SPF13
JULY 13, 2011
'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. Where have all the good databases gone? Perhaps youâ??ll recognize these words, â??About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing.
Fountainhead
JULY 27, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. IT-as-a-Service: IT Competing for Business vs. “Shadow IT” As I begin to sink my teeth into the realities of IT Transformation and the operational change to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), it’s becoming shockingly clear that adoption challenges arent technology issues.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 25, 2011
My friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard , who runs The Futures Agency (which I am part of), was recently in Sydney for a speaking engagement. We took the opportunity to record a series of conversations on the future. Here is our conversation on the future of money. The key points we make are: * The world of money is opening out in a big way today. * Facebook credits are becoming an important alternative currency. * Cash will phase out for digital payments. * The rise of Bitcoin is important
A CIO's Voice
JULY 19, 2011
'Reinvent Your Training Methods by Chris Curran. Available does not equal best by Eric D. Brown. Transitioning IT from a technical focus to a business focus by IT BS Watch. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 by Isaac Sacolick. Free Answers From Google On How CIOs Can Be Better Managers by Jim Anderson. Filed under: C-Level Executives , CIO , CIO/CTO , IT Process , Leadership , Management Tagged: Chief Information Officer , CIO , CIO Leader , CIO role , corporate innovation
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Cloud Musings
JULY 28, 2011
'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.
All Things Distributed
JULY 7, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS.
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Fountainhead
JULY 13, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, July 13, 2011. A Morning With State Government. Talking IT Transformation. Think your enterprise is challenged as it struggles to move toward IT-as-a-Service and a shared IT services model? It seems that state and local governments are also trailblazing as well.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 26, 2011
In my recent keynotes I have frequently used variations on my Transformation of Business framework , which looks at how Technology Drivers and Social Drivers lead to a changed Business Landscape , and in turn New Drivers of Success. In looking at the world around, us, the shift that is the most apparent to many is the pace of technological change, with in the order of 100-fold increases in processing power, storage efficiency, and fixed and mobile bandwidth over the last decade.
A CIO's Voice
JULY 22, 2011
'Do you remember these things… [link]. Filed under: Life and Technology , ReBoot Tagged: technology.
Future of CIO
JULY 20, 2011
1. Ten Quotes about EA Enterprise architecture increases business value by providing direction to shift the optimization point from the project to the enterprise Enterprise Architecture is a planning, governance, and innovation function that enables an organization to progress toward its vision of its future state. EA is an effective way to make organizations more efficient and productive.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
All Things Distributed
JULY 11, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Spot Instances - Increased Control. By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we announced the launch of an exciting new feature that will significantly increase your control over your Amazon EC2 Spot instances. With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather tha
SPF13
JULY 7, 2011
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix style executables. You know, the ones where you can pass in -h or –help and see the set of options for the program. Up until now this has been a very manual process in bash, but no longer. Enter the shflags project from Kate Ward where a bash library takes care of all the nasty work and producing an elegant way to add option (or argument) support to your scripts.
Nutanix
JULY 26, 2011
Network storage has many challenges today, but it wasn’t always like this.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 25, 2011
I recently ran a workshop on the future of business at the strategy offsite of one of the world’s largest professional services firm. During the evening I had a very interesting conversation with one of the regional directors about how professional service firms are tapping external networks. For over a decade I have written and spoken about the rise of networked professional services, looking at the trend for independent professionals to collaborate in order to compete with large firms.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 28, 2011
Continuing our series of conversations with Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency , and myself, here is the one we kicked off with: what is the role of a futurist? Here are a few of the topics we discuss: * A key role of futurists is to develop and share foresights. * Someone who helps people think about the future to make better decisions today. * To examine and distinguish between trends and uncertainties in order to work out the best path forward. * Clients are interested in having help thinkin
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 19, 2011
The vast majority of my work over the years has been in the business sector, however I am increasingly being pulled into government and the public sector. As I spend more time in the government space, it is becoming increasingly evident to me that the public sector can lead fundamental positive structural shifts in society and the economy, making me keen to put more of my time and attention into this arena.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 10, 2011
It is some years now since ‘expert networks’ have become a significant force, linking subject matter experts in science, technology, and business to clients, largely in funds management and finance, usually at very healthy hourly rates. Clients such as hedge funds that are investing in particular sectors or companies want to know more about issues such as the viability of drug development processes, or when they can, about internal issues like staff turnover.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 14, 2011
Contagious Magazine does a regular Most Contagious Viral Video Chart Round Up. It’s not clear what criteria they use to rank the videos, but they clearly are all enormously contagious videos. Go to the current Most Contagious Viral Video Chart Round Up on Contagious for the full list of the top 20 viral videos, plus some interesting commentary.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 14, 2011
Below is an excerpt from my book Living Networks that describes how to develop effective strategies in what I call the “flow economy&# of information of ideas, where today almost all value resides. You can also download the complete Chapter 7 on The Flow Economy from the book website. While the examples I used in the book are now a little dated, the strategic concepts are still absolutely relevant.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 18, 2011
I am at IPAA NSW where I have just given the opening keynote on The Transformation of Government. I will endeavor to blog the event as I go. Next up is Christian Bason, Director of MindLab , a cross-ministerial institution for innovation in the Danish government, presenting by Telepresence. MindLab is a government organization that helps Danish government departments to co-create with the public solutions to “wicked problems&#. .
