Fountainhead

DECEMBER 19, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, December 19, 2011. Steve Jobs in 1980. and Cloud + Big Data Today. In 1980, Steve Jobs gave a talk (YouTube) about the early days of Apple. Its fascinating because it describes events that lead up to the first commercially-available Apple computer, and presaged the movement toward "canned" programs (commercial software) rather than everyone writing programs themse

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I think one of the most valuable aspects of our newly-launched book Getting Results From Crowds is the analysis of Crowd Business Models. While crowdsourcing is clearly a fantastic way for organizations large and small to get access to unparalleled resources and scale their operations, it is also increasingly central to many companies’ business models.

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DECEMBER 28, 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. Windows Power User Tools. Iâ??m a huge fan of Windows 7. Itâ??s the first time Iâ??ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine.

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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 5, 2011

'All organizations seek knowledge. Knowledge is the information gathered and stored by its people. Quality knowledge is not possible without access to all sources of knowledge held by an organization. All companies face the challenge of ‘knowing’ what information it holds and of being able to access that same information instantly. Organizationally, a company holds this knowledge information in three forms: Paper – Traditional Information.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2011

'Green is good, but should a CIO approve every green IT project? I’m green, you’re green, all of IT is going green. Ok, so this sure sounds like a good thing to do and I’m all for saving the planet and such, but is it really worth it? I mean we’re still dealing with the aftereffects of that global recession thing and should those of us in the IT sector insist that green IT projects pay for themselves?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 14, 2011

For those who love rich data on the world of media and telecoms, the release of a report by UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom is always a cause for celebration. Last year I covered some of Ofcom’s report on key trends on communication and media usage. Here I will excerpt a few of the highlights from today’s Ofcom International Communications Market Report 2011 , which focuses on country comparative data.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I’m a huge fan of Windows 7. It’s the first time I’ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine. I’ve compiled a set of programs that I have found to be invaluable in using Windows for serious development and computing. All are free and clean of any ads or spyware. EaseUS® Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition As Partition Magic alternative, EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is a ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management freeware.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 27, 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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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2011

'Image Credit. Do You Know How To Manage Your CIO Energy? So what’s it going to take to make you a successful CIO? Is it going to be your understanding of a wide variety of the IT sector’s emerging technologies? Is it your ability to understand where the company stands in the marketplace and where it wants to go? Or is it your business skills that allow you to seamlessly network with the rest of the company in order to lead the IT department?

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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 23, 2011

'Dear Santa: 2011 has been an average year. The economy is still sputtering along and budgets are still lean. I have been a good CIO this year and have met my budgets and finished all my projects. I have tried to be really good by being the best CIO I can. So Santa, this year, I would like the following: A low-cost cloud service solution that can be secure with a SLA that I can work with.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 4, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Sunday, December 4, 2011. Celebrating Innovation at EMC. Can innovation be fostered or facilitated? Can it be measured? Is it a formal or informal process? Can you have an innovation competition? Is it limited to Engineering?

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2011

This morning I appeared on the Australian national breakfast TV program Sunrise in their ‘Ask an Expert’ segment, talking about the year ahead. Here is the 4 minute clip. In the brief segment I draw on a number of the 12 Themes for 2012 I recently released. The key topics we discussed were: * How 2012 could be a year of massive transformation. * Opportunities will flow to those who are engaging in social media and other transformative technologies, potentially increasing the divide b

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SPF13

DECEMBER 9, 2011

10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the first session on building an application in MongoDB. This talk will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. It covers the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture.

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A Screw's Loose

DECEMBER 19, 2011

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. RIP MDM 200X – December 16th 2011. by Brian Katz on December 19, 2011 · 4 comments. Mobile Device Management (MDM) is dead and many hardly knew you. There, I’ve finally put the words to paper that I knew would someday have to be written. I truly never thought you would hang on this long but you really managed to stick it out.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2011

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson looks into why so many high-profile CIOs have been getting fired lately — could it be because they weren’t great CIOs? Dr. Anderson identifies the 5 different things that every CIO needs to do in order to become a great CIO. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 29, 2011

'A few years back a term was coined – Guerrilla IT. The concept of ‘Guerrilla IT’ meant conceiving and delivering business-oriented products and services quickly and interactively. You don’t hear much about it or if many shops are employing guerrilla IT strategies. I am not sure why this fell out favor in the industry? Being a Guerrilla CIO means you are focused on striking a balance between agility and innovation, reusing available resources and technology, to avoid unwieldy procurements

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Sean Daniel

DECEMBER 21, 2011

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Blast from the Past: The BackOffice Server 4.5 Daily Cycle. Lots of old friends in this video. Unfortunately I only worked on BackOffice 2000, the last edition of BackOffice Server (excluding Essential Business Server of course).

