Steve Hamm
Senior Technology Writer, Business Week
Communications strategist at IBM and author of The Race for Perfect and Bangalore Tiger.
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Surprising twist on mobile banking in Africa: http://tinyurl.com/27o6uqj
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#systemz Stephen van Rhyn of First National Bank of Namibia: "We can set up accounts for bushmen in the Kalahari Desert."
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#systemz Michel Jacobs of FIS, banking SW maker: "We want the banks to have a 'god's view' of their customers." Mainframe helps.
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#systemz Panel leader Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT: "Revolutions in science and society traced back to revolutions in measurement of data."
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#systemz Panel leader Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT: "Revolutions in science and society traced back to revolutions in mgt of data."
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#systemz Mills: "This is the most powerful announcement we've ever made to bring down the cost of technology."
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#systemz If you take all costs of deployment and management into account, the hybrid approach is 55% cheaper. Mills: "a lot of money."
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#systemz Comparing data center scenarios: All-Intel vs hybrid of z, Unix, and Intel. Hybrid approach server acquisition is 56% less.
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#systemz Mills: "Sharing and bringing things together is more economical."
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#systemz Steve Mills, now running IBM SW and HW: Time to rethink the view of what a mainframe is. A cloud in a box.
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#systemz Adkins: IBM is rolling out a whole array of HW this year to address corporations' new data needs. z is the latest.
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#systemz At IBM zEnterprise mainframe launch. Redefining corporate computing. Rod Adkins: "Data is changing the game."
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A new set of principles for business computing: http://tinyurl.com/3amytyg
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The computer behind Despicable Me: http://tinyurl.com/2bstyf6
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The computer behind Despicable Me: http://tinyurl.com/36btcgf
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A potential breakthrough in genomics and personalized medicine: http://tinyurl.com/24hpohj
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First global commuter pain survey: LA not so bad, it turns out. http://tinyurl.com/25gs66d
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My video on IBM's "Watson" taking on the Jeopardy! champs. http://tinyurl.com/2uhbusu
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Using data and visualization to make cities more livable. http://tinyurl.com/3xtr6tm
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Building a bridge between Chinese traditional medicine and western medicine. Watch the video: http://tinyurl.com/27vcrbu
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The city: A machine for living that has a soul.http://asmarterplanet.com/
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My newest Smarter Planet post: Using semantic analysis to find missing pieces of data in corporate plumbing: http://tinyurl.com/293dcgh
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This community could provide help for policymakers trying to improve public health: http://tinyurl.com/2985fkl
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Interesting. Faisal Shahzad loses his house in the financial meltdown and loses his mind to Islamic radicalism. Two big trends meet.
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Drill, baby, drill?
