CIO Musings

JULY 9, 2012

'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! Monday, July 9, 2012. Call Me Maybe - A Technology Metaphor. #cio #tech. Hey, I just met you, And this is crazy, But heres my number, So call me, maybe?

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Fountainhead

JULY 5, 2012

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, July 5, 2012. The next generation business: Data is the new platform. Guest blog on GigaOm. Posted by. Ken Oestreich. at. 8:15 AM. Labels: Big Data , Predictions. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 15, 2012

'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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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 9, 2012

One of the many reasons humanity is at an inflection point is that the age-old dream of the “global brain” is finally becoming a reality. I explored the idea in my book Living Networks , and at more length in my piece Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life. Today, my work on crowdsourcing is largely focused on the emerging mechanisms that allow us to create better results from mass participation.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding The Cloud â?? High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 25, 2012

'Image Credit. Caption: Boo! That SaaS monster is going to get you CIO…. Yea Cloud Computing! Everyone is in the process of falling in love with cloud computing and its sister Software-As-A-Service (SaaS). What CIO wouldn’t love an opportunity to no longer have to buy and pay to maintain computing hardware that was only going to become obsolete overtime (this is almost a part of the definition of information technology)?

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SPF13

JULY 23, 2012

This is a 3 hour tutorial I wrote for and gave at OSCON 2012. Here is the summary: This tutorial will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. The tutorial will be divided into 5 sections: Data modeling with MongoDB: documents, collections and databases Querying your data: simple queries, geospatial queries, and

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Cloud Musings

JULY 28, 2012

'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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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 20, 2012

As part of my work in helping global professional services firms build strategies for entrepreneurial markets, I’ve been spending some time with the trove of data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor , which is the largest study of entrepreneurship around the world. One of the interesting issues I have been looking at is how varying fear of failure impacts entrepreneurial activity, as shown in the table below.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 25, 2012

'Even before Governor Patrick announced the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative in May, the state had already established itself as the big data capital of the world. We have 12,000 people employed in the sector in more than 100 companies. We have big money flowing from venture capital ( $350 million in 2011 ) to fund local startups offering new solutions.

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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.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 18, 2012

'Image Credit The Tokyo Stock Exchange needs its computers to stay up…. If I asked you what a CIO’s #1 job responsibility was , what would you say? After a lot of hemming and hawing, I think that you’d probably end up telling me that at the end of the day, a CIO has the ultimate responsibility for making sure that the company’s IT resources are available for the rest of the company to use at all times – that’s almost a part of the definition of information technology.

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Mick's IT Blog

JULY 27, 2012

'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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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). For a while now I have been on a track to read one influential/fundamental Computer Science paper each weekend. I find that going back to the basics of system, network and language design forces a good appreciation for keeping designs simple and focus on those f

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Cloud Musings

JULY 18, 2012

'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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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 24, 2012

Today I gave the keynote on Social Media and the Future at Marcus Evans’ CIO Summit. In question time after my keynote I was asked whether Facebook will still be the dominant social network in 5 years. I think the degree of uncertainty on this front is too high to make a firm prediction. However given the current market landscape and trends over the last couple of years, the most likely outcome is that Facebook will still dominate.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 18, 2012

'Big data is a hot topic, especially here in Massachusetts – arguably the Big Data capital of the world with 12,000 people employed in big data jobs in more than 100 companies across the state, an unmatched talent pool from top universities, and home to EMC Corp. While data analytics has been around for many years, recently the term ‘Big Data’ has exploded.

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Lundberg Media

JULY 16, 2012

'This article is based on my Persuasive Communication and Influence workshop. The CIO role spans and must influence all parts of an organization without directly controlling them. Today’s trends — global, mobile, data-driven virtual business — increase the stakes and make CIO influence not only important for the CIO’s personal success but for the success […].

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A Screw's Loose

JULY 25, 2012

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Enterprise IT Adoption Cycle. by Brian Katz on July 25, 2012 · 1 comment. A very good friend of mine who prefers to remain nameless (@swardley) built a beautiful graph on the Enterprise IT adoption Cycle. Seems to be garnering a huge amount of interest after I used it in my presentation at BriForum so reposted here is the graph (Click for a larger version). print.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today.

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Sean Daniel

JULY 2, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, July 02, 2012. Enjoying the Cloud way of Life. A few years ago, I made a decision to move almost everything to the cloud. Steve Ballmer did say that Microsoft employees were "All In!" and I decided to take that to heart. See what its like.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 2, 2012

Trevor Young , aka PR Warrior , is launching a new site Micro Domination which covers the “Global Microbrand Revolution” The site already includes an excellent free e-book The Micro Maven Revolution. You can download it from here or by clicking on the cover below. Trevor opens the book by practising what he preaches, highlighting his capabilities and brand in a low-key way in front of excellent content.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 20, 2012

'One of the biggest opportunities in Enterprise IT these days in “Big Data,” but this opportunity is not without real challenges. Tackling these challenges requires innovation on many fronts. Processing massive sets of data requires powerful compute clusters, which much be complemented by equally powerful file storage systems. Terascala , a company we led the initial financing round for, has recently launched their new Lustre Stack and is working with major OEM players Dell, EMC an

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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.

Lundberg Media

JULY 19, 2012

'Influence: the act or power of producing an effect without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command. For most CIOs and their teams, this is the only way to get things done. Here’s an excerpt from my Persuasive Communication and Influence workshop. Read my article based on this workshop here. Do you need to increase […].

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A Screw's Loose

JULY 10, 2012

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Get IT into the game. by Brian Katz on July 10, 2012 · 2 comments. I watched somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 soccer games this weekend as my daughter was playing in three of them. I spend many weekends like this throughout the year going to different tournaments that she is taking part in.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Register for AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. It is shaping up to be a great event with many Amazonians, partners and customers presenting in well over 150 sessions.

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Sean Daniel

JULY 5, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, July 05, 2012. Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts. I’m a big believer in short-cut keys, moving your hand to your mouse, moving the mouse, and then back to the keyboard is inefficient. If you can save a few seconds using keyboard shortcuts, and you do this constantly during the day, it’ll save you time.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 3, 2012

My recent European speaking tour was divided around equally between deep dives into crowdsourcing and where it is going, and keynotes and workshops for Chief Information Officers on shifts in the business environment and how that will shape the future of the IT function. A key theme of the CIO workshops was their opportunity and responsibility to move to the center of strategy within their organizations.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 23, 2012

'Forbes last week listed the “10 Greatest Industry-Disrupting Startups of 2012,” citing “amazing” companies rapidly transforming industries that affect our daily lives. It was nice to see one of our portfolio companies, ClickFox , recognized in the article. Ascent has seen extraordinary innovation, both within our portfolio and the broader market, from companies that create business value from source data that previously either could not be accessed or was ignored.

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Future of CIO

JULY 17, 2012

EA must recognize the broader ecosystem and encourage creative thinking, in order to frame the future of business. Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides greater visibility to the current and future position of an organization and enabling the relevant designers and decision-makers to act in a more informed manner. The biggest pitfalls for achieving EA value may include a lack of focus or lost in translation, due to the scope of architecture and immature EA discipline.

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A Screw's Loose

JULY 12, 2012

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Why buy the cow? by Brian Katz on July 12, 2012 · 2 comments. Anytime anyone refers to bring your own device (BYOD) today, the biggest argument in favor of it is that people are more productive when they bring their own device. Now, let’s be clear here, it’s not a function of a BYOD program that is driving these benefits but the fact that a company has added a mobile component to their strategy.

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