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Solar storms to peak in 2013

Collaboration 2.0

The biggest solar storm on record in 1859 brought down US and European telegraph systems and lit up the world sky with Aurorae; a similar storm today would wreak havoc with power grids and fry delicate electronics. Your cloud infrastructure platforms are particularly vulnerable.

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Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

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From “I” Space to “I” and “We” Space

ChiefTech

workspace design historically mirrored the organizational chart, with people jockeying to be as close as possible to the seat of all power – the CEO. But now that information revolution has made information the new seat of power, there is much more flexibility in workspace design. Historically, all sorts of technologies have impacted phyiscal workplace design.

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DB2 for z/OS: Clearing Up a Native SQL Procedure Misconception

Robert's Db2

A few days ago I received a question that I believe reflects a rather widely held misconception about DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures. In the interest of clearing the air, I'll provide in this entry the information that I communicated to my question-asking friend. Native SQL procedures were introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS in new-function mode (or with DB2 10 in new-function mode, for those organizations that migrated or are migrating to DB2 10 from DB2 V8).

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Mobile is eating the world

Collaboration 2.0

Mary Meeker's slide vividly depicts the relentless march of mobile OS into the heart of desktop QWERTY keyboard land.

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The software creation literacy crisis

Collaboration 2.0

The number of people who can read and write code, particularly for mobile devices, is dangerously low: what's needed are easier ways to create software you can use in the context of your specific needs.

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Quarantining Facebook to control tracking

Collaboration 2.0

By using one browser exclusively for Facebook only, it is currently possible to limit their tracking your activities across the broader web.

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Who should own the keys to your digital assets?

Collaboration 2.0

Who should own the digital keys to your private files and who can you trust as cloud file hosting struggles with archaic legal precedents and laws? Surprisingly Michael Chertoff & Kim Dotcom appear to agree: you should control encryption.

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Post 'social' improved speed to information and context

Collaboration 2.0

Facebook IPO hype and dramas obscured Google’s launch of their Knowledge graph contextual extensions to search, which may prove to be the foundation for future digital networking and a solution to information context and filtering

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The coming browser wars

Collaboration 2.0

Next gen browsers are the high ground on the maturing cloud battlefield, whether at individual or collaboration scale. Permissions, groups & filters configurations could be centralized in future vendor specific proprietary formats.

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Targeted social communication comes of age

Collaboration 2.0

With Facebook's first earnings call post IPO the digitally connected business world came of age, with hype to be replaced by alignment with the financial world's demand for demonstrated effectiveness.

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Microsoft vs Google: Game on

Collaboration 2.0

Both global giants aspire to provide the complete underpinnings of your digital social and work life, and that lifestyle is changing very fast indeed.

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Microsoft's scattered strategic vision

Collaboration 2.0

Enterprise customers continue to be frustrated by a lack of clarity or momentum in key areas around business productivity ‘front office’ strategy from Microsoft; partners are picking up the slack but some big questions are being asked this summer

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Sharepoint, Salesforce and the enterprise platform battle

Collaboration 2.0

The largest software company in the world and the ‘no software’ cloud world are colliding, and in the perceptions battle Sharepoint are shining a lot brighter

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Wisdom of the loud

Collaboration 2.0

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens: the trend of the loudest voices parading knowledge online and dominating conversations is slowly maturing as people realize that too much online publishing means those voices aren’t doing much else…

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Don't put your neck on the line.

Collaboration 2.0

Investing in long lasting, good quality ergonomic work furniture costs about the same as a new computer, but isn’t as seductive as a new Apple laptop despite many great design attributes. (…I bought an expensive new office chair and am justifying it to myself!

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The value of collecting your thoughts in a private online journal

Collaboration 2.0

In this era of multiple channels of communication, collecting your personal thoughts and ideas in one place is increasingly useful

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Can Microsoft put their new enterprise jigsaw together?

Collaboration 2.0

The changing face of what businesses need is challenging to incumbent suppliers.meanwhile a new generation of innovation is flowering around simplicity.

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Microsoft to marry Yammer

Collaboration 2.0

The old guard are marrying off upstart competitors into their product portfolios. B is he battle for supremacy among Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle still relevant — and has it scarred long-term relationships with customers?

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ION Air Pro simplify wearable HD cameras

Collaboration 2.0

ION Air add cloud native capabilities to their new ‘Point-of-view action-sport camcorder’ range, along with easy to use on/off recording

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The corporate learning shuffle

Collaboration 2.0

Collective business collaboration is very different to our individual digital interaction choices: how do we leverage past generations of training technologies to align with new opportunities to define and formalize the best ways to work together, and which CxO group should be responsible for this, or should this be a cross enterprise initiative?

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The human resources walled city

Collaboration 2.0

HR/HCM is historically the mature ’social’ center of businesses and can either lead digital transformation or be subsumed into a supporting collaborative role

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Connecting with traditional business language and conventions

Collaboration 2.0

John Hagel believes exploiting process exceptions is the way to find value in social initiatives; the challenge is often finding a common language with the business world.

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It ain't what you do.

Collaboration 2.0

Achieving great collective performance has the same basic principles for musicians, sports teams and other groups of individuals.

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Old media vs the cloud: a clash of cultures

Collaboration 2.0

A clash of cultures between traditional marketing conventions and enterprise software getting more involved in digital branding infrastructure is going to result in friction and sparks.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Cloud naivety and electric car dreams

Collaboration 2.0

Harnessing the power of cloud computing requires that you understand underlying concepts: loose understanding can cause more harm than good.

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Oracle's cloud launch: solid takeoff

Collaboration 2.0

Oracle appear to be executing very efficiently to serve the cloud era and are accelerating hard, while some of their competitors continue to discuss disjointed constructs, ideas and future plans

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Blackberry's irresponsible social advertising

Collaboration 2.0

A startlingly unhelpful TV commercial manages to both undermine Blackberry’s enterprise credibility while apparently encouraging personal activities on company time

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