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
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Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved to the point where hybrid public/private cloud designs and use of multiple providers is common. Who among us has mastered provisioning resources in different clouds; allocating the right resources to each application; assigning applications to the "best" cloud provider based on performance or reliability requirements.
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