Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I have been working with one of the world’s largest private companies, which is engaged in a strategy project looking at the future out to 2025. Today a key workshop for the project was run, where we refined the project process and I provided some perspectives on the future of work as input to the study. While the future of work and organizations is one of my most important themes, I haven’t had any public summary documents on the topic.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'Image Credit Where does the CFO want to lead the CIO to? The good folks over at Gartner and the Financial Executives Research Foundation have just completed another one of those big studies. What they found is that in companies that have less than $50M in revenue, 47% of their CIOs report to the company’s CFO. In firms that have $1B or more in revenue, 46% of CIOs report to the CFO.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Monday, September 10, 2012. My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

'This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Yesterday I released a first version of my Future of Work framework. I think that a detailed explanation of the outline framework would be a very useful complement to the visual landscape, and I aim to provide that over coming months in a series of blog posts, videos, and other content. Click on the image to download the full framework. Today, I thought I would look at the ‘ Value Polarization ‘ section under Economic Structure.

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A CIO's Voice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

'I have been remised in writing the last few weeks for a couple of reasons. First – Work has just gotten really busy and there have been a few issues that required me to put in extra hours. In my old age, those late nights require me to take longer to recuperate. Second – My weekends have been spent attending weddings, birthday parties, and the occasional family visit requiring me to be an unofficial tour guide.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” That’s a long title! The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

We have recently been advertising for a Genius projects/ marketing/ web/ publishing assistant/ manager – part-time in Sydney. As we describe in our working principles document, the process starts with an interview and tests, after which we offer the most interesting candidates a one-day trial, in most cases offering to pay $250. For those we hire after the trial work, the most common pay structure is hourly rate plus profit share.

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A Screw's Loose

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Something gets in your way, Turn! by Brian Katz on September 14, 2012 · 5 comments. I sat down to write a blog post tonight and wasn’t sure what to write about so I ended up putting on a movie I hadn’t seen in a while, the 1985 Savage Steve Holland masterpiece with John Cusack, ‘Better Off Dead’.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Million Miles Away. By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I just received a note from United Airlines that I had flown 1 million miles on their airline. I didnt start flying United until I moved to Seattle, so all of these have been miles on Amazon business.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

'This is session SFTS012, titled “Designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack.” It is, unfortunately, my last session of the conference; I’m leaving from here to head to the airport to catch my flight home. The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack).

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

'What’s a “Datapalooza” and Why is the White House having One? The last four years have seen an explosion in government “open data” with thousands of datasets posted online for public use. The City of Washington DC, under the leadership of then-CTO Vivek Kundra, was the first to post such data online in a “data catalog”. The effort vastly expanded when President Obama took office and, as one of his very first acts, directed the federal government to be open and transparent.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 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.

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A Screw's Loose

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Killer Apps. by Brian Katz on September 12, 2012 · 3 comments. I was asked today what I thought the killer application would be that would drive enterprises to adopt tablets faster. I was participating in a Twitter chat that was focused on tablets and the business and while we talked about content creation, security of the data, and crapplications, we ended with the question about the killer app for enterprise adoption.

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Project Management

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

'Now that a week or so has passed, I thought I’d post a quick “link review” of VMworld 2012. Think of this like a VMworld-specific version of Technology Short Takes. Liveblogging Posts. A number of folks were liveblogging the conference keynotes and conference sessions. As I have in years past, I also posted a few liveblogs where possible.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding Flexibility - Introducing the Reserved Instance Marketplace. By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we launched a new feature that enables you to buy and sell Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Last Friday I was interviewed on ABC’s News Exchange program about ebooks and their impact. Click on the image to view the video of the program. The ebook segment is around 13:30 – 17:15. We covered a lot of territory in the interview, ranging across topics including why ebooks are rising so rapidly to the impact on booksellers and libraries.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'Now that day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 is behind me, here’s a quick summary of the day. Most of today was taken up by meetings; some of these were meetings with various Intel folk to get my feedback on the event, others were meetings that I’m not at liberty to discuss. (Sorry folks!) I did, however, manage to capture a couple of sessions: DATS002: Big Data Meets High-Performance Computing: [link].

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

'This is session DATS002, titled “Big Data Meets High Performance Computing.” The speakers are John Hengeveld from Intel and Micahel Franklin from UC Berkeley. The title sounds like this might be a marketing session, but I’m hoping that this material will be substantial instead of just fluff. Hengeveld starts the session by reminding attendees that Big Data is really about the insights that are gained from the data.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

'This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. This is my first time attending IDF, and I appreciate the invitation to attend from Intel. (Disclosure: My travel expenses are being reimbursed and I was given a pass to attend, but I am not receiving any other form of compensation.). Prior to the start of the keynote, they show a video talking about “What misconception about engineers bothers you most?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

'This is session CLDS001, titled “The Open Data Center Alliance and Developing a Usage Model Roadmap for Cloud Computing.” The presenters are Mario Mueller, VP of IT Infrastructure at BMW Group and John Pereira, a marketing director at Intel. Both Mueller and Pereira are also involved with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA). The session starts out with some background on ODCA.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

'Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. In the post, the author states: Subduing OpenStack is exactly what VMWare [sic] did by joining the foundation.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

'This is session SPCS001, titled “Technology Insight: Intel Next Generation Microarchitecture Code Name Haswell” The speakers are Tom Piazza, Hong Jiang, Per Hammarlund, and Ronak Singhal, Sr. Haswell is a “tock” as opposed to a “tick” (referring to Intel’s “tick/tock” release cycle); this means it is a significant change at the platform and microarchitecture levels.

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