June, 2012

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Verizon Witching Hour

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! Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Verizon Witching Hour. Big Changes to #Verizon Plans Tomorrow!!

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Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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. Monday, June 18, 2012. Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research.

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Will offices still exist in the future?

Trends in the Living Networks

I’m currently doing a five-city speaking tour for Canon, speaking about the future of workspace. In my keynote I talk about the driving forces of change in work and organizations, the changing nature of the workspace, and the leadership required to create the next phase of work. Until recently there were two major workspaces for knowledge work: offices and field work.

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Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records.

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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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Introducing the B2B IT Forum

The Investing Edge

'As a VC firm focused on technology, it’s no accident we’re located in the heart of Boston. It’s a town full of smart people, energy, and ideas. That’s evident at any local meet-up we’ve attended, from WebInno to the Boston Innovation Challenge , to other entrepreneurial events in the city. But what we’ve found to be missing is an event that focuses exclusively on a technology area with current spending levels trending toward $3 trillion per year : Enterprise IT.

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12 Best Practices CIOs Need To Know In Order To Be Able To Make Old IT Systems New Again (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit It takes more than a coat of paint to make old IT systems new again. No CIO wants to have a project fail. That’s why when it comes time to do something about older IT systems, replace or renew them, most CIOs have to take time to think about what they really want to do. This is the kind of project that is going to require both the IT department and the rest of the business to work together.

System 100

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Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery

SPF13

This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication. We’ll explore some of the advanced capabilities with MongoDB replication and best practices to ensure data durability and redundancy. We’ll also look at various deployment scenarios and disaster recovery configurations. Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery View more presentations from Steve Francia.

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MIT global study on social business: Executives increasingly understand the value and success drivers

Trends in the Living Networks

MIT Sloan Management Review together with Deloitte have just launched 2012 Social Business Global Executive Study and Research Project , drawing out some very interesting insights from a survey of almost 3,500 executives from 115 countries. Below the slides of the report I have selected several of the interesting slides with brief commentary. Social Business: What Are Companies Really Doing?

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Mick's IT Blogs: 4G Signal Dies in Walmart Stores

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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Inaugural B2B IT Forum Tackles Cloud Security

The Investing Edge

'Anytime you start something new – be it a job, a training regimen, or in the case of the entrepreneurs we back, a company – there’s always a lot of excitement and energy. That was very much the case Tuesday when we held our inaugural B2B IT Forum at the Microsoft NERD Center. We heard great presentations, met a lot of smart people, and had a lot of fun – so much so that we’re already looking forward to our next event in September (stay tuned for details on that).

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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CIO vs. CFO: Can't We All Just Get Along? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit CIOs and CFOs shouldn't solve problems this way. I’ve got some bad news for you. CIOs are unhappy. It turns out that a lot of CIOs are now reporting into the company’s CFO instead of its CEO. This means that the CFO is in charge and the CIO feels that he or she is not. Things can’t go on this way. What can be done to fix this problem?

Strategy 100
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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Give-Away Contest: Win a Copy of SBS.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Give-Away Contest: Win a Copy of SBS 2011 Configuration from PACKT Publishing. Book Give-away : Win free copy of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide , just by commenting!

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Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB

SPF13

Strategies for multi-data center deployment. Diving into the details of deploying of MongoDB across multiple data centers. Covers the advantages of a multi data center deployment for read/write locality, the various deployment strategies, and disaster preparedness and recovery. In addition, we’ll look at the MongoDB roadmap and planned enhancements around data center awareness.

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Open innovation is now a fundamental capability for nations and regions

Trends in the Living Networks

I have just participated via Skype in a BBC Creative Collisions debate in Northern Ireland, centered around how the media landscape is changing, and the implications of the rise of open innovation. Some of the comments from the locals involved in the debate were that while there is ample talent and innovation in Northern Ireland, there is not the same attitude to collaboration and information sharing that there is for example in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.

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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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Mick's IT Blogs: Enable/Disable Offline Files

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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The Washburn Climb: A Charitable Ascent for the Boston Museum of Science

The Investing Edge

'On July 16th I’ll be participating in my fourth annual Washburn Climb – an annual hike to the top of Mount Washington. It’s an event I take great pride in participating because it raises money for an institution very close to my heart – the Boston Museum of Science. As nearly everyone in New England knows, the Museum of Science is a great place for everyone – young and old – to spend a day taking in fun and engaging exhibits.

