August, 2011

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Fountainhead: Cloud Is Not The End - It's The Means.

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Cloud Is Not The End - Its The Means. Once you get a new tool, you ask: What can I build that I couldnt before? Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure.

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Proof: Intelligent machines can become religious by talking to each other

Trends in the Living Networks

Going beyond human interaction with (quasi) intelligent machines, we are now beginning to explore interactions between (somewhat) intelligent machines. One of the concepts of the Singularity is that machines will before long be able to teach themselves and each other, to the point where their interactions and conversations are incomprehensible to our puny minds.

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Video: CIO Cloud Computing 101: Problems With Clouds

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson explains the issues that CIOs need to be aware of when they are evaluating using cloud computing. Dr. Anderson identifies seven issues with moving a company’s applications and storage into the cloud. He explains how CIOs need to go about dealing with each of these issues. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: FedPlatform.org Focuses on a.

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.

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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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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3.

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Trying to Develop a Death Star or a Flux Capacitor?

Social, Agile and Transformation

'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. Tuesday, August 09, 2011. Trying to Develop a Death Star or a Flux Capacitor?

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on the future of Twitter

Trends in the Living Networks

Continuing our series of conversations on the future with Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency and myself, here we discuss the future of Twitter. Some of the topics we discuss include: * “Twitter News Network&# or TNN describes how Twitter is now a news distribution media, dramatically increasing the speed of news, with most news hitting Twitter within 40 seconds. * TNN will be bigger than CNN, including video and audio on Twitter, produced by the masses with rich filtering. * In China Sina

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Video: CIO Cloud Computing 101: Why Use The Cloud?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson tackles the question that all CIO’s are asking: just exactly what is “cloud computing”? Dr. Anderson identifies the 4 different flavors of cloud computing that are available and points out how a CIO would go about using each one of them. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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Business and IT Alignment? A Stupid Concept

A CIO's Voice

'The concept of business and IT not aligning is a foreign concept to me. Other departments such as accounting and marketing departments don’t have this mandate that they must align with the business because they do. Why is IT any different? By our very existence we are in alignment with the business. If the IT department is running off doing their own thing I think that is a failure of management to provide oversight and guidance.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application.

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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]: Obtaining a Domain Name in SBS 2011.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, August 26, 2011. Obtaining a Domain Name in SBS 2011 Standard and Essentials. So my second video that I did with the HP/Microsoft Coffee Coaching is now live. This one is near and dear to my heart as it’s a program that I built almost from the ground up (admittedly I had a little help from my friends at the start).

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Ascending Denali -- SQL Server, v.next

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Today, Microsoft released to the public the product guide for Community Technology Preview #3 of the upcoming release of SQL Server, code-named "Denali.". I had the opportunity in the Spring to see some of the new capabilities of this release of SQL Server, including the (most interesting/exciting to me) reporting tool called " Project Crescent." Many attendees at this year's Convergence, Tech Ed, and WPC events got to see it included in some of the sexier demos at those events.

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Reality mining, pervasive data capture, and how Big Data can create value

Trends in the Living Networks

On Tuesday I gave the opening keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium. CIO magazine did a nice article titled IIIS: Big Data driving new trends which reviews my keynote and the one immediately after from Steve Duplessie , one of the world’s top analysts on data and storage. It says: Speaking at the event, co-hosted by Storage Networking Industry Association A/NZ and Computerworld Australia, strategy advisor, author and fu

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Video: Wicked, Wicked IT Strategy Problems

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson explains why there are some problems that an IT department just can’t solve — because they are wicked problems. Dr. Anderson identifies why traditional IT problem solving techniques won’t work with wicked IT problems and how you can determine if a problem is really a wicked problem. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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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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ReBoot: My Dad Got Me A Job…

A CIO's Voice

'I was at the doctor’s office the other day talking to my doctor about how his summer was going. He mentioned that his son, also a doctor, just graduated and is looking for a job. My doctor mentioned how he was going to make a few calls to some medical chiefs he knows to get his son a job. This was not the first time I heard this. A few weeks past a managing director I play golf with also mentioned how he was going to make a few calls to get his son, a recent graduate, a job.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.

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VDI Series Part 1: Moving Beyond the POC

Nutanix

Gartner released a report in mid 2010 that they expected 50 million VDI desktops by 2013. Then there are the recent newsflashes surrounding VDI : Citrix buys Kaviza and RingCube.

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- Why don’t Cops Use Smart Phones?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Responders’ Smart Phones – Click to see more. Every teenager – including some of us 50 and 60 year old teenagers – seems to have a smart phone these days. I’m writing this on an airplane, and I just finished an intense, 20 minute “ Angry Birds ” session on my HTC Android smart phone (yes, it was in “airplane” mode!).

