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From machines to humans – how virtual are we getting?

Thanks to the green initiatives and cost-cuttings the latest buzz word in the high tech echelons today is virtualization – from machines to teams to supply chain to consumers… all are virtually getting connected in a huge complex matrix. However some of the biggest challenges in making this matrix work efficiently have not only been […]

Recession and IT redemption… through martial arts

Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director of MWD just posted an interesting take on recession and IT redemption through the lens of martial arts. Here’s what Neil wrote: These are challenging times, and challenging times create fertile ground for disruption – both in business and IT models. There’s a popular narrative echoing around the IT press and […]

The Culture of the Internet

May 7, 2009, From the Desk of David Pogue, NY Times I’ve been thinking a lot about Internet culture lately. Or, rather, the culture *of* the Internet. A peculiar chain of events unfolded on Twitter a couple nights ago. I sent my followers a link to a hilarious sendup of Internet comment culture, a music […]

Who cares about what you post? Significance of social data & mining

Continuing on the recent articles  – Google Search Now Visualizes Data With Graphs and WhiteHouse 2.0: White House Joins Facebook, MySpace,Twitter my article talks about how all the aggregated data posted on various social networks can be crunched by algorithms based on artificial intelligence to not only help marketing strategies for companies but also drive […]

Is private cloud a new way of describing an idealized end-state for IT?

IBM’s new spin on the cloud By Eric Knorr Created 2009-05-04 03:00 AM Today I’m at the IBM Impact show in Vegas. I’ve made the trek to this SOA event ever since the first one in 2007. This time, IBM is making a concerted effort to link SOA and cloud computing. No surprise there: When […]