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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...

IT Resumes: Keeping Them Truthful

On the train the other day, I overheard one rider asking another if it was OK to fib a little—or at least embellish the...

Nexenta Names New CEO, Adds $24M in Funding

Nexenta Systems, which has been doing software-defined storage since before the industry heard the term, has a lot going on this week.In addition to...

IT Jobs: A Tale of Two Optimists

Optimism is in the eyes of the beholder. Most IT employment experts see good news on the jobs front, but their take on the...