Recession-Proof IT

The Wall Street and Technology published recently, in its magazine cover story and in its online edition, a news about Recession-Proof IT, written by Penny Crosman.

According the news, top Wall Street IT executives share their strategies for keeping their IT organizations, their staffs and their careers moving forward even in economically challenging times.

They talk about interesting subjects like Platform Consolidation, the necessity to reexamine IT Supply, Demand and capacity, the application of the idea of virtualization and grid computing in large-scale mode, and also the return to Outsourcing and Offshoring.

It is an interesting news about the IT strategies adopted by Wall Street companies.

The Ten Emerging Technologies in 2008

The Technology Review Magazine, published by MIT, in its cover story and in its online edition, published a special report about the 10 Emerging Technologies in 2008, that they defined as the 10 most exciting, world-changing technologies of the year.


All technologies are very interesting, but for us from IT, mainly from BI/PM, the concept of Modeling Surprise is amazing.

The definition of Modeling Surprise: combines data mining and machine learning to create computer models for predict surprise events.

For those interested in data mining and machine learning, there is a good book:




- Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition - Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank