Sarbanes-Oxley IT Security Compliance Checklist

Web-based applications and the technology that enables them are fantastic, but they’re bringing a new set of security considerations and challenges along with. This is destined to become a bigger and bigger issue as Web 2.0 applications gain…

Data Companies Eat Software Companies

I was in the car this morning listening to a BBC report that, for the first time in a long…

Why Data Strategy Matters

Big Data has an alluring promise: crunch all of your datas and find out all these very important unknown things you didn’t know before. You will find out all sorts of important things about your customers. You’ll discover what they’re buying, what they’re not buying, what they like…

Awesome, Microsoft buys LinkedIn

Every once in a while I run into someone who has resisted joining LinkedIn. And almost universally they all regret it and are planning their belated entrance to the platform.

5 Technologies That Will Change the World

Warning: The following post contains moments of wild speculation. You have been warned.

Right now is an interesting moment in the history of civilization. In the past technology has molded itself to the needs of society, but we’ve…

Choice, the Placebo Effect, and Quantum Superposition

I’ve been fascinated by quantum physics since I was a kid, learning about how reality works just really pushes my buttons for some reason. Or, should I say, learning about how little scientists know about how reality really works…

Why You Need a Strategic Data Service

It’s no longer even a question that data is a strategic advantage. Every business is a data business now, and it’s no longer sufficient to store and archive data, you need to be able to act on it: protect, nurture, develop, buy and sell it. Billion-dollar…

Digital Agencies are the Future of Insurance

By Jason Kolb, founder & CEO of Dias/The Internet of Insurance

The Joys of Cardinality

When you start getting into multi-dimensional data analysis, you quickly run into something called the “Curse of Cardinality” (so yes, the post title is a geeky play on words). The gist of it is is that the more possible values there are for something, the quicker the index size grows…

The Uptake of the Industrial Internet (What I’ve Been Up To)

I’ve been suspiciously quiet the past few months — there’s a reason for that. I’ve accepted a position as CTO of a new company which is still in quasi-stealth mode: so I can’t really talk about everything I’ve been doing yet…