Fountainhead
AUGUST 9, 2011
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Cloud Is Not The End - Its The Means. Once you get a new tool, you ask: What can I build that I couldnt before? Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 30, 2011
Going beyond human interaction with (quasi) intelligent machines, we are now beginning to explore interactions between (somewhat) intelligent machines. One of the concepts of the Singularity is that machines will before long be able to teach themselves and each other, to the point where their interactions and conversations are incomprehensible to our puny minds.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 6, 2011
'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson explains the issues that CIOs need to be aware of when they are evaluating using cloud computing. Dr. Anderson identifies seven issues with moving a company’s applications and storage into the cloud. He explains how CIOs need to go about dealing with each of these issues. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 17, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3.
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.
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 9, 2011
'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. Tuesday, August 09, 2011. Trying to Develop a Death Star or a Flux Capacitor?
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 26, 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.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 10, 2011
Continuing our series of conversations on the future with Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency and myself, here we discuss the future of Twitter. Some of the topics we discuss include: * “Twitter News Network&# or TNN describes how Twitter is now a news distribution media, dramatically increasing the speed of news, with most news hitting Twitter within 40 seconds. * TNN will be bigger than CNN, including video and audio on Twitter, produced by the masses with rich filtering. * In China Sina
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 28, 2011
'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson tackles the question that all CIO’s are asking: just exactly what is “cloud computing”? Dr. Anderson identifies the 4 different flavors of cloud computing that are available and points out how a CIO would go about using each one of them. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 22, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application.
A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 16, 2011
'The concept of business and IT not aligning is a foreign concept to me. Other departments such as accounting and marketing departments don’t have this mandate that they must align with the business because they do. Why is IT any different? By our very existence we are in alignment with the business. If the IT department is running off doing their own thing I think that is a failure of management to provide oversight and guidance.
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Sean Daniel
AUGUST 26, 2011
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, August 26, 2011. Obtaining a Domain Name in SBS 2011 Standard and Essentials. So my second video that I did with the HP/Microsoft Coffee Coaching is now live. This one is near and dear to my heart as it’s a program that I built almost from the ground up (admittedly I had a little help from my friends at the start).
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
AUGUST 10, 2011
Today, Microsoft released to the public the product guide for Community Technology Preview #3 of the upcoming release of SQL Server, code-named "Denali.". I had the opportunity in the Spring to see some of the new capabilities of this release of SQL Server, including the (most interesting/exciting to me) reporting tool called " Project Crescent." Many attendees at this year's Convergence, Tech Ed, and WPC events got to see it included in some of the sexier demos at those events.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 3, 2011
On Tuesday I gave the opening keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium. CIO magazine did a nice article titled IIIS: Big Data driving new trends which reviews my keynote and the one immediately after from Steve Duplessie , one of the world’s top analysts on data and storage. It says: Speaking at the event, co-hosted by Storage Networking Industry Association A/NZ and Computerworld Australia, strategy advisor, author and fu
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 20, 2011
'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson explains why there are some problems that an IT department just can’t solve — because they are wicked problems. Dr. Anderson identifies why traditional IT problem solving techniques won’t work with wicked IT problems and how you can determine if a problem is really a wicked problem. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].
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All Things Distributed
AUGUST 16, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory
A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 19, 2011
'I was at the doctor’s office the other day talking to my doctor about how his summer was going. He mentioned that his son, also a doctor, just graduated and is looking for a job. My doctor mentioned how he was going to make a few calls to some medical chiefs he knows to get his son a job. This was not the first time I heard this. A few weeks past a managing director I play golf with also mentioned how he was going to make a few calls to get his son, a recent graduate, a job.
Nutanix
AUGUST 25, 2011
Gartner released a report in mid 2010 that they expected 50 million VDI desktops by 2013. Then there are the recent newsflashes surrounding VDI : Citrix buys Kaviza and RingCube.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
AUGUST 11, 2011
'Responders’ Smart Phones – Click to see more. Every teenager – including some of us 50 and 60 year old teenagers – seems to have a smart phone these days. I’m writing this on an airplane, and I just finished an intense, 20 minute “ Angry Birds ” session on my HTC Android smart phone (yes, it was in “airplane” mode!).
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 12, 2011
The music industry has struggled for over a decade as it tried to push back against inevitable change and maintain the status quo. While there has been some good experimentation over the years, we are now reaching a phase where the old structures have pretty much died and all that remains is experimentation to build what will be a radically different structure to the music industry.
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 31, 2011
'What’s Your Company’s IT Grade? You would think that since all of these computers, networks, and software things have been around for so long that most companies would be just about even in how they make use of them, right? A recent study reveals that this is not the case: some of us are using IT to move the company forward and some of us are slipping behind because of IT.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 18, 2011
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 24, 2011
I was just interviewed by ABC TV for tonight’s 7pm news about Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple. My initial reaction is that is as close to a non-event as it could be. . It was absolutely major news when Jobs announced his first medical leave for a life-threatening disease. It underlined that he would not be at Apple for ever, and might not return to Apple from his leave.
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
AUGUST 2, 2011
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (slogan: Creating and Preventing Strategic Surprise) is offering $42 million in funding for “revolutionary&# research into social media in strategic communication. The DARPA announcement states: The conditions under which our Armed Forces conduct operations are rapidly changing with the spread of blogs, social networking sites, and media?
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 4, 2011
The centrality and ease of use of the Circles feature means Google+ is a significant step forward in social networking. It has been a key platform in its initial success. The Circles feature enables people to selectively share content. Someone can send work-related discussions to their public stream, photos of their children to their family, and information about a boating event to their yacht club friends.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 28, 2011
For years I have been writing about reputation and have often said that this will be the decade of the reputation economy. Yet until recently there has been very little in the space. The social media measurement systems such as Klout and PeerIndex have limited data scope and while they talk the language of reputation actually measure influence. Honestly.com is a more pure play in the individual reputation space, but has got limited traction so far.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 8, 2011
For the last decade I have examined and applied social network analysis in and across organizations, for example in large professional firms , technology purchase decision-making , high-performance personal networks , and other applications. The more time you spend with the analysis of social networks in organizations and those firms that have applied the techniques, the more evident the power of these approaches.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 23, 2011
The distribution of music taste and consumption has shifted dramatically over the decade years, and will continue to evolve significantly in coming years. Back before a dozen years ago, radio and MTV exposed people to a limited range of music from label playlists, and the cost of records and CDs made it hard to experiment with new music. The first big change from that landscape was the widespread availability of online music downloads, which suddenly massively broadened the music libraries of th
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 21, 2011
Financial services is one of the most industries in which the use of social media is the most relevant, not least because customer service is a critical differentiator between highly commoditized offerings. While financial services and banking were traditionally highly relationship-based, the shift to online has significantly eroded those relationships.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 4, 2011
Continuing our series of conversations between fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here is our session on the future of television. Here are a few of the ideas we share in the session: * Video will be everywhere: video walls, ceilings, floors, tables and more, giving space for the vast amount of video we are creating. * Participatory TV is an expression of the broad shift from hub and spoke media to co-created media. * Examples include CBS’s What’s Trending, Al-Jazeera’s
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 1, 2011
This morning I am giving the opening keynote at Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium , organized by the Storage Network Industry Association and Computerworld. Here are the slides to my keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure. My usual warning applies: these slides are intended as visual support to my keynote, not as stand-alone slides.
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