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David Fletcher
David Fletcher, CTO, State of Utah
5/21/2013 - [Editor's Note: This is part of a series written by CIOs discussing their thought processes and lessons learned from major events in their tenures as CIO. Tomorrow we will post a companion ...
Aaron Weiss
Aaron Weiss, Tech Journalist / Humorist
5/21/2013 - CMOs and the CIOs enabling their activity need to ask themselves if the customer-facing mobile apps they are developing are worth the effort both from a cost perspective and a customer's ...
Curtis Franklin Jr.
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor
5/20/2013 - Two weeks on the road, two major conferences, lots of info -- and three key lessons for CIOs.
Ivan Schneider
Ivan Schneider, Writer, specializing in financial technology
5/20/2013 - In the prominent debate on "too-big-to-fail" banks, it has been suggested that diversified financial institutions have become too large and too complex to be safely managed. Various ...
Brian Moore
Brian Moore, Cartoonist & Illustrator
5/20/2013 - This is when your cloud briefing got out of hand.
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geeky   What I Learned... After My First Day on the Job as CIO   5/21/2013 11:34:47 AM
geeky
Friday May 17, 2013 4:05:18 PM
good day :)
Friday May 17, 2013 4:03:18 PM
:)
Friday May 17, 2013 4:02:43 PM
Have a good weekend everyone...
Friday May 17, 2013 4:02:28 PM
@Dave, I agree, but also believe that Google has the right to decide who they share their technology with. Maybe MS should share some of their Office internal design with Google to improve Google Docs.
Friday May 17, 2013 4:01:47 PM
see you next week or after...
Friday May 17, 2013 4:01:30 PM
Good day to all :)
Friday May 17, 2013 4:00:33 PM
OK, lady and gentlemen, I'm going to go eat lunch. And then i have a story to finish. Have a great weekend!
Friday May 17, 2013 3:58:26 PM
Well, they don't get to pick their competitors. It is said that all tech companies are guilty of this kind of stuff. The world would be a far more advanced place if they did less of it.
Friday May 17, 2013 3:57:00 PM
interesting
Friday May 17, 2013 3:54:56 PM
@Dave, it is absolutely clear that Google doesn't want Youtube on Windows mobile. They only allow one one competitor.
Friday May 17, 2013 3:54:46 PM
@Pablo- Yea Czechs! Also, who designed the little flower vase? :)
Friday May 17, 2013 3:54:03 PM
It ended with them saying, ""in light of Larry Page's comments today calling for more interoperability and less negativity, we look forward to solving this matter together for our mutual customers."
Friday May 17, 2013 3:53:36 PM
I'm reading a book about the history of the VW Beetle. It is interesting that was funded by the Nazis, designed by a Czech (Ferdinand Porche) and built by a new factory based on plans obatined by spies in the US
Friday May 17, 2013 3:53:17 PM
Microsoftsent a letter out saying that they would gladly comply by putting the ads back in if Google would actually fufill Page's dream of companies working better together and actually shared the necessary APIs with them. :)
Friday May 17, 2013 3:52:27 PM
Google sent a cease and desist letter telling them to remove the app form the store.
Friday May 17, 2013 3:52:10 PM
Microsoft created a Youtube app and put it into its app store for its mobile devices, but it stripped out the adds from the videos.
Friday May 17, 2013 3:51:36 PM
@eethtworkz- Sure. It started with Google CEO Larry Page making a big plea for technology companies to work together more.
Friday May 17, 2013 3:50:22 PM
@dave-what exactly happened between MSFT and Google? Care to share?
Friday May 17, 2013 3:49:42 PM
Well, tell your Susan that I'll happily tell her about 7 of the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices, too. :) But I'll have to kill her if she wants the final four.
Friday May 17, 2013 3:49:01 PM
@eethtworkz- The one good thing I'll say about it is that American Airlines has not gotten rid of its audio entertainment, and their jazz channel was really quite good.
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Clash of the Tableau 8: Release the Kraken!
5|17|13   |   2:42   |   No comments

Tableau 8 has some great data visualization and presentation capabilities, but it's best paired with a strong data analysis framework.
Tom Nolle
Using Virtualization – for Real!
5|13|13   |   2:10   |   2 comments

There's a lot of hype about virtualization of networks, NaaS, and SDN, but there's a couple of proven applications that enterprises could adopt right now and potentially save money and improve operations.
Tom Nolle
Is UC Becoming Oxymoronic or Just Moronic?
5|9|13   |   2:12   |   No comments

