Saturday, November 05, 2011

Stuff that cost me a fortune in royalties to link to this blogpost October 31 to November 4 2011

Doing Business in the Thank-You Economy

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Doing-Business-in-the-ThankYou-Economy-666384/?kc=BLBLBEMNL10312011STR2

Why Microsoft's vision of the future will really happen

IBM Partners Applaud CEO Succession Plan

Think Differently About Decision Support

Data Governance: Quality Reports and More

IBM's Message is Pitch Perfect

Information Management Sales Growing at 10-Percent Clip

The Metadata Crisis

Addressing Analytics in 2012

How Should Government Build IT for the Future?

SAP and Crossgate

Modelling market for SAP heats Up

Microsoft Video Predicts Dazzling Technology Future
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3300383/5553367/254717/0/

Why Would Anyone Use Windows XP Today?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3300383/5553367/254722/0/

Google TV to Get Big Update
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3300383/5553367/254721/0/

Google TV Gets Updated With Simpler Interface, App Dev Tools
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3300383/5553367/254732/0/

Steve Martin Tweets a Book
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3301078/5553367/254793/0/

Yahoo Attracts More Potential Suitors


IBM Seeks Bigger Stake In Big-Data Analytics

Rometty's Past Reveals IBM's Future

Tableau Version 7 Challenges Old School BI

Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware

Google TV May Finally Be Ready for Prime Time With 2.0

Why iPad's Reign as Top Tablet Won't Last

'Big Data' Prep: 5 Things IT Should Do Now

Bringing BI to the Next Level

Disruptive Tech Changes IT's Database Choices

Attivio Introduces AIE 3.0; Drives Breakthrough Results in Commercial, Government and Non-Profit Organizations

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4807998&access=EH

Really big data: The challenges of managing mountains of information

'Big data' prep: 5 things IT should do now

SAS ups ‘big data’ ante with high-performance computing platform

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240102699/SAS-ups-big-data-ante-with-high-performance-computing-platform?asrc=EM_NLN_15307300&track=NL-544&ad=853276&

Bill Gates -- I helped Steve Jobs create the Mac

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19179/bill_gates_i_helped_steve_jobs_create_the_mac?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2011-10-31

The Advent of Digital Customer Relationships
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/73627.html

Data scientists helping businesses navigate 'big data' seas

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/1280099515/Data-scientists-helping-businesses-navigate-big-data-seas?asrc=EM_NLN_15307301&track=NL-544&ad=853276&

No need to run a HANA POC merely to test faster reporting, expert says
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15308939/2433922

Which Tech Giant Will Own the Future?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73612.html

Delays in Social-Media Adoption

Google+ as a Business Tool

Can Google survive its blind faith in the algorithm?

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/can-google-survive-its-blind-faith-in-the-algorithm/9654?tag=nl.e101

Google Reveals the Whys and Wherefores Behind Targeted Ads
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/73650.html

ENTERPRISE SEARCH TOOLS SEEING GAINS ON EASE OF DEPLOYMENT, USE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15321817/2433922

Microsoft Drops Its Blogging System In Favor Of A Competitor

SIX STEPS FOR CREATING AN ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT (ECM) STRATEGY

http://go.techtarget.com/r/12580471/2433922

Barbie Tech Without The Geek

Analysis: Oracle Fusion Applications for CRM and Sales Organizations

The Crossroads of Meaningless Clichés: The Key to Scoping MDM and Data Governance

Business Process Transformation Is A Marathon (Are You Ready For The Race?)

It’s Not Just About Social Apps: Hadoop is for the Enterprise Too

Microsoft adopts open source WordPress, ditches Live Spaces

DataStax Announces General Availability of DataStax Enterprise and DataStax Community Edition http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4810552&access=EH

Sybase Does More Big Data Analytics With Native MapReduce and Hadoop Integration http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4810712&access=EH

EMC OnDemand Brings Captiva, Document Sciences and Documentum to the Hybrid Cloud http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4810337&access=EH

IBM Builds Warchest: More Acquisitions Ahead?

