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As prominent as cloud computing has already become in today's enterprises, it's amazing to realize that the world's reference standards are only now catching up with the concept. On Tuesday,

For several years, a company called Green Hat (not associated with Red Hat) has been in the business of creating sophisticated software testing equipment for developers, particularly for service-oriented applications

"What if you could quantify the world's consumer behavior," asks a company video, "and use it to make different and better decisions than you ever have before?" This is the

With the announcement by Oracle of their acquisition of RightNow earlier this week, it has brought about some strange bedfellows on how their mutual customers can connect up disparate CRM

There are some whose definition of cloud computing includes by rule, not by option, the capability to provision additional resources such as storage and processing into an expanding pool, without

The software companies that have risen to power in the past 40 years are talking more about the cloud. That has to be a factor of the business market

The Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management is working with IBM on a new course that will provide students with hands-on analytics education. Students will

At dinner the other night, John Squire the chief strategy officer for CoreMetrics told me that his team is building an API and embarking on that windy path in

Cloudera, one of the primary contributors to Apache Hadoop, has released a new version Hadoop distribution: Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop v3 (CDH3). The new version contains over 1,000

The integration of software and services companies is starting to show how the social business market is consolidating into a network of companies that are like big mother ships

Today's cloud computing landscape is as complex as it is to decipher what the term actually means. Last week, an animated Steve Mills made it clear in an interview with

The data that extends to a smartphone points to the need for more focused ways to protect networks from security breaches. At IBM Pulse this past week, IBM Threat

IBM Watson has hit a chord. You can see it in how the press behaves at an event such as IBM Pulse, which ends today. In the press event yesterday,

We're starting another day at IBM Pulse and today the discussion moves to how smart technologies are getting integrated into business and the world of smarter cities. We'll look at

One of the primary ideas behind IBM's Smarter Planet concept is a web of sensors all over the planet, leading to a data explosion. But what if that web

Yesterday at Lotusphere we heard about IBM's big push into social business. Today, the focus is on the way social business works. IBM executives say the company is past the

IBM Lotusphere is now just getting underway. It's fiddling and super rock. That is all I can call it. We'll be live blogging through the two days here at

EMC Greenplum has pulled a YouTube video it produced that depicted Larry Ellison with a gift box tied to the fly of his pants. It was supposed to be a

IBM had a credit card processor client with more than 4,700 servers spread across 10 data centers. IBM did an analysis and found that the servers were being underutilized. The

Millions of tweets run through Twitter. It's the poster child for big data on the Web. To get data out of Twitter and use it to track sentiment requires tools

We are back on the road and so that means it's time to do some live interviews. Today we are in Las Vegas at the IBM Information on Demand

Cloudera is announcing $25 million round in funding to further invest in product development and services to support its push into the enterprise. It's a clear sign that the Hadoop

IBM's cloud computing strategy is apparent to some extent with Cognos 10, the latest release of the business intelligence platform. As part of Cognos 10, IBM is delivering a cloud-based

IBM and the City of Dubuque, Iowa have teamed up to launch the Smarter Sustainable Dubuque Water Pilot Study. This project involves the installation of smart water meters, that with