Fountainhead

OCTOBER 20, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, October 20, 2011. IT Leadership: Two Days with Leading CIOs. Im writing this at Logan airport as I fly home after two full days in Boston, attending EMC’s IT Leadership Council. At it, senior EMC staff were able to spend nearly two full days with a room full of IT leaders from some of the world’s largest and most respected companies.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2011

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 10, 2011

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, October 10, 2011. Simple Agile Product Development.

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SPF13

OCTOBER 20, 2011

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Churchâ??s SORT tech conference.

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2011

This is very, very good. This video created by Apple in 1987 shows how a ‘Knowledge Navigator’ would work, depicting a university professor interacting with a tablet computer through voice. The system’s animated avatar summarizes emails, responds to voice commands, extracts and displays data, provides intelligent information retrieval, and provides message filtering.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 19, 2011

'To Get The Right Answers, You Have To Ask The Right Questions. As a CIO it can be all too easy to feel overwhelmed by the decisions that you have to make: mobile devices, clouds , security, arrrgh! The CIOs that I’m working with are looking for clear directions on what they should be spending their time on. My advice to them is that they need to pick a few key questions that are closely tied to the overall business.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2011

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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A CIO's Voice

OCTOBER 21, 2011

'Ahh New York… There is no other city like it in the world. I have been to cities all over the world but I consider New York home. There is an electricity that resonates from it and an excitement when you are in it. I am a born and bred New Yorker. Born in Brooklyn, grew up in the burbs, worked in the city my entire professional career. There is more to being a New York CIO then knowing the best pizza joints or being able to curse like it is my first language.

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SPF13

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Presentation given at PHP’s biggest conference, ZendCon 2011. Covers the basics of using MongoDB with PHP. MongoDB and PHP ZendCon 2011 View more presentations from Steve Francia.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Mary Meeker, formerly of Morgan Stanley and now of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers , continues to do her annual presentation at Web 2.0 Summit , providing an unparalleled compilation of research about the global internet industry. There is a lot to digest in the 65 slides of the presentation, so I thought it was worth pulling out some of the more interesting ones on mobile.

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They say a defense can be measured by its weakest link. In your cybersecurity posture, what––or who––is the weakest link? And how can you make them stronger? This webinar will equip you with the resources to search for quality training, implement it, and improve the cyber-behaviors of your workforce. By the end of the hour, you will feel empowered to improve the aspects of your security posture you control the least – the situational awareness and decision-making of your workforce.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2011

'Image Credit You Can't Read An Electrical Meter Without Help From The CIO. ‘Tis the time of year that my CIO customers are starting to get itchy to try new things. The kids are out of school and greener pastures beckon. They keep asking me where they should be looking for their next CIO job. Is there any industry that will truly appreciate the value that a skilled CIO can bring to the job?

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The second “Best Practices” type of session I attended was SPC245, “Making SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Rock by Increasing Findability” presented by Jornata’s Scott Jamison. Although he is a principal at a competitor, he is also a top-notch presenter, and I always enjoy and get value from Scott’s presentations. Clearly vying for the title of “ Hardest Working Man in Show Business ,” Scott, in his third presentation of the day, blitzed through many specific, practical tips on how to make ShareP

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2011

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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A Screw's Loose

OCTOBER 28, 2011

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. What Microsoft did wrong with Windows Phone OS (or why it’s not ready for the enterprise). by Brian Katz on October 28, 2011 · 1 comment. My previous post talked about a lot of the good that I see in Microsoft’s work to create a Mobile Phone OS but with everything that they set forth they still had very disappointing sales.

