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How 3D printing will transform the retail industry: The opportunities

Trends in the Living Networks

Power Retail magazine has just published a very nice piece on 3D Printing: The Next Retail Revolution , drawn primarily from an interview with me. It is worth reading the entire article, but I have below excerpted some of the quotes from me with some additional commentary. The piece begins by discussing the news that a company is developing technology for the 3D printing of meat.

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Why and How to Estimate in Agile?

Social, Agile and Transformation

I love this post, Why Estimate? It's a topic I've confronted at organizations adopting agile and I hear all the barriers, "it's not accurate", "don't hold me accountable to it", "isn't estimating a waterfall process?". Mike's points are dead on. You estimated to help make decisions on what NOT to do. If a feature is broken down to12 stories estimated at 150 points and the team's velocity is.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Managing long-term digital archiving is a challenge for almost every company. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage.

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How CIOs Can Boost Their IT Budgets Even In Hard Time (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit. CIOs Need To Find Ways To Get Every Penny Possible. It can be quite expensive for a CIO to run an IT department. There are a lot of different costs that all seem to contribute to the definition of information technology: server, networks, applications, developers, system administrators, etc. These costs don’t seem to be deceasing and in fact, only seem to be going up.

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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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Apple’s platforms for success and why it is worth 76% more than when Steve Jobs died

Trends in the Living Networks

I did a couple of interviews today about the news that Apple’s market capitalization of $622 billion is the highest ever in absolute dollars (though not in inflation-adjusted terms). In the interview below I discuss some of the current landscape for Apple. I was also interviewed for a segment on the 7pm News. Here are a few of the thoughts I shared in my interviews, not all of which were included in the segments above.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Report UAC Status to SMS or SCCM

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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Finding Your Optimal Investor – Due Diligence for Entrepreneurs

The Investing Edge

'I’ve seen the venture capital due diligence process from both sides of the table and I know how comprehensive and exhaustive it can be (sometimes to the chagrin of the entrepreneur). But it’s a critical part of the process, ensuring that the venture investor is fully bought into the team, product, market, etc. A typical venture capitalist makes only a couple new investments per year, so a mistake is very costly.

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Productivity is in the eye of the FUDholder - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Productivity is in the eye of the FUDholder. by Brian Katz on August 24, 2012 · 2 comments. One of the comments that surprised me on twitter Tuesday was about bring your own device (BYOD) and the fact that it is an anathema to productivity. It was specifically pointed out that unmanaged BYOD is a productivity black hole.

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Mick's IT Blogs: How to transfer Safari bookmarks to Google Chrome.

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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15 Classic EA Elevator Pitches in 15 Words

Future of CIO

1. EA is to deliver business vision- "You can't change what you can’t see" 2. EA influences the HOW by asking the WHY. 3. EA helps to optimize all aspects of the enterprise to increase profitability. 4. EA increases company profitably by better optimizing resources 5. EA works on Decision support for business capability improvement & investment decisions. 6.

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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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10 Design Considerations While Building a Storage System for Virtualization

Nutanix

The Nutanix Complete Cluster offers such a sophisticated storage subsystem that was designed specifically for virtualization workloads. Find out how.

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A rose by any other name - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. A rose by any other name. by Brian Katz on August 22, 2012 · 1 comment. I had a chance today to participate in a Twitter chat focused on the mobile business ( #mobilebizchat ). The topic of today’s chat was focused on Enterprise Mobile Apps. A bunch of questions were asked such as what are the barriers to deploying an enterprise mobile app, what are some of the benefits of enterprise mobile apps, biggest hindrances of them and does

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