The Art of Information

It’s been a while since I posted a favorite infographic and this one hit me, not just because it’s a detailed and interesting infographic, but because the evolution of web design really mirrors the evolution of and emergence of the information age many (most) of us participate in minute-by-minute.

Admittedly, I’m a data-driven kind of guy. I love facts, metrics, and feel that “anything worth doing is worth measuring,” as my dad taught me. I also love to consume information and have very eclectic interests. I do feel overwhelmed with data sometimes, as I’m sure many of you do; the more interesting people I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Two and a half years ago the McKinsey Quarterly published a report loosely entitled, “Eight technology-enabled business trends to watch,” I thought it was well-written and evocative, and 2 of the 8 trends were focused upon information. McKinsey recently published an update to the 2007 report and it’s also a good read, though misses some [...]

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” [...]