Cloud Computing

21 May, 2013

Departmental BI In The Cloud

Despite numerous attempts from providers, the cloud failed until now to secure a spot in the business intelligence market. However, there now is an increasingly pressing demand for it, particularly in the departmental applications area. The arrival of two new cloud specialists in the Gartner 2013 BI Magic Quadrant pinpoints…

Publication: BeyeNetwork

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20 May, 2013

How Cloud, Big Data And Mobile Will Make The CMO The BMOC

The rise of cloud and big data is altering business models, and in the process shifting corporate hierarchies, too. The chief marketing officer could be a big beneficiary of all this change…

Publication: GigaOm

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20 May, 2013

Mobile + Big Data + Cloud = M2M

After I posted about machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, a colleague pointed me to the great infographic below. It envisions a number of ways that M2M might improve city dwellers’ lives. It also rounds up quite a few data points that show how devices, networks, mobility, businesses, consumers, Big Data…

Publication: ZDNet

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17 May, 2013

The Business Value Of Social

The business value of ‘social’ computing has been one of the great riddles of the last few years: walk into any company today and there are all sorts of collaborative social technologies being used both formally and informally, and often to great effect…

Publication: ZDNet

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16 May, 2013

The CIO Is Driving IT Toward A Cliff

There’s an increasing perception across the enterprise that the role of the CIO as we know it won’t survive the decade. This isn’t anecdotal evidence, either, as respected institutions like the Harvard Business Review, the Economist and others are publishing studies that show that the average CEO…

Publication: Wired

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16 May, 2013

How To Keep The Feds From Snooping On Your Cloud Data

A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can’t get to the information — even if the government requests access.

And in recent years there have been a lot of those government requests for access from storage…

Publication: CIO.com

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16 May, 2013

First Look: Google+ Shifts The Focus To Better Photos And Big Data

Almost two years in, Google’s social network hasn’t siphoned much activity off of Facebook. But even if Google+ doesn’t yet have all your friends, it does have one of the world’s most powerful data centers at its disposal. Starting today, the network will start leveraging that…

Publication: The Verge

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15 May, 2013

This Is Why Big Data Is The Sweet Spot For SaaS

When it comes to using big data technology effectively, there’s a lot to like about SaaS. When companies like BloomReach create and analyze massive web-wide data sets, they automate insights that almost no individual company could discover on its own…

Publication: GigaOm

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14 May, 2013

Here’s What Is Really Worrying CIOs, Right Now

Wondering what issues are really setting the CIO agenda and keeping tech chiefs up at night? Here’s a list from CIOs themselves – and yes, BYOD and cloud are on there…

Publication: ZDNet

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