Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
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Web @ 30: Thank you for global connectivity
- Managing Editor 11 Mar 2019 -
WWW @ 30: Why the Web needs to remain open
- Managing Editor 06 Mar 2019 -
GDPR: Irish Data Protection Commission may show where the WWW is heading
- Managing Editor 01 Mar 2019
For the last three decades since its introduction, the web has informed, educated and entertained society. It has given musicians, artists and businesses of any size connectivity to a global ...
While the internet existed way before the Worldwide Web (WWW), the web changed everything. Its success has as much to do with the simplicity of using an HTTP web browser, as the fact that it was ...
The Irish Data Protection Commission's (DPC) annual report makes interesting reading, given that the World Wide Web is celebrating its 30th birthday this month. People regularly give away vast ...
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WWW at 30: the worldwide swamp
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GE Digital addendum
- Managing Editor 13 Feb 2019 -
IT misaligned with business' appetite for data
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AI keeps seeing average people
- Managing Editor 29 Jan 2019 -
Windows 7: Don't expect Microsoft to handle all Windows 10 issues
- Managing Editor 24 Jan 2019 -
AWS mixes toxic cocktail for open source
- Managing Editor 15 Jan 2019 -
CIOs need to nurture raw IT talent to power the future economy
- Managing Editor 18 Aug 2014
Next month will be the 30th anniversary of the world wide web. In 1989, who would have thought the web would touch every aspect of people’s lives - not only in a good way but also in ways that seem ...
The term “digital” is only referenced twice, in the 87 minutes of GE’s Q4 2018 earnings call that took place at the end of January. In a transcript of the call, posted on the Seeking Alpha ...
A recent pop event at Lloyds Bank in London hosted by DominoData has highlighted one of the age-old ailments of IT. It is the illness of being misaligned with the business. The latest example of ...
There is a mantra in technology that if a program is fed bad data, it will produce bad results. The same is true of AI. The quality of a machine learning application is directly related to the ...
It does not seem that long ago that IT departments were battling with upgrading PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7, as Microsoft finally pulled the plug for support on the legacy operating system. ...
There is currently a crisis unfolding in the open source world, with a number of companies changing their licensing to protect revenue. This has arisen due to a potentially toxic situation where ...
Each year, with the publication of A-level results, hundreds of thousands of school leavers embark on a journey that ultimately fuels the talent pool feeding the UK economy. Some argue that a ...
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Blame the Poisson
- Managing Editor 25 Jun 2014 -
Web-scale IT shows what technology can achieve
- Managing Editor 20 May 2014 -
Big data technology has its work cut out to harness web analytics
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Will Microsoft pursue a single Windows kernel?
- Managing Editor 14 Jan 2014 -
Windows 8.1: Start failure
- Managing Editor 21 Oct 2013
I recently met Mark Rodbert, CEO of Idax Software, who has an interesting theory on statistics. We often see the 'Normal' bell-shaped distribution - where the top of the bell represents the most ...
English: A Netflix envelope picture taken by BlueMint. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Looking at web companies such as Amazon, eBay, Facebook or NetFlix, it is hard not to be impressed by the scale of ...
English: eBay Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)What can we learn from companies such as eBay and Amazon? These internet businesses are at the cutting edge of technology.The recent Gartner CRM summit ...
During the Build developer's conference in April, Microsoft is expected to reveal more details of a future version of Windows codenamed Threshold.Rumours on the web suggest that Threshold could ...
It has been a while since my last post. Today I spent the last few hours updating Windows 8 and I thought I'd share my experiences.Window 8.1 is the free update to Windows 8, which supposedly fixes ...