Month: July 2017
Robin Robins: What a casket sales company can teach you about lead generation
Here’s a product you don’t see advertised very often: caskets. So when I saw a company advertising them one morning on national TV, it caught my attention. Unfortunately, I missed the company name — however, the biggest, most glaring FAIL...
Coming to terms with fear and loathing of artificial intelligence
By now most IT leaders have accepted that large swaths of the routine functions performed inside and outside of the IT department will soon be automated thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) applications employing machine and deep learning algorithms....
The cloud data center building boom
Seems like every week, we have a major cloud vendor opening up a new data center or a new region (cluster of data centers) somewhere in the world. Just last week, Apple opened one in China and announced they would...
Demand for external GDPR expertise needs more time to build
As the deadline grows closer for complying with the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) being put into effect May 25, 2018, by the European Union, there’s a marked difference in attitudes between IT organizations in Europe and in the U.S. concerning the...