Honest thinking about technology decisions. — Page 33

While having my morning coffee this morning, I was reading through my emails and caught Martha Heller's "The Heller Report".  Martha's report is one of

I just read Tom Catalini's "Everybody Knows IT, But They Still Need Help" where he wrote: People know IT now. But they also need help. That’s not

Innovate on Purpose: Why corporate innovation is so difficult Quote: So tip your hat to the corporate innovator. She's got to overcome a significant

I captured this Great Blue flying around the local pond. The background isn't idea (tree and branches, etc) but I still like it. Captured with Canon 1D

We've all been there. Sitting in a meeting listening to a vendor pitch their solution. They bring a team in to your organization and spend a few hours

Accelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe dives deep into the

Last week, I read with interest the announcement that IBM was opening up their Watson computing platform to outside organizations and developers to use to

The Internet Of Things Will Be Huge—Just Not As Huge As The Hype – ReadWrite Quote: Like most things in life, the real value of the Internet of Things

Over the past few months, I’ve heard and/or read the following statements from consultants: Big data is complex. Big data is complicated. Big data is the

I just read Why IBM Will Win the War With Amazon Web Services over on CIO.com and felt the need to publish my own thoughts. In that article, the author

Are technologists trying to solve the wrong problem? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Technologists tend to forget that normal people have a different take

Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity Quote: Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. The kicker?

From the archives: This is from the Fort Worth Zoo and was taken in 2008. This is probably one of the first photographs ever taken by me with a DSLR.

Oh I See (CIO Inverted): Integrated Best of Breed Quote: Predictions about the demise of the larger solutions have been around for a while now; I do not

I just finished reading Big Data for Small and Medium Businesses on IBM’s Forward View. In the article, IBM VP Paul Zikopoulos talks about big data and