Skype/Outlook UC integration means we're going to have competition and fragmentation of UC client architectures, but is that bad? Modern devices can support IM, email, voice, and video clients, so maybe it's the back end of UC we need to be worried about.
E2 Editors
Windows vs. Integrated Circuit CPUs
4|17|13   |   4:45   |   5 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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Radio vs. Public Internet Access
4|17|13   |   4:34   |   14 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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Mainframes vs. Servers
4|17|13   |   4:34   |   16 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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TCP/IP vs. Printing Press
4|17|13   |   3:07   |   5 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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BYOD vs. E-Commerce
4|12|13   |   3:12   |   11 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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Telecommuting vs. Outsourcing
4|12|13   |   4:19   |   7 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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Personal Computer vs. Mobile Devices
4|12|13   |   4:28   |   20 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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Smartphones vs. Productivity Software
4|12|13   |   3:09   |   13 comments

The editors make their predictions about what will win the next match-up in the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
Tom Nolle
There's More to Mobility Than the Mobile Worker
4|9|13   |   2:03   |   5 comments

Workers are now used to portable device support throughout their everyday lives. We should be looking at the policy of providing fixed-desk devices to support stationary workers. Could portable support be smarter?
Ivan Schneider
From Kim Jong-Un's Trackball to Nuance Voice Ads
4|5|13   |   3:21   |   9 comments

Input devices run the gamut, from the humble Missile Command-style trackball to advanced speech recognition. Unfortunately, these input devices can be used for evil as well as good. Case in point: mobile ads that want you to talk to them.
Tom Nolle
Data/Storage Wish List for Enterprises
4|3|13   |   2:19   |   1 comment

Enterprises want three things in storage systems: First is some speech-recognition way of capturing videoconference data for indexing; second is semantic/AI analysis of emails and IM for content indexing; third is a better system for managing hierarchical layers of storage.
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E2 Editors Go Mad! Episode 3
3|28|13   |   3:22   |   12 comments

March Madness: Susan and Curt face off in a battle over Microsoft Excel, and whether or not it deserved its own spot on the E2 Tournament of IT Revolutionaries.
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Finally, a BYOD-Friendly App Environment!
3|27|13   |   2:22   |   7 comments

Oracle's Application Development Framework may be a step toward a general model for linking enterprise apps to mobile apps in a BYOD world. Binding a lightweight JVM to the app code gets around installing a runtime on iOS and links cleanly to enterprise J2EE.
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TGen IT: Where We're Going Next
7|11|12   |   08:12   |   10 comments

Now that TGen has broken new ground in genomic research by using Dell's storage, cloud, and high-performance computing solutions, the company discusses what will come next for it and for personalized medicine.
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Better Care Through Better Communications
6|6|12   |   02:24   |   12 comments

The achievements of the TGen/Dell project could improve how all people receive healthcare, because they are creating ways to improve end-to-end communication of medical data.
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TGen IT: Where We Are Now
5|15|12   |   06:58   |   5 comments

TGen is breaking new ground in genomic research by using Dell's storage, cloud, and high-performance computing solutions.
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TGen IT: Where We Were
4|27|12   |   06:45   |   10 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute wanted to save lives, but its efforts were hobbled by immense computing challenges related to collecting, processing, sharing, and storing enormous amounts of data.
On the Case
1,200% Faster
4|18|12   |   02:27   |   12 comments

Through their partnership, Dell and TGen have increased the speed of TGen’s medical research by 1,200 percent.
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IT May Improve Children's Chances of Survival
4|17|12   |   02:12   |   8 comments

IT is helping medical researchers reach breakthroughs in a way and pace never seen before.
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Medical Advances in the Cloud
4|10|12   |   1:25   |   5 comments

TGen and Dell are pushing the boundaries of computing, and harnessing the power of the cloud to improve healthcare.
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TGen: Living the Mission
4|9|12   |   2:25   |   3 comments

TGen's CIO puts the organizational mission at the heart of everything the IT staff does.
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TGen Speeding Up Biomedical Research to Save More Lives
4|5|12   |   1:59   |   8 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute is revamping its computing to improve speed, storage, and collaboration – and, most importantly, to save lives.
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Computing Power Helping to Save Children's Lives
3|28|12   |   2:13   |   3 comments

The Translational Genomics Institute’s partnership with Dell is enabling them to treat kids with neuroblastoma more quickly and save more lives.