Steve Todd, Author at Information Playground

Private, Public, or Hybrid Job Security

Consider an IT expert currently performing server, network, or storage administration (or some combination thereof). The growing emphasis on "cloud-based IT" can appear as a job threat to these administrators.…

Steve Todd December 6, 2010

Books Innovation

Book Review: Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire

I've been reading an electronic copy of Braden Kelley's new book: Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. I have met Braden several times in NYC while covering the World Innovation Forum and…

Steve Todd December 3, 2010

Digital Preservation JFK Library

JFK Project Going Live

It's been nearly four and a half years since the joint announcement between EMC and the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. There has been a flurry of activity at…

Steve Todd December 2, 2010

Baseball Cooperstown Digital Preservation

Put Me In Coach

I've seen a lot of EMC press releases in my career, but this announcement from September 21, 2010 is at the top of my list. EMC is sponsoring the digitization…

Steve Todd November 29, 2010

Life @ EMC

Pre-Acquisition Dog Food

When EMC acquires a company it takes a bit of discipline to keep up with the incoming software architectures. Some have been easier to grasp than others. For example, GreenPlum…

Steve Todd November 23, 2010

Baseball Cooperstown

Cooperstown Visit

When I scheduled my visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, I had no idea what I was in for. Ken Meifert brought my family and I…

Steve Todd November 16, 2010

Innovation Life @ EMC

A Global Sensor Architecture

A year and a half ago I heard Paul Saffo of Stanford speak at the World Innovation Forum. I described his insight that intelligent sensors would be built into all…

Steve Todd November 16, 20102

Innovation

Bit Routing and Components

I've written several posts that describe a product construction strategy that revolves around componentization: CSX Technology allows developers to componentize critical data path assets and move them onto different platforms.…

Steve Todd November 9, 20102

Innovation Life @ EMC

Google’s 20 Percent

When I spoke at a lecture at Babson several weeks ago, one of the students asked me the question: "what do you think of Google's 20% policy as a way…

Steve Todd November 3, 2010

Innovate With Global Influence Innovation

Innovate With Global Influence

I recently finished a second book project on an interesting topic: How can multi-national corporations reverse their global culture? The question stems from the corporate practice of farming out high-tech…

Steve Todd October 22, 2010