December, 2010

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Fountainhead: Hosting/Cloud Index outperforms NASDAQ Nearly 4x

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Hosting/Cloud Index outperforms NASDAQ Nearly 4x. Exactly a year ago, in 2009, I started looking into whether the market for Hosting and Cloud Computing could be measured in the stock market - with my first Blog on the topic.

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Software Development's Magic Triangle : 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. Software Development's Magic Triangle. Thereâ??s an old adage â??Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Twoâ??. This situation is called a magic triangle.

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Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and the Zeitgeist for 2011

Trends in the Living Networks

It is traditional at the turn of the year to look forward at what is to come. We have crystallized our thinking on the year ahead and the decade of the 2010s in a new 3-page visual landscape. You can download the pdf of the framework by clicking on any of the images. The full text of the ExaTrends and the Zeitgeist themes is below. Note on ExaTrends : Given the exponential pace of change of today we are far beyond a world of MegaTrends.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service.

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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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GSA and Unisys/Google Marks GovCloud Watershed

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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A CIO’s Christmas List

A CIO's Voice

'Dear Santa: I have worked hard this year. I have met my budget and finished all my projects ahead of schedule. I have made great strides in aligning IT with the business. I have tried to be really good by being the best CIO I can. So Santa, this year, I would like the following: Developers that don’t live in their own world. You must have the same issue with your elves?

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WP GitHub Code Viewer : 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. WP GitHub Code Viewer. GitHub Code Viewer 2 is a plugin for wordpress that will automatically pull a file from github and place into any post using a shortcode [github_cv url=‘$url’].

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Delicious will be shut down. What to do and 6 major alternatives for social bookmarking.

Trends in the Living Networks

TechCrunch has reported (and close-as-dammit confirmed) that Yahoo! will close down Delicious. If so, it's close to a tragedy. Social bookmarks have been one of the defining aspects of Web 2.0. As described in our Web 2.0 Framework , sharing in very simple ways can create value for many. It is a simple step to take the bookmarks you are doing anyway, and make them visible along with your tags to describe them.

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5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon S3 announced a new breakthrough in supporting customers with large files by increasing the maximum supported object size from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes.

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Vivek Kundra Unveils 25-Point IT Management Reform Program

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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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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CIO Blogs for December 2010

A CIO's Voice

'Lessons from Old Backups by Mark Brewer. Wikileaks Positive Side Effect for IT by Mike Schaffner. Predictions 2011 by Peter Birley. Holy Grail of IT, Operating Expense vs Capital Investmen t by Oh I See (CIO Inverted). One CIO’s “lessons learned” in managing others by Peter Kretzman. Which IT project comes first – Legacy or Sexy? by Eric Brown. 500 Meetings a Day by John D.

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Web 2.0 and Personal KM: Rude Lessons in Impermanence

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

As I fired up my browser for the first time today, I was hopeful, but again, I saw this: . Not only has my default start-up site been down since some time in November, but the error message has gone from the slightly ominous "We're experiencing technical difficulties" type (below) to the vastly scarier, generic error message pictured above. . I know it's been reported before, but Pageflakes, the page where I aggregated all of the blogs I care about most dearly, along with my newsfeeds, to ge

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WP GitHub Code Viewer

SPF13

GitHub Code Viewer 2 is a plugin for wordpress that will automatically pull a file from github and place into any post using a shortcode [github_cv url=‘$url’]. It caches the code locally (in db), so it’s quite fast and can be even faster when combined with wp_super_cache or w3c_total_cache. It will re-request the code from github every 24 hours (by default, but it’s configurable) so the code in your post will always remain up to date.

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The rise of social shopping in 2011: 7 examples of where it is going

Trends in the Living Networks

SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends , which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. I was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogs. Here are a few further thoughts on social shopping. I have written another post on the rise of mini-blogs.

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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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Permission and forgiveness

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

“Do you really think George bothered to ask for f ing permission?&#. This was Kevin Spacey’s response to a question from the audience during the Q&A following the St. Louis premiere of George Hickenlooper’s movie “Casino Jack&# at the St. Louis Film Festival. This specific question was related to getting legal clearance for the music used in the film, but it reflected a general theme of the evening as friends and family honored George – a high school classmate

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: GovCloud Predicitons for 2011

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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CNN’s The 10 biggest tech ‘fails’ of 2010

A CIO's Voice

'CNN just published their list of the biggest tech failures of 2010. The 10 biggest tech ‘fails’ of 2010. Filed under: Life and Technology , Technology Review Tagged: 3d tv , Apple , facebook , Google , itunes ping , nexxus one , technology.