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Contagious Magazine has just launched its annual Most Contagious 2011, “reviewing the most innovative exercises in branding, technology, and popular culture,” taking a marketer’s perspective on what has succeeded this year. The slides are below (you really need to view in full screen as it’s very detailed), or you can also see the Most Contagious website or the pdf version.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 7, 2011

This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran the MongoDB LA Users Group. Notably I met with Magento about the possibility of Magento 2.0 being built on MongoDB. On my final night in LA I presented on MongoDB, E-commerce and Transactions. I really enjoyed my time in LA and am looking forward to returning. I was impressed by how many companies are using MongoDB in LA and how great the interaction was at the Meetup.

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A Screw's Loose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. What’s App Doc? by Brian Katz on December 12, 2011 · 4 comments. This is a continuation of my series of posts talking about applications. Last week I gave everyone the definition of a crapplication while today we are going to focus on Apps. I’ve spent the last few months in multiple conversations with people who have no concept of what an App is.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2011

The modern organization is like the mini-city, with its own sophistication: the silo functions, the sea of data, and the pool of talents. For us not so far away from San Francisco, once a while visiting could be both entertaining and educational: running out of suburb’s fresh air, blue sky’s simplicity, diving into urbanized sophistication and cultural quintessential.

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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.

Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Last week I participated in and spoke at an Education Roundtable organized by Telstra, which brought together a small group of very senior executives in all layers of education in Australia. In the same way that I have been drawn into discussions on the future of government over the last 18 months, I am finding myself increasingly frequently asked to engage with decision-makers on the future of education.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 9, 2011

We recently launched our 12 Themes for 2012 , shown below, in which the third of the 12 themes is ‘Privacy vanishes’ 2012: 12 Themes. View more presentations from rossdawson. One of the drivers of privacy vanishing is the rise of facial recognition. As the 2012 themes document notes, while Facebook has prominently launched its facial recognition technology, Apple and Google have facial recognition capabilities that they have not yet launched.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2011

I’m at the launch meeting of the social media community of practice set up by Institute of Public Administration NSW (IPAA). Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote on The Transformation of Government at IPAA’s annual conference, where I was encouraged to see the interest and appetite for new and more open approaches to government here. .

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 9, 2011

When you talk about crowdsourcing, consistently one of the first objections you hear is worries about losing valuable ideas and intellectual property to unscrupulous overseas contractors. Our new book Getting Results From Crowds is designed to help people get the most value from crowdsourcing. Part of doing that is giving perspective on the challenges and opportunities of using crowds.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Last week I gave a keynote at the National Broadband Network – what’s in it for me? conference in Bunbury, Western Australia, a town 2 hours south of Perth, the most geographically isolated city in the world. Not surprisingly the hunger for broadband in the region is enormous – you could feel it in the room. My keynote on The Killer Apps of Connectivity roamed through through some of the killer apps of massive broadband, including work, health, education, media, and new busines

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I believe strongly in visual frameworks as a way of communicating and engaging with complex ideas. I share these on the web, sometimes use them as central frames for my keynotes, apply them in strategy workshops, use them to shape my own thinking on the topics they cover, and sometimes create private custom visual frameworks for clients to define and articulate their strategy.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 13, 2011

There are many themes and ideas threaded through our rich and complex times, so when I choose concepts to represent the heart of the year ahead, there is a lot to sort through and select. There were many dozens of ideas competing for the 12 themes I chose to represent what awaits us in 2012 (see slides below). One of the most important themes of today that made the cut is ‘The New Luxury’ ( Theme 8 ).

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Yesterday I appeared on the Australia national breakfast program Today , talking about what we can expect in social media and technology in 2012. I was on holidays in Melbourne so spoke from the studio there. You can see the clip below, or on the Today Show Video page , under the title Social Trends for 2012. It is always hard to fit in a lot of content into a breakfast TV format, however I managed to cover thoughts on Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, augmented reality glasses, Siri and voice interfa

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