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...
What Difference Does it Make?
What differences does it make? That’s the first question for every entrepreneur and innovator. The country – and the world for that matter – is buzzing with new start ups. Most of them will fail of course and it won't...
The New News: Vox Populi
A new Greenpeace campaign targets Apple’s cloud computing products, as it looks to “clean the cloud around the world. A smooth animation of a timelapse of planet Earth from ‘Electro-L’, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40,000 kilometres above the Earth. A...
The New Communication: Electronic, Social & Mobile Media
For some years, I had six phone lines on each of two instruments and a phone at one ear or the other – sometimes both – many hours a day. I also had a third instrument with my private line...