Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. 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. But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 25, 2009

Below are my slides for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference at Abu Dhabi. As for all my presentations, note that these slides are designed to accompany my speech and not to be viewed on their own, though may still be useful. Keynote: Profiting from Accelerating Change - MegaTrends Abu Dhabi Conference View more OpenOffice presentations from rossdawson.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 27, 2009

'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. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? When Amazon Web Services came out with S3 and EC2, I was skeptical even though I was and continue to be a strong proponent of SaaS.

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MAY 4, 2009

One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit multiple methods of access. Https, WebDAV, SSH and svnserve. In spite of svn’s ability to support multiple access methods, doing so simultaniously can be quite challenging. Typically one will run into permission issues as the http(s) access will all be written to the filesystem as the user running the webserver.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 17, 2009

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) embodies much of what makes infrastructure as a service such a powerful technology; it enables our customers to build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with demand, at low cost. Core in achieving these levels of efficiency and fault-tolerance is the ability to acquire and release compute resources in a matter of minutes, and in different Availability Zones.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

MAY 26, 2009

Though perhaps a bit more rigorous in his approach, what Geoff Colvin has to say about deliberate practice in Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else is not unlike what George Leonard says about “practice&# in Mastery or how Josh Waitzkin describes his process of mastering chess and T’ai Ch’i in his recent book The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 18, 2009

Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , here is Chapter 7 on Governance. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Within the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework above, governance is an absolutely critical and central issue, as I have written about many times before.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MAY 28, 2009

KMA's Sadie Van Buren is speaking at an upcoming webinar session from Earley & Associates entitled "Optimizing Your SharePoint Investment Through Search & Information Architecture." She's presenting in session 2, June 11, from 12:30-2pm EDT. If you have any burning questions about the webinar content or how to take advantage of SharePoint's built-in search, please feel free to contact me , or contact Sadie directly.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MAY 22, 2009

Attended an MBA Association event last night: Social networking for business – overhyped fad or essential tool? Speakers: Mireia Fontbernat, Paul O’Nolan & Paul TannerLocation: Strand Palace Hotel In a few words, the speakers confirmed what I already knew or suspected: No one has a clue where online social media is really taking us (and these 3 speakers were no exception).

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All Things Distributed

MAY 20, 2009

Before networks were everywhere, the easiest way to transport information from one computer in your machine room was to write the data to a floppy disk, run to the computer and load the data there from that floppy. This form of data transport was jokingly called "sneaker net". It was efficient because networks only had limited bandwidth and you wanted to reserve that for essential tasks.

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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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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

MAY 28, 2009

This is a repost of The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow , which I originally posted in April 2008. - - — — —– ——– The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow. At the end of a brief history of human communication , Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the future of communications: visual communications.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, May 6, 2009. In their own words: Valley CTOs Blogs & Tweets. I noticed that I subscribe to feeds from a number of CTO-like folks, so I thought Id publish a few of my favorites: Suns CTO, Greg Papadopoulos - Blog I love listening to Greg - definitely a visionary, definitely well-connected.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 24, 2009

The biggest highlight of the MegaTrends conference for me (other than my own keynote :-) ) is the presentation by Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel prize for economics last year, on the state of the global economy. I have a lot of respect for his outlook. Live notes from his speech: The volume of world trade has fallen off a cliff – down 15% over the last year, the biggest since the Great Depression.

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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.". This MIT CIO Symposium, my fourth, was themed, "Sustaining CIO Leadership in a Changing Economy," and I attended sessions as follows: -- CEO Keynote Panel -- Academic Keynote Panel -- CIO Keynote Panel -- Lunch Presentation fro

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MAY 8, 2009

After their successes with outsourcing services, Indian IT Services firms are growing their consulting business. In Europe, and in particular mainland western countries like Germany and France, one of their key challenges is to convince European executives that they have acquired internally enough “local” culture to provide adapted services. This is only a matter of time and the first Indian firms to achieve this will build a strong competitive advantage.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MAY 24, 2009

'I just finished one of the most difficult tasks a manager can perform – making preliminary decisions on budget cuts for next year. This is a job which is difficult in any line of work, and more so in government for several reasons. For one thing, there’s an expectation that government is stable and long-term in its operations and its employment.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

