Episodes

Is your head in the cloud yet?
Nov. 2, 2011

Is your head in the cloud yet?

You’ve heard the buzz and hype about ‘the cloud’, but do you know what it can do for you and your business? While Sand Hill Group’s research saw a dramatic leap in cloud computing adoption in Q4-2010, it also found that many small to midsize businesses are still confused about the meaning of ‘cloud computing.’ Can you tell the cloud apart from high-tech trends like Web 2.0, social media, virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS...
Fresh data when you need it: Ready for real-time business?
Oct. 26, 2011

Fresh data when you need it: Ready for real-time business?

On last week’s Big Data program, we discussed how today’s massive data volume, velocity and variety are challenging the creative coping skills of companies around the world. Now we’ll examine how to shake, bake and serve your data in far less time than it takes Rachael Ray to cook-up her newest yummo recipe. Yes! In-memory, real-time data analytics are the newest game-changing tool that can boost your company’s cost-saving productivity by 4% in the next 5 years and help you win big in the new gl...
Gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, zettabytes: What’s up with Big Data?
Oct. 19, 2011

Gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, zettabytes: What’s up with Big Data?

Big Data. The world of Three V’s. Gartner describes “big data” as a three-dimensional data growth model: Volume of data; Velocity or speed of data in/out; and Variety of data types and sources. When we do the math, “big” typically ranges from a few dozen terabytes to multi-petabytes or more in a single data set. The bottom line: Big data is waaayyy too much for common software tools to efficiently capture, manage and process within a tolerable length of time. This is a job for game-changing solu...
The “i” Generation: Taking Your Company Data Mobile!
Oct. 12, 2011

The “i” Generation: Taking Your Company Data Mobile!

Look what’s walking in your door this morning with your employees: their ipads, ipods, iphones! Why? Because their on-the-go lifestyle requires continuous personal and work connectivity. But at the end of the day, they may walk out the door with your proprietary data on their devices. This rapid consumerization of IT is already a reality around the globe. Are you ready for this new fact of business life? Have you decided how to enable your workforce to optimize their productivity? Do you have a ...
Breakfast with Game-Changers presented by SAP
Oct. 5, 2011

Breakfast with Game-Changers presented by SAP

Wondering who today’s business innovators are and what’s on their plate that can change the way YOU do business next? Pour a fresh cup of your favorite breakfast beverage and join our expert panel for the debut of Breakfast with Game-Changers, as we explore these timely questions: How do game-changers think? What inspires them to develop breakthrough technologies that disrupt, excite and improve companies everywhere — and even become the stuff of legend? How long before their next “Aha moment“ i...