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Friday, April 17, 2009. April 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM. April 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Postcards from SDForums Developers Conference. MORE
Fri Oct 16, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. 54% US Companies Ban Social Media. and That's Fine. According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology , an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say theyâ??ve MORE
Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations. MORE
Fri Oct 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Analyzing and Improving Conversion. MORE
Tuesday, March 24, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. My first endeavors into online video. MORE
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Profiting from Technology Trends: Growth Summit 2009 View more presentations from rossdawson. MORE
Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. MORE
Monday, March 23, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps. MORE
Wed Sep 30, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Ranking Social Media. In business itâ??s s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on â??best best sellerâ?? charts. While this isnâ??t MORE
Thursday, March 5, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. MORE
Tuesday, March 3, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades. MORE
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009. and organizational effectiveness. MORE
Friday, February 13, 2009. Yours-truly will be one of the speakers at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in NY March 30-April 1, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Join me at NYCs cloud computing expo. They have a very awesome agenda , including a keynote from Werner Vogels, Amazons CTO. MORE
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a zillion different file types and properly comments each. It can handle single line, multi line, partial line commenting as well as nesting. If you’re programming in VIM you really should be using it. It is simple enough to use. Most commands are mapped to ,c[character]. The command you are probably going to use the most is ,c which intelligently toggles a comment on or off MORE
Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. In 2009, I will continue writing on agile but will largely focus on roles, responsibilities, and processes on the periphery. So on to 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal. If you know other top sites also powered by drupal, please list them in the comments below MORE
116 At this time of year it's good to look back at the blog posts I've written and see what is most interesting. Some have got quite a lot of attention, other posts I liked got passed over. Having looked through my blog posts, the most useful approach seems to be by topics. MORE
Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption. What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0 MORE
A syndrome to help understand society in 2009. Third in my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, on the general topic of the future. (I I haven't included any of my presentations - I'll select some of these to put in another post.). Wealth Adaptation Syndrome (WAS): a defining malaise of our times and the opportunities that stem from it. Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events. MORE
Tuesday, December 8, 2009. In 2009 Xsigo demonstrated (with VMware) the data-center-in-a-rack at VMworld (it ran all the demos in the VMware booth), showing 1,000 VMs consolidated to a single 60" rack and managed from a single console. December 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM. MORE
Wednesday, December 16, 2009. December 16, 2009 at 1:08 PM. December 16, 2009 at 2:57 PM. December 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. MORE
Monday, September 14, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II. MORE
Monday, September 7, 2009. September 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM. September 8, 2009 at 11:02 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss. MORE
Thursday, September 10, 2009. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. September 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box. MORE
Monday, August 17, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"? MORE
Monday, August 24, 2009. When I read Gartners Hype Cycle for IT Operations Manag ement 2009, I was struck by how many technology categories may really need to change (or may simply become unnecessary) in a cloud model. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. MORE
Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. MORE
In addition to the data stream of 140-character bons mots, I feel inspired to write in more depth on some of the themes we explored at yesterday's MIT CIO Symposium , perhaps due to a great article by Adam Singer entitled "19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet.". MORE
Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Put another way "It's the SW stupid" July 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. MORE
Tuesday, July 14, 2009. August 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM. August 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Quantifying Data Center Simplification. MORE
Monday, June 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments. MORE
Tuesday, May 12, 2009. May 15, 2009 at 7:24 AM. May 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM. May 27, 2009 at 2:09 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. MORE
Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re MORE
Wednesday, April 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. One topic close to my heart is the concept "working anywhere." MORE
Monday, May 4, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lessons from Glassblowing for High-Tech marketing. MORE
2009 Related Topics 
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 29, 2009
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Profiting from Technology Trends: Growth Summit 2009 View more presentations from rossdawson.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption. What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 30, 2009
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009. and organizational effectiveness.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 5, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. In 2009, I will continue writing on agile but will largely focus on roles, responsibilities, and processes on the periphery. So on to 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. September 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box.
SPF13
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution.
Fountainhead
JUNE 29, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 24, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009. When I read Gartners Hype Cycle for IT Operations Manag ement 2009, I was struck by how many technology categories may really need to change (or may simply become unnecessary) in a cloud model. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 28, 2009
A syndrome to help understand society in 2009. Third in my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, on the general topic of the future. (I I haven't included any of my presentations - I'll select some of these to put in another post.). Wealth Adaptation Syndrome (WAS): a defining malaise of our times and the opportunities that stem from it. Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
MAY 22, 2009
In addition to the data stream of 140-character bons mots, I feel inspired to write in more depth on some of the themes we explored at yesterday's MIT CIO Symposium , perhaps due to a great article by Adam Singer entitled "19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet.".
SPF13
MARCH 27, 2009
Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed.
Fountainhead
MAY 12, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009. May 15, 2009 at 7:24 AM. May 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM. May 27, 2009 at 2:09 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009. In 2009 Xsigo demonstrated (with VMware) the data-center-in-a-rack at VMworld (it ran all the demos in the VMware booth), showing 1,000 VMs consolidated to a single 60" rack and managed from a single console. December 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM.
Fountainhead
JULY 14, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009. August 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM. August 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Quantifying Data Center Simplification.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 17, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"?
Fountainhead
JULY 7, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Put another way "It's the SW stupid" July 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
At this time of year it's good to look back at the blog posts I've written and see what is most interesting. Some have got quite a lot of attention, other posts I liked got passed over. Having looked through my blog posts, the most useful approach seems to be by topics.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009. December 16, 2009 at 1:08 PM. December 16, 2009 at 2:57 PM. December 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009. September 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM. September 8, 2009 at 11:02 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II.
SPF13
OCTOBER 2, 2009
Fri Oct 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Analyzing and Improving Conversion.
Fountainhead
APRIL 17, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009. April 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM. April 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Postcards from SDForums Developers Conference.
Fountainhead
APRIL 29, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. One topic close to my heart is the concept "working anywhere."
Fountainhead
MARCH 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. My first endeavors into online video.
Fountainhead
MAY 4, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lessons from Glassblowing for High-Tech marketing.
Fountainhead
MARCH 3, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades.
Fountainhead
MARCH 23, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps.
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2009
Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re
SPF13
NOVEMBER 8, 2009
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a zillion different file types and properly comments each. It can handle single line, multi line, partial line commenting as well as nesting. If you’re programming in VIM you really should be using it. It is simple enough to use. Most commands are mapped to ,c[character]. The command you are probably going to use the most is ,c which intelligently toggles a comment on or off
SPF13
DECEMBER 20, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal. If you know other top sites also powered by drupal, please list them in the comments below
SPF13
OCTOBER 16, 2009
Fri Oct 16, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. 54% US Companies Ban Social Media. and That's Fine. According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology , an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say theyâ??ve
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Wed Sep 30, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Ranking Social Media. In business itâ??s s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on â??best best sellerâ?? charts. While this isnâ??t
Fountainhead
MARCH 5, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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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