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The Power Industry Discovers The Importance Of CIOs (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'One industry that realizes the importance of a CIO is the power industry. For far too long the role of the CIO within many companies has been almost an afterthought. Sure they all had CIOs, but unless the company was part of the IT sector then the CIO was mostly relegated to making sure that the corporate email system was working, he or she was not really a part of the company’s strategic planning team.

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Opportunity Knocks - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Opportunity Knocks. by Brian Katz on June 5, 2012 · 4 comments. I spend a lot of my time at work working on problems. I am sure a lot of other people do the same thing whether they are working for large enterprises or small mom and pop operations. We all spend our time working on the latest problem and everything we do is framed as a problem.

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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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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How to Share Hotmail Calendars between.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, June 04, 2012. How to Share Hotmail Calendars between two or more people. I’m a huge user of Hotmail. It’s where I store my personal email. I looked at hosting it in Office 365 , but to have to pay for one mailbox or a few mailboxes for personal use is kind of cumbersome.

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Big moves at Fairfax: The global extinction of newspapers moves closer

Trends in the Living Networks

Today’s ‘Fairfax of the Future’ announcement from Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax is massive news in Australia, and very significant in a global media context. It has been a busy media day for me, so far doing interviews for SBS World News and ABC24 News as well as a number of radio stations, due to my earlier predictions of the extinction of newspapers.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Apple QuickTime Installation

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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Ascent Index: BYOD (June 6 – June 20)

The Investing Edge

'We know bringing your own device to work (that’s ‘BYOD’ for most of us) is a hot topic right now – and getting hotter. Over the past two weeks alone, the term had nearly 22,000 mentions on social networks which is a 10 percent increase over the first half of the month. One reason for the uptick could be the latest Fortinet study , which found that more than half of workers in their twenties believe it is their “right” rather than a privilege to use their own mobile devices at work.

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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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CIO's Know That Finding The Right Way To Be Innovative Is The Hard Part (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit. CIOs Need A Way To Find An Innovation Strategy That Works. Among all of the other jobs that a modern CIO is expected to perform, there is also that pesky “pursue an innovation strategy” thing. This is so critical that it should almost be a part of the definition of information technology. It’s not that pushing the IT department to become more innovative is all that difficult, I mean anyone can do that.

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It's the data stupid! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. It’s the data stupid! by Brian Katz on June 6, 2012 · 7 comments. My good friend Ben Goodman echoed something in his post from Monday that I have seen in a bunch of other posts recently. It aims to tackle the fact that in BYOD (Bring your own device) you will have corporate and personal data on your individual device.

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How to Subscribe to an ICS calendar in Hotmail - SeanDaniel.com

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wednesday, June 06, 2012. How to Subscribe to an ICS calendar in Hotmail. Earlier I posted on how to share your Hotmail calendar between two or more people. What you might remember if you viewed the screenshots closely, is I had a few more calendar’s in there.

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Why do you curate? The 3 intents of curation and how they create value

Trends in the Living Networks

I was recently in Rome for 24 hours to run a workshop for the senior technology executives of a global Fortune 50 company. While I was in town I was keen to try to catch up with collaboration and new media expert Robin Good , who I have known online for many years but never met, so I got in touch to see if we could catch up. Fortunately he was available, and he took the opportunity to do a video interview with me.

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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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Unable to complete activation. Device not registered - Mick's IT Blogs

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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ASCENT INDEX: e-commerce (May 23 – June 6)

The Investing Edge

'We’ve been keeping a close watch on our enterprise IT terms over the past few weeks, and noticed one standing out high above the others. While not a new term by any measure, yet still a very important one that continues to see growing activity, “ e-commerce” had 28,847 mentions in the two-week period we examined, with an average of 1,800 mentions a day.

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Ten Inspiring IT Elevator Speeches

Future of CIO

IT is built to change in order for an organization built to last and from good to great. IT and CIOs are at the tipping point for transformation, with new mindset to create value center instead of cost center, move from back office to the front brain yard, and with the latest technology such as cloud, mobile, social and Big Data as silver lining, CIOs need to learn how to articulate IT value to the Chairman of the Board in 25 or less simple words.

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You break it, you buy it?wait what? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. You break it, you buy it…wait what? by Brian Katz on June 7, 2012 · 6 comments. I asked for suggestions tonight via twitter for this blog post and Bob Egan ( @bobegan ) made a terrific suggestion for another thing to think about when it comes to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). I have spent a lot of time talking about mobile strategy and thinking about whether you want a BYOD program and that it really isn’t about saving costs.

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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