The House has passed an amendment to a larger bill that will streamline federal IT and finally empower CIOs - those able to keep their jobs as CIOs. Federal CIOs have long felt powerless and this bill, as this fedscoop story says, only restates their duties.

If passsed, the amendment, according to the story, would call for seriously denting the ranks of an estimated 250 federal CIOs. But with government, mandating and doing are two different things.

Hello there!  This is Big Data again.  Remember my Open letter to Enterprise IT? At the HP Discover conference, a panel discussion titled, “Make Information Matter: Make Big Data work for you” was all about me.

Steve Phelps wants to get into the heads of racing fans.

He's chief marketing officer (CMO) of NASCAR and described several business scenarios at HP Dicover 2013 this week. For instance, predictive techniques, such as sentiment analysis, have been used at NASCAR to determine the prevailing mindset of NASCAR fans.

First, yesterday the day started with keynotes from Dave Donatelli, George Kadifa and Mike Nefkins. Dave discussed new products in the server, storage and network area, focusing mainly on the software defined ones, describing how HP addresses software defined data centers. George and his team walked us through the HAVEn announcement and showed through three new products how HAVEn can be used to gain better understanding of our IT environments.