We live in a highly connected world where every digital interaction spawns chain reactions of unfathomable data creation. The rapid explosion of text messaging, emails, video, digital recordings, smartphones, RFID tags and those ever-growing piles of paper – in what was supposed to be the paperless office – has created a veritable ocean of information. ...

Technology evolves faster than just about anything on the planet. The government isn’t quite so quick, though. This results in the government enforcing laws that are ages behind the development of mobile; thus, putting our security, privacy and rights at risk. For better or worse, the following laws are on the table to change your ...

Marketers today find they need increasingly nuanced solutions for their IT needs – in fact, Gartner has predicted that on average, marketing departments will have bigger IT budgets than IT departments in 2013. Increasingly, we see a career path for IT professionals inside the marketing organization, and many CMOs are appointing their own VP of ...

Despite the reports of a rumored cheaper iPhone being shot down, yet another new rumor has emerged in the world of Apple products. An Apple phablet is rumored to be hitting the markets as early as this June. For those that aren’t familiar, a phablet is somewhere in between the size of a phone and ...

Quick! What’s the definition of Big Data? The answer isn’t that easy. There has been a lot of buzz over “Big Data” this past year, but it tends to adopt the abstract tone that marketers love and IT managers loathe. In order to tackle Big Data for business value, you need to shape the approach ...

By Dwight Merriman, CEO and co-founder of 10gen We’re several years into the rise of NoSQL, and yet common misconceptions persist about the movement. As spotlighted by 451 Research, NoSQL job demand is booming, and ranks second only to HTML5 among Indeed.com’s hottest job trends. Yet some continue to think of NoSQL as a niche ...

The NOSQL world is crowded with data stores that offer variations on key-value storage. These so-called aggregate-oriented# stores often have beneficial operational characteristics when compared to relational databases but little modeling expressiveness. Yet there’s another corner of the NOSQL universe where different choices have been made, where models have become far more expressive compared to ...

For big data, 2012 was either the year of recognition as the future of computing OR the year of overhyping.  Companies such as Salesforce.com, Adobe and Oracle all make major investments and announcements regarding their “marketing cloud” and how their solutions (are they new?) use big data.  Given the broad disparity of opinions over the “ascent” ...

Employers in Silicon Valley and beyond are used to fighting the talent war – especially for qualified engineers. Stock options, free food and dog-friendly environments have become the norm. Attractive hiring packages are a must. Retention efforts are aggressive – think of Google’s $150 million payout to retain two top product managers. The talent war ...

Many of the technologies that we rely on in business today reached their current penetrations levels through a hockey stick adoption curve—starting slowly, growing steadily for some time, and then rapidly accelerating due to a combination of technology advancements, IT capacity, and customer demand.  The rise of mobile phones followed this pattern, with measured growth ...