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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We released our Map of the ExaTrends of the Decade a while ago now. However the decade is still young, and all of these ExaTrends (which is a MegaTrend cubed) have a long way yet to play out. We have created a set of slides to make the 14 ExaTrends easier to read and understand. The slides are better viewed in large size, so either view full screen or go to the slides on Slideshare. 14 ExaTrends of the Decade.

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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.

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Nutanix

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

How do we manage a very large and complex product that could potentially have hundreds or thousands of entities?

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Crowdsourcing is moving to the center not just of discussion, but of business and society. That is becoming increasingly evident through the events being run as well as in what companies are doing. Moving beyond the increasing proliferation of conferences and workshops on crowdsourcing (for which I am partly responsible), we are now seeing a full week devoted to the topic, in Singapore in April 2013.

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