Analysis VMware Makes Its Move Up the Stack - Microsoft in its Sights VMware is moving up the stack with an ambitious plan to offer an IT services environment that connects the end points between the data center and the cloud. It's a strategy that we see emerging with other vendors in the space. Virtual computing has passed the inflection point. Virtual machines are now beginning to outnumber physical servers… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
Government Crowdsourcing National Challenges With the New Challenge.gov Next month, the federal government will launch a new .gov website with a big idea behind it and high hopes that there will be big ideas generated within it. Challenge.gov is the latest effort in the evolution of collaborative innovation in open government. Should the approach succeed, challenges and contests have the potential to leverage the… Alexander Howard View comments
Trends The Big Data Explosion and the Demand for the Statistical Tools to Analyze It If The Graduate were remade today, the advice to young Benjamin Braddock might be "just one word... statistics." The explosion of digital data has generated a need for technology to store, serve, and analyze petabytes of data. But it's also creating a lot of opportunities for people who are trained in the field of statistics. And more and… Audrey Watters View comments
Analysis Email Finally Emerges as a Platform: 3 Must-Have Plug-ins & What They Mean Email is old fashioned, right? Not so fast - that rich source of data about your personal connections and interests is finally emerging as a platform for some really innovative services. Yesterday we saw the launch of Gmail's new Priority Inbox, which automatically sorts inbound messages by priority. That's something we've been expecting since… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Location iTunes Features Location Apps with New "On the Grid" Section When social networking behemoth Facebook launched its foray into the location game with Places, some declared that apps like Foursquare and Gowalla would be rendered obsolete. The result, so far, has been quite the contrary, as the megaphone of Facebook has helped spread the word about location apps to the laypeople. Today, the mobile location… Chris Cameron View comments