by colinc | Oct 31, 2012 | Financial, ICC News
We’re here at the Futures Industry Association’s annual Expo at the Hilton Chicago. After a great reception put on by CME Group last night, the main portion of the conference and trade show got underway this morning. Although the opening keynote had to be...
by colinc | Oct 24, 2012 | Ramblings
Today ZDnet ran an interesting piece on five technology themes that have been virtually absent from the 2012 Presidential Election. The five themes are: Net neutrality Cyber-security Privacy Future of the Patriot Act IT infrastructure The author goes into detail with...
by colinc | Oct 16, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Data Center
ZDnet published information earlier today about a recent survey of 136 CIOs and IT managers conducted by Tecala in which participants were asked about top IT priorities. Of those surveyed, nearly all of the respondents said that virtualization and cloud computing rank...
by colinc | Oct 9, 2012 | IT Hardware, Ramblings
The US House Intelligence Committee announced yesterday that American companies should stay away doing business with Chinese telecommunications hardware companies, in particular Huawei and ZTE (the second and fifth largest manufarturers of telecom hardware in the...
by colinc | Oct 1, 2012 | Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Center
Things have been rather quiet in the news for this fall’s Data Center World, which kicked off this morning in Nashville. Tennessee. Although the normal data center players like Schneider Electric and Raritan are there (among many others), the opening keynote...