Profile of Ellis Booker
Technology Journalist
News & Commentary Posts: 111
Ellis Booker has held senior editorial posts at a number of A-list IT publications, including UBM's InternetWeek, Mecklermedia's Web Week, and IDG's Computerworld. At Computerworld, he led Internet and electronic commerce coverage in the early days of the web and was responsible for creating its weekly Internet Page. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief of Crain Communication Inc.’s BtoB, the only magazine devoted to covering the intersection of business strategy and business marketing. He ran BtoB, as well as its sister title Media Business, for a decade. He is based in Evanston, Ill.
Articles by Ellis Booker
posted in October 2014
10/27/2014
To meet regulatory obligations -- and avoid accusations of cover-up and incompetence -- federal agencies must get serious about digitizing records.
10/23/2014
You never forget your first PC -- especially when it weighs 29 pounds and boasts a jaw-dropping 64 KB of RAM.
10/22/2014
The Internet of Things in healthcare -- a profusion of IP-connected sensors on hospital equipment and patients -- has the power to drastically cut waste and save lives, says panel.
10/17/2014
HDP 2.2 adds more than 100 new enterprise-ready features, including faster SQL querying on Hadoop.
10/15/2014
Driverless cars are just the beginning. Take a look at the robots we will depend on for health, work, and entertainment.
10/15/2014
MapR-DB is integrated with the MapR NFS-compliant file system and made available with more than 20 different open source components.
10/14/2014
Cloudera Director tool leads off lineup of announcements, including upgrades to Impala SQL query engine and stronger security.
10/7/2014
Advertising didn't always treat IT professionals with much respect, but that's changing. Hapless techies are out; superhero product placements are in.