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Tweetstorm Digest: May 19, 2015
Lest you missed a bit of a @charlesfitz victory lap for Cloud City (Seattle) on Twitter: 1/ A geographic look at the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud is revealing: 2/ The Leader quadrant for cloud computing shall henceforth be known as the Seattle quadrant. 3/ Seattle has also annexed the best real estate in the…
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Book Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The latest in digital technology and Big Data in particular are increasingly fodder for novelists. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer is a wry story of mostly earnest millennials who end up in “pitched battle with a fascist consortium of data miners”. The Google–esque bad guys are too nerdy and tone-deaf to achieve full-on Bond…
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Tweetstorm Digest: January 26, 2015
Lest you missed an @charlesfitz Twitter excepting of a (paradigmatically paywalled) Goldman Sachs report “The Hardware Download” dated January 20, 2015: 1/ Missed a good Goldman Sachs report on cloud last week with focus on “the cloud’s impact on IBM”. Good CIO/VAR survey data. 2/ VAR survey “How has migration of your customer’s workloads to…