Technology

Everybody knows that hard drives go bad. Some give up the ghost sooner, while others beat the odds, but eventually the storage grim reaper comes for all of them. When

One of the highlights of Dell’s transformation from a low-cost PC provider to a purveyor of IT services and all things Cloud is their Boomi Cloud integration product. Originally billed

It’s my pleasure to be spending much of this week with hundreds of data-heads, learning about all things data at Dataversity’s Enterprise Data World (EDW) in San Diego. As my

Given the dramatic and appalling events over the last few weeks, you may not have noticed a story that has similarly dramatic and appalling implications: the hacking of two Associated

When I first heard the marketing for IBM’s PureSystems, I must admit I was amused. They’re calling these systems “expert systems,” but when they describe what they mean by an

The more I learn about what Amazon Web Services (AWS) has done in the Cloud Computing arena, and the better I understand how Amazon’s efforts are dramatically leaving all competitors

Even those of us who deal with technology on a daily basis fall prey to Hollywood stereotypes of techies. Perhaps the most egregious myth is the movie version of a

Remember the tale of the Emperor’s new clothes? Weavers convince the emperor that only stupid people cannot see the cloth. The emperor proceeds to wear the invisible apparel in a

Airlines buy futures contracts on jet fuel to mitigate the risk of price increases. Manufacturers do the same thing with electricity. So why can’t we buy a futures contract for