Six years ago Robert Scoble and Shel Israel published Naked Conversations, a book that defined the business use of social media. Last month, Scoble and Israel released a new book, The Age of Context, which promises to define the conversation about the most important...
Things move fast in a big data world – and that’s exactly why NoSQL is the darling of anyone with absurd amounts of data that needs to scale quickly. Now that NoSQL is coming into its own, what’s next? How will it continue to solve big data problems and adapt to...
Cloud applications and infrastructure are becoming ubiquitous. There are cloud applications (SaaS), cloud software stacks (PaaS), and cloud infrastructure (IaaS) options including storage and compute resources. The advantages of cloud computing are well known...
A veteran CIO recounted to me recently how responsive her IT organization has become once they started separating the data from the hardware. Before, it was common to have a hard drive failure and find out the user has not done a backup. Once they put the data in the...
