CIO Musings
JULY 25, 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! Wednesday, July 25, 2012. State Tech Magazine Recognition. So, I am getting ready for bed and I notice I have a twitter mention on my smartphone.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 24, 2012
Today I gave the keynote on Social Media and the Future at Marcus Evans’ CIO Summit. In question time after my keynote I was asked whether Facebook will still be the dominant social network in 5 years. I think the degree of uncertainty on this front is too high to make a firm prediction. However given the current market landscape and trends over the last couple of years, the most likely outcome is that Facebook will still dominate.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
JULY 25, 2012
'Image Credit. Caption: Boo! That SaaS monster is going to get you CIO…. Yea Cloud Computing! Everyone is in the process of falling in love with cloud computing and its sister Software-As-A-Service (SaaS). What CIO wouldn’t love an opportunity to no longer have to buy and pay to maintain computing hardware that was only going to become obsolete overtime (this is almost a part of the definition of information technology)?
SPF13
JULY 23, 2012
This is a 3 hour tutorial I wrote for and gave at OSCON 2012. Here is the summary: This tutorial will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. The tutorial will be divided into 5 sections: Data modeling with MongoDB: documents, collections and databases Querying your data: simple queries, geospatial queries, and
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.
The Investing Edge
JULY 25, 2012
'Even before Governor Patrick announced the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative in May, the state had already established itself as the big data capital of the world. We have 12,000 people employed in the sector in more than 100 companies. We have big money flowing from venture capital ( $350 million in 2011 ) to fund local startups offering new solutions.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 22, 2012
Crowds and crowdsourcing are increasingly at the heart of entrepreneurship, represented by the burgeoning crop of crowdsourcing companies , the rise of crowd business models , and the fact that a large proportion of entrepreneurs today draw extensively on crowdsourcing in building their businesses. Ignacio Rodriguez and Enrique Mena, CEO and COO respectively of Chile-based Spanish-language crowdsourcing platform MeritusPro (which I am an advisor to) will be in Sydney this week, so I thought it w
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A Screw's Loose
JULY 25, 2012
'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Enterprise IT Adoption Cycle. by Brian Katz on July 25, 2012 · 1 comment. A very good friend of mine who prefers to remain nameless (@swardley) built a beautiful graph on the Enterprise IT adoption Cycle. Seems to be garnering a huge amount of interest after I used it in my presentation at BriForum so reposted here is the graph (Click for a larger version). print.
The Investing Edge
JULY 23, 2012
'Forbes last week listed the “10 Greatest Industry-Disrupting Startups of 2012,” citing “amazing” companies rapidly transforming industries that affect our daily lives. It was nice to see one of our portfolio companies, ClickFox , recognized in the article. Ascent has seen extraordinary innovation, both within our portfolio and the broader market, from companies that create business value from source data that previously either could not be accessed or was ignored.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 23, 2012
This afternoon I am giving a keynote on Social Media and the Future at the Australian CIO Summit in the Gold Coast. Here are the slides from my presentation. As always, my keynote slides are shared with the proviso that they are designed to accompany my presentation and are NOT intended to be useful on their own. However you might find them of interest.
Nutanix
JULY 24, 2012
The title of this entry is an actual quote from a recent meeting I had with a customer.
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Future of CIO
JULY 26, 2012
Today's CIO has to be an excellent salesman, a visionary, a fantastic motivator/manager to collaborate with “C” level to get the resources required to do their work systematically. Enterprise CIOs, like shepherds, take care of their business’s technology/information assets, however, many pitfalls ahead may make a dedicated, responsible CIO a falling scapegoat.
All Things Distributed
JULY 27, 2012
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Systems Simplicity. By Werner Vogels on 27 July 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekends reading departs a bit from the more academic papers of the past weeks. They are two classics that deal with great observations about the tensions between simplicity and complexity in building systems.
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