Author Archives: GilPress
Gartner on Top Trends for 2015 and Beyond
On the occasion of its sold-out Symposium/ITxpo this week, Gartner revealed its predictions for top technology trends, the impact of technology on businesses and consumers, and the continuing evolution of the IT organization and the role of the CIO. Here is my … Continue reading
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Peter High’s Must-Read Book on the New Roles for CIOs and IT
Peter High has an urgent message to CIOs everywhere: You Can Do It! The sub-title of his new book, Implementing World Class IT Strategy: How IT Can Drive Organizational Innovation, also makes it clear that his clarion call is more … Continue reading
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Oren Etzioni on Building Intelligent Machines
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6AZ8slivc?rel=0] “There are more things in AI than classification… the entire paradigm of classification, which has fueled machine learning and data mining, is very limited… What we need is a process that is structured, multi-layered, knowledge-intensive, much more like … Continue reading
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The New Apple Wristop Computer: Not Designed for the Internet of Things
MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte observed at a recent TED event that “I look today at some of the work being done around the Internet of Things and it’s kind of tragically pathetic.” The “tragically pathetic” label has been … Continue reading
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U.S. Government’s Data Explosion (Infographic)
Source: Scality
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How Data Centers Work? (Infographic)
Source: WhoIsHostingThis.com
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What’s the Big Data? 12 Definitions
Last week I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I was especially delighted to … Continue reading
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The Internet of Things: Why now and how big?
Now that it has been established that the Internet of Things is the most hyped “emerging technology” today, and that the term—and the associated technologies—is far from being new, the only question to be answered is Why the sudden surge … Continue reading
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Digital Tipping Point: Cable companies have more Internet subscribers than TV subscribers
Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Research Group, Inc.:”With the addition of more than 30 million broadband subscribers over the past decade, cable providers have clearly expanded well beyond their roots in cable TV service. As of the end … Continue reading
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