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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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Exploring new formats for music (and revenue): Björk releases inspiring “app album”

Trends in the Living Networks

The music industry has struggled for over a decade as it tried to push back against inevitable change and maintain the status quo. While there has been some good experimentation over the years, we are now reaching a phase where the old structures have pretty much died and all that remains is experimentation to build what will be a radically different structure to the music industry.

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Just How Good Is Your Company At That IT Stuff? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'What’s Your Company’s IT Grade? You would think that since all of these computers, networks, and software things have been around for so long that most companies would be just about even in how they make use of them, right? A recent study reveals that this is not the case: some of us are using IT to move the company forward and some of us are slipping behind because of IT.

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Why Steve Jobs’ resignation is a (relative) non-event as Apple becomes a living company

Trends in the Living Networks

I was just interviewed by ABC TV for tonight’s 7pm news about Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple. My initial reaction is that is as close to a non-event as it could be. . It was absolutely major news when Jobs announced his first medical leave for a life-threatening disease. It underlined that he would not be at Apple for ever, and might not return to Apple from his leave.

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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (slogan: Creating and Preventing Strategic Surprise) is offering $42 million in funding for “revolutionary&# research into social media in strategic communication. The DARPA announcement states: The conditions under which our Armed Forces conduct operations are rapidly changing with the spread of blogs, social networking sites, and media?

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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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Where Google+ needs to go: Why we need to be able to follow parts of people’s personas

Trends in the Living Networks

The centrality and ease of use of the Circles feature means Google+ is a significant step forward in social networking. It has been a key platform in its initial success. The Circles feature enables people to selectively share content. Someone can send work-related discussions to their public stream, photos of their children to their family, and information about a boating event to their yacht club friends.

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The role of informal social networks in building organizational creativity and innovation

Trends in the Living Networks

For the last decade I have examined and applied social network analysis in and across organizations, for example in large professional firms , technology purchase decision-making , high-performance personal networks , and other applications. The more time you spend with the analysis of social networks in organizations and those firms that have applied the techniques, the more evident the power of these approaches.

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Breaking: Google+ will be a reputation engine

Trends in the Living Networks

For years I have been writing about reputation and have often said that this will be the decade of the reputation economy. Yet until recently there has been very little in the space. The social media measurement systems such as Klout and PeerIndex have limited data scope and while they talk the language of reputation actually measure influence. Honestly.com is a more pure play in the individual reputation space, but has got limited traction so far.

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The implications of the new broader, flatter distribution of music taste

Trends in the Living Networks

The distribution of music taste and consumption has shifted dramatically over the decade years, and will continue to evolve significantly in coming years. Back before a dozen years ago, radio and MTV exposed people to a limited range of music from label playlists, and the cost of records and CDs made it hard to experiment with new music. The first big change from that landscape was the widespread availability of online music downloads, which suddenly massively broadened the music libraries of th

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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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The evidence is in: we believe technology will create a better future but not better environment

Trends in the Living Networks

The Smithsonian Institute and Pew Research Center recently did a survey of Americans on what they thought would happen by the year 2050. Good created a nice infographic, below, summarizing some of the data. Click on the image for the full size version. Image source : Good. The Smithsonian magazine has also created a nice animation from the results. Here are some of what the American people believe will (or is likely to) happen by 2050: Computers will be able to converse like humans: 81%.

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Research: The acceleration of Australian banks’ use of social media

Trends in the Living Networks

Financial services is one of the most industries in which the use of social media is the most relevant, not least because customer service is a critical differentiator between highly commoditized offerings. While financial services and banking were traditionally highly relationship-based, the shift to online has significantly eroded those relationships.

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Applying scenario planning to portfolio and financial risk: 6 steps to better risk management

Trends in the Living Networks

Back in the late 1990s I did considerable work applying scenario planning to financial risk management, using qualitative approaches to managing risk as a complement to quantitative methodologies such as Value at Risk. However financial institutions were generally very slow to acknowledge the value of anything not fully quantified, so I shifted my attention to broader strategic issues.

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Futurist conversations: Thoughts on the future of television

Trends in the Living Networks

Continuing our series of conversations between fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here is our session on the future of television. Here are a few of the ideas we share in the session: * Video will be everywhere: video walls, ceilings, floors, tables and more, giving space for the vast amount of video we are creating. * Participatory TV is an expression of the broad shift from hub and spoke media to co-created media. * Examples include CBS’s What’s Trending, Al-Jazeera’s

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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.