CIO Musings

MARCH 12, 2009

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Thursday, March 12, 2009. Web 2.0 Conference in SecondLife. To All Chesterfield County Employees: Below, I have pasted in an announcement from Munigov2.0, regarding a conference we have been organizing.

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MARCH 27, 2009

'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. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. Image via CrunchBase. For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 12, 2009

A centrepiece of our recently launched Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is an Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework. Click on the image below to download the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework pdf , which includes references to the relevant chapters for each of the action steps. Some of the chapters referred to are available for download from the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 16, 2009. What is Infrastructure Orchestration / Unified Computing? Infrastructure Orchestration and Unified Computing are both terms referring to a technology whereby server CPU, I/O, storage connectivity, and network, are all able to be defined and configured in software.

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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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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 25, 2009

'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. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2009

Flexibility is a key advantage of using Amazon Web Services; you can obtain resources instantaneously without the headache of owning them. If you no longer need the resource, you release it and only pay for what you have used. This is a very powerful model that has helped many of our customers drive capital expense out of their IT operation.

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SPF13

MARCH 26, 2009

Image via CrunchBase For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter. It’s easy to see why. Twitter is addicitve. Many twitter users are constantly on twitter. Whenever you goto twitter there is always something new happening. Facebook obviously wants this experience on facebook. Why not copy twitter. I think Facebook could do it and do it better.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 31, 2009

In our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, we created visual representations to help explain how the most important social media tools can be applied inside organizations. The diagram below was used in the chapter on social bookmarking, which was designed to accompany the detailed coverage in the report, but it is hopefully fairly self-explanatory! Go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page for several free chapters, including the chapter on social networking on the enterprise, with it

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Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. With all of the Intel/Nehalem (Xeon 5500 series) processor announcements this week , one stands out. As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 17, 2009

'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. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Offshore Agile Development - Totally Feasible!

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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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All Things Distributed

MARCH 25, 2009

Keeping your database simple and fast is often difficult if you use higher level frameworks such as ActiveRecords in Ruby or Java object persistence technologies such as Hibernate. There is a lot of magic that is happening out of sight that you have no control over. If you then have to scale your application it is often the relational database that these technologies require that becomes the performance and scaling bottleneck.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MARCH 29, 2009

In these very challenging economical times, retaining your customers is a must to survive now and thrive when things improve. For your customers to repetitively shop in your stores (on the high street or online) means for them one or both of the following conditions: · It is to them the most practical or ‘lack of choice’ (ex.: “I shop at your supermarket because it is the closest to my home”). · It is the brand that best fits their needs and/or wants at that moment in time.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 17, 2009

Some recent announcements from Microsoft about their Business Intelligence strategy are worth noting, especially as we're seeing Business Performance Management initiatives (dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, reporting portals, etc.) being included as part of Phase 2 or Phase 3 of many clients' SharePoint rollouts. The most notable changes announced were regarding PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft's BI product suite offering: Monitoring (formerly Business Scorecard Manager), Analysis (formerly the

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 25, 2009

Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , here is Chapter 4 on Key Benefits and Risks. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. As shown in the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework above, understanding the potential benefits and risks from Enterprise 2.0 that are relevant to the organization is critical to being able to engage in the cycle of value creation.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 24, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. My first endeavors into online video. No pictures of me, but at least you get the audio. Here is a brief, high-level overview of whats meant by Infrastructure Orchestration, including some messy annotations of mine while I speak: And heres another video of it in action: The Dell PAN system that you can

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

MARCH 31, 2009

GameStop has used video game market down to a system | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas Business News.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2009

Today we have some important news for our Amazon EC2 customers who are running Windows Server and Windows SQLServer instances and who have been looking to extend their coverage for fault-tolerance and locality reasons. Starting today Windows instances can be launched in an additional Availability Zone is the US and they can also be launched in two Availability Zones in Europe.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

'Fiber Broadband. The new fedgov stimulus bill was signed into law and it contains $6.3 billion to expand broadband in the United States. Hooray! The problem of Internet access in the United States is solved, right? Hah! Not by a long-shot. The U. S. is 15th in the world in broadband penetration. And our primary technologies used for broadband are still cable modems and phone companies’ Digital Subscriber Link (DSL).

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Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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CIO Rant

MARCH 28, 2009

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 18, 2009

In the wake of our recent launch of the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, we are providing a number of free sample chapters. For full details and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 and the Enterprise uses our extremely popular Web 2.0 Framework as a foundation. New content includes: * Table covering Web 2.0 tools with examples of both open web and enterprise use. * Key issues in adapting Web 2.0 tools to enterprise use.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 23, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 23, 2009. Join me at NY Cloud Computing Expo. This week Ill be putting the finishing-touches on my Day #1 presentation about "Building a Compute Cloud Infrastructure" and where to begin (3:25pm next Monday, to be exact).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 23, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 23, 2009. Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps. With all of the chatter now about "Unified Computing" - as well as all of the skeptics thinking its blue-sky future, I wanted to outline how incredibly simple it really can be.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. A data center trifecta? (Prediction). Once in a while, I sit back and think about what are the real transformational forces that will change how IT operates. And Ive come to the conclusion that there are 3 fundamental technological movements that will do this. and the 3rd will surprise you. 1.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 12, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, March 12, 2009. First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal. I t appears the Egenera/Dell deal is moving forward with velocity. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures. I just read an interesting blog by Rob Aldrich on the advantages of "unified fabrics" when pursuing energy efficiency. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. A few weeks ago I wrote about where IT Ops might be missing-the-boat regarding implicit assumptions were making as an industry. I called these the " big blind spots ".

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Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades. Since about 2001, Egenera has been selling its high-end hardware/software combination that unified re-purposing of physical and virtual servers. It combined super-high-performance blades, with their PAN Manager software.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 24, 2009

I love my iPhone. But it has some deep flaws. OK, so cut-and-paste will be available with the 3.0 operating system – that’s good. The lack of a video camera is annoying and strange – rumors are that the next iPhone released in the northern summer will have video capabilities. But the thing that really gets me is that you cannot use an external keyboard on the iPhone.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 26, 2009

I caught up this afternoon with Chris Bayley of Buffalo Canyon Consulting and had a very interesting conversation about Web 2.0 in organizations. Chris asked me about the role of pilots, and in the ensuing discussion I refined my thinking on this a bit. Examining how to run pilots plays a significant role in our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, with a full chapter on pilots and many aspects of our coverage of user adoption related to pilots.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 21, 2009

Tomorrow I am giving the opening keynote at the Direct Selling Association of Australia Conference 09 which is on the theme of 'Defining our Future'. The slides for my presentation are below. As always, these are intended to accompany my keynote, not as stand-alone slides. Embracing the Future: Keynote to DSAA 23 March 2009 View more presentations from rossdawson.

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