Fountainhead
APRIL 24, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Sunday, April 24, 2011. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. After having spoken to numerous customers and vendors, its clear to me that cloud computings operational transformation necessarily triggers structural changes in the IT organization - as well as in the rest of the enterprise.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 27, 2011
The rise of news on tablets such as the iPad is one of the defining themes of our times. This was foreseen by some, even down to the language that we use. The following video, created by Knight-Ridder in 1994, describes their vision of the future of tablet newspapers. Some things they got absolutely right. The size and format of their device looks very similar to the iPad.
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SPF13
APRIL 28, 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. My Favorite Rands Posts. If you donâ??t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp ), you should. His blog is full of excellent content from someone who successfully figured out how to transition from managing bits to Managing Humans (also the title of his f
All Things Distributed
APRIL 27, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years.
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Cloud Musings
APRIL 26, 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.
A CIO's Voice
APRIL 12, 2011
'I have a recent master’s graduate on my team who is aspiring to be more. His goal to eventually manage various IT projects outside his core competency which is development. He came to me the other day asking about how he can do more. I gave him the following advice to help him along. 1- Speak Well. The ability to speak to a wide variety of people is essential.
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Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 9, 2011
This is significant. While talk doesn’t necessarily lead to action, a significant shift in capitalism could be coming. On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight Committee. The letter is embedded at the bottom of this post. Many have focused on the potential from the current SEC review to relax limits on shareholders for private companies, notably the rule that if a private company has 500 investors or more it has to disclose
SPF13
APRIL 22, 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. Announcing Projects & Presentations. Iâ??ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 2, 2011
Two years ago when I was first introduced to Mendeley I concluded that if they executed right they could "change the face of science".
Cloud Musings
APRIL 27, 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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Sean Daniel
APRIL 4, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, April 04, 2011. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware.
A CIO's Voice
APRIL 7, 2011
'Have you ever wanted to know what a CIO’s interview is like? Meridith Levinson wrote a great article on CIO.com on how to ace a CIO job interview. This is a must read for CIOs or aspiring CIOs. [link]. Filed under: CIO , CIO Jobs , CIO/CTO Tagged: CIO , cio interviews , CIO role , job , job hunt , job search , jobs.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 21, 2011
Serendipity is for me a deeply meaningful word. The more than dozen posts discussing serendipity on my blog include how we created “enhanced serendipity&# at an event I ran in 2003 in New York , more details on the story of the word serendipity and how to enhance it , the importance of the “serendipity dial&# and far more. One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it provides a rich substrate for serendipitous connections.
SPF13
APRIL 9, 2011
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the PgEast 2011 conference. This presentation is really the sequel (no pun intended) to my presentation, MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination. This presentation takes you through how we created a hybrid solution blending both sql and nosql to achieve an optimal solution.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
APRIL 20, 2011
What does it mean to be normal? What does it mean to be different? These are big questions in any discussion about autism or other disabilities. The term “disabilities&# itself begs this question, since a disability is defined based on “normal&#. I like what Kristin has to say on the matter (the emphasis is hers): “Normal” is such a complicated word.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
APRIL 8, 2011
In the most recent season of "Top Chef All-Stars," eventual winner Richard Blais liked to present one ingredient in three ways, to show off all of its flavors. In his honor, I present to you my own trio of delights. His were culinary, mine are centered around social computing, as my expertise is in working environments far less noisy and hot than his.
Sean Daniel
APRIL 5, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, April 05, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials – Available Today! Last week, the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials was announced as reaching the RTM milestone. As I mentioned , that didn’t mean you could get it.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
APRIL 3, 2011
I have not written on this blog since July 2010. It is not that I was struggling to find topics, but more a lack of time: my current interim contract with Matches Fashion and the adoption of an adorable child finally becoming a reality just took their toll on my spare time. In the April 1 st edition of Retail Week, I read an interesting supplement with same title as this post (in the print version) that motivated me to start blogging again.