MAY 27, 2009

In a post earlier today , Jack Vinson reflects on six years of his blog Knowledge Jolt. Jack was one of the first bloggers I ever followed and was one of the reasons I first started blogging, also nearly six years ago in June 2003. I’ve had a bit of a blogging-block of late (I blame Twitter ), so I thought I’d take the occassion of the upcoming anniversary of my first blog post to revisit my earlier blogs and repost (with maybe a little editing) my favorites in the hopes that this m

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs & Hosting providers. F or the past months Ive held that new technologies are OK. but the litmus test is whether theyre actually used and valuable in the real world.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 19, 2009

Here continuing our series of visual representations of social media tools inside organizations, taken from our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report. The diagram below was used in the chapter on RSS in the enterprise, to illustrate how RSS can support effective information flows in the organization. Go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page for several free chapters.

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CIO Rant

MAY 24, 2009

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

MAY 7, 2009

[Below is an article I wrote in Nov 07 for a now defunct Indian website. I stand by it even more today]. For Indian outsourcing providers, their business is evolving towards securing partnerships for innovation with their customers. It is therefore no longer only about cost-savings and taking on non-core activities. Now here is a challenge for them: How to go about obtaining enough specific internal knowledge from their customers in order to produce relevant value-adding innovation?

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Fountainhead

MAY 4, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, May 4, 2009. Lessons from Glassblowing for High-Tech marketing. This past weekend I spent 6 hours learning the very basics of glassblowing. Its been on my " bucket list " for quite some time, and when a good friend suggested we try it, I jumped on the opportunity.

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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

MAY 17, 2009

A review of what had happened to the Web 2.0 poster-children prompted me to review what had happened to the companies featured in my Web 2.0 Landscape dating from May 2007. This was one of the elements of our Web 2.0 Framework which has now been downloaded over 150,000 times. In the diagram below the green circles indicate the companies have been acquired, while a red cross shows the company has joined the dead-pool.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 11, 2009

I wrote the article below for Tech Marketing magazine. It is intended as a quick guide for marketers who are looking to engage with social media. It is now impossible to ignore the power and reach of social media. Yet the rules of engagement are very different to traditional marketing and PR. Here are a few guidelines to how to tap the power of social media without stumbling into the many pitfalls: 1.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 17, 2009

Today we launch our Influence Landscape framework ! Click on the image to download the pdf. This continues our tradition of creating frameworks to elucidate where things are going, including extremely popular visuals such as Future of Media Strategic Framework , Future of the Media Lifecycle , Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework and many more. The Influence Landscape framework is launched in a Beta version that will be refined and developed over time, as influence is now one of our major res

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 29, 2009

While our annual Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is the biggest Enterprise 2.0 event in Australasia and Asia, the global landmark event for Enterprise 2.0 is definitely the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, coming up on June 22-25. As I am a blogger partner of the conference, you can get a 30% discount by registering through the button on the right of this post.

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Applications

Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 28, 2009

Yesterday evening water got cut off to our house, and then the electricity went out. There were sounds of roadwork outside, so I presumed that as had happened before they were digging up pipes in the road and hadn't bothered to let us know. In the morning my wife Victoria got up and then rushed back in the bedroom saying I had to get up and look. I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed and beheld a big hole in the ground in front of our house.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 25, 2009

In preparing for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi this afternoon I have distilled my thinking into a new visual representation. To gain insights the future we need to understand the intersection of three domains: Technology , Business , and Society. In each of these domains we can distill one driving force that brings together the vast diversity of trends in these domains.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 28, 2009

Last night we had a conversation with Juliette Powell in Sydney. A small group of local digerati gathered for an informal conversation on social networks, taking advantage of Juliette being in Australia for the first time as she tours the world promoting her new book 33 Million People in the Room. Below are the unedited notes I took during the conversation, reflecting what was said by the participants.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 25, 2009

Continuing my live blogging of the MegaTrends conference before my keynote this afternoon, there are two sessions on the economy: a presentation from the Ministry of the Economy, and a panel of the chief economists of leading banks. The UAE Minister for the Economy couldn’t make it, so the Director-General of the Ministry presented his speech. Most interestingly, he said that they believe that the worst of the crisis is over.

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