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Australian government releases Government 2.0 Primer

Trends in the Living Networks

The Australian government is gaining momentum in its Government 2.0 initiatives, marked today by the launch by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) of a handy Government 2.0 Primer. The Report of the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce was submitted in December 2009. Although the Taskforce chairman Nicholas Gruen had earlier noted that Australian Government 2.0 initiatives were significantly behind countries such as the US and UK, the report and the government response

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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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ExaTrend of the 2010s: Bio Destiny

Trends in the Living Networks

Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s : BIO DESTINY. Now that biological and genomic technologies are largely driven by information technologies, they are on the same exponential trajectory. Medicines personalized to the individual, genetic modification of our children, drugs to increase intelligence, and life extension will all become commonplace.

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11 themes of the Zeitgeist for 2011

Trends in the Living Networks

Our recently launch Map of the Decade triptych comprised three parts: the Map of the Decade , details on the ExaTrends of the Decade , and the 11 themes of the Zeitgeist for 2011. I think may have been a mistake to put the Map of the Decade and Zeitgeist themes in the one document, as many only see the front page and don't get to the Zeitgeist themes, and they come from quite different perspectives (1 year as against 10 years).

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The Future of TV is community: linking social media with big screens

Trends in the Living Networks

A few weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at the annual conference of the Regional TV Marketing association, held in Byron Bay, Australia, on the topic of Creating the Future of Media. As I started preparing my keynote I realized that many of my usual messages about media fragmentation and re-aggregation weren’t the most relevant to this audience, and certainly not what they wanted to hear.

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The boundaries of crowdsourcing and how it relates to open innovation

Trends in the Living Networks

I was recently asked to do an interview for the Turkish version of CNBC eBusiness magazine on crowdsourcing. I'm not sure whether the article will appear online - I'll share it if so. In any case here are the answers I gave the interviewer: 1) The term "crowdsourcing" first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wire Magazine article. Does "crowdsourcing" is a new way of saying "open innovation"?

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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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The rise of mini-blogging in 2011: Tumblr will continue to soar

Trends in the Living Networks

SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends , which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. I was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogging. Here are a few further thoughts on mini-blogs. I have written another post on the rise of social shopping , including 7 examples.

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Our 6 favorite infographics of 2010

Trends in the Living Networks

I'll try to fit in a few summary posts from the year before I head off for holidays. To kick off here are our favorite infographics that we've launched this year, in chronological order. Click on the images for the original posts. Quite a few of these got a lot of attention! Crowdsourcing Landscape. Used mobile phones yield 1000 times more gold than gold ore.

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12th Annual Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs Xmas Drinks - Sydney - Drinks sponsors welcome!

Trends in the Living Networks

This is the now the 12th year that I and some of my friends are running the Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs Xmas Drinks in Sydney. It began when I and many of my friends didn't have the glamorous and social (i.e. more than one person!) Christmas parties of the employed, so decided to celebrate together. So, if you are self-employed, an entrepreneur, or work for a micro-business or start-up we'd be delighted if you joined us.

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Transparency has long been driving business and society. but it's only just begun

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the most surprising things about Wikileaks is that it took this long for the massive shift to transparency to have an impact on this scale. The trend to transparency has long been evident, and sites to facilitate leaks have been around for many years now. The inevitability of a transparent world has long shaped my thinking about the future. In my 2002 book Living Networks , the final chapter was on the future of a networked world.

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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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Top 10 posts of the year on social media

Trends in the Living Networks

Continuing my sequence of top posts from this year, today I have selected the 10 most popular and interesting posts on social media I've written this year. 1. We are fast learning how to create "enhanced serendipity". Reflections on the meaning of serendipity and why it essential we strive to enhance it. "Serendipity is one of the most beautiful words in the English language.

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ExaTrend of the 2010s: Collective Intelligence

Trends in the Living Networks

Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s : COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. In a world of infinite information and diversity of opinion we will not drown, but harness our dormant potential to be more together than we are individually. Crowdsourcing platforms and aggregators of insight will be part of the planks that create the reality of a global brain, expressing our destiny.

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ABC News: Interview on Wikileaks and the future

Trends in the Living Networks

Yesterday I did an interview on ABC News about Wikileaks and its implications. A few of the points I discuss are: * The extraordinary social polarization emerging from the Wikileaks debate. * How many people feel strongly enough about the issues to provide support to the cyber-attacks defending Wikileaks, a first for hacker attacks. * The existing long-term trends to transparency have finally crystallized in Wikileaks and the political and social response of today. * Wikileaks cannot be closed d

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What TV will be like in 10 years: 7 opinions from media leaders

Trends in the Living Networks

German magazine Screen.TV recently asked 7 prominent media figures for their views on the future of TV: "What will you watch on television in ten years, and what do you imagine your TV will look like?". My response in the original English is below (and here in the German translation ). I was in the august company of (click on the links to see their opinions translated by Google from the German). - Jane Barratt, President, Young & Rubicam. - Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia. - Chuck Deckeris,

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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.