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Big Data: Privacy and Security
A Matter of Vector
Last month we looked at the veracity factor in Big Data, which concerns the uncertainty of input and the need to cross-check and correct it (see "The Veracity Factor"). This is important because results in streams, such as social data comments, do not yield a precise interpretation.
Big Data, Big Denial
In a mutual boot-strapping beginning with the dawn of Homo sapiens, mankind and information have both exploded in variety, velocity, and volume. Our fates have been intertwined. We advance by harvesting, using, and sharing information. Along the way, information persists, mutates, and diffuses further.
Why Software Services Organizations Can Never Be Agile
The key members from the technology group are waiting to hear about the new project that the director is going to announce. The meeting is about to begin, and the room is filled with silence. They know that the project has something to do with Java, Oracle, and the cloud. The director starts explaining the importance of this strategic project and delivering it on time to the customer.
The User Experience
Measurement Is Not a Number
On Projects, Products, and Gaming Theory
Understanding Organizational Interactions
A Strategic View of Risk Management
The global financial crisis (GFC) provided a once-in-a-generation opportunity to develop support among key decision makers that a strategic view of risk management actually does matter. Post-GFC views of risk management increasingly seek to embed the analysis and understanding of risk within the strategy process. After all, strategy is about taking risk. The challenge then becomes: how do we control this risk taking?
A Bigger Cloud Ecosystem Is on Its Way
What Is My Contingency Plan for My Internet Life?
Last week, CNN reported on the "biggest Cyberattack in history" involving two Internet companies in Europe. Apparently the scale exceeded any previous attack by, maybe, a factor of 10.
Agile Is Way Past the Chasm
Does this quote from Moore's Crossing the Chasm feel like the agile adoption marketplace today?
When a product reaches this point in the market development, it must be made increasingly easier to adopt in order to continue being successful. If this does not occur, the transition ... may very well stall or never happen.
Business Architecture Is Coming of Age
The Emerging Cloud Ecosystem: Innovative New Services and Business Models
[From the Editor: This week's Cutter IT Advisor is from Cutter Senior Consultant San Murugesan's introduction to the March 2013 issue of Cutter IT Journal, "The Emerging Cloud Ecosystem: In
The Veracity Factor
How Bad Could It Be? Coping with Cyber War in the 21st Century
"[T]he nation's top intelligence official, James R. Clapper Jr., warned Congress that a major cyber attack on the United States could cripple the country's infrastructure and economy, and suggested that such attacks now pose the most dangerous immediate threat to the United States, even more pressing than an attack by global terrorist networks."
The Front-End vs. Back-End Dichotomy Is Dead
Taming the Video Bandwidth Hog
Back in September of 2012, I discussed business video and issues associated with implementation and usage (see "Catch the Wave of Business Video").
Ready to Make Work Easy?
What's Up with Watson?
Two years ago, I examined Watson-IBM's natural language question answering system (see "How Smart Is Watson, and What Is Its Significance to BI and DSS?").