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Why Walmart should mimic Amazon.com and ‘open source’ its supply chain
Amazon.com didn’t get into the business of selling cloud computing services to make money from excess capacity. That’s a myth. Even so, Amazon.com did get into the cloud computing business because it...
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Big Data turns farming into data science
You know Big Data has gone mainstream when Middle America starts buying into it. As Ashlee Vance writes, two ex-Googlers are putting data to work for farmers to help them figure out how to plan for...
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If the cloud is all about simplicity, why is it so complex?
Software now leads hardware in terms of overall tech spending, and the biggest growth in software spending is actually not software at all, according to Forrester. No, the biggest growth drivers in...
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Vendor lock-in may well be the least of a CIO’s concerns: Defining openness...
There are many great reasons to use open-source software. Avoiding vendor lock-in perhaps one of the weakest. It’s not that lock-in isn’t a real concern, but it’s generally not a CIO’s first...
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Channeling Dr. Seuss to explain real-time system analytics
Most companies have a UI/UX person. Very few companies have a UI/UX person who doubles as a cartoonist and satirist. Well, Nodeable does: Mike Evans. On the downside, Mike rides a hipster bike and...
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The cloud shifts the CIO’s role to “Chief Data Officer”
The longer I’m in tech, the more inclined I am to accept the truth of William Gibson’s quote: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” I saw this firsthand with a wealthy...
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Even developers like simplicity
How is it that we can manage to follow an average of 245 friends on Facebook and 350 people on Twitter, yet we struggle to effectively manage a handful of cloud resources? Some will argue that it’s...
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Survey: CIOs are confused on prioritizing IT projects, and especially on how...
CIOs are an optimistic lot these days. According to recent survey data from InformationWeek, 61 percent of those IT executives surveyed indicate that their IT budgets will remain the same or shrink....
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Hadoop and Storm are shifting the industry toward Big Data-enabled cloud...
Dave and I were fortunate to attend a Churchill Club event on Hadoop Tuesday night. Hadoop sits at the center of the burgeoning Big Data universe, and so one might be tempted to conclude that it’s...
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Are we trying to fit square Hadoop pegs into round real-time holes?
Big Data is a big market, projected to top $16.9 billion by 2015, according to IDC. The Hadoop ecosystem, alone, is worth $1 billion per year, according to Forrester, and is set to explode by most...
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