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Applications

SPF13

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 people were in attendance. There were 23 concurrent tracks and I was able to present two presentations and be on a panel with other NoSQL solutions including Cassandra, CouchDB, Neo4j, Riak and MarkLogic. The panel went for 90 minutes the first half being an 5 – 10 minute introduction of each technology and the second half being a QA period.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This awesome video from New Scientist TV shows a surgical robot with a human operator peeling a grape. This technology greatly augments what human surgeons can do, and also provides a platform for telesurgery. The New Scientist article Watch a surgical robot peel a grape , says: Using a specially designed display and teleoperation controls, [the surgeon] is able to see both real and virtual representations of what the robot’s instruments are doing.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2011

The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future. We’ve been living in such a dynamic world, change is the only constant, actually even change itself has been changed and expedite. The world is transforming from personal computing into digital computing, from globalization into globality, from knowledge limitation to information explosion, the answer about yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The second wave of sessions I attended at last week's SharePoint Conference comprised presentations by experts about best practices in and around SharePoint. The first of these presentations was by Sue Hanley , whose work I have admired for a long time. One of her areas of expertise, and the topic of this session (SPC 248), is “Measuring the Value of SharePoint 2010 Investments.”.

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Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 12, 2011

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Seattle Interactive Conference: Learn the Cloud. Technical Content , Technical Experts The Cloud Experience track at SIC is for experienced developers who want to learn how to leverage the cloud for mobile, social and web app scenarios.

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A Screw's Loose

OCTOBER 26, 2011

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Windows Phone 7 and why it doesn’t suck! by Brian Katz on October 26, 2011 · 0 comments. Now let’s be honest, Microsoft didn’t do itself any favors with their foray as a modern mobile phone OS baker. They started with a name that was so long you never knew if you were saying it right and then proceeded to shorten it at least twice that I know of.

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SPF13

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This presentation was given at the LDS Tech SORT Conference 2011 in Salt Lake City. The slides are quite comprehensive covering many topics on MongoDB. Rather than a traditional presentation, this was presented as more of a Q & A session. Topics covered include. Introduction to MongoDB, Use Cases, Schema design, High availability (replication) and Horizontal Scaling (sharding).

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This week I was MC for the AHRI HR Technology conference , and ran one of the workshops on the following day, on Creating Results Using Social Media. A real highlight of the conference was the Social Media: Risks and Rewards panel, which I chaired, with the participation of a fantastic cast of Peter Williams of Deloitte, Steve Barham of LinkedIn, Laurel Papworth of The Community Crew, and Sam Mutimer of ThinkTank Media.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2011

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 10, 2011

A second Microsoft roadmap session I attended at last weeks’ SPC was session SPC271, David Pae’s “SharePoint 2010: Improving Productivity with Social.” It was actually somewhere between a roadmap session and a case study session, with examples of social computing inside Microsoft (and of course, Contoso) that illustrate where SharePoint 2010 and complementary products can foster social computing initiatives.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2011

'The Government-Mandated Chicken Gun. Are there any “good guys” in government (or elsewhere) these days? To listen to the crop of presidential candidates this year, you’d think government on all levels is a total drag on the economy and if you’d just eviscerate it and starve it via budget cutbacks, the private sector would explode creating millions of jobs and an economic nirvana.

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CIO Rant

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Tied up in meetings all day? Every day? If so, you are failing – somewhere – and may not know it. Talking with a consultant years ago, he told me that “time is my only inventory” Essentially, he was saying that “time is money” Over the years since, I have considered different ways of looking at this concept. Since we are all here for a finite period, you could look at it as a statement that recognizes that time is an asset that is in limited supply.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I’m privileged to be involved with disruptive technologies very early on, sometimes at a stage when it may be hard to fully see the impact.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Luxury is “the opposite of vulgarity” said Coco Chanel. It is also in many ways the opposite of poverty. As people in developed countries – and increasing number in developing countries – grow more affluent, luxury defines what their wealth can be spent on once theirbasic needs are assuaged. In a positive sense, this is about sensory refinement and human taste at its most discerning.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 18, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Practitioner’s View: IT Transformation and GreenPages’ Solutions Architect. Last week I had the chance to speak with EMC Velocity Partner GreenPages – specifically with Trevor Williamson, their director of Solutions Architecture.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Another impression that occurred to me throughout the week at the SharePoint Conference , in stark comparison to the Oracle/Salesforce kerfuffle up the coast at OpenWorld, was that I rarely, if ever, heard about competitive technologies to SharePoint in keynotes or sessions. No Jive, no Cognos, no Box.net, no Alfresco, no Yammer, no Autonomy, etc., at least in the sessions I was in.

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