John Parkinson

Business Intelligence: What Are You Thinking?

Most of the businesspeople I know use Google Trends—an online tool that allows ordinary people to compare the frequency of Google search terms— to check out how an idea...

Four Reasons Why VOIP Is a Good Call

A strange thing has been happening to business telephony over the past decade: All the people you need or want to speak to have turned into voice mail. Sometimes when...

Mobilize Me!

I got my first cell phone back in 1989—it was a Motorola "brick" that cost more than $1,000—and Ive probably used a couple of dozen different models since. My...

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Samsara CIO Stephen Franchetti on Scaling IT to Meet Business Demands

I spoke with Stephen Franchetti, CIO of Samasara, about automation, cloud and IoT as tools to help companies rapidly scale their IT infrastructure to...

Predictive Analytics Best Practices

Predictive analytics is the use of data and other tech tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to predict future outcomes. Predictive...

What is Artificial Intelligence? Guide to AI

By any measure, artificial intelligence (AI) has become big business. According to Gartner, customers worldwide will spend $62.5 billion on AI software in 2022. And...

Veritas’s Ajay Bhatia on Chatbot Data Compliance Issues

I spoke with Ajay Bhatia, Global VP & GM of Digital Compliance at Veritas, about how companies can remain data compliant even as AI...

Lenovo Enhances Edge Computing Flexibility, Automation

The new Lenovo ThinkEdge servers and enhancements to Lenovo Open Cloud Automation and Lenovo XClarity that the company announced at the recent Mobile World...