Category Archives: Misc

Enterprise IT Economics in the Microprocessor Era, Wikibon 2014 IT Economics in the Cloud Era – Cloud Services Track Software Economics, Wikibon 2014 Wikibon: Amazon has turned the data center into an API. This trend is having profound impacts on enterprise IT … Continue reading →

In a webinar last week, IDC discussed its CIO predictions for 2015 and beyond (Louis Columbus provides an excellent summary here). Of IDC’s 10 predictions, the one that intrigued me most, predicted that most of the audience, presumably CIOs and … Continue reading →

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ABI Research: Over the next 5 years, a new generation of elderly home care services will drive wearable device shipments to more than 44 million in 2019 up from just 6 million in 2013. In 2014 alone, shipments of wearable … Continue reading →

[brightcove vid=3058495035001&exp3=1971702156001&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=1971571337001&pk=AQ~~,AAABywrPJyk~,MP34hwWOTrPs3yLiJKkINM_zsiFWIvnW&lbu=http://www.mckinsey.com/videos/video?vid=3058495035001%26plyrid=2399849255001%26Height=270%26Width=480&w=300&h=225] Source: McKinsey “We should define a little bit what we mean by “open,” because there’s open as in it’s open source. Anybody can take it and reuse it in whatever way they want. And I’m not sure that’s … Continue reading →

“I can’t express how infuriated I am that my credit history, phone activity, and online browsing habits are being systematically collected and archived without my knowledge by undisclosed organizations that aren’t trying to sell me products”–Area Man “PRISM 1.0 was … Continue reading →

Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. O’Toole’s Corollary: Murphy was an optimist. Sturgeon’s Law: 95 percent of everything is crap. Mencken’s Law: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Borasky’s Law: Sturgeon … Continue reading →

Join me in Boston this September 13 & 14 for the exclusive Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation Summit – bringing together the industry’s most innovative leaders and professionals for two days in an open and interactive environment. The event … Continue reading →

1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 4. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 5.  David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr

A great program is in store for attendees of The Big Data Innovation Summit, September 13-14 in Boston, an event for which this blog is a media sponsor. The summit will bring together senior data scientists and business executives to … Continue reading →