The past year or so has delivered multiple lessons on IT security with a single conclusion: that whatever people, including individual consumers to business organizations to the IT vendors who serve them, have done or are doing, it isn’t enough. […]
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Laws mean different things to different people. For most, they are immutable structures demanding to be followed or strictures begging to be tested. For others, laws define the line separating conventional and unconventional behavior. For me, the most important (and,
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“You can’t go home again” is an old truism whose veracity is more often absent than evident. Think of the Prodigal Son (or daughter). Not to mention the tens of thousands of kids still living with their folks due to
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Over the past decade, the role of developers as agents of business and technological change qualifies as one of the tech industry’s biggest evolutionary shifts. It started with developers driving cloud computing and bring your own device (BYOD) adoption, then
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The qualities required for business leadership, or leadership of any sort, aren’t exactly hard to come by. Forthrightness, taking responsibility for your own and your organization’s actions, respect for fellow workers, partners and customers, recognizing others’ contributions and bringing out
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Energy efficiency hasn’t always been a big deal for high performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing customers. In fact, for the first four decades (beginning in the early 1960s) that supercomputers were commercially produced, HPC owners were far more concerned with
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It’s hardly a secret that data center-focused vendors celebrate new generation server microprocessors and systems. Coming after years of development and tens of millions of dollars in investment, new systems highlight vendors’ essential capabilities and their success in expanding the
IBM Transforms POWER9 Advances into Mainstream Business Value Read More »
Hang around high-tech, or any other industry long enough and you learn that headline-worthy bad news comes in mostly predictable flavors. There’s good old executive malfeasance, often complicated by breathtaking greed and/or egotism. Plus, don’t forget what might be called
Is Intel Melting Down? Hardly Read More »
I attend a dozen or so IT industry conferences annually and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is easily the most over the top in terms of people, products, stylish substance and market hype. That’s partly due to the sheer size
Dell Delivers PC Substance at the CES Hype-Fest Read More »
Squeezing extra goodness out of favorite technology products is a risky business. That’s mainly because the industry and related markets change so rapidly that digging for gold in a nostalgia mine can be fraught with problems and potential failure. However,
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