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Reconciling social computing with the enterprise

The key point here is the broader changes we are experiencing today: The pervasive presence of social software and today’s highly open, interactive, and remixable Web embedded deeply into our personal lives is increasingly allowing us to experience a new way of living. And it’s one that bears less and less resemblance to the workplace […]

The Oxytocin Effect – A Hug can clinch you the deal!

A little off-topic for the CIOs but I figured hey, why not lighten up the discussion here a little bit. Especially those of you from marketing and sales might find this note interesting and the “Liquid Trust” spray a lethal weapon in your arsenal for clinching deals. A very good friend of mine, Dr. Vikram […]

Federal CTO Sees IT Leading U.S. Out Of Recession

Having survived their own dot-com bust, information technology CIOs may be the catalyst to help pull the country out of its recession. That’s the opinion of Aneesh Chopra, the newly minted federal chief technology officer and assistant director for technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Chopra is just beginning to […]

IBM’s New Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Computing

Going forward, IBM cloud computing software chief Kristof Kloeckner sees the industry moving to a mixture of private clouds, public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, and shared private clouds. The latter category is like the Amazon model, but involves a small number of customers who share the same infrastructure but have separate networks using […]

Gartner: Cloud Computing, New Chip Tech May Spur Rebound

Cloud computing and 3D chip manufacturing, or “stacking,” don’t appear to have much in common, but the way Gartner sees it, the two will help drive the recovery of the semiconductor sector, and also change it considerably. The firm made the predictions here as part of a semiconductor industry briefing, bringing all of its chip […]