The "tag-me" wave crashed into these shores, and Loek Bakker "tagged" me with the requirement that I reveal five things about myself. I saw fellow ZDNet bloggers Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley also joined in on the fun, so here goes nothing:1) I was raised as a US Army brat, living on or near bases in Virginia Beach, suburban Maryland, Brooklyn, New York, Fouras/Rochfort France, and Darmstadt and Nurnberg, Germany.
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2011 will be the year of 'Big Data' -- and big challenges for those maintaining IT infrastructures.
'We began seeing our infrastructure as a commodity service, and not a strategic asset'
We're moving from transaction-based processing to event processing, says TIBCO CEO Ranadive
Early in my career, I had the opportunity to work on some projects with the Association for Information Systems Professionals, a group that had taken one wild ride on the information technology roller coaster.(Note, not to be confused with the Association of Information Technology Professionals, formerly Data Processing Management Association, a vibrant group based in Chicago.
The age of on-demand and utility computing is upon us now. This time we really mean it.
Every economic quake leads to tectonic information technology shift. Is it cloud this time?
Does 'checklist architecture' result in rigid thinking that misses business goals?
Three out of four federal IT managers in an informal survey say modernization is in their 2011 budget plans.