May, 2010

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Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life

Trends in the Living Networks

When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. To show this I drew on the literature on autopoiesis , which was proposed as a new way of understanding the nature of life, and wrote a lengthy introduction to the book.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, May 6, 2010. Converged Infrastructure. Part 1. Since joining Egenera, Ive been championing whats now being termed Converged Infrastructure (aka unified computing). Its an exciting and important part of IT management, demonstrated by the fact that all major vendors are offering some form of the technology.

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Vivek Kundra - State of Public Sector Cloud Computing

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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ReBoot – To Dimple or Not

A CIO's Voice

'Interesting conversation at work the other day about having a dimple in a man’s necktie. You know the dimple – the one that goes in the center of the necktie, just below the knot? In my experience, the dimple either happens, or it doesn’t. You might have to get used to the fact that some days will be dimple days, and other days won’t.

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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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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy.

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The CIO’s Dilemma

Lundberg Media

'CIOs are facing a dilemma. On the one hand, they must innovate with technology to help their businesses grow again as we come out of the recession. On the other, because the recovery of 2010 will be slow and drawn out, they must continue to cut costs and focus on operational efficiency. In fact, 57% […].

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Geek Reads v2010.1: “The New Know”

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

“I don’t know” and “we didn’t know” are becoming increasingly unacceptable answers every day, especially as “ No one saw this coming ” becomes less and less credible in the wake of the global financial crisis. Culturally, expectations are rising of individuals and organizations such that ignorance about: • Customers • Risk • Environmental impact • Health impact Of our businesses is less and less acceptable.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Cloud Computing Day at DoDIIS

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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My IT SWAT Team

A CIO's Voice

'The last few weeks I have been rebuilding my department. I am a believer in hiring people who have core competencies but also general knowledge in other areas. I divided my team into 3 functional areas: Support Operations. This includes helpdesk and site support. Both key areas for MIS success. Network Operations. Alls things networking. A stable foundation is key to building and moving forward.

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How Developers ?Extended? the Vail Launchpad - SeanDaniel.com

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, May 31, 2010. How Developers “Extended” the Vail Launchpad. If you’re a developer and you’re interested in writing something for Windows sHome Server , our Lead Developer Dileep has another tip for you on how to extend the Vail launch pad.

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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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Loyalty cards are about customer knowledge, next step: integration with social media

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Despite its recent loss of market share, Asda continues to argue that its lowest price policy is a better strategy than its main rivals’ loyalty card schemes. I think they are wrong but not with respect to prices but because of the valuable customer data they are not collecting. Asda simply does not “know” its loyal customers. In Retail Week May 28 th 2010 edition, there is an interesting article about customer loyalty: “ Loyalty cards: the bedrock of future success?

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The Economist on online freelancing and the future of work: crowdsourcing goes mainstream

Trends in the Living Networks

The Economist this week addresses the wonderful world of online freelancing and crowdsourcing, under the rubrik Work in the digital age. The full article is well worth a read. The article points to the potential for online freelancing and piecework to account for a substantial part of global labor. While The Economist has touched on the issue before, this is now something that is a significant business issue which is going to start attracting a lot more coverage.

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- Net Neutrality? But Affordability?!

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Network Neutrality? The FCC and a large portion of the nation are wringing our collective hands about net neutrality. But the real issue is not “neutrality” but “affordability” and even “accessibility” Clearly the future of the Nation depends upon the Internet, but a large portion of households and small businesses can’t afford Internet access at true broadband speeds.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Cloud Computing at DoDIIS

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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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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Interviewing 101 – Isn’t This Obvious

A CIO's Voice

'So I am looking to rebuild my team and bring in some power hitters. You would think that in this economy people would be enthusiastic about joining a growing company. I thought once I put the word out there there would be a lot of interest and qualified candidates. I was wrong…. I interviewed only a handful of candidates. Some of which needed some serious coaching on how to interview.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Understanding SSL Certificates for client to.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, May 17, 2010. Understanding SSL Certificates for client to server encryption. Back in January I made a post, which I called Part 1 of Understanding Certificates. In this post I talked primarily about how the server is authenticated to the client by using a “root” certificate that the client already trusts, thus establishing a trust relationship with a website you are at

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Six Radical Visions for the Future of Health (including Self-Serve Pharma)

Trends in the Living Networks

Today I gave the closing presentation at the National Medicine Symposium , rounding out deep discussion over several days on how to get better use of medicines. I developed six radical ideas that could be part of the future of health. The intention was to be provocative rather than rigorous, generating new ways of thinking about how healthcare may evolve.

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Will there be capital markets for equity in people?

Trends in the Living Networks

I recently read the entertaining science fiction novel The Unincorporated Man by brothers Dani and Eytan Kollin. The premise is that several hundred years in the future everyone is incorporated at birth, with the government owning 5% and parents 20%. People trade equity in themselves for their education and development, then spend their life trying to earn back majority ownership so they can control their lives.

