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A Black Eye on Black Friday: Outages & Data Loss Looming for Retailers
With Black Friday rapidly approaching—followed closely by Cyber Monday—all eyes are on the leading retailers—from Amazon to Best Buy to eBay, Target and Walmart—to see who can withstand the massive influx of hundreds of millions of online and in-store purchases set to push IT systems to the brink of collapse. Who will break? Whose site ...
Exclusive Video Story: EMC B2B marketing success formula: Be fun, social and data driven
It sounded crazy, even suicidal. Jack up a tractor trailer to 70 MPH, drive it up a ramp and jump it over a multi-million dollar Formula 1 race car whizzing just below. The EMC team that dreamed up the stunt had only one shot at perfection. Working in partnership with the Lotus Formula 1 Team, ...
Security is broken – Opportunities for startup and established players
A week doesn’t go by when there isn’t at least one headline about a substantial breach and loss of sensitive data and/or money. What’s the right model? Who has the answer? The current plethora of security tools and solutions that take a defensive approach with time-consuming manual detection and remediation obviously aren’t helping companies ...
HP CEO Meg Whitman memo to employees on Dell-EMC buyout #DellEMC
Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman sent an email to employees of HPE (HP Enterprise) outlining the challenged Dell, Inc. will face in swallowing EMC. HP knows a thing or two about trying to turn around a big company. Its new strategy is to be smaller, not larger, and on November 1st HPE will formally split from ...
Figuring out the Dell EMC $67 billion puzzle – RIP Client Server Era – #DellEMC
EMC being acquired by Dell, Inc. for $67 billion. I didn’t see this coming. Just last week at AWS #re:Invent I was convinced this was not going to happen. This deal (if it closes) will be seen as the flashpoint that signals the end of the client/server era and the beginning of the cloud/mobile/social computing industry. ...
Systems of Intelligence #BigData CrowdChat – Join the Conversation
George Gilbert, John Furrier, and the Wikibon team will be hosting an interactive, Q&A style, CrowdChat tomorrow, centered around George Gilbert’s recent Big Data research: Systems of Intelligence: The Next Generation of Enterprise Applications Built on Big Data. Time: Tuesday, 8/4 @ 1:00pm EST (for one hour) Where: https://www.crowdchat.net/bigdata The conversation will be held ...
Tom Brady suspended 4 games for switching from Samsung to iPhone 6 – Tom Brady’s Full Statement
NFL upheld their ruling for 4 games suspended against Tom Brady. Apparently the reason was Brady switched from a broken Samsung to new iPhone 6. Tom Brady responds publicly to the NFL and fans here: Full Statement from Tom Brady: I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against ...
AWS (Amazon Web Services) breakout moments with more on the horizon
Today, Fortune did a story on Andy Jassy the leader or Amazon Web Services or AWS. I wrote on Forbes in January the first profile on Jassy . In that post we discussed that the TAM (total addressable market) is in the “trillions”. The business world learned just how big AWS was in April, when Amazon ...
CrowdChat Conversations – Join the Conversation
There is a big opportunity around social business as brands shift their digital spend in order to target and engage consumers in the fastest growing consumer segment – “The Crowd”. Users want to Join the Conversation yet it’s very difficult to find the conversations. One trend that is growing organically is what is called ...
[Live Chat] Cognitive Computing & Big Data
Top industry discuss cognitive computing featuring industry expert Judith Hurwitz and friends @ajbowles @makaufman @jhurwitz @dvellante Join the Conversation around the new book “Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics” by Hurwitz, Kaufman & Bowles. Cognitive Computing Overview Modern analytics technologies are quite adept at analyzing and visualizing historical, structured data. Want to know how many widgets ...
