http://www.smartercomputingblog.com Designed for data Thu, 31 May 2012 19:34:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/yS4Imv8-lpg/ Thu, 31 May 2012 15:30:19 +0000 Sarah Santoro http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=4076 It&#8217;s common knowledge that customer demands and business needs are growing and can change in an instant! Today&#8217;s enterprise computing solutions must be flexible enough to adapt to evolving day-to-day business requirements while providing exceptional performance, scalability and reliability &#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/31/smarter-computing-in-action-acxiom-transforms-marketing-services-with-ibm/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/yS4Imv8-lpg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/31/smarter-computing-in-action-acxiom-transforms-marketing-services-with-ibm/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/ONuJl0UQ66E/ Fri, 25 May 2012 18:03:03 +0000 David Pittman http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=4100 The big data kingdom is usually ruled by an elephant (the Hadoop logo), but a gorilla is king of the jungle this week. The folks at Wikibon used a hairy gorilla in our favorite post of the week. Other favorites &#8230; <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/25/top-reads-in-big-data-week-of-may-20/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/ONuJl0UQ66E" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/25/top-reads-in-big-data-week-of-may-20/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/Qs0mrOS5jb0/ Tue, 22 May 2012 18:23:41 +0000 Amy Frost http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=4004 Did you miss this week's #openITchat? Catch up by reading the Storify below: <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/22/may-openitchat-recap-it-migration-life-cyle/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/Qs0mrOS5jb0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/22/may-openitchat-recap-it-migration-life-cyle/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/1zFCbnYmWAU/ Tue, 22 May 2012 15:58:32 +0000 Caryn Meyers http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=4017 Today, 1 in 2 business leaders make critical decisions without the information they need. Do yours? Before you answer, consider this: <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/22/webcast-organizations-that-leverage-analytics-outperform/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/1zFCbnYmWAU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/22/webcast-organizations-that-leverage-analytics-outperform/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/BRwwgJzvrZU/ Mon, 21 May 2012 09:00:25 +0000 Anirban Chatterjee http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=3976 OSBC is our first major event since we launched PowerLinux about a month ago, and I'm really excited to be here. <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/21/ibm-at-the-open-source-business-conference-may-21-22/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/BRwwgJzvrZU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/21/ibm-at-the-open-source-business-conference-may-21-22/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/KoN_wLc1LU4/ Fri, 18 May 2012 21:33:50 +0000 David Pittman http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=3950 Who says big data can’t be fun? Certainly not I. And with that, I present to you a fun rant by one of my favorite Twitterers (or is that “tweeters”?) <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/18/top-reads-in-big-data-week-of-may-13/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/KoN_wLc1LU4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/18/top-reads-in-big-data-week-of-may-13/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/1MJgZmrSCi8/ Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:30 +0000 Sondra Ashmore http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=3895 Tape is celebrating its 60th birthday this May. <a href="http://eetimes.com/discussion/other/4372321/Tale-of-the-tape--How-IBM-ushered-in-the-age-of-digital-storage" target="_blank">Tape technology</a> has changed significantly since it was introduced in 1952. <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/16/generations-of-storage-a-view-from-mother-and-son/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/1MJgZmrSCi8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/16/generations-of-storage-a-view-from-mother-and-son/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/p5DLpSWE3lU/ Tue, 15 May 2012 14:34:48 +0000 Amy Frost http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=3903 Hope you can join us for a really interesting panel on May 21st. [View the story "IT Migration Life Cyle: An Expert Panel Discussion #OpenITchat May 21st" on Storify] IT Migration Life Cyle: An Expert Panel Discussion #OpenITchat May 21st &#8230; <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/15/an-expert-panel-discussion-tweetchat-it-migration-life-cyle/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/p5DLpSWE3lU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/15/an-expert-panel-discussion-tweetchat-it-migration-life-cyle/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/jUzxNqE-Pso/ Mon, 14 May 2012 22:03:30 +0000 Rucha Dande http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=3876 The “data center of the future” will be built on quantum leaps in attributes such as resilience, intelligence, agility and mobility.  This will also require a fundamental rethinking of the data center architecture as computing transitions from the old process-centric &#8230; <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/14/smarter-computing-solutions/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/jUzxNqE-Pso" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/14/smarter-computing-solutions/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~3/nzAJUYqOvBg/ Fri, 11 May 2012 21:50:37 +0000 David Pittman http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/?p=3863 I feel like a matchmaker this week, pairing up different pieces that represent similar or contrasting views on a topic. One of those sets of articles is actually about real-life matchmaking … for cattle! <a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/11/3863/">...read more</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/smartercomputingblog/~4/nzAJUYqOvBg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2012/05/11/3863/