SPF13
JULY 12, 2011
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted. … So, what is this growing disconnect?” Those words were written in 2004 by Adam Bosworth, a veteren of Microsoft, Google and BEA. In the 7 years since things have only gotten worse.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 27, 2011
Continuing our series of conversations on the future between Gerd Leonhard and myself, today’s session is on the future of music. Here are a few of the points we made: * There is less money than there used to be in music, and there will be even less money in future, but music will still prosper. * Collaborative filtering has been around for some time and will be fundamental to our music experience. * Social music is currently being brought to life as a space by Turntable.fm. * Music is goi
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 12, 2011
Today’s Australian Financial Review has an interesting article titled “Watch out for the spook in the navy blue suit” which looks at how professionals can respond to anonymous slander, quoting me and a few others. It looks at FirmSpy , which is a site that provides gossip about Australian professional firms, notably law firms and the local arms of the Big 4 accounting firms.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 28, 2011
Arthur C. Clarke was certainly one of the most prescient people of the last century, anticipating many developments and in fact inventing the geo-stationary satellite on which much of the early media and communication revolution was based. In this fantastic segment from a BBC broadcast in 1964 he confidently makes two predictions, one absolutely accurate, one completely wrong.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 3, 2011
Last night I flew into Sanya, at the southernmost tip of China, to give the keynote at the NICE Interactions 2011 conference tomorrow. When I walked up to give my passport to the immigration official, on the counter in front of me was a box with 4 large buttons. There were green 2 smiley faces saying you were happy or very happy with your interaction, and two sad faces saying you were unhappy with the service or that it was taking too long.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 18, 2011
Tomorrow morning I am giving the opening keynote at the annual conference of Institute of Public Affairs New South Wales , on the topic of The Transformation of Government. Originally I was scheduled to follow the recently elected NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell, but he has had to travel to Beijing, so he will present at the conference after the morning break via Telepresence.
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All Things Distributed
JULY 3, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. APAC Summer Tour. By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just landed in Tokyo for what will be a month long tour visiting our customers in the Asia Pacific Region. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 18, 2011
I am at the NSW IPAA conference on The Future Course of Modern Government , where I gave the opening keynote on The Transformation of Government. We have just heard about how Queensland Police used Facebook and Twitter for disaster communication during the extensive flooding in January. It may now seem obvious that these are the best communication channels for the purpose, but it required foresight and courage to engage in a way that allowed them do that when needed.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 6, 2011
I was delighted to get an invite to Google+. Then amazed when I was told I can’t use Google+ because we use Google Apps. It seems that Google is expecting to make Google+ available to Google Apps users “ in a few months &# with some.edu users possibly trialling it sooner. As many others have expressed, it is very frustrating to be delayed several months into the hottest new social space because we are more dedicated Google users than others.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 11, 2011
A week ago I was in Sanya, China, where I gave the guest keynote at the NICE Interactions 2011 conference. NICE Systems’ history is in providing voice recording and analytics to companies with many customer interactions, such as banks and telcos, for customer services and security. From there it has morphed into providing a series of broad-based platforms to improve customer interactions across channels.
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