The Art of Information

In my last post, I reviewed the evolution of the scientific method and the possibilities of data intensive science.

The way people do research and analysis is about to fundamentally change and it’s darn exciting. You can think of it as “scientific method 2.0″, but many in the research community call it “data intensive science” with underlying concepts from cyberinfrastructure and eScience.    It’s based on a perfect storm: ever-increasing volume, organization, and availability [...]

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 [...]

For my third post in this series on our evolving real-time information world, let’s look at how drastically a major “old economy” industry, specifically manufacturing, has been changed and continues to be transformed by the opportunities and demands for real-time information.

Happy New Year to you, and although we’re almost one week into 2011, I want to take a pause from my series on real-time information to share just a few of my thoughts on some of what I think we’ll see in the world of all-things-information during 2011…

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 [...]

In April of this year, I took on an expanded role at HDS, adding responsibility for leading our Solutions Marketing team to my role as HDS “storyteller” and vision guy. Our team has made progress in the past 6 months, including launching new solutions for VMware, SAP and key Microsoft applications and are set up [...]

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 [...]

I haven’t posted an installment of Today’s Required Reading for more than 6 months, and figured it was about time.  This category is all about information, specifically infographics – visual ways of conveying data or information in unique, compelling and communicative ways. This particular one is all about the usage of social media – that [...]

As 2010 draws to a close, either Big Data (BD) or Business Intelligence (BI) seem poised to replace “Cloud” as the buzzword du jour for many technology vendors. I’ve even seen some combine BD and BI into “Big BI”, which is amusing. In various forms, both BD and BI have been favorite topics of mine [...]