A couple of years ago I thought I would help out that “big syndicate up north” with its Christmas-gift operations. Wired had just run a big info graphic on what it would take to get the job done – > 34 million gifts, 3,148 home innovations per second, a team of 2.7 million people and […]
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More and more organizations – in both the public and private sectors – are turning to the cloud to get fast, cost-effective IT infrastructure. Cloud infrastructure – like that provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) – is proven to be scalable, reliable, and secure, and can help improve data accessibility (including better support for a […]
Why Are STM Pubs Scared? Last month at Frankfurt Book Fair, David Worlock chaired a thought-provoking panel. The panelists were Dr Sven Fund, CEO of De Gruyter; Jason Markos, Director of Knowledge Management for Wiley; Andreas Blumauer, CEO of Semantic Web Company and Dr Timo Hannay, CEO of MacMillan Digital Science. David’s initial premise was […]
Forays onto the cloud have been mixed with most companies toeing in with Software as a Service (SaaS) models — which makes sense. Robust offerings like Salesforce.com provide tremendous productivity tools that answer the needs of most companies, without the cost of building. But according to Gartner one of the fastest growing segments is IaaS […]