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Revolutionizing the Traditional Data Center to Support Systems of Engagement
Many organizations are looking at cloud computing as an extension to their traditional data center. The private cloud is often envisioned as a technique to provide a segregated set of services that can be used for such requirements as supporting peak loads, creating new applications, or more easily deploying services on demand. But as with many technology trends, there are
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Can Meg Whitman Save HP?
This article was first published in Bloomberg BusinessWeeks’s online site. It was published several days before the October 3rd HP financial analyst meeting. On Oct. 3, Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) current and fourth chief executive in the past seven years, will meet with Wall Street analysts. Investors, customers, and employees better hope Whitman starts channeling Lou Gerstner, the former IBM
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Back to the Future: Getting back to integrated systems
Back when computers were a shiny new concept, the hardware and software were tightly linked together. This tight coupling was mandatory because of the costs and technical immaturity of computing. The most powerful computers in the 1970s had less computing power than a smartphone has today. Over time as systems became more powerful and less expensive vendors began decoupling
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Can HP survive its DNA?
This blog was originally published in Harvard Business Review I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the
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Is Big Data Real and Can IBM Execute on its Vision?
It is inevitable that data would emerge as the most complex and important topics of the next decade. The expansion of the amount and types of data that we have been accumulating across more systems—physical and virtual, applications, and electronic devices – is astounding. These environments generate huge amounts of data – from structured to unstructured – and with increasing
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Judith Hurwitz is an author, speaker and business technology consultant with decades of experience. 
