Is enterprise thinking entrenched in the past? And how does that relate to the Moneyball story? It seem we can all relate to the Moneyball scenes (I have not seen the film, only the previews that were shown here at the IBM Information on Demand conference) that show a group of people who have been ...

The next era for IBM will be in the hands of Virginia Rometty, who was named CEO today to replace Sam Palmisano, who will step down effective January 1 but remain as chairman of the company. Rometty is now a senior vice president for the company. According to the New York Times, Rometty has lead ...

GitHub is open-sourcing Hubot, a chat bot it developed internally to deploy the site, automate a lot of tasks and be a source of fun for the company. Hubot grew and eventually became a force at GitHub. But it was also messy at times so they rewrote it. According to GitHub, today’s version of Hubot ...

Companies that adopts cloud computing do not pick one vendor. In most cases, they will have a number of different applications that run on any number of cloud computing providers. They will use a cloud service where the apps run exclusively in a public cloud environment. Some apps will run on an internal data center ...

IBM Watson now has its own group dedicated to moving Watson beyond the game show world and into the commercial markets. “We want to correct the notion that it is a question and answer technology,” said Manoj Saxena, general manager of Watson Solutions. It comes down to the science of the conversation. Conversations flow from ...

IBM has built a new version of its InfoSphere Big Insights for its smart cloud infrastructure that uses Hadoop as its base to analyze structured and unstructured data. It’s significant in that it does put IBM a step closer to competing in the cloud with Amazon Web Services and demonstrates how Hadoop is becoming a ...

At various keynotes, on Twitter and in interviews, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has talked about Occupy Wall Street and its connection to a new kind of organization that mixes cloud computing, social technologies and mobile. He makes the connection to further show why Salesforce.com has had its success. Beyond that, he aligns with the movement ...

I am looking at Mary Meeker’s slides from her presentation yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. Several of my fellow tech bloggers and journos have run through the slides. You can see what they say, here, here, here and here. Mary Meeker makes the point that the mega-trend of the 21st Century is the empowerment ...

It’s awesome that Google is pushing Google Plus early to Google Apps. It’s another sign that the way we communicate every day online is achievable in business, too. Wow. What a revelation. But there is a little problem that surfaced again today. It’s the identity question. Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra, made the announcement today at ...

In part two of our Q&A with Tableau Co-Founder Pat Hanrahan, we discuss the lack of capabilities in most data visualization technologies; the different ways to judge data visualization and the technology developments underway to visualize unstructured data. Here’s an excerpt from the interview. Question: What are the goofier forms of data visualization? Things that ...