< The minute you let your head get too big it's all over. That's a lesson tech vendor CEOs would do well to learn.> @D. Henschen not just tech vendor CEOs, but all managers. I've been under people so bent on maintaining...
In reply to: Re: Management By Fiat
The debate over outsourcing -- GM's insourcing versus this increased outsourcing by Chrysler -- will continue, you're right, because IT leaders aren't being paid to provide cookie-cutter IT strategy. They're paid to look...
In reply to: Outsourcing strategy
@TerryB true, my husband has to come up with solutions to computer problems for his job. He says he often finds answers on Google. It doesn't slow him down at all; on the contrary, he closes the most tickets on that team...
In reply to: Re: Wisdom of the Crowd
I don't disagree with Jonathon very often but this is a case I side with Mott. SaaS API's are not the same thing as having the full code base to work with when trying to integrate with company wide systems. Does anyone even...
In reply to: Integration is the key
Palocity Corp is a true . Net technology that is replacing older legacy systems like ADP and Paychex
In reply to: Re: Rivals?
IBM would like OpenPower to be viewed as the equivalent of Facebook's Open Compute Project and Open Compute Foundation for the x86 architecture. How is it different? For one thing, I don't see major users, such as Fidelity...
In reply to: How is OpenPower different from OpenCompute?
Dietzen actually thinks all storage, 100%, is destined to become Flash-based because of its lower power requirement -- no moving, mechanical parts. But getting the backups, archivals and object stores into solid state will...
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Is Google committed to preserve all its street view imagery over time? That's a huge archival commitment. 50 years out, that would be pretty interesting, also many PBs of data.
In reply to: Is Google creating a permanent archive?
Seems to me this kind of tool should be used by the doctors themselves. They are in much better position to understand the varied opinions than us non medical patients. But I suspect many doctors, especially specialists,...
In reply to: Re: Wisdom of the Crowd
It's the rule, not the exception, that barriers will arise between development and operations, unless the importance of rapid software update and deployment becomes paramount. Even then, it's difficult. The more developes...
In reply to: Silos: It's not unusal
I agree it would be interesting to look at cloud deployment options for Hadoop, but that belongs in a separate collection without the word "hardware" attached. Cloud capacity is undoubtedly the hands-down winner where price-for-performance...
In reply to: You're probably not looking at hardware if you're thinking cloud
Don't know why, but this kind of thing practically makes me drool. Not for the situations where it would be useful, but for the play factor.
I know how the next 30 minutes of my life will be spent.
In reply to: Easily Entertained
Excellent article, would been interesting to balance these options versus cloud such as AWS's EMR, Azure, etc.
In reply to: Great article, What about Cloud?
This is brochureware for now. Salesforce says it will deliver the SOS service in the second half of the year. The company could not name names of customers that are participating in the beta. I thought Salesforce had turned...
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@Susan the problem was that at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, they get overwhelmed and deal wuith it by adopting a haughty attitude toward their patients. All the birthing rooms were occupied when I arrived on Friday morning,...
In reply to: Re: Wisdom of the Crowd
Do you have any idea about the GuideWire ( comes under Insurance Domain).Demand of a GuideWire developer in international market and in terms of salary, how good it is ?
And future scope of this skill ?
In reply to: Guidewire Development
If Devops do not work and your application and database are too slow to work and you are wodering how to remediate the performance problems and want to analyze root cause and performance bottlenecks. Some companies are helping...
In reply to: Devops and APM
I remembered while writing this that I had seen a "60 Minutes" feature on Marchionne two years ago and was impressed by the man. He appears so laid back, but he's laser focused. Chrysler would probably have died if he hadn't...
In reply to: Re: Management By Fiat
My brother worked for CNH (Case New Holland), Fiat's agricultural equipment manufacturing business, for many years and wasn't terribly impressed with Fiat's management style. In fact, he worked in IT and may have parted...
In reply to: Management By Fiat
The debate about whether everyone needs to become a programmer is pretty lazy at times. We tend to think about everything as binary. But the reality is that even with a programmable layer on top of (or alongside or wherever)...
In reply to: Programmers and network engineers both have a place in the future
It may not be fun or sexy, but data governance is a critical component of any hospital's move to business intelligence, analytics, and a data warehouse. If hospitals don't take the time to do this, they're building on sand...
In reply to: Laying a Foundation
InformationWeek Government, May 2014NIST's cyber-security framework gives critical-infrastructure operators a new tool to assess readiness. But will operators put this voluntary framework to work?
Building a Mobile Business Mindset
The differences between mobile apps and conventional Windows clients, or even web applications, are far more than skin deep. Yes, the touch-versus-keyboard interface, APIs, and programming languages are new, but that’s arguably the easy part. There are profound differences in how the two are built, the functionality each prioritizes, the release cycles on which they’re developed — even the attitudes, values, and work styles of the developers creating them.
2014 State of Storage Survey
If you look at vendor financials, the enterprise storage business seems stuck in neutral. Don't believe it.
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