Monthly Archives: July 2014
Vitamin Y: Paul Lewis on why "You don’t have a Big Data problem"
Context: Paul Lewis is a CTO with a deep interest in Big Data. Now with Hitachi Data Systems after holding IT executive positions at...
HealthWorks Collective: Why a "Switzerland Approach" Might Become a Key Part of Wearable Health...
InsightaaS: The HealthWorks Collective is "an editorially independent, moderated community for thought leaders in international healthcare" sponsored by Siemens. The site has posts on...
BMC: How Much ITIL is Enough?
InsightaaS: A recent column by ZDNet's Joe McKendrick (himself an Across the Net favourite) highlighted the post "How Much ITIL is Enough?" published by...
451 Research: Zombie accounts and 'freemium' business models
InsightaaS perspective: 451 Research is one of the world’s leading sources of insight into cutting edge technologies — including areas that are important to...
The Sunday Infographic: How Many Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide…?
InsightaaS: As regular Across the Net readers know, we're in the habit of publishing an infographic each Sunday. Some readers may remember that in...
MIT Technology Review: Energy Demands of Networked Devices Skyrocket
InsightaaS: Sometimes, we get so lost in individual trends that it comes as a shock when someone connects them. Many people will probably have...
Nicholas Carr: Cluetrain crashes, casualties widespread
InsightaaS: Regular Across the Net readers are aware of the regard we have for Internet/IT philosopher Nicolas Carr of "IT Doesn't Matter" fame; we consider...
Business-cloud.com: Respect Networks launches private cloud
InsightaaS: Back in the very early days of the Internet - when our vision of how it might evolve was being shaped by books...
Who can you trust?
Technology, like any tool, can be used well or badly. Sometimes the bad is malicious, and sometimes it's just the result of laziness, carelessness,...
David Moschella: 50 for 50 – The Most Important IT Disruptors of the Last...
InsightaaS: At Across the Net, we are always convinced that the posts we highlight are worthy of attention - else we wouldn't select them!...
Louis Columbus: Roundup Of Analytics, Big Data & Business Intelligence Forecasts And Market Estimates,...
InsightaaS: Readers of Across the Net will be familiar with the work of Louis Columbus; we have cited his Enterprise Irregulars posts in the...
Heartbleed should be making you sweat
It’s been a couple of months since news of the Heartbleed vulnerability first spawned global near-hysteria. The bug, which sat virtually unnoticed on approximately...
Bosch SI: How much value is there in Big Data, really?
InsightaaS: At first blush, Bosch may seem like an unusual source for our IT-focused Across the Net items; Bosch is best known as an...
Spambots say the nicest things
During the course of our first year, InsightaaS.com has marked a number of milestones. We’ve published more than 400 posts. With the help of...
Forrester: Déjà Vu All Over Again, Or Why CIOs Still Fail At Communicating Value
InsightaaS: Forrester Research is one of the world’s leading IT analyst firms — it is generally thought to be a key source of insight...