April, 2012

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Social Media For Local Gov

CIO Musings

'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! Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Social Media For Local Gov. The Top 10 issues to be aware of when using social media in local (or any) government: # 1 Ethics & Acceptable Use.

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Fountainhead: Will The "Stack Wars" Impact the Hybrid Cloud?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, April 23, 2012. Will The "Stack Wars" Impact the Hybrid Cloud? Its been a busy few weeks in cloud O/S land, first with the Amazon/Eucalyptus announcement and then with Citrix/CloudStack announcement , then last weeks OpenStack show in San Francisco.

Cloud 180
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Don't look now, I'm on DZone : spf13.com

SPF13

'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. Don't look now, I'm on DZone. Iâ??m happy to announce that going forward youâ??ll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com.

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Entrepreneurship becomes global: the top 25 startups hubs in the world

Trends in the Living Networks

The Startup Genome project setup a year ago to gather comparative data on startups around the world. Its Startup Compass allows entrepreneurs to compare statistics on their companies with others in their locality and around the world. A post on Techcrunch provides a great summary of some of the data gathered in the almost 12 months since the launch of the project.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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10 Things Enterprise CIOs can learn from Startups about Innovation and Disruption

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last week at the CIO Global Forum I had the privilege of moderating a panel of startup technologists on the topic of innovation and disruption. The audience was approximately thirty Fortune 500 CIOs, and I was determined to demonstrate what enterprises could learn from nimble, agile, and innovative startups.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Customizing the ZTIBiosCheck.wsf file for MDT/SCCM

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

Windows 92
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New personal site powered by GitHub Pages : spf13.com

SPF13

'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. New personal site powered by GitHub Pages. At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great.

Google 174
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Exploring crowd business models

Trends in the Living Networks

For me, the most interesting part of my new book Getting Results From Crowds is Chapter 22 on Crowd Business Models (which you can download here ). I knew that after getting the book out a major direction for me would be delving deeper into the wonders of crowd business models. I’m now beginning to do some more exploring, together with lots of other people.

Retail 152
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NJVC® and Gravitant® Announce New Strategic Alliance

Cloud Musings

'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.

Cloud 90
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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How to Sync Folders to the new SkyDrive.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, April 23, 2012. How to Sync Folders to the new SkyDrive without moving them to the SkyDrive folder. So the new SkyDrive is out today, you can read about the awesome new features here (on the Building Windows 8 blog). The SkyDrive team really amped up their battle with DropBox in this new version.

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4 Steps CIOs Need To Take To Make Their Process Improvement Projects Successful (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to keep process improvement projects going. Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. It’s not that these types of projects are a bad thing to do, it’s just that all too often they don’t actually work out. Well, that was before we had a chance to talk about what CIOs need to do in order to make this a good use of everyone’s time….

Strategy 100
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Mick's IT Blogs: Java Runtime Environment Installation Script

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website : spf13.com

SPF13

'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. spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website. This post is a bit behind the actual releases, but should be announced here nevertheless.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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The MegaTrend of Distributed Attention is driving everything

Trends in the Living Networks

Yesterday I ran Getting Results From Crowds and Crowd Business Models workshops in Sydney, the first in a global series of crowdsourcing workshops. In opening the Crowd Business Models workshop, I ran through some of the driving forces that are shifting business models to crowds. I had quickly drawn up the list the evening before the workshop, with the first coming to mind Distributed Attention.

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Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Over the past several years Iâ??ve spent much of my time traveling around the world speaking about distributed systems. From building infinitely scalable data stores, architectures for high performance computing, to the challenges imposed by the CAP theorem, there are wonderful, c

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BYOD, The Secret Sauce - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. BYOD, The Secret Sauce. by Brian Katz on April 4, 2012 · 6 comments. There are a lot of articles floating around right now about how BYOD is the next big thing. It’s already here. 77% of companies are doing BYOD. You see these headlines everywhere and most of them are meaningless as companies are still trying to come to grips with how to really do Bring You Own Device.

