Tape vs. Business Continuity

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It’s time to decide. You’re well aware of the dangers lurking around your clients’ data and systems—human error, server failure, power outage, malware, or even a natural disaster—and the potential for costly downtime that they bring. It’s time to decide. Do you trust your clients’ businesses to tape or would both be more comfortable with a robust hybrid cloud-based Business Continuity solution?

TED: Sting: How I started writing songs again - Sting (2014)

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Sting’s early life was dominated by a shipyard—and he dreamed of nothing more than escaping the industrial drudgery. But after a nasty bout of writer’s block that stretched on for years, Sting found himself channeling the stories of the shipyard workers he knew in his youth for song material. In a lyrical, confessional talk, Sting treats us to songs from his upcoming musical, and to an encore of “Message in a Bottle.”

When to Make a Promise to Your Boss (and When Not To)

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Bending over backward to honor a promise may not do you much good, according to new research from Ayelet Gneezy and Nicholas Epley. The duo tracked three types of promises — "broken ones, kept ones, and then ones that were fulfilled beyond expectations" — and found that overdelivering on promis

Does Hachette Have any Cards to Play Against Amazon?

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The publishing world has been watching the standoff between Amazon and Hachette — at its heart a dispute over contract terms, but one in which Amazon is playing hardball by de-listing Hachette titles  — with great interest.  Not surprising, since their fight is not only business news, but news about their business. The New York Times has weighed in multiple times, describing the dispute as “clashing visions about the distribution of information in the information... More »

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