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Reuven Cohen (@rUv)

Twitter Bio:: Digital Provocateur @Forbes | SVP @Virtustream | Founder Enomaly & @CloudCamp | co-host @DigitalNibbles | Mentor @TechStars | Dad | http://rUv.net/a/Forbes
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The cloud providers are coming…

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While rapid technology changes are commonplace in enterprise IT, being able to shift IT processes or adjust IT skills is much more difficult. CIOs would love to be able to adapt their use of technology to keep up with every new business opportunity, but internal processes are often bottlenecks to that success. Finding new ways to increase the pace at which IT can keep up with business demands is always at the top of CIOs’ goals.For the last few years, we’ve heard many technology companies talk about how enterprise IT will evolve to deliver cloud computing services for their business. In most cases, these journeys to cloud evolution begin by modernizing

The $1.3 Trillion Price Of Not Tweeting At Work

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On June 6, Larry Ellison--CEO of Oracle, one of the largest and most advanced computer technology corporations in the world--tweeted for the very first time. In doing so, he joined a club that remains surprisingly elite. Among CEOs of the world’s Fortune 500 companies, a mere 20 have Twitter accounts. Ellison, by the way, hasn’t tweeted since.

As social media spreads around the globe, one enclave has proven stubbornly resistant: the boardroom. Within the C-suite, perceptions remain that social

Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise ...

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James Hamilton on his boat, Dirona, docked at the Wakiki Yacht Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo: Kent Nishimura/WiredOn a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.It was a serendipitous moment. Hamilton is the Distinguished Engineer who oversees the increasingly complex design of the data-center empire that drives Amazon Web Services, or AWS — the nothing-

HTML5 is dead! Long live HTML5

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke publicly for the first time since the company's initial public offering. At TechCrunch Disrupt, a technology conference, Zuckerberg expresses his disappointment with Facebook's stock so far, and speaks about the future of the company and it's plan to increase profits going forward. Facebook has been a big fan of building mobile apps using HTML5 and related Web standards, but no less than founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called Facebook's HTML5 app "one of the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistake that we made." Those are powerfully damning words, and one many developers

'No evidence' of Huawei espionage

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A US government security review has found no evidence telecoms equipment firm Huawei Technology spies for China.The 18-month review, details of which were leaked to the Reuters news agency, suggests security vulnerabilities posed a greater threat than any links between the firm and the Chinese government.Last week a US congressional report warned against allowing Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE Corp to supply critical telecom infrastructure.The classified inquiry was a thorough review of how Huawei worked, involving nearly 1,000 telecom equipment buyers.One of the government employees involved with the inquiry told Reuters: "We knew certain

Nathan Myhrvold: The Wealthy Should Fund Innovation

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The former chief technology officer of Microsoft on why he's backing the nuclear energy startup TerraPower.For some technologists, it's enough to build something that makes them financially successful. They retire happily. Others stay with the company they founded for years and years, enthralled with the platform it gives them. Think how different the work Steve Jobs did at Apple in 2010 was from the innovative ride he took in the 1970s.A different kind of challenge is to start something new. Once you've made it, a new venture carries some disadvantages. It will be smaller than your last company, and more frustrating. Startups require a level

Bromium Wants You To Forget About Security

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Over the last couple years, a major trend in enterprise IT has been the concept of “Bring Your Own Device”, commonly referred to as BYOD. At its heart is an IT policy that enables employee’s to use the technology that they are most comfortable and familiar with. For the most part, it has been primarily focused on hardware such as smart phones and less focused on the applications running on them. With the rise of App stores and cloud centric software, these smart devices are quickly becoming a secondary part of the equation and the Apps themselves are taking center stage. Thanks in part to this phenomenon, the concept of “Bring Your Own App”

Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution

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Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps.Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google. Infamously, the company used to focus on A/B testing tiny, incremental changes like 41 different shades of blue for links instead of trusting its designers to create and execute on an overall vision. The “design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data” led its very first visual designer, Douglas Bowman, to leave in 2009. More recently, however, it’s been impossible to ignore a series of