Big Data is Dead. Long Live Big Data!
Critical success factors for the use of data do not depend on its quantity, structure, or speed. It’s about using data to create true added value.
Fake Reviews are “Not Nice!”
“It’s not nice to fool the Internet Searcher!” Right up there with “fake news” as a current-event irritant, are “fake reviews.” No one appreciates being fooled with something fake, especially when decisions are hanging in the balance. So we appreciate the research of BrightLocal in publishing their annual Local Consumer Review Survey-2017. Published since 2010,…
Big Earl, the Refrigerator
Big Earl’s Debut Actually, his name should be spelled, “URL” and pronounced “Earl.” Clever, isn’t it? Big Url made his debut with a TV ad in 2000. It was a hit. An idea whose time had come. Never mind that it has taken 17 years to make it realistic, the idea has always been reasonable…
Big Earl, the Refrigerator
Big Earl’s Debut Actually, his name should be spelled, “URL” and pronounced “Earl.” Clever, isn’t it? Big Url made his debut with a TV ad in 2000. It was a hit. An idea whose time had come. Never mind that it has taken 17 years to make it realistic, the idea has always been reasonable…
Cloud Computing Matures
Everyone’s in the cloud, aren’t they? [Check out our initial article on Cloud Computing.] Remind me. What is cloud computing? Google provides a very nice definition: the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Briefly,…
Cyberattacks In the Cloud
Cyberattacks show your Internet dependance An exclusive October 14 news article on NBCNews.com had the headline, CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia.” This quote centering on Vice President Joe Biden might lend credibility to the rather astonishing headline of cyberattacks: Vice President Joe Biden told “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd on Friday…
BDR – solid protection for network attacks
Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) Lately, the news depicts a lot about Ransomware attacks. You can read here, here, here, and here. These attacks are not decreasing but increasing both in frequency and clout. Bigger monetary demands are next up. And there is no reasonable solution that will release your hostaged files other than paying the ransom. Except BDR.…
Time Travel Impossible?
New pear-shaped atom suggest impossibility of time travel To paraphrase the poet, “O the simple joy of reading tech articles.” You will find in tech articles the delight of understatement and the amazement of scant humility. Take, for example, this headline: “New discoveries suggest the universe might not be what we thought.” What a nugget!…
How to be Discovered by Potential Customers
What is the chief online discovery tool of the Internet Age? In an online article for SMBs appearing June 1, 2016, the eMarketer said, “Most Small Businesses [are] Discovered Online First.” That is the new preeminent discovery tool of your potential customer. More specifically the article stated, “More than one-third of US internet users said they first…
Cloud Thoughts for SMBs
To Cloud or not to Cloud – the SMB question. Does it seem that everyone is moving to the cloud? It is an undeniable general direction which the Internet world seems to be taking users and businesses. What can be done? Jump on the bandwagon? Resist to the final outdated computer or software? Is it really…