March, 2009

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Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed : spf13.com

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'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. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. Image via CrunchBase. For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter.

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Fountainhead: What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg?

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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, March 5, 2009. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? Yesterday I attended the IDC Directions conference in San Jose. Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch.

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Launch of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework

Trends in the Living Networks

A centrepiece of our recently launched Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is an Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework. Click on the image below to download the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework pdf , which includes references to the relevant chapters for each of the action steps. Some of the chapters referred to are available for download from the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

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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 Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances - A way to further reduce IT costs.

All Things Distributed

Flexibility is a key advantage of using Amazon Web Services; you can obtain resources instantaneously without the headache of owning them. If you no longer need the resource, you release it and only pay for what you have used. This is a very powerful model that has helped many of our customers drive capital expense out of their IT operation.

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The Great Debate

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

I was catching up on some news this evening, reading about stem cells here in Missouri , with iTunes on shuffle, as usual. About half way through the article, Dream Theater ’s song The Great Debate (from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence ) came on. I had to stop and listen. If you know the song, you know that it is a discussion about then-President Bush’s decision concerning stem cells back in 2001.

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Fountainhead: What is Infrastructure Orchestration / Unified.

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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 16, 2009. What is Infrastructure Orchestration / Unified Computing? Infrastructure Orchestration and Unified Computing are both terms referring to a technology whereby server CPU, I/O, storage connectivity, and network, are all able to be defined and configured in software.

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Visualization: Social bookmarking in the enterprise

Trends in the Living Networks

In our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, we created visual representations to help explain how the most important social media tools can be applied inside organizations. The diagram below was used in the chapter on social bookmarking, which was designed to accompany the detailed coverage in the report, but it is hopefully fairly self-explanatory! Go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page for several free chapters, including the chapter on social networking on the enterprise, with it

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Offshore Agile Development - Totally Feasible! - Social, Agile, and.

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. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Offshore Agile Development - Totally Feasible!

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Good Advice on Keeping Your Database Simple and Fast.

All Things Distributed

Keeping your database simple and fast is often difficult if you use higher level frameworks such as ActiveRecords in Ruby or Java object persistence technologies such as Hibernate. There is a lot of magic that is happening out of sight that you have no control over. If you then have to scale your application it is often the relational database that these technologies require that becomes the performance and scaling bottleneck.

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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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Getting the right information to your retail customers at the right time, or how to make them loyal to your brand

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

In these very challenging economical times, retaining your customers is a must to survive now and thrive when things improve. For your customers to repetitively shop in your stores (on the high street or online) means for them one or both of the following conditions: · It is to them the most practical or ‘lack of choice’ (ex.: “I shop at your supermarket because it is the closest to my home”). · It is the brand that best fits their needs and/or wants at that moment in time.

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BI for the Masses: An Update

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Some recent announcements from Microsoft about their Business Intelligence strategy are worth noting, especially as we're seeing Business Performance Management initiatives (dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, reporting portals, etc.) being included as part of Phase 2 or Phase 3 of many clients' SharePoint rollouts. The most notable changes announced were regarding PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft's BI product suite offering: Monitoring (formerly Business Scorecard Manager), Analysis (formerly the

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Fountainhead: Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing

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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. With all of the Intel/Nehalem (Xeon 5500 series) processor announcements this week , one stands out. As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well.

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Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Free Chapter 4 – Key benefits and risks

Trends in the Living Networks

Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , here is Chapter 4 on Key Benefits and Risks. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. As shown in the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework above, understanding the potential benefits and risks from Enterprise 2.0 that are relevant to the organization is critical to being able to engage in the cycle of value creation.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Links for 2009-03-30 [del.icio.us]

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

GameStop has used video game market down to a system | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas Business News.

