Year: 2014

  • Gartner’s IT spending forecast

    Investment is coming from exploiting analytics to make B2C processes more efficient and improve customer marketing efforts…. The focus is on enhancing the customer experience throughout the presales, sales and post sales processes. Gartner’s IT spending forecast

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  • I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to…

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  • The disruptive tech ecosystem, put briefly

    The technology industry is in the business of creating products and services that either enable new activities or make existing activities less expensive. Venture capitalists are in the business of funding entrepreneurs who run experiments to try to create these new products and services. I believe the only way the technology industry can offer meaningfully…

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    I worry far less about accepting a group that does badly than I do about rejecting one that does well. One that does well, sufficiently well, would pay for hundreds of other start ups that return nothing. Paul Graham

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  • SDN adoption expected to be slow

    [L]ess than 30 percent of the 321 IT professionals surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy SDN in the next year. Add on another 40 percent that have no plans to implement SDN at all. SDN adoption expected to be slow

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