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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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One more reason why Australia is a global hub for crowdsourcing: Ideas While You Sleep

Trends in the Living Networks

I was recently introduced to Yvonne Adele of IdeasCulture through a Twitter introduction from Tim Longhurst – a great connection to make! Not long ago I wrote how Australia is becoming a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms: Freelancer.com, 99designs, DesignCrowd. Yvonne’s service Ideas While You Sleep adds to the burgeoning collection of crowdsourcing services based in Australia.

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What Enterprise 2.0 means for the CIO and IT department

Trends in the Living Networks

Our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is intended as a practical guide to how to create business value with web technologies inside the organization. One of the key issues is the implications of these approaches for the organization and its key functional areas. Not surprisingly, there are a particular set of pressing issues for the IT department. These are covered in the report - we have excerpted Chapter 19 on the implications for IT below.

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Will self-sustaining military robots feed on corpses?

Trends in the Living Networks

There's always a story behind the story. The Economist magazine this week points to an online story with the headline: Vegetarian robots: Munching machines - Robots that forage for fuel and run on steam power. I was most interested in the description given of robots that sustained themselves by searching for fuel, but I also wondered why it specified 'vegetarian' robots.

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What Yahoo!'s purchase of Associated Content means for the crowdsourced (crap?) content industry

Trends in the Living Networks

Yahoo! has just purchased Associated Content , with price variously reported at $90 million ( by All Things D ) and slightly over $100 million ( by AdAge ). Associated Content is the second largest player in crowdsourced content after Demand Media, which is looking at an IPO which is likely to be valued over $1 billion. AOL, which was originally considering buying Associated Content when it wanted to get into the space, decided to grow its own business called Seed , which is already a strong pla

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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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Is Google a vampire sucking the blood out of media and the web?

Trends in the Living Networks

Here is a nice video of the highly-respected Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand speaking at Web 2.0 Expo SF about how Google plays fair and less fair, giving a balanced view of the accusations of vampirism from media tycoons such as Mark Cuban and Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton. The video is well worth watching. Each of the many examples show how Google is using and potentially abusing its power in specific areas.

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How IT analyst firms can learn from investment bank research pricing models

Trends in the Living Networks

Gideon Gartner has just posted a great article titled Advisory Industry, a future redesign: the “Payment” Model , in which he draws on investment banking research pricing as a model for IT analysts and their clients. Gideon writes: So in the Wall Street model The buy-side “analysts” will work closely with their most helpful and favorite sell side analysts, and buy-side “portfolio managers” will work with sell-side salespeople who funnel ideas and information from their research departments to th

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Launch of online community SMETechnologyForum.com – join the discussion!

Trends in the Living Networks

We have been busy working on a number of major initiatives this year. One of the most important directions for Advanced Human Technologies is creating communities in which we provide useful content and a place for sharing and discussion. Our first community is SME Technology Forum , which brings together community insights on leveraging tech for small and mid-sized companies.

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Launch of Left Coast Festival and Rose Vickers' Flohawk show

Trends in the Living Networks

It's great to see Sydney's continued rise as a creative hub, with the wealth of talent on hand compounded by the immense energy going into great events and festivals such as Creative Sydney. This Wednesday 6-8pm Sedition Gallery is launching the 50 day Left Coast Festival , including visual works, installations, video, hybrid music / dance performances and more with an event themed Red, with unconfirmed 'whispers' that Laurie Anderson might attend while she's in Sydney.

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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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SME Tech Forum Series: Getting Results from Crowdsourcing on 31 May

Trends in the Living Networks

After the success of its SME Technology Summit last December, The Insight Exchange is launching an ongoing series of events in the space, the SME Technology Forum Series. The series kicks off with a very exciting evening event in Sydney on 31 May on Getting Results from Crowdsourcing. Full details are on the event page. The keynote panel discussion features the CEOs of some of the great companies that are making Australia a global hub for crowdsourcing: - Matt Barrie of Freelancer.com. - Alec Ly

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ReBoot – Writing an Important Speech

A CIO's Voice

'So I have been asked to write a speech for my cousin’s upcoming wedding. It is a great honor for anyone to be asked to take on such a task especially at a wedding. Everything will be recorded for future viewing so there is no living down any mistakes. I have written speeches in the past and spoken to boards, executives, staff, etc. For some reason this time around I am more nervous.

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- Improving Govt Health with a Fiber Diet

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Louisiana Immersive Tech Enterprise. I was honored to be in Lafayette, Louisiana, this past week for Fiber-Fete. Lafayette is just finishing a City-owned fiber optic network which reaches every home and business. Fiber-Fete was an international gathering to celebrate the innovative work led by Parish President (Mayor) Joey Durel and his team of people from business, non-profits, education, healthcare and government.

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