During last week’s Google I/O conference, many attendees were shocked when CEO Larry Page made a surprise visit. During his speech, Page took several shots at his competitors (Oracle and Microsoft in particular). But he also looked at society in general and how technology could help in many areas including health care and food supply. Bloomberg reported the reaction from Page’s speech.
Tell us in the comments below your thoughts on Larry Page’s speech.
Our TechTarget writers covered stories from major companies including BlackBerry and Amazon this week. Check out why they were in the news and more in our weekly roundup!
In an interesting public relations move, Amazon’s Web Services Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr has doubled down on customer outreach with a road-trip tour of 14 AWS user groups throughout the U.S. to answer questions on AWS pricing and performance.
BYOD security without the cloud? It sounds crazy but NetApp is using technology from its ionGrid acquisition to let users securely access data stored on NetApp storage systems through endpoint devices.
During this week’s BlackBerry Live conference, the company delivered some new features and provide a free upgrade path from BES 7 to BES 10. However, many customers still remain unsure about whether they should make the upgrade.
As software-defined-networking became the big topic at the recent Interop conference, many IT professionals and customers still seek the basic SDN definition before they can implement it.
In a special edition of ‘IT video of the week’, our video doesn’t come from YouTube but from Hulu as Saturday Night Live took a stab at Google’s next big thing: Google Glass. During SNL’s Weekend Update, comedian Fred Armisen portrayed tech correspondent Randall Meeks and tested out the new product.
Tell us in the comments below if you think Google Glass will be a hit or miss for the company.
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
Apple, BlackBerry, Google and Android….we’ve built a list of the top experts and professionals across the Twitterverse who share and report their mobile knowledge. Ten of our favorites are listed below; tell us in the comments below if we left anyone off!
Hybrid, BYOD, SDN…these are only some of the mainstream concepts that our TechTarget authors were writing about this week. Find out why these concepts were such big highlights in this week’s roundup.
Over the past few years, hybrid has become a very popular term (Hybrid cars, hybrid clouds, etc.). Since many of these concepts have changed the way we go about our lives, Scot Petersen thinks we should start considering one more concept: The hybrid IT job.
During last week’s Interop conference, BYOD was a major discussion between attendees and speakers, including the main question: What’s the point of a BYOD program?
Yes, software-defined networking is exciting, but analyst Jim Metzler discussed five SDN problems that companies need to address before they can invest in it.
Even while Microsoft has confirmed it will debut the next Windows 8 update at the Microsoft Build 2013 developer conference in June, the jury is still out as to whether the next update will get enterprises to adopt the operating system.
Great news for The IT Crowd fans as the British show will be coming back for a special one-episode finale! The show, which follows the IT department staff in the fictional company Reynholm Industries, has been off the air since 2010. Here is one of our favorite scenes from the critically acclaimed comedy.
Tell us in the comments below if you’re looking forward to the return of The IT Crowd.
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
The best scientists speak with authority that is grounded in their mastery of empirical observations and of the tools and methods needed to find powerful truths. In modern society, we’d like to think that scientists of any stripe are unimpeachable authorities, because, after all, isn’t science a noble calling? Or, if individual scientists are fallible and occasionally dishonest human beings, isn’t the scientific process supposed to expose their lies, sanction them severely, and possibly end their careers.
None of the cited examples specifically involves data scientists doing work with big data in commercial organizations, but it makes you wonder. Data scientists are the rockstars of the big-data revolution and they carry an increasing amount of perceived authority. This category includes statistical analysts, data miners, predictive modelers, computational linguists, and other smart people whose job is to find deep insights in large, complex data sets.
Data scientists are like any skilled person in any esteemed profession. Most are honest, have professional integrity, and stand behind their work. But there’s always the opportunity for an unscrupulous data scientist, in any context, to fake their work. To the extent that a secretly dishonest data scientist operates autonomously, without independent oversight or peer-vetting of their work, they can do incalculable damage to your big-data initiatives. If every other data scientist in your organization uses their (falsified) data and their (bogus) models that were trained to that data, it might take a long time (if ever) before you realize you’ve been had.
Trustworthy data science demands trustworthy data scientists. But trustworthiness, of course, requires continual independent verification. Where big data is concerned, do you have full lineage, access and version controls, and audit trails of every record stored in your data science sandboxes, and also a equivalent governance process applying to all models built on that data?
If you don’t, your big-data initiatives may be operating on a single version of a lie. And that can expose your business to significant legal, operational, and strategic risks.
Our TechTarget bloggers were covering all sorts of stories in this week’s roundup including a certain NFL team making waves in the storage industry. Check out which team it was and more!
Jon Hilliard brings us the latest news from around the data backup industry including IDC’s report that big data is driving the need for storage growth, while Archiware and Tandberg Data have new releases for backup customers.
Ever heard of ‘glocalization’? Well during Bersin by Deloitte’s Impact 2013, founder Josh Bersin says HR leaders need to ‘glocalize’ or tailor their practices to fit local markets to keep up with their organization’s global expansion.
At this year’s Enterprise Data World conference, Bernard Wehbe, founding partner at business intelligence and analytics services firm StatSlice Consulting, offered a list of nine principles that can turn anyone into an analytics rock star.
According to a WhiteHat Security report, website vulnerabilities have decreased over the past few years, but problems still exist including the remediation time for fixing problems.
While Peyton Manning and the rest of the Denver Broncos are scoring touchdowns on the field, their small IT team is scoring behind the scenes with its purchase of two FAS2240s from NetApp.
NASA scientists have been tracking a massive hurricane on Saturn via the Cassini Satellite. The eye of the hurricane is some 1,250 miles wide, which is 20 times larger than hurricanes on Earth, and 4 times faster. It’s fascinating to know that this video has traveled some 1.2 billion km for us to see and the color-touched images are amazing.
So what does it take to get the images back to Earth? Well, Cassini uses 2 Solid State Recorders (SSR) that total 4 GBs. Yes, just 4 GBs. This data has to be synced to the Deep Space Network (DSN), which can take a while due to communication angles between Cassini and the DSN and technical limits. Even if Cassini’s 4 GBs of storage are full, it may not be able to send all the data on a single pass.
Wouldn’t you love to be the IT who has to make this all happen?
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
Just as some of the biggest blockbusters begin to hit movie theaters in May, some of the biggest IT events are here as well including: EMC World 2013, Interop 2013 and Google I/O! Check out our calendar to see if you have time to attend any of these great events.
We’ll be sharing IT events each month here on the Enterprise IT Watch blog. Got an event to add to our list? Let us know via Twitter (@ITKE) or email. Going to one of these events? Share your takeaways (and photos) with us!
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