The electricity analogy was dreadful because it applied to one slice of IT -- datacenter infrastructure -- but was used by Nicholas Carr to suggest that all of the IT was doomed. As if the use of data and the use of electricity...
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Diversity in age, backgrounds and experience almost always distinguishes healthy organizations from those that ar just plodding along.
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Across company units, GE is a pioneer in what's commonly known as the Internet of things but which GE calls "the industrial Internet." Quick plug: At our InformationWeek Conference on April 1, we'll be interviewing GE Power's...
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The problem, though, is figuring out the "L". Loss is both monetary and reputaional and the "cost" of making the organization whole may be neyond counting...
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I have bit my tongue about this aspect during the recent articles involving ageism (good articles by the way), because I don't want to be that grumpy old dude. But... Having been brought in as a consultant, or even as leade...
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Ah, Joe, doesn't that "extra scaffolding" you refer to amount to extra charges? I think Google is saying you'll get the performance you expect, no need to reserve a quality of service setting for a fee. But I agree it's...
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I use Strava in the same way to track bike rides, and the value is purely entertainment. By following other riders I can, if I miss the morning ride, see if the group had a particularly fast ride that would've left me in...
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I, too, am unclear on App use versus "Web services" uses. The story says "Google was the top overall web service," and I'm assuming this is the search engine. Google is there as the default search engine on Android devices...
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With Afirmative Action, White males have it even tougher. We are the disadvantaged not only because of age, but race.
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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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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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