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View ArticleRiverbed to buy Opnet
The OSS mini-bubble continues with another acquisition of OSS assets by a hardware vendor. This time it's Riverbed, who provide boxes for network monitoring and performance optimisation, buying Opnet,...
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Tolerant Of Everything, Standing For Nothing
When it comes to creating organizational clarity and alignment, intolerance is essential. After all, if an organization is tolerant of everything, it will stand for nothing. Leaders who do not think...
View ArticleDoes anybody have leverage with Apple?
responds Dan Hesse of Sprint to Charlie Rose in this interview Wow, I never thought I would hear a telecom CEO say that about any device maker. It is the new reality as I wrote in my recent book: Prior...
View ArticleTransforming Noise into Signal: Isolating Social Business Results
One of the biggest obstacles I see that businesses engaging in social media have today is clearly understanding the effect their efforts — particularly in externally facing processes such as marketing...
View ArticleConferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.
Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew II. i. 127-8) A...
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Healthcare Data Modeling Gets Hadoop Boost
Healthcare firm Archimedes uses Hadoop and Univa software to streamline modeling operation.
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Google Unveils Universal Analytics
Looking beyond the Web, Universal Analytics offers companies a way to measure data from marketing campaigns, sales calls and other sources.
View ArticleThe information age fallacy
Humanity has developed by leap and bounds - when we learned to fish the new ample source of protein increased the human chance of survival and forwarded our development, we became smarter and stronger...
View ArticleBig Data Still a Tough Nut to Crack
Last week, when I was at the Xconomy Future of Big Data event moderating a panel on analytics & data infrastructure, one of the speakers essentially said the term ‘Big Data’ is somewhat...
View ArticleThere’s Sand(y) in the Machine
Well, the good news, as I survey the neighborhood on the day after is that we survived. Boston had its moments with more than a quarter million homes without power, but it is nothing compared to the...
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Actuate Acquires Quiterian For Big Data Tools
Quiterian Analytics will integrate with ActuateOne product suite, bringing advanced and predictive analytics to Actuate's BI software.
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Cloud Computing - just get started already!
OK - you've been hearing about "cloud" (I really dislike that term, but whatever) for over two years. You've equated it with just throwing some VM's in some vendor's datacenter - which is certainly...
View ArticleBest Practices with Hashtags
What are hashtags and why should we use them? The # symbol (called a hashtag) is commonly used with important keywords or topics in a message. The main purpose of [...]The post Best Practices with...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy Knocks Out Data Centers, Websites
Gawker, Buzzfeed, and the Huffington Post reported storm-related outages.
View ArticleWhat's New in Windows Phone 8
Microsoft launched its updated smartphone platform on Monday.
View ArticleYammer Introduces the Enterprise Graph
During its first customer conference, YamJam’12, Yammer announced the Enterprise Graph—a new app directory and platform. The intended customers for this product are enterprise software vendors. Given...
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