As a first-time attendee at HIMSS this year (#HIMSS13), I was pleasantly surprised by the breadth and depth of the experience—wall-to-wall innovation (everything from virtual hospitals, to physical bed technologies, to mobile phone security) in a space the size of eight football fields.

If I felt any disappointment, it was only at the relative lack of federal healthcare representation—a criticism I made at RSA last week as well. That said, there were enough federal executives, partners, and integrators at HIMSS to make the experience wholly worthwhile.

I was indoctrinated in the healthcare field about a year ago. The most difficult part was learning how to filter out the extraneous noise so that I could focus on the pressing issues for government.

Even now, I struggle to find clarity and consistency in the broader healthcare market. In practice, the infrastructure of "all things medical" is largely proprietary, which makes things more...

Day 2 has started and all the impressions from Day 1 are being gathered and processed. Asia has a huge representation and yesterday I met Japanese, Chinese and Koreans every two meters in the exhibition. It is clearly a global show where all and everyone in the industry take part. Some of my key observations and reflections from yesterday I have gathered here. More to come today!

Phablets and affordable devices with LTE functionality

More tablets getting to the market and prices are increasingly more competitive where Lenovo was launching multiple models where Acer Iconia Tab A700, Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD and Google Nexus 10 are the key competitors. The Lenovo A3000 and A1000 both feature 7" displays, and will allow for tablet adoption in emerging regions. On the phablet side (phone/tablet), Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is the biggest and...

This year, I made it my New Year's resolution to adopt social media and all that it is.

Time is, of course, always the enemy. This endeavor has taken some discipline, but it’s also given me clarity of purpose and reminded me of my passion for learning.

So, there’s no turning back now; I am officially into the deep end of the pool.

And with that in mind, I’d like to promote two articles I read this weekend, one from @SteveCase about the “sharing economy," and the other from Symantec’s new CIO @stephengillett about the “circular economy”.

As I read these two (distinct) pieces, it occurred to me that they might represent a rather elegant evolution.

The “sharing economy” – which emphasizes sharing of assets over outright ownership of assets in order to reduce waste – is certainly nothing too foreign....

I release regular updates to some of my downloads, article or blog posts (depending on the content or my mood) as this is much easier to keep track of for users and myself.

However there is a certain delay between updating content on connect (on https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect) and when the content is available to non-members of the community.

So in case you are not yet a member of Connect and wonder why I keep push blog post that annonce new version and you can't find them - then the answer is sign-in, or sign-up, and you'll go the latest and greatest as soon as it hits Connect :D