May 16, 2012
Miro is an aggregator and viewing app that does it all. It’s a BitTorrent client and a fully-featured podcast catcher. It’s handy at finding and downloading many types of online media. Its built-in HD video player handles a large variety of file types. Miro Guide helps you find content, and the app can help sync media on multiple computers. Miro seems to have a bit of an issue with Flash Player, though.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
May 16, 2012
Soon, any and all forms of computing will be taking advantage of a mix of network and local resources. Why bother to call it anything but ‘computing’?
Featured Blogs
May 14, 2012
Are we there yet? Think of cloud computing as a continuum that stretches all the way from one-off projects — that is, companies simply moving some IT assets to the cloud to gain cost savings — all the way up to a game-changer that strategically leverages online resources to open up new markets or ways of doing business.
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May 10, 2012
There’s no denying the incendiary nature of the topic of desktop Linux, which tends to gets rehashed in heated detail every so often both on these pages and beyond. What some may not remember, however, is that there’s another recurring Linux subject that can be equally controversial. It hasn’t appeared in some time, but apparently some slow fires have been burning all along, because they just flared up anew.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
May 8, 2012
If you look at the hour hand of a clock you will not notice the movement, but you cannot conclude from your observation that hour hand does not move.
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May 8, 2012
My client Janet already had her laptop open when I asked how many versions of the budget report were on her company’s SharePoint drive.
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May 7, 2012
There’s a lot of theoretical talk in BPM circles about proper methodologies and principles for automating processes — and rightly so. With that in mind, though, it’s too often that we forget the ultimate objective of any BPM project: making life easier for the end user.
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May 7, 2012
It’s been a cheerily good spring for FOSS fans here in the Linux blogosphere, so we may perhaps be forgiven for our utter shock and disbelief at the affront recently committed against us by a certain brick-and-mortar purveyor of books and magazines.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
May 5, 2012
It was less than two years ago the federal government began egging on its agencies to adopt a “Cloud-First” rule to IT procurement and “Shared-First” initiative to pare down its $80-billion-a-year budget.
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May 4, 2012
I’m confident that any version of Ubuntu released in the last five years will have absolutely no problem beating [Windows 8],” said Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. Of course, “after the success of Windows 7, this is Microsoft snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” she added. “What’s the logic? Did Steve Ballmer secretly invest a fortune in Apple stock or something? Off his meds? Run out of chairs?”
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 30, 2012
After a great introductory session from Walter Isaacson (biographer of Einstein, Franklin and Jobs), we kicked off the main session at IBM’s largest IMPACT conference with over 8,500 attendees with a focus on re-thinking IT.
April 30, 2012
There’s been virtually continuous cause for celebration here in the Linux blogosphere over the last month or so, but it seems safe to say that few news items have caused quite as much jubilation as what greeted one tidbit last week, in particular.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 27, 2012
I’ve written before about using CRM to deliver highly personalized services, and to enhance customer intimacy. Ideally, we aim to meet customers with precisely the right offer, delivered at precisely the right time, and at precisely the right price and conditions. CRM solutions can facilitate this, but only if the right information is coming into the solution. Moreover, it can facilitate this only if it can sort through and connect all that information and expose the opportunities that you seek.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 27, 2012
The world is moving increasingly towards environments where consumers and employees download apps from sanitized app stores and use software that is native to the devices on which they run
Featured Blogs
April 25, 2012
Millennials, those folks who are currently between the ages of 18 and 29, are the core of Facebook’s audience. But where do they stand with Facebook brand pages, you ask?
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April 24, 2012
Although I never imagined myself in this position, it’s happening just like the Precogs said it would: I’m writing about BI and Tom Cruise in the same piece.
April 24, 2012
We are fortunate that customers share with us their experiences with other dashboard and reporting applications, as well as with LogiXML technology. Such information is invaluable for numerous reasons, not the least of which is managing our product roadmaps.
We’ve had many customers tell us of their trials and tribulations with Crystal Reports. Additionally, our own Business Intelligence Consultant, Nicholas Keune, has extensive experience with Crystal prior to recently joining LogiXML. Nick shared his insight in a recent webinar, recording available here.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 24, 2012
If you carry a smartphone, you might take for granted all of the location-based services that you have access to. Weather forecasts, local headlines, finding stores or restaurants, are just some of the ways you can leverage your location to harness relevant information and data.
Every day, business becomes increasingly mobile, leveraging a wide variety of connected devices, phones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, etc.; BI applications that recognize the location of the user can be a great at providing the most meaningful data, reports, and analysis wherever your users in the field might be.
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 23, 2012
As I travel around the country meeting with IT professionals and attending or speaking at industry events, I am amazed by how many different versions there are of “cloud computing.”
As the guy who wrote the Storage Area Networks for Dummies book, I have decided to take a stand and make known my simple ...
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April 19, 2012
For many businesses, cloud computing means more cost savings and greater flexibility. But that’s only a piece of the story. Perhaps the most revolutionary aspect of cloud is that it is springing forth a new generation of businesses, designed on the cloud, for the cloud.
Some businesses emerging on the scene today ...
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April 18, 2012
It used to be that analytics were applied in batch, updating the database with a score or customer segment based on yesterday’s data.
Featured Blogs, News
April 17, 2012
Companies are investing heavily in cloud computing, a new survey of 1,650 IT and business executives shows. On average, they report, more than a third, 34%, of their current IT budgets are now allocated to cloud computing solutions.
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April 17, 2012
he concept of big data is simple, as most good ideas are. Big data gives us the ability to use commodity computing to process distributed queries across multiple data sets and return result sets in record time. Cloud computing provides the underlying engine, typically through the use of Hadoop.
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April 17, 2012
SOURCE: TechNewsWorld
With the frequent focus on mobile machinations and desktop deliberations here in the Linux blogosphere, it would be easy to assume that all else in the FOSS fiefdom is relatively conflict-free.
Easy, perhaps — but dead wrong, nonetheless.
Case in point: cars. There’s a growing movement to apply the open source model to the design and ...
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 12, 2012
Well it’s been a disconcerting kind of week here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because of all the darn construction going on down at the Google+ Grill. First it was the hammering giving Linux Girl a headache. Then, on Wednesday, she walked in after lunch and could barely recognize the place. What is this interface sorcery, she wants to know?
Blogs, Featured Blogs
April 11, 2012
While a service-oriented architectural approach could save you millions, the term’s baggage almost guarantees a no
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March 28, 2012
We love new technology, whether in the form of software or devices, though planning, strategy, and architecture aren’t as universally adored. But if you don’t understand both, you can count on huge project disasters as you move into the cloud. Unfortunately, far too many in IT are blindly in love with technology, especially as they consider the new-to-them cloud. I see this problem every day, so please heed this friendly warning.
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March 23, 2012
Big Data is a hot topic in the data management world. Recently, I’ve seen press and vendors describing it with the words crucial, tremendous opportunity, overcoming vexing challenges, and enabling technology.
March 19, 2012
With the rise of cloud computing, we’re seeing more of a new breed of extremely lightweight company, unencumbered by capital investments, acting as a broker of services assembled from offerings drawn from or supported by third-party providers.
Featured Blogs
March 14, 2012
What are the top 6 myths? That open source software will enter every market, is inherently innovative, it improves faster than commercial software, that it has less lock-in, that it’s free and that it has little benefit if one is not involved in the community. IDC calls these ideas “myths” but acknowledges there’s more than a grain of truth to all of them
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