Fountainhead

JULY 27, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. IT-as-a-Service: IT Competing for Business vs. “Shadow IT” As I begin to sink my teeth into the realities of IT Transformation and the operational change to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), it’s becoming shockingly clear that adoption challenges arent technology issues.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 25, 2011

My friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard , who runs The Futures Agency (which I am part of), was recently in Sydney for a speaking engagement. We took the opportunity to record a series of conversations on the future. Here is our conversation on the future of money. The key points we make are: * The world of money is opening out in a big way today. * Facebook credits are becoming an important alternative currency. * Cash will phase out for digital payments. * The rise of Bitcoin is important

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Cloud Musings

JULY 28, 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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Nutanix

JULY 26, 2011

Network storage has many challenges today, but it wasn’t always like this.

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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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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 26, 2011

In my recent keynotes I have frequently used variations on my Transformation of Business framework , which looks at how Technology Drivers and Social Drivers lead to a changed Business Landscape , and in turn New Drivers of Success. In looking at the world around, us, the shift that is the most apparent to many is the pace of technological change, with in the order of 100-fold increases in processing power, storage efficiency, and fixed and mobile bandwidth over the last decade.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 28, 2011

Continuing our series of conversations with Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency , and myself, here is the one we kicked off with: what is the role of a futurist? Here are a few of the topics we discuss: * A key role of futurists is to develop and share foresights. * Someone who helps people think about the future to make better decisions today. * To examine and distinguish between trends and uncertainties in order to work out the best path forward. * Clients are interested in having help thinkin

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 27, 2011

Continuing our series of conversations on the future between Gerd Leonhard and myself, today’s session is on the future of music. Here are a few of the points we made: * There is less money than there used to be in music, and there will be even less money in future, but music will still prosper. * Collaborative filtering has been around for some time and will be fundamental to our music experience. * Social music is currently being brought to life as a space by Turntable.fm. * Music is goi

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 28, 2011

Arthur C. Clarke was certainly one of the most prescient people of the last century, anticipating many developments and in fact inventing the geo-stationary satellite on which much of the early media and communication revolution was based. In this fantastic segment from a BBC broadcast in 1964 he confidently makes two predictions, one absolutely accurate, one completely wrong.

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