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By Kurt Marko, Contributor Information technology has always been a tumultuous enterprise, and every era has its share of inspiring innovation and disappointing flops, however the nexus of cloud, mobile, social and big data technologies means this era of technology history is more exhilarating than normal for both end users and IT practitioners alike. I plan to explore these topics and more in thi…Read More

By admin In June 1967, when Patrick J. McGovern published the first issue of Computerworld, it did something different. It reported on the computing industry from a user perspective. Its headlines about disk drive failures, lost data and troubled products upset IT vendors.…Read More

By admin Few deny that the health care industry in the U.S. faces tremendous pressure to change. Few deny the role that technology will play in stimulating this change, either. Uncertainty creeps in, though, when health care organizations try to address their health care needs. This is especially true of health care providers -- the hospitals, medical offices, clinics and myriad long-term care fac…Read More

By Larry Husten, Contributor SYMPLICITY HTN-3, the eagerly awaited first rigorous test of renal denervation, shows that the real effect of the novel blood-pressure-lowering technology is dramatically lower than earlier expectations, which had been fueled by data from previous uncontrolled trials. Results of SYMPLICITY HTN-3 were presented at the American College of Cardiology conference [...]…Read More

By Ben Kepes, Contributor If you believe Marc Andreesen's viewpoint that software is eating the world, then it's not a big stretch to get to the realization that the Application Programming Interface (API) is the common lingua franca that allows this revolution to occur. By enabling applications, data sources, connected devices etc to communicate, [...]…Read More

By Kurt Marko, Contributor VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger used his Interop keynote to lay out a four-pronged strategy for building what the company has coined the software defined data center, adding details and customer testimonials to a concept he initially described last year. Besides the firm's ubiquitous server virtualization products, which abstract compute resources into customizable chunks that …Read More

DataSite a collocation hosting provider partnered with Layered Tech, a provider of secure hosting services and a PCI, HIPAA and FISMA data compliance specialist. It is expected that this partnership will benefits each company's customer relations.…Read More

By admin Is manufacturing IT conservatively behind the tech curve or out on the forward edge of innovation? That depends upon whom you ask. Talk to Jennifer Hartsock, group CIO for construction industries at venerable equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, and she'll tell you about combining mobile technology with truly giant machinery.…Read More