New Flash Solutions To Enable All Flash Data Centers


Flash memory is finding its way into more storage systems, augmenting and sometimes replacing slower digital storage technology, such as hard disk drives.  As flash memory gets less expensive...

Court Prods FCC In Unexpected Direction In Last Week’s Verizon Ruling


By Andy Oram A court ruling this past Tuesday on FCC “network neutrality” regulation closes and opens a few paths in a three-way chess game that has been going on for years between the US District...

The Reason Personality Tests Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind


Please tell me the web personality quiz is NOT making a comeback. Maybe the popularity of these quizzes never even declined. After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in. I...

The CIOs’ Dilemma: Making The Leap To The Next Phase Of Computing


There’s an annoying buzz hovering around CIOs’ heads these days. It goes by many names but has the same aggravating hum no matter who’s saying it. Some call it digital transformation; others,...
    






BlackPOS Malware Used In Target Attack On +70 Million Customers Retails For $1,800


The massive data breach at Target during the 2013 holiday shopping season which the retailer now admits affected from 70 to 110 million customers used an inexpensive “off the shelf” malware...
    






Making Sense Of Zappos And Holacracy


“Zappos Says Goodbye To Bosses,” was the recent headline in the Washington Post. “Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy,” wrote Aimee Groth in Quartz. “Gurus Gone Wild...
    






Legal Heroin: Is Virtual Reality Our Next Hard Drug


* Co-written with Laura Anne Edwards, Global Content Partner, Unreasonable Group. So video games are addictive—this we know. It comes down to dopamine, one of the brain’s basic signaling molecules....
    






JPMorgan’s Dimon: Target breach is a wake-up call


JPMorgan's Dimon: More Target-like breaches will occur unless retail, banks work together NEW YORK (AP) — More Target-sized security breaches will happen if banks and retail stores don'...
    






Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street Jumps From Blizzard To Riot Games


Riot Games has just hired Greg “Ghostcrawler’ Street as the new Lead Designer for the world’s most popular game, League of Legends. Street spent a decade working on the Age of Empires team, but is...
    






Small Firms Are Making Big Bucks In The Analog Economy


Imagine if Tim Cook fired up the production lines and started churning out the Apple II instead of the latest Macbook Pro. The world would think he had gone barking mad. After all, what company in...