Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, February 13, 2012. My IT is Ready. My People Are Not. By now you may know that I buy into the enterprise approach where cloud computing and its operational model are enablers for something bigger : The transformation to IT-as-a-Service.
CIO Musings
FEBRUARY 12, 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! Sunday, February 12, 2012. Leadership & Full Buckets. As assignment from my graduate class on organizational leadership: The Theory of the Dipper and the Bucket states that we are at our best when our buckets are full.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Recently web monitoring firm Semiocast published a list of the top 20 countries in number of Twitter accounts. Not surprisingly US was top with 107 million users, with Brazil coming in second at 33 million and Japan next at just under 30 million. I am always interested in comparing the degree of social media engagement across countries, so we did a simple analysis to find out the proportion of each country’s population that has a Twitter account, as below.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
'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. MongoDB and PHP, The Book. I wrote a book. It is published by Oâ??Reilly, and available now on Amazon, Oâ??
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.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications.
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
'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, February 28, 2012. Big Data, Big CIO Opportunity?
Information Technology Zone brings together the best content for IT professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
CIO Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 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! Friday, February 17, 2012. Drivers for Emerging Technology Adoption. A question came up recently, regarding the operational feasibility of adopting emerging technology.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
For any student of potential disruptive technological advances, life extension inevitably looms as one that could completely change the condition of humanity. While there is heated debate about whether the current proposed approaches to life extension being proposed have any merit, there is no question that major advances are possible in the field. For the last two centuries, life expectancy has increased by very close to 2 years for every decade that has passed.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing. Using tools like MapReduce, Pig and Streaming you will learn how to do analytics and ETL on large datasets with the ability to load and save data against MongoDB. With Hadoop MapReduce, Java and Scala programmers will find a native solution for using MapReduce to process their data with MongoDB.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
'Feedback sessions need to be done more often with younger IT workers…. A part of a CIO’s job is to let those people who report to him or her know how they are doing. At most companies, this is done once a year during an annual employee review. I’m not sure about you, but have you ever asked yourself if this is the best way to do this kind of thing?
Advertiser: GEP
The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
'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, February 14, 2012. Top Five Itineraries for the CIOs Offshore Visit.
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. IT-as-a-Service: Resources and Pointers. IT-as-a-Service. Possibly another buzzword that may reach the peak of hype and then fade away in a millisecond. But even if so, this new concept will persist by some other name.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 06 February 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
A while back we released our Map of the ExaTrends of the Decade. We are now releasing a series of short videos delving into the ExaTrends, starting with Reputation Economy. Some of the issues covered in the video include: * The amount of data we have now is enabling the measurement of reputation. * Influence and Reputation are different. * Klout, PeerIndex and their peers do not measure reputation, they are trying to measure influence. * Other players in the emerging reputation space include Lin
Advertisement
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.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
This project contains the most feature complete and up to date PHP Integration for Vim. It began as a fork of the largely outdated VIP (formerly PDV), but has morphed into it’s own project. It is intended to include the best PHP specific plugins, configurations and resources for editing PHP. Special care has been taken to include the best, keep them up to date and make sure everything plays well together.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
'When CIOs fire IT workers, they need to do it the right way…. It’s time for that IT worker to go. As CIO, one of the most painful decisions that you are ever going to have to make is the decision to terminate an employee. Not only is this a tough call for you to make , if you have any sensitivity at all then you realize that it’s going to rough on them no matter how you go about doing this.
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 16, 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.
Sean Daniel
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, February 09, 2012. How to Configure a Vanity Domain on Hotmail. The Oatmeal , one of my favorite comic sites, has an info-graphic on what your e-mail address says about you. While I disagree about the @gmail.com and @hotmail.com priority in life, I’m in pretty much agreement on using your own domain for your e-mail.
Advertisement
You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. - Friedrich Nietzsche If the holiday season is the time to pursue happiness, then February could be the month of pondering the love; if happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length; then, does love lack of its wisdom since it’s full of madness? If happiness can not be measured in smiles, should love be tested by hugs or kisses; if a high level of happiness is as high as the mountain, deep as the sea, c
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
On Tuesday I was interviewed as part of a 30 minute panel discussion on ABC Queensland on the future of radio. The podcast of the program is here. It was a wide ranging discussion, and we covered a lot of territory. At the conclusion of the program, when we were each asked to give our vision for the future of radio, I described what I see radio becoming.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a bunch of other sites, available in both print and as an ebook. From the introduction: What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
'You can’t be a buddy and be a boss. When I’m working with new CIOs I often run into the buddy / boss problem. It’s perfectly understandable that any person newly placed into a CIO position would like to establish a positive relationship with the people in the IT department that they are managing. This is all well and good, but it’s all too easy for a CIO to go too far – you can be a boss, but you can’t be a buddy.
Advertisement
Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
"Even in the perfect world where everyone was equal I still would own the portal and be working on the SQL.". -- Elvis Costello, "Every Day I Write the Book," with geek liberties taken. I'm excited to announce a new chapter in the direction of the team I've have the good fortune to work with for the last several (nearly six) years, and in my career: KMA has sold its SharePoint practice to Sentri, Inc.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. Often an application consists of several different tasks to be performed in particular sequence driven by a set of dynamic conditions. Amazon SWF makes it very easy for developers to architect and implement these tasks, run them in the cloud or on premise and coordinate their flow.
A Screw's Loose
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. It’s the customer, stupid! by Brian Katz on February 21, 2012 · 1 comment. This is the first of a two parter talking about the Consumerization of IT (CoIT), starting with what is CoIT versus the second part, where does IT go next and do we need them …. I recently had a nice twitter chat with Jeff Sussna where we were going back and forth over some of my recent blog posts and my highly opinionated tweets and we ended up in a gr
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
For many who come across the idea of crowdsourcing in its many forms, their first thoughts are about the ethical issues. As such, in writing Getting Results From Crowds , it was important to address the ethical domain rather than ignoring or glossing it. We address the ethical issues of crowdsourcing in Chapter 5 on Relationship Value , offering Points and Counterpoints on a number of the major ethical issues in the field.
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.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
GitHub Code Viewer 2 automatically pulls a file from github and places into any post using a shortcode [github_cv url=‘$url’] Caches locally (in db), so there isn’t a performance hit. Heavily Modified from original plugin by Matt Curry [link] Installation Upload GitHub_Code_Viewer.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Use the shortcode [github_cv url=’’] in your post.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
'[link]. If you really want to become or remain a CIO, the question comes up as to if you need to go on and get an advanced degree. We’ve all heard a great deal about getting an MBA, but would a specialized Master’s degree do just as well? Dr. Anderson looks into exactly what goes into a specialty Master’s degree and way you might want to consider getting one.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
I had an absolute blast presenting "A Decade of SharePoint Adoption Strategies" at SharePoint Saturday Philly this past weekend. In addition to the usual friendly, motley band of itinerant SharePoint speakers from various ISVs and consultancies, there were several hundred attendees (about 450 overall). . As one would expect from a group of people freely giving up their Saturday to learn about SharePoint, folks were engaged and enthusiastic about the subject matter, and my session was full of qu
Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
CIOs need to leverage different conversation styles to construct the collaborative vision and deliver high-performance IT result. Contemporary CIOs not only need wear many colors of hats or try different pairs of shoes, they may also need master all styles of conversations to develop situational wisdom and influential competency, to rebuild IT’s reputation as a value creator and innovation hub. 1.
Advertisement
“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
220 
Let's personalize your content