Many in the technology world focus on the technology itself without significant consideration of the data or more importantly, the information. When you dig a bit deeper, the real reason, the business reason we exist is about the data. Just…
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DataSift Takes Big Data Analytics of Social Networks to the Next Level
We all know data is growing at an astronomical pace. By many accounts, the sheer amount of data coming at us is overwhelming. According to one survey, enterprises today create only 8% of the entire data set they consume. That…
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Sneak Peek of the Under The Radar Conference
The Under The Radar (UTR) Conference (http://www.undertheradarblog.com/) is tomorrow, April 26, 2012. UTR is the intersection of hot up-and-coming startups, investors and judging. If the reception tonight was any indication, the conference and presentations should be very interesting. Here’s a…
What the CIO Needs to Know About BYOD
BYOD is a relatively new acronym. No, it does not mean Bring Your Own Drink. It stands for Bring Your Own Device. By device, it means smartphone, tablet or laptop. Conceptually, it means that the user is using their own…
Amazon Outage Concerns Are Overblown
Today, Amazon suffered a major outage of their EC2 cloud services based out of their Virginia data center. There are plenty of other blogs with more technical details on what specifically took place. Many cloud pundits are pointing to the…
Connectivity is the Cloud’s Achilles Heal…Sort Of.
Having written about the challenges for Road Warriors and cloud computing, I thought it a good opportunity to write about the challenges that connectivity brings to a cloud-based methodology. Some challenges are very real while others are perception. It is…
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Personal Cloud Computing for Road Warriors
I thought I would take a brief departure from my other missives to share some recent experiences. This entry is more geared for those of you that are road warriors. And it applies to the more personal use cases of…
Privacy in the Cloud: Facebook & Google
Facebook and Google have taken quite a bit of heat lately regarding their privacy policies. In essence, they've taken an opt-out approach to privacy. Put another way, they make the decision for the user to share information then allow the…
AT&T Data Pricing Changes: Good or Bad?
Yesterday (June 2, 2010), AT&T announced changes to it's data service pricing. The full press release can be found at: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=30854 The big news is that AT&T is doing away with their "unlimited" data plans. Many folks will question whether…
A Tweet is Forever
Today, the US Library of Congress announced that it acquired the entire Twitter public archive going back to March 2006. At over 50,000 tweets per day, that accounts for billions of tweets. http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html The announcement creates a number of considerations.…