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Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 5, 2011
Last Friday I gave the keynote for the first breakfast seminar run by CADRE , a leading elearning design company, for senior executives of its clients. The topic of my presentation was The Future of Learning , giving a big picture view to kick off their series. This is a brief description of my presentation: Challenges for organizations are mounting from intense global competition, empowered consumers, and generational shifts.
SPF13
APRIL 27, 2011
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent content from someone who successfully figured out how to transition from managing bits to Managing Humans (also the title of his first book). Whether you are a developer, a tech manager, or manage something else, you’ll find value in his posts. I’ve been reading his blog for years and it’s influenced my decisions greatly.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
APRIL 13, 2011
Many parents of children diagnosed as autistic spend a large majority – sometimes all – of their “free&# time trying to make their child “more normal&# or “less autistic&# , and not enough time on letting their child just be a kid. This is also true – maybe more so – at school, where the focus is often a single-minded (dare I say, “autistic&# ) dedication to implementing an IEP.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
APRIL 30, 2011
Last year, at Microsoft's CIO Summit event last year in Redmond, I was fortunate to accompany a few select clients and hear Dr. George Westerman of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) speak, and I thought that his story would resonate with our CIO clients. So this week, KMA and our valued partners in our Circle of Excellence (Altico Advisors, Compuworks, Presidio, and SoftwareONE) sponsored a top-notch event at Microsoft's Waltham office featuring Dr.
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Sean Daniel
APRIL 5, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, April 05, 2011. Now Available! New Online Help Sites for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011. With the availability of both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials , and Windows Home Server 2011 , you probably want to make sure you have some help documentation right?
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 27, 2011
In preparing for the Ketchum Webinar Series on Tapping the Power of Mobile I wanted some data on international differences in mobile operating system shares. I was just about to begin compiling some data from StatCounter when my co-presenter One2One CEO Simon Noel pointed me to a visual created by iCrossing who have done a very nice job of it already.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 12, 2011
The post I wrote on the weekend, SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism , was on Techmeme for over 24 hours and was ranked by Topsy as one of the 100 most tweeted links , so this seems to be a topic of general interest. One of the best things about doing blog posts is that you uncover interesting perspectives, especially through comments and reactions to the post , and thoughts provoked by those.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 19, 2011
I have just come across this – an excellent resource from PSFK on the Future of Retail. PSFK presents Future of Retail report. View more presentations from PSFK. The report covers 10 major trends: 1. World as retail experience. 2. Pre-view shopping. 3. Tablet enabled services. 4. Selling the ideal. 5. Every store as flagship. 6. Complementary curation. 7.
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Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 7, 2011
A recent report titled How Much Information? 2010 Enterprise Server Information written by several UC – San Diego academics says that in 2008 the world’s servers processed 9.57 zettabytes (zettabyte = 10 to the power of 21), or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. A couple of analogies from Physorg illustrate these amounts: * 9.57 zettabytes is equivalent of a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times a year. * By 2024 the w
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 19, 2011
Crowdfunding is the topic of the moment, or maybe it only seems that way from the response to my recent posts on possible changes in regulation on crowdfunding and how the scene is developing. Movies are probably the endeavor which has attracted the most crowdfunding initiatives, including: - A Swarm of Angels (which I first wrote about in 2006). - IndieGoGo (which started with films and has broadened into other creative spaces). - The Age of Stupid. - Artemis Eternal (click on ‘Begin̵
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 7, 2011
Gartner has just released some very interesting forecasts for smartphone operating system sales until 2015, as below. In an nutshell, they predict that in 2015 Android will take almost half the market, at 48.8%, and that Microsoft will overtake Apple, with 19.5% share compared to 17.2% for iOS. Nokia’s Symbian platform will fade to virtually nothing, while Research in Motion’s Blackberry will decline somewhat in market share to.
SPF13
APRIL 21, 2011
I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes sense, many of my posts are how tos and often for my own projects. Additionally now each project will have a legitimate project “homepage” for things like GitHub where that’s requested. So without further ado… Please checkout my Projects and Presentations sections of my website spf13.com.
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