IBM's Platform Decisions and HPC

Oracle Must Rationalize RightNow to Battle Salesforce

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Updates Aim Squarely at Salesforce

Jaspersoft, IBM Join Forces to Wrangle Big Data With Hadoop

'Big data' prep: 5 things IT should do now

Hortonworks Offers Solution Providers A Preview Of Its Hadoop Platform

Yahoo Buys Interclick for $270 Million

QlikView Update Gets an Enterprise-Oriented Makeover

Oracle Announces Exalytics for In-Memory, Visual BI

GIS Enriches Data, Enhances Decision Making

Integrating Canonical Message Models and Enterprise Data Models (Part 1 of 3)

Q&A: Governance Challenges of Unstructured Data

Preston Gralla: Why Bill Gates will be remembered better by history than Steve Jobs

Updated Sybase IQ supports Hadoop, MapReduce, 'Big Data'

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221355/Updated_Sybase_IQ_supports_Hadoop_MapReduce_Big_Data_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_datamgmt_2011-11-02&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fs%2Ffeed%2Ftopic%2F9+%28Computerworld+BI+and+Analytics+News%29

IBM has Hadoop cloud for big, unstructured data

MarkLogic ties its database to Hadoop for 'Big Data' support

FORRESTER SEES A SHIFT FROM 'STOVEPIPED' DATA INTEGRATION STRATEGIES
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15331409/2433922

Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221415/Informatica_rolls_out_data_parser_for_Hadoop

IBM Launches Health Care Analytics Software to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Big Data Point-Counterpoint

The Big Data Collider

NIST: Make EHRs More User-Friendly

What is Hadoop?

Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

Oracle Pursues Cloud-Based Platforms and Services
http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=9181015:822354

DIGITAL USERS COME FIRST WITH MOBILE APP BUOYED BY BIG DATA
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15330108/2433922

Quantum Computers, Part 1: A Simple Understanding
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73655.html

HP Plans Low-Power Servers Using Calxeda ARM Chips

Java-Based NoSQL Graph Database Goes Spring

http://adtmag.com/articles/2011/10/27/nosql-db-goes-spring.aspx

SQL Server 2012 Offers Testing Capabilities for Amazon Cloud

New Deal Allows SQL to Run in Amazon Cloud

SYMCOR BEEFS UP BI AFTER MOVING IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT TO THE CLOUD
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15350007/2433922

Predictive analytics and 'big data': The good, the bad and the ugly
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15350014/2433922

Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

Facebook easily infiltrated by data-harvesting bots, researchers find
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7676055/7006273/538245/0/

HDS, SAP Partner On Appliance-Like Offering

Oracle Must Rationalize RightNow to Battle Salesforce.com

IBM's Watson Schools Harvard, MIT Students

Social Media Monitoring: You’re Doing It Wrong

Is Employee MDM Ready To Take On Customer And Product?

7 Billion People, Now in Dashboard Analytics

Is Solitude the Secret to Applying Analytics?

Informatica Parses the World of Hadoop

ParAccel’s Analytic Platform Now Available In Cloud


SAP Readies Comprehensive Cloud Strategy

IBM Advances its Security Intelligence Portfolio with New Analytics
http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4814667&access=EH

Obsession With Meaningful Use Could Backfire

Google Maps Maniacs Will Have to Pay Up
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/73660.html

Oracle's best-of-breed strategy, as described by president Mark Hurd

7 ways to do big data right using the cloud

What is big data?

If Steve Jobs were starting out today Silicon Valley VCs would reject him

Hotmail's a Hit Thanks to Apple

Quantum Computers, Part 2: Zeros and Ones, Both and Neither
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73665.html

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012: What's coming in the three main editions

IBM advances its security intelligence portfolio
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35894.wss

Google Apps Finally Gets Access To Google+

IBM open sources messaging client for embedded devices

Scale-up vs. scale-out network-attached storage
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15360565/2433922

Fusion-io CEO: EMC's Project Lightning will cost too much
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15360566/2433922

Intelligence community requires efficient data storage tools
http://go.techtarget.com/r/15360569/2433922

Quantum Computers, Part 3: A Whole New World

http://www.technewsworld.com/edpick/73680.html

The Metadata Continuum

Is Solitude the Secret to Applying Analytics?

Obsession With Meaningful Use Could Backfire

Customer Analytics Come To Real Stores

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=010000ZEKYKW&nl=2&full_skip=1