Intel Drops a Big Data Shocker

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Intel surprised the Big Data world by announcing its own Hadoop distribution. Aptly named the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, the distribution includes several Intel contributed enhancements that it claims will improve performance...

The Age of Context in the Enterprise

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...

What will happen to collecting?

I had to go to our local US Post Office today. It was definitely a blast from the past. My preferred messenger/postal carrier is FedEx (which has a location conveniently opened 24 hours a day, directly across the street from me). As I waited (im)patiently in line, I...

The Rise of the CDO: A Tale of Two Roles

    What’s a beleaguered CIO to do? Not only CIOs are told repeatedly to expect that Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) will soon have larger IT budgets, they also have to contend with new threats: two rising “chiefs,” conveniently and confusingly labeled with...

Federal Office Systems Exposition (FOSE) 2013

The annual Federal Office Systems Exposition (FOSE) 2013 was held in Washington, D.C. from May 14-16, 2013. This is the 37th annual expo.

This Neuraspective™ provides an analysis of this event from the technology perspective.