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	4 ideas to steal from IT upstarts Fast-growing companies like Square and MongoDB are driving IT innovation with leaner staffs, cloud-first computing, self-service everything and CTOs rather than CIOs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Exablox Storage Switzerland: Unstructured Data Storage Unstructured data (data that's outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Read now! In this Issue 10 old-school IT principles that still rule The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution Nicholas D. Evans: SMAC and the evolution of IT Goldman Sachs, with 10,000 tech workers, embraces open computing The worst IT project disasters of 2013 eBay changes IT with a metric WEBCAST: SAP The Path to Big Data Register today to reserve your spot, Monday, December 17, at 11:00 AM CST, to hear from top IDC analyst, about the path you can start taking now to enable your organization to get the benefits of turning data into actionable insights with exciting x86 technology. Is the data explosion today a liability or a competitive advantage for your business? View now 10 old-school IT principles that still rule These graybeard IT tenets still reign -- when applied in their modernized guise. Read More The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution On December 9, 1968, Dr. Douglas Engelbart addressed a packed theater at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, demonstrating a new computing platform that heralded advancements from the computer mouse to videoconferencing. Forty-five years later, we're still reaping the benefits of his vision. Read More Nicholas D. Evans: SMAC and the evolution of IT Every fifteen years or so, the IT industry has witnessed new innovations in computing which have changed the way IT services are delivered to the business and end users. After the mainframe era, mini-computing era, personal computer and client-server era, and the Internet era (or more correctly, the “Web” era), we’re now in what many call the fifth wave of corporate IT. This fifth wave is characterized by a new master IT architecture comprised of social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies collectively known as SMAC. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS How Social Media Can Shape Perceptions of Product Quality Descriptive statistics, text analytics and social network analysis provide a way for to determine how customers purchasing decisions are affected by what they see on the Internet. This paper describes how analytics can be applied to social media for monitoring and addressing perceptual quality. View Now Goldman Sachs, with 10,000 tech workers, embraces open computing A surprising thing about Goldman Sachs, one of the globe's most influential investment banks, may be the sheer size of its technology organization. It makes up a major part of its workforce. Read More The worst IT project disasters of 2013 Trends come and go in the technology industry but some things, such as IT system failures, bloom eternal. Read More eBay changes IT with a metric IT managers facing the task of explaining the business value of IT to the C-suite don't necessarily have an easy time of it. But eBay believes it has fixed this problem with a metric that translates IT resources into key business metrics Read More
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