SPF13
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
'The protection of your intellectual property, or any information that you post to your blog, forum or website, can be a tricky subject. While there are those unscrupulous few out there in the cyber world who will purposely copy your words as their own, there are more people that are simply ignorant of the laws, unaware that they are stealing when they copy and reuse your musings.
CIO Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
'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! Sunday, September 30, 2012. Remain Calm. All is well. Maybe Not. What to do when public speaking panic strikes!!
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Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
I have been working with one of the world’s largest private companies, which is engaged in a strategy project looking at the future out to 2025. Today a key workshop for the project was run, where we refined the project process and I provided some perspectives on the future of work as input to the study. While the future of work and organizations is one of my most important themes, I haven’t had any public summary documents on the topic.
The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
'Image Credit Where does the CFO want to lead the CIO to? The good folks over at Gartner and the Financial Executives Research Foundation have just completed another one of those big studies. What they found is that in companies that have less than $50M in revenue, 47% of their CIOs report to the company’s CFO. In firms that have $1B or more in revenue, 46% of CIOs report to the CFO.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
'This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
'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, September 17, 2012. Executive Presentations: Presenting Status vs.
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Cloud Musings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
'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.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Last week I gave a keynote at an internal conference of a large technology services firm that has recently acquired another firm. The conference brought together senior executives and managers from the two organizations so they could get to know each other and plan how they would work together with existing and new clients. A significant part of my role was to provide a highly upbeat, optimistic, engaging perspective on the future of business.
The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
'Image Credit CIO's need to find a way to deal with that big data that is piling up…. What kind of CIO would you like to be: reactive or proactive? The definition of information technology tells us that we’d like to the proactive type of CIO. We’d like to sit around thinking about strategic next steps. However, often times life doesn’t work that way: we suddenly get issues thrown our way all the time.
The Investing Edge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
'by Eric B. Schultz , former CEO Sensitech, Venture Partner at Ascent. There’s no denying that we live in the Age of Innovation. If you’re an entrepreneur in the midst of building a company, chances are good you’re soaked in a constant downpour of advice on innovation, all of which ends with the bone-chilling admonition, roughly translated, “Innovate or die.”.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
'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. Friday, September 28, 2012. Big Data Needs to Scale. Big Data Organizational Stack.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
'Steve Francia at OSCON. At OSCON 2012 in Portland I gave a presentation on building your first MongoDB application. Over 150 people were in the audience, a pretty significant number of this type of hands on tutorial. Certainly worth the weeks of preparation that went into developing it. While at OSCON I put the slides online at SlideShare where during the four day conference the amassed over 20k views and within a couple weeks over 30k views.
Cloud Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
'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.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
In late April I gave a keynote at TheNextWeb 2012 conference in Amsterdam on The Future of Crowds. I have for many years intended to develop a full motion graphics presentation. I have long used highly visual presentations to accompany my keynotes, often including numerous videos without sound as well an array of full screen images. However they primarily consisted of static visuals.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
'Image Credit CIO's need to keep an eye on their older IT systems…. What kind of CIO would you like to be: reactive or proactive? The definition of information technology tells us that we’d like to the proactive type of CIO. We’d like to sit around thinking about strategic next steps. However, often times life doesn’t work that way: we suddenly get issues thrown our way all the time.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
'This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” That’s a long title! The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
'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, September 10, 2012. My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
'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. Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON. Steve Francia at OSCON. At OSCON 2012 in Portland I gave a presentation on building your first MongoDB application.
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The Investing Edge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
'In June we hosted the inaugural B2B IT Forum, a new event series that focuses exclusively on rapidly emerging enterprise IT technologies. That event, which focused on cloud security, brought together some great local minds; we enjoyed hearing presentations from CloudLock , Copiun and Content Raven , and meeting people who share our interest in enterprise IT.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Yesterday I released a first version of my Future of Work framework. I think that a detailed explanation of the outline framework would be a very useful complement to the visual landscape, and I aim to provide that over coming months in a series of blog posts, videos, and other content. Click on the image to download the full framework. Today, I thought I would look at the ‘ Value Polarization ‘ section under Economic Structure.
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Da
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
'I guess I’m a glutton for punishment, because after successfully compiling libvirt 0.10.1 on CentOS 6.3 , I came back to try it again on Ubuntu (my first attempt was not successful). Here is the process I followed to get libvirt 0.10.1 compiled and running on Ubuntu 12.04. I started with a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04, then installed KVM and Open vSwitch per these instructions.
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Mick's IT Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
'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.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
'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. How to deliver a great conference tutorial. OSCON 2012. Steve Francia speaking at OSCON 2012. I recently returned from OSCON. where I was able to give one of the more popular presentations at the conference.
The Investing Edge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
'Our blog has been relatively quiet for the last month, but it’s not because we’ve stopped writing or taken a long vacation. We’ve been quite busy, actually, contributing articles to various publications throughout the month of August. Here’s a quick recap of what we’ve written recently, in case you missed them: GigaOM: The Problem with SaaS Metrics (August 4 th ).
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
A major challenge for organizations that are considering internal social media initiatives is that a business case including a financial justification is frequently required. To be frank, I think ROI calculations for social initiatives are in most cases a waste of time, because so many of the benefits and costs are unknowable before the initiative. A leap of faith is required, after which calculations using real data can be done to help refine strategies.
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All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding Flexibility - Introducing the Reserved Instance Marketplace. By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we launched a new feature that enables you to buy and sell Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
'Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. In the post, the author states: Subduing OpenStack is exactly what VMWare [sic] did by joining the foundation.
Mick's IT Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
'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.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
OSCON 2012 I recently returned from OSCON where I was able to give one of the more popular presentations at the conference. I presented on the morning of the first day and throughout the entire week people kept coming up to me telling me how much they enjoyed my tutorial and how bored they were at the sessions they attended since. Here are the secrets of how I gave such a compelling presentation.
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