Mobile 68
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CIOs Should Stop Sending Emails – Now! (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to learn when NOT to use email. Those cloning experiments sure seem to have only been able to create more sheep so far – and that’s not going to help overworked CIOs! It seems as though we have more things to do and less time than ever to get them done. Arguably the most important part of any CIOs job is to communicate with your staff.

Strategy 100
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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Mick's IT Blogs: USMT 4.0 PC-to-PC Migration Script

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Don't look now, I'm on DZone

SPF13

I’m happy to announce that going forward you’ll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com. DZone has invited me to join their MVB program. They describe their program as: DZone’s Most Valuable Blogger program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists actively writing about topics of interest to the developer community.

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Le Crowdsourcing en France: une opportunité de créer le futur

Trends in the Living Networks

Je suis enchanté de faire une présentation à Paris 3 mai avec Boostzone Institute. Dominique Turcq de l’institut et moi avons discuté depuis longtemps de notre intérêt commun qui est le futur du travail et des organisations. Je vais parler du “Crowdsourcing”. Mon nouveau livre Getting Results From Crowds vient de paraître, et en mai-juin je fais des keynote et des ateliers sur le sujet à Sydney, Amsterdam, Cologne, Londres, Bruxelles, New York et San Francisco , entre autres.

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Expanding the Cloud – Introducing AWS Marketplace

All Things Distributed

Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplace’s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Five Principles of Carl Von Clausewitz's Strategy

Future of CIO

The truth is: we are part of a wider system that controls us more than we could ever know. Von Clausewitz's book On War is classic, he had a career in the Prussian army, and served in a number of major campaigns, he was a thinker and philosopher who studied war to with in-depth knowledge that no one else had ever done before. He also believed that war was more like a business.

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Why Throwing Leaving Employees Under The Bus Is A Bad Idea (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Under the bus is no place for your former employees to be. There you are, a CIO trying to run an efficient IT department. All of sudden — wham! One of your key IT employees comes and tells you that he or she is leaving. Time to go back the bus up because you’ve got another soon-to-be-former employee who deserves to be thrown under it. Or maybe not.

Strategy 100
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Mick's IT Blogs: List Installed Windows 7 Updates

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

SPF13

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good starting point for anyone intending to use VIM for development running equally well on Windows, Linux, *nix and Mac. The distribution is completely customisable using a ~/.vimrc.local and ~/.vimrc.bundles.local Vim RC files. Unlike traditional VIM plugin structure, which similar to UNIX throws all files into common directories, making updating or disabling plugins a real mess, spf13-vim 3 uses the Vun

Linux 100
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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Future of Crowdsourcing workshop at Crowdsourcing Summit in Cologne

Trends in the Living Networks

On April 28, immediately after my keynote at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam, I will travel to Cologne to run a workshop on the Future of Crowdsourcing. Unfortunately I will miss what looks like an excellent Crowdsourcing Summit on April 27 as I will be speaking in Amsterdam that day. I’ve made a short video to introduce some of what we’ll be covering in the Future of Crowdsourcing workshop.

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Meet Nutanix Series - Laura Jordana

Nutanix

This will be the first post in our new series, “Meet Nutanix,” where various employees at Nutanix will be featured. Read on and learn more about life at Nutanix and what various departments here are working on!

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The CIO’s Leadership Footprint

Future of CIO

“ One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Modern CIOs have one of the most paradoxical but significant executive roles, as information technology becomes so pervasive, they craft their organization’s architectural blueprint; they shape their business’s digital footprint; they are responsible for their enterprise’s information footprint, they shape the fresh cloud footprint, they also work hard to reduce the data center’s carbon footprint.

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Hello CIO: You're In Politics Now! (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit No matter where you stand, you are now in politics. Can’t a CIO just rise above all of the politics? I mean really, with all of the technology decisions that need to be made along with the IT department business processes that need to be streamlined, can’t we all just skip the politics and get down to business? It turns out that we can’t and that means that as CIO you’re going to have to make sure that your team is good at playing the office politics game….

Strategy 100
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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.