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SAP Must Make the Most of Its ‘Two-Year’ HANA Advantage

"I believe we are about two years ahead," said SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe in a brief interview following his and co-CEO Bill McDermott's...

Five Big New Responsibilities for Today’s CIO

Here's the profile of the modern CIO. He or she is an expert at doing more with less and is adroit at whittling down...

Big Data Needs a Steady Management Hand to Give Best Results

“Big data is a management revolution,” Erik Brynjolfsson, director of MIT’s Center for Digital Business, told the 700 attendees at the Tenth Annual MIT...

Interop: Open Compute Project to Tackle Network Switches

The biggest news at this week's Interop show wasn't one more vendor proclaiming fealty to software-defined networking or watching Cisco's Robert Soderbery try to...

Follow Amazon’s Example: Dare to Talk About IT Costs, Prices

I've sat through tens, hundreds, thousands (!) of technology keynotes, panels and presentations. I've heard about chasms crossed, paradigms shifted and disruptive innovation enough...

Five Lessons on Innovative Thinking From DEMO Mobile 2013

I went to DEMO Mobile April 17 in San Francisco and came away with five lessons on how mobile continues to drive business innovation....

‘Software Defined’ Emerges as an Overused Term With a Kernel of Value

If you want to be with-it in tech, put the words "Software Defined" in caps at the front of whatever you are discussing and...

HP’s Moonshot Strategy Requires Enterprise Astronauts Ready for Liftoff

Talk to techies who worked at Hewlett-Packard in the '80s and '90s, and you'll get an earful about the good old days of HP...

Facebook Phones Home to Call a Winning Number

Facebook's decision to create a software branding and messaging skin leveraging the open Android system and OPH (other people's hardware) has a lot to...

There Are Many Cloud Entry Points, as Well as Barriers

Cloud computing has become an industry buzzword ripping through IT departments and forcing them to scramble to get in the game. But while the...