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...
The New Advertising: Frictionless Sharing
Privacy – “the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively,” according to Wikipedia” – has become a marketable commodity for millions of consumers, it seems. Given the right “value...
A Time for Transformation, not Mere Change
Once upon a time – about a year ago - traditional publishers fell in love with the colorful screens of mobile devices as a solution to their battle with the popular assumption that information on the Internet wants to be...
Simply Pure and Purely Simple – Systems, Stacks and Clouds
I recently attended the IBM IMPACT conference. During the keynote, an IBM executive remarked (and I am paraphrasing) – It is very hard to make technology simple. This is a very profound observation. This morning (May/2), comfortably perched in my...
The Pure Thing
Yesterday, I watched from the comfort of my home office, IBM’s PureSystem – “Unveiling of a New Computing Era” announcement in New York City. After the initial background business discussion by Mr. Steve Mills – Sr. Vice President and Group...
The Taming of Data – On the Value Train from Insights to Knowledge to Wisdom to perhaps Happiness?
I recently attended the IBM #SmarterAnalytics Summit in New York City that focused on #Analytics and #Optimization. The sessions and the client panel in particular were superb and enlightening. Beyond, the typical discussions on technology, the IBM client panel repeatedly...
Tracking an IT Analyst’s Journey on the Cloud Mobile: My Musings after Attending IBM Pulse 2012.
The one key takeaway for me from the conference was IBM’s message on the confluence of private secure clouds to support an increasingly mobile world – employees, clients, partners, and other stakeholders. This is the Cloud Mobile (think Snow Mobile)....