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Real-Time Granularity Brings PUE into the C-Suite

Zarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness

Dan Zarrella's book on how ideas propagate is great advice for CIOs and CTOs seeking to communicate inside and outside their companies.

Can IBM Take the Innovation Ball Back?: A Report From Lotusphere 2012

A report from IBM Lotusphere 2012 that asserts IBM has a vision for taking the Innovation ball back from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple who have been the leaders in computing innovation for the past decade.

Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo: Philosopher of the Subscription Economy

In an interview with Tien Tzuo, we discussed his theory of the subscription economy and how it is changing the requirements for business software, among other topics.

Splunk 4.3 Aims at Accelerating Business Adoption of Machine Data: Why Don’t CIOs?

Splunk Version 4.3 makes the user interface more configurable, which should expand machine data reach into the world of end-users.

Dan Zarrella of HubSpot, Research Interview on Data Science

Dan Zarrella, Social Media Scientist at HubSpot, provided some provocative thoughts about how data scientists should be more prescriptive and challenge existing myths.

Intel DCM and iTRACS: Towards a New Efficiency Metric

Byron Sebastian, CEO of Heroku, Research Interview Recap

In this recap of a research interview, Byron Sebastian explains how the Ruby development platform Heroku has grown from 100,000 to more than 600,000 applications since Salesforce.com acquired the company. Byron explains some of Salesforce.com's strategy, what forces are driving app development, and how Heroku designs and builds APIs

Marco Pacelli of ClickFox: Research Interview

In this recap of a research interview, Marco Pacelli, CEO of ClickFox, along with Tom Wheeler, SVP of Research and Development, and Joe Galvin, CMO, explain the present and future of analytical apps.

Jim Hays of the Aspire Group: Research Interview

I had a great talk with Jim Hays of The Aspire Group about the failure of most technology vendors to follow through and make sure that the products they sold actually achieved the desired business outcomes.