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Kevin Had It Right

Precocious Kevin McCallister taught us a lesson in security way back in 1990 when he conceded that villians Harry and Marv would likely breach his home. In that movie Kevin decided not to invest all his resources in defending the boundary of his home but spent some time “automating” the detection and mitigation of those… Continue reading Kevin Had It Right

Will the metric system fail us?

The linked GigaOm article may include some scientific tongue-in-cheek but the gap described is real.  Currently ~an exebyte of data is generated daily.  The metric system only has two official larger orders of magnitude:  Zettabyte –       1000000000000000000000 Yottabyte – 1000000000000000000000000   For most of us this isn’t a problem.  I keep terabytes of storage… Continue reading Will the metric system fail us?

Corporate Decision Making: HiPPO

I just listened to Andrew McAfee of MIT’s Sloan School of Managment and Harvard Business’ HBR Voices in a webcast presented by Oracle on Big Data. Late in the webcast Mr (presumably Dr) McAfee stated that decision making based on Highest Priced Person’s Opinion (HiPPO) was less effective and should be transitioned to a more egalitarian… Continue reading Corporate Decision Making: HiPPO