What Have I Learned Over 36 Years Working in IT?

Sheppard Narkier | May 23rd

I started my first IT job in 1978 in a consulting firm on Wall Street. I worked on cutting edge minicomputers back then, bucking the steady mainframe market that most of my former classmates entered. Recently I tried

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Big Data, Internet-of-Things, Fast Analytics Driving Business Change

Bert Latamore | May 22nd

The combination of Big Data, Internet-of-Things, and fast analytics is creeping into our personal and business lives. CIOs need to pay attention and develop strategies for their companies to take advantage of the possibilities,

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Google Compute Engine Shakes Up Public Cloud

Bert Latamore | May 21st

Google’s entry into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market with the Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an immediate challenge to Amazon’s dominance. Certainly Amazon sees it that way, as evidenced by the price war that has immediately

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The Key to Innovation is Culture

Bert Latamore | May 21st

Today leading edge companies are grasping the opportunities provided by technologies like the cloud, mobile computing, and Big Data to create innovative change in their organizations, in some cases to the point of completely

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The Liberating “What If” Analytics Cycle

Bill Schmarzo | May 20th

Ah, the anguish of not knowing the “right” answers.  Organizations struggle with the process of determining the “right” answers, resulting in lots of wasted debates and divisive arguments regarding whose answers are more right.  They even have a

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Accountability Breeds Service Excellence

Dave Matson | May 17th

No company is perfect. Missteps take place. But a company’s true colors are displayed when it responds to inevitable missteps. Of course, one way that criticism is both received and responded to is through social media channels. Before

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IT’s Shift from Managing Infrastructure to Managing the Business | #servicenow

Alina Popescu | May 16th

Arne Josefsberg, CTO of ServiceNow, explored the architecture, strategy and benefits of ServiceNow's SaaS offering and application development platform, in a live interview with theCube co-hosts Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante at the ServiceNow Knowledge conference this week. Commenting on...»

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Advice on SaaS from a Co-op that’s Merged 3 IT Departments Across 2 Nations | #servicenow

Alina Popescu | May 16th

Michael Glenn, Director of Architecture at Agropur, discussed the adoption of ServiceNow and his experience in using their SaaS offering for his multi-billion dollar dairy cooperative with theCube co-hosts  Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante live at the ServiceNow...»

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HP Demonstrates Working Kraken Prototype, Announces Preloaded HANA Appliance, New Services for SAP Users at Sapphire

Bert Latamore | May 16th

HP demonstrated the first public working prototype of its Kraken joint initiative with SAP at SAP Sapphire Now 2013. A test system on the latest HP server hardware optimized to run the in-memory SAP

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CIOs + IT Expected to Innovate, Not Take Orders | #servicenow

Alina Popescu | May 15th

Mitch Kenfield, Managing Director at KPMG, discussed the business of IT, the role of the CIOs in today's world, and current technology trends with theCube co-hosts Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante, live at the ServiceNow Knowledge conference today. KPMG...»

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