June, 2012

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Verizon Witching Hour

CIO Musings

'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! Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Verizon Witching Hour. Big Changes to #Verizon Plans Tomorrow!!

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Will offices still exist in the future?

Trends in the Living Networks

I’m currently doing a five-city speaking tour for Canon, speaking about the future of workspace. In my keynote I talk about the driving forces of change in work and organizations, the changing nature of the workspace, and the leadership required to create the next phase of work. Until recently there were two major workspaces for knowledge work: offices and field work.

Social 167
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Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

Social, Agile and Transformation

'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. Monday, June 18, 2012. Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research.

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Introducing the B2B IT Forum

The Investing Edge

'As a VC firm focused on technology, it’s no accident we’re located in the heart of Boston. It’s a town full of smart people, energy, and ideas. That’s evident at any local meet-up we’ve attended, from WebInno to the Boston Innovation Challenge , to other entrepreneurial events in the city. But what we’ve found to be missing is an event that focuses exclusively on a technology area with current spending levels trending toward $3 trillion per year : Enterprise IT.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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12 Best Practices CIOs Need To Know In Order To Be Able To Make Old IT Systems New Again (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit It takes more than a coat of paint to make old IT systems new again. No CIO wants to have a project fail. That’s why when it comes time to do something about older IT systems, replace or renew them, most CIOs have to take time to think about what they really want to do. This is the kind of project that is going to require both the IT department and the rest of the business to work together.

System 100
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Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery

SPF13

This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication. We’ll explore some of the advanced capabilities with MongoDB replication and best practices to ensure data durability and redundancy. We’ll also look at various deployment scenarios and disaster recovery configurations. Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery View more presentations from Steve Francia.

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MIT global study on social business: Executives increasingly understand the value and success drivers

Trends in the Living Networks

MIT Sloan Management Review together with Deloitte have just launched 2012 Social Business Global Executive Study and Research Project , drawing out some very interesting insights from a survey of almost 3,500 executives from 115 countries. Below the slides of the report I have selected several of the interesting slides with brief commentary. Social Business: What Are Companies Really Doing?

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Mick's IT Blogs: 4G Signal Dies in Walmart Stores

Mick's IT Blog

'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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Inaugural B2B IT Forum Tackles Cloud Security

The Investing Edge

'Anytime you start something new – be it a job, a training regimen, or in the case of the entrepreneurs we back, a company – there’s always a lot of excitement and energy. That was very much the case Tuesday when we held our inaugural B2B IT Forum at the Microsoft NERD Center. We heard great presentations, met a lot of smart people, and had a lot of fun – so much so that we’re already looking forward to our next event in September (stay tuned for details on that).

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CIO vs. CFO: Can't We All Just Get Along? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit CIOs and CFOs shouldn't solve problems this way. I’ve got some bad news for you. CIOs are unhappy. It turns out that a lot of CIOs are now reporting into the company’s CFO instead of its CEO. This means that the CFO is in charge and the CIO feels that he or she is not. Things can’t go on this way. What can be done to fix this problem?

Strategy 100
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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB

SPF13

Strategies for multi-data center deployment. Diving into the details of deploying of MongoDB across multiple data centers. Covers the advantages of a multi data center deployment for read/write locality, the various deployment strategies, and disaster preparedness and recovery. In addition, we’ll look at the MongoDB roadmap and planned enhancements around data center awareness.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Give-Away Contest: Win a Copy of SBS.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Give-Away Contest: Win a Copy of SBS 2011 Configuration from PACKT Publishing. Book Give-away : Win free copy of the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide , just by commenting!

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Open innovation is now a fundamental capability for nations and regions

Trends in the Living Networks

I have just participated via Skype in a BBC Creative Collisions debate in Northern Ireland, centered around how the media landscape is changing, and the implications of the rise of open innovation. Some of the comments from the locals involved in the debate were that while there is ample talent and innovation in Northern Ireland, there is not the same attitude to collaboration and information sharing that there is for example in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Enable/Disable Offline Files

Mick's IT Blog

'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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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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The Washburn Climb: A Charitable Ascent for the Boston Museum of Science

The Investing Edge

'On July 16th I’ll be participating in my fourth annual Washburn Climb – an annual hike to the top of Mount Washington. It’s an event I take great pride in participating because it raises money for an institution very close to my heart – the Boston Museum of Science. As nearly everyone in New England knows, the Museum of Science is a great place for everyone – young and old – to spend a day taking in fun and engaging exhibits.

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The Power Industry Discovers The Importance Of CIOs (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'One industry that realizes the importance of a CIO is the power industry. For far too long the role of the CIO within many companies has been almost an afterthought. Sure they all had CIOs, but unless the company was part of the IT sector then the CIO was mostly relegated to making sure that the corporate email system was working, he or she was not really a part of the company’s strategic planning team.

