FlashStack CI: Why all-flash advances the converged infrastructure market

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Last week Pure Storage launched FlashStack CI – our Converged Infrastructure with Cisco and VMware. Based on the volume of coverage from the press and analysts  it appears we hit the mark. With a market currently estimated in excess of $6B USD (per Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems , the Converged Infrastructure (CI) market is sizable and all indications suggest it […]
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Google integrates Apple’s Touch ID security into its own digital wallet app

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One of the main features of the iPhone, especially when it comes to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus that can be used for mobile payments in stores, is the Touch ID fingerprint sensor embedded in the Home button, which adds an extra layer of security to Apple’s Apple Pay payments app, but also to other applications. In iOS 8, Apple has opened Touch ID to third-party developers, with Google apparently being one of the companies looking to take advantage of the feature. The company has updated the iOS version of its Google Wallet payments app, adding Touch ID login support, 9to5Google reports.

Why Is It So Hard To Find A Good Retail CEO?

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This was the year we learned that a good retail CEO is really hard to find. It’s easier when a retailer is executing on a successful strategy. The successful CEO puts together a succession plan, and when the time is right, he or she pulls the trigger. But when the retailer is struggling, and the CEO leaves to “pursue personal interests” or is otherwise ushered to the door, life gets a lot more complicated.

Breaking the E-Commerce Sound Barrier with Matrix Retail!

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BOOM! What was that noise? Someone just broke the e-commerce sound barrier!   In the third quarter of 2014 Williams-Sonoma’s e-commerce sales represented 51.5% ($587 million) of total company sales overtaking their store sales ($566 million) for the first time! Even more importantly this increase is not due to offsetting reductions in store sales with ... Read more

Wrap Social Around Your Business Processes to Reap Greater CX Rewards ~via @InsideCXM

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  There is no doubt anymore that the social media revolution has made permanent changes to the communication landscape-both for companies and individuals. However the individual changes are what’s driving the social media industry in business, and many companies are still slow picking up on this. I talked about this before in a blog about […]

TED: Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn - Jeremy Howard (2014)

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What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning, a technique that can give computers the ability to learn Chinese, or to recognize objects in photos, or to help think through a medical diagnosis. (One deep learning tool, after watching hours of YouTube, taught itself the concept of “cats.”) Get caught up on a field that will change the way the computers around you behave … sooner than you probably think.

To Avoid the Need for Dispute Resolution, Plan Ahead

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When disputes flare up in business relationships, a failure to thoroughly anticipate and prepare for the future is often to blame. Consider a dispute that has arisen surrounding the estate of Maurice Sendak, the acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator of dozens of books, including the masterpiece Where the Wild Things Are. As Randy Kennedy describes in a New York Times article about the dispute, when Sendak passed away in 2012, his estate passed to three executors: Lynn Caponera, his housekeeper and caretaker of more than 30 years; his lawyer, Donald A.

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