The Art of Information

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 [...]

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 [...]

Attempting to summarize the thesis of John Naisbitt’s seminal 1982 book, Megatrends may be foolhardy, but I’ll try here - a Megatrend is a fundamental shift in a market that forces a strategic shift in how a corporation competes, thrives, and expands. Examples are electrification, mass production and the shift from a hierarchically-oriented organization to [...]

Lots of people got one of Apple’s lovely products during the company’s “best quarter ever” in Q4 2009, the company announced today. Apple sold 3.4 million Macs in Q4 of 2009, 8.7 million iPhones, and all this while still moving 21 million iPods. Economic downturn? Maybe in Redmond, but not in Cupertino! The next big [...]

Happy New Year and may you have a healthy, productive, and fun 2010. Before we look forward in this new year and decade, let’s glance backwards over our collective shoulders. We tend to lose context during gradual evolutions, (our taxes going up 1% annually for 20 years is scarcely noticed but a 20% jump from [...]

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

Data, the raw resource of today’s economy, is like its analogs in other industries and eras of history: coal, iron, oil, water. However data itself has little intrinsic value, though its potential value is enormous.