The Art of Information

I love Apple and their products, but their moves (or stumbles rather) into cloud computing have been hit-and-miss for more than a decade. On Monday, at Apple’s WW Developer’s Conference, Steve Jobs will (apparently) introduce the world to “iCloud”. Many (including me) hope it will be “iTunes in the cloud”, but it also must be [...]

Last week I took a look at how the constant push for fresher, more real-time data and information had transformed one of the most indispensable industries, manufacturing, over the course of several decades. This week, for the final post in my real-time information series, we look at Government and Defense, two markets that in some [...]

My last post introduced a new series about our real-time information world, and today I’m expanding on this topic with a post about how much and how quickly we are each becoming an active part of the fabric of our global information network. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that our global information network [...]

One of the “upstream” markets related to storage and digital information I track closely is the wireless/connected devices market. For me, wireless data traffic serves as a bellwether in our collective evolution to an “information-centric society” - and an increasingly mobile one.   This article from GigaOm founder, Om Malik, reinforced my premise and seems to [...]

Last April, HDS unveiled a new vision for our customers of an IT infrastructure underpinned by our storage and information management solutions that enable them to realize higher levels of savings, achieve new goals, and to stretch their resources to accomplish more with less. Today, as we announce the next-generation of storage and information management [...]

As more CIOs and business executives consider when, how or even whether to take advantage of cloud computing, their considerations and analysis often focus upon the promises of lower capital expenditure and lower operating costs related to IT. What technology and business leaders often overlook when creating RFPs for vendor-delivered cloud services infrastructure is secure [...]

If the launch of iPhone 4 with its mysterious antenna and dropped calls issues marked Apple’s first true stumble in a long time, the recent announcement of iTunes 10 with Ping, Apple’s apparent attempt to “out-Facebook” Facebook with a social networking service that’s music only, shows me that it has yet to regain its stride. [...]

This week’s installment of Today’s Required Reading is an excellent infographic, but before we get to that, a challenge - take a moment and recall the first decade of the 21st century, the years from January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2009. Got it? Now, think in terms of topics like the “Biggest News Story” [...]

Shame on us technology vendors for making “Cloud Computing” more intimidating of a concept that it need be.