I would like to take a short break from providing IT context to share a secret.  At work, I lead a team of 14 excellent presale architects and recently documented the path to self-education and certification in HP solutions.  Making this path clear for my team took three separate meetings

Sony VAIO Duo 13 I returned a Sony Vaio Duo 13 convertible Windows 8 tablet today after one week of use.  When the Sony salesperson asked me why, I said “It is a beautiful disaster, but that’s not your fault.”  I believe my experience has context for the near

The more you learn about Hadoop, the more you find how much development is going on to make Hadoop accessible.  In this post, I will share my experience with Excel access to Hadoop data. In my last post, I explained the Hadoop ecosystem in context and mentioned that I have

In Presales, our job is to remain at least 30 seconds ahead of our customers in order to help lead our customers in the right direction for business success.  In my opinion, Big Data is to 2013 what Cloud was to 2011-2012.  The majority of businesses are currently in either

Sharpening the saw includes becoming more efficient.   IT is a stimulating and constantly changing profession.  During the day, we focus most of our time on our internal and external customers.  These meetings and phone calls can, many times, keep us busy without a break for the entirety of business hours.