IBM – Building Momentum to Win the Hybrid Cloud Platform War IBM – Building Momentum to Win the Hybrid Cloud Platform War By Ravi Shankar and Srini Chari, PhD., MBA – Cabot Partners, May 8, 2020. As the evolving impacts...
From a Hunch to a Punch: Winning with Analytics
I am writing this after recently attending three conferences focused on Big Data Analytics in New York: HPC on Wall Street Strata Hadoop IBM’s Analytics for All. The technical sessions and the end-user discussions in particular were superb and...
Hey Supercomputer, Pause and Smell the Roses! Enjoy these Fall Colors!
I received an email on my Smart Phone a while ago from Herb Schultz (Marketing Manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group for Technical Computing and Analytics) with the agenda for IBM’s Technical Computing IT Analyst meeting the following week in...
Let’s Venerate the Centenarian Duo: One in Duodecimal the other in Regular Decimal
I called my parents in India this morning. I do this almost every day. But I realized that today (Oct/2) is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and his 144th birth anniversary. Then, during my morning jog, in the neighborhood park, on this...
To Tame the Onslaught of Big Data, Better Drink Your V8. It will make You Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
Velocity: It determines the speed and efficiency in capture, storage and retrieval of data and often drives performance and availability requirements. Veracity: This establishes the authenticity of data that is available to perform analytics and to arrive at useful insights....
Are There Too Many Startups?
That was a question put to Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures (USV), after his remarks last week at the BMW I Born Electric event. Might this be a fad – like doing a band in the 70s?...
Data Data Everywhere
Like the Ancient Mariner who had ‘water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,” we have data, data everywhere, but not the understanding we need about it. What is it? What does “big data” mean? What defines...
Cliff, Cliff on the Hill: Which Emerging Computing Technologies (ECT) to Watch in 2013?
Our best wishes to you, your families and friends for a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year. Much of 2012 was a stimulating hike through the emerging computing technology (ECT) landscape; with the last month or so being an exciting...
Ratcheting up the “Flops”, the US regains Supercomputing Leadership. Keep the Innovation Flame on!
This week’s big supercomputing story – It’s Red, White and Blue and … Green too! This past Monday (June/17), as I was sitting outside; reading and enjoying the nice sunny weather on the East Coast, I received an...
Even Bigger than the Internet
The cloud is changing everything. The change is even bigger than the change we saw from the Internet. It will change how every business operates. That’s what a cloud computing expert told me – Roger Krakoff, founder and managing partner...