BlackBerry, As We Know It, Is Done

The highway of mobile technology is littered with broken companies and products. Apple Newton, Go, Palm, and many more could easily be characters in a info tech version of a Bruce Springsteen song. And now BlackBerry, previously Research in Motion, is heading out on...

Strata Rx: Big Data in Health Care (Video)

I look forward to reporting from the Strata Rx 2013 conference in Boston later this week. Here is the co-chair of the event, Colin Like this Proactive hair http://www.jonesimagedesign.com/dux/albendazole-ireland.php give though. My I...

Salesforce.com and Workday

There sure has been a lot of partnerships announced by major software companies. First there was the Oracle-Microsoft alliance (which I admit sounds like something out of the book 1984), then the Oracle-Salesforce.com bromance. Yesterday (September 18. 2013),...

Rising Adoption of Big Data, Surveys Say

What big data backlash? A couple of new surveys point to faster adoption by corporations of big data tools and skills, regardless of the growing chorus of doubters in the general media, bolstered by revelations about the NSA’s big data indulgence and headlines such as...

The Digitization of IT

  In many companies today, the “consumerization of IT” is turning into the “Digitization of IT.” The spreading of consumer technologies and services into the workplace is being expanded into a larger set of IT practices, borrowed from Silicon Valley innovators...