Trends IBM and Yale Team-Up To Train Business Students in Analytics The Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management is working with IBM on a new course that will provide students with hands-on analytics education. Students will work with real big data sets from companies and learn to use professional analytics tools that are in demand today. IBM Business Analytics posted a YouTube video about the… Klint Finley View comments
Location Has The Smartphone Location Tracking Fiasco Gone Too Far? Or Not Far Enough? A week of discussion around the mainstream discovery that our smartphones - iPhones, Android phones and Windows phones alike - were tracking and/or storing our location in one way or another has finally arrived at the logical conclusion: a warning sticker, a handful of lawsuits, a congressional hearing and, possibly most importantly, a South Park… Mobile Mike Melanson View comments
Trends OSX and Linux Growing Faster Than Windows Reports that Apple is now beating Microsoft in market cap, revenue and profit were tempered by one fact: Microsoft has sold more Windows 7 licenses since its release than all iOS products combined during the same period. Whether enterprise or consumer, the Microsoft still own the operating system market. But all that could change. According to… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Cloud Providers 3 More AWS Outage Post-Mortems More than one week after the now infamous Amazon Web Services outage, the company has now issued a statement explaining the incident. Also, Netflix has issued its much anticipated blog post detailing how it managed to stay up during the outage, and SimpleGeo explained its own strategy. More details after the jump. Klint Finley View comments
Cloud Computing The New Startup - Just Add APIs Realtidbits is the model of the new startup. It did not start with the Web site. It started with an API. That's representative of a new trend. You don't launch a Web site anymore. You go straight to the API and create a service. The API represents what Sam Rami of Apigee compares to the evolution of the 20th century supply chain. In the post-war… Alex Williams View comments