As I’m preparing to attend IBM Connect 2014 next week, I’m starting to reflect on the fact that there are still a lot of marketers in the industry who are reluctant to adopt some of the promising new customer experience and social business technologies.
Read moreSOA has a lot to offer when it is understood and its principles applied consistently and incrementally. Here are what I believe to be the most important factors that impact whether you will succeed or fail at SOA.
Read moreI’m typically not the kind of girl who gets starstruck, and I’m usually not susceptible to motivational speaking. I’m a marketer… rhetoric is what we do. ☺ But I have to say, hearing Serena Williams speak last week in the last general session of IBM’s Information on Demand (IOD) conference kind of made me want […]
Read moreI’m preparing to attend my first IBM conference next week when IBM Information On Demand 2013 begins in Las Vegas. While it’s not the first IBM conference Global Knowledge has attended since becoming an IBM Global Training Provider, it’s the first one I’ll be covering, so be on the look out for my IBM IOD-related blogs next month.
Read moreThe origins of virtualization began with a paper that Professor Christopher Strachey presented on time-shared computers at the UNESCO International Conference on Information Processing in June 1959. Time-sharing was a new idea, and Professor Strachey was the first to publish on the topic that would lead to virtualization. After the conference, new research was done, and several more research papers written on the topic of time-sharing began to appear. These research papers energized a small group of programmers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to begin to develop a Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). From these first time-sharing systems attempts, virtualization was pioneered in the early 1960s by IBM, General Electric, and other companies attempting to solve several problems.
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