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Expanding the Cloud: Expanding Amazon EC2 for Windows

All Things Distributed

Today we have some important news for our Amazon EC2 customers who are running Windows Server and Windows SQLServer instances and who have been looking to extend their coverage for fault-tolerance and locality reasons. Starting today Windows instances can be launched in an additional Availability Zone is the US and they can also be launched in two Availability Zones in Europe.

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- Twitter, Facebook & Gov’t 2.0

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Twitter Social Networking. “Web 2.0″ is taking the Internet by storm. Use of Facebook (and similar sites) has exploded and may even have become passé for some people. Even that notorious bastion of anti-change troglodytes, the U.S. Congress, apparently loves Twitter. But, amazingly enough, social networking tools may not be of much use to local government, unless there are significant improvements or new applications.

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Is the CIO a "pinnacle" position? - CIORant

CIO Rant

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Fountainhead: Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration

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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. My first endeavors into online video. No pictures of me, but at least you get the audio. Here is a brief, high-level overview of whats meant by Infrastructure Orchestration, including some messy annotations of mine while I speak: And heres another video of it in action: The Dell PAN system that you can

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Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 and the Enterprise

Trends in the Living Networks

In the wake of our recent launch of the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, we are providing a number of free sample chapters. For full details and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 and the Enterprise uses our extremely popular Web 2.0 Framework as a foundation. New content includes: * Table covering Web 2.0 tools with examples of both open web and enterprise use. * Key issues in adapting Web 2.0 tools to enterprise use.

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Web 2.0 Conference in SecondLife - CIO Musings

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! Thursday, March 12, 2009. Web 2.0 Conference in SecondLife. To All Chesterfield County Employees: Below, I have pasted in an announcement from Munigov2.0, regarding a conference we have been organizing.

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Fountainhead: Join me at NY Cloud Computing Expo

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 23, 2009. Join me at NY Cloud Computing Expo. This week Ill be putting the finishing-touches on my Day #1 presentation about "Building a Compute Cloud Infrastructure" and where to begin (3:25pm next Monday, to be exact).

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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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Fountainhead: Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 23, 2009. Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps. With all of the chatter now about "Unified Computing" - as well as all of the skeptics thinking its blue-sky future, I wanted to outline how incredibly simple it really can be.

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Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. A data center trifecta? (Prediction). Once in a while, I sit back and think about what are the real transformational forces that will change how IT operates. And Ive come to the conclusion that there are 3 fundamental technological movements that will do this. and the 3rd will surprise you. 1.

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Fountainhead: First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal

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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, March 12, 2009. First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal. I t appears the Egenera/Dell deal is moving forward with velocity. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO).

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Fountainhead: Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures. I just read an interesting blog by Rob Aldrich on the advantages of "unified fabrics" when pursuing energy efficiency. This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware.

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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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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. A few weeks ago I wrote about where IT Ops might be missing-the-boat regarding implicit assumptions were making as an industry. I called these the " big blind spots ".

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Fountainhead: Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades

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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades. Since about 2001, Egenera has been selling its high-end hardware/software combination that unified re-purposing of physical and virtual servers. It combined super-high-performance blades, with their PAN Manager software.

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It is totally INSANE that you cannot use an external keyboard on an iPhone

Trends in the Living Networks

I love my iPhone. But it has some deep flaws. OK, so cut-and-paste will be available with the 3.0 operating system – that’s good. The lack of a video camera is annoying and strange – rumors are that the next iPhone released in the northern summer will have video capabilities. But the thing that really gets me is that you cannot use an external keyboard on the iPhone.

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Pilots as a key instrument for improving organizational performance in a complex world

Trends in the Living Networks

I caught up this afternoon with Chris Bayley of Buffalo Canyon Consulting and had a very interesting conversation about Web 2.0 in organizations. Chris asked me about the role of pilots, and in the ensuing discussion I refined my thinking on this a bit. Examining how to run pilots plays a significant role in our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, with a full chapter on pilots and many aspects of our coverage of user adoption related to pilots.

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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.