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Opportunity Knocks - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Opportunity Knocks. by Brian Katz on June 5, 2012 · 4 comments. I spend a lot of my time at work working on problems. I am sure a lot of other people do the same thing whether they are working for large enterprises or small mom and pop operations. We all spend our time working on the latest problem and everything we do is framed as a problem.

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How to Subscribe to an ICS calendar in Hotmail - SeanDaniel.com

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wednesday, June 06, 2012. How to Subscribe to an ICS calendar in Hotmail. Earlier I posted on how to share your Hotmail calendar between two or more people. What you might remember if you viewed the screenshots closely, is I had a few more calendar’s in there.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Big moves at Fairfax: The global extinction of newspapers moves closer

Trends in the Living Networks

Today’s ‘Fairfax of the Future’ announcement from Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax is massive news in Australia, and very significant in a global media context. It has been a busy media day for me, so far doing interviews for SBS World News and ABC24 News as well as a number of radio stations, due to my earlier predictions of the extinction of newspapers.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Apple QuickTime Installation

Mick's IT Blog

'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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Ascent Index: BYOD (June 6 – June 20)

The Investing Edge

'We know bringing your own device to work (that’s ‘BYOD’ for most of us) is a hot topic right now – and getting hotter. Over the past two weeks alone, the term had nearly 22,000 mentions on social networks which is a 10 percent increase over the first half of the month. One reason for the uptick could be the latest Fortinet study , which found that more than half of workers in their twenties believe it is their “right” rather than a privilege to use their own mobile devices at work.

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CIO's Know That Finding The Right Way To Be Innovative Is The Hard Part (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit. CIOs Need A Way To Find An Innovation Strategy That Works. Among all of the other jobs that a modern CIO is expected to perform, there is also that pesky “pursue an innovation strategy” thing. This is so critical that it should almost be a part of the definition of information technology. It’s not that pushing the IT department to become more innovative is all that difficult, I mean anyone can do that.

Strategy 100
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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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It's the data stupid! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. It’s the data stupid! by Brian Katz on June 6, 2012 · 7 comments. My good friend Ben Goodman echoed something in his post from Monday that I have seen in a bunch of other posts recently. It aims to tackle the fact that in BYOD (Bring your own device) you will have corporate and personal data on your individual device.

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Ten Inspiring IT Elevator Speeches

Future of CIO

IT is built to change in order for an organization built to last and from good to great. IT and CIOs are at the tipping point for transformation, with new mindset to create value center instead of cost center, move from back office to the front brain yard, and with the latest technology such as cloud, mobile, social and Big Data as silver lining, CIOs need to learn how to articulate IT value to the Chairman of the Board in 25 or less simple words.

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Why do you curate? The 3 intents of curation and how they create value

Trends in the Living Networks

I was recently in Rome for 24 hours to run a workshop for the senior technology executives of a global Fortune 50 company. While I was in town I was keen to try to catch up with collaboration and new media expert Robin Good , who I have known online for many years but never met, so I got in touch to see if we could catch up. Fortunately he was available, and he took the opportunity to do a video interview with me.

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Unable to complete activation. Device not registered - Mick's IT Blogs

Mick's IT Blog

'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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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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ASCENT INDEX: e-commerce (May 23 – June 6)

The Investing Edge

'We’ve been keeping a close watch on our enterprise IT terms over the past few weeks, and noticed one standing out high above the others. While not a new term by any measure, yet still a very important one that continues to see growing activity, “ e-commerce” had 28,847 mentions in the two-week period we examined, with an average of 1,800 mentions a day.

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- Does Walla-Walla (or any City) need its own Domain?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'This week ICANN announced they had received 1930 applications for new top-level Internet domains. ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, usually pronounced “I can” and with no direct relationship to “Yes We Can”. Today the Internet has just 22 such domains, including the familiar dot-com and dot-gov (which we all know and love).

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You break it, you buy it?wait what? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. You break it, you buy it…wait what? by Brian Katz on June 7, 2012 · 6 comments. I asked for suggestions tonight via twitter for this blog post and Bob Egan ( @bobegan ) made a terrific suggestion for another thing to think about when it comes to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). I have spent a lot of time talking about mobile strategy and thinking about whether you want a BYOD program and that it really isn’t about saving costs.

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Back to Basics

Nutanix

Not too long ago, the only available storage solution was direct attached storage (DAS). Compute was directly attached to its storage via ATA, SATA, eSATA, SCSI, SAS, and in some cases fibre channel. The system admin was also responsible for managing the storage. Life was simple.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.