CIO Musings
JUNE 27, 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, June 27, 2012. Verizon Witching Hour. Big Changes to #Verizon Plans Tomorrow!!
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 24, 2012
Yesterday morning I appeared on the Sunrise national breakfast program together with science broadcaster Dr Karl Kruszelnicki , being interviewed about the big ideas and new technologies that will change our lives. The video clip is below. The four ideas that I pointed to were: Personal DNA testing – costs have collapsed to the point where we can sequence our own genome, discovering insights into our family past and future health.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 27, 2012
'Image Credit It takes more than a coat of paint to make old IT systems new again. No CIO wants to have a project fail. That’s why when it comes time to do something about older IT systems, replace or renew them, most CIOs have to take time to think about what they really want to do. This is the kind of project that is going to require both the IT department and the rest of the business to work together.
SPF13
JUNE 24, 2012
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication. We’ll explore some of the advanced capabilities with MongoDB replication and best practices to ensure data durability and redundancy. We’ll also look at various deployment scenarios and disaster recovery configurations. Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery View more presentations from Steve Francia.
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.
CIO Musings
JUNE 27, 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, June 27, 2012. Leadership, Technology & Public Service. What do public sector leaders need to know about Technology?
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 29, 2012
This week’s TEDGlobal2012 event is themed Radical Innovation. The opening presentation, very fittingly, was by Don Tapscott , who spoke about Four principles for the open world. Do take the 18 minutes to see his exceptional presentation. The four principles for openness that Don offers are: Collaboration. The boundaries of organizations are becoming more fluid and open, with the best ideas often coming from outside.
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Mick's IT Blog
JUNE 23, 2012
'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.
Nutanix
JUNE 29, 2012
When I was attending Interop in Tokyo a couple of weeks back, I had a few participants ask me the same question: how is Nutanix different from others.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 28, 2012
I was just interviewed by Martin Metzmacher as part of his Netrepreneurs series. The 30 minute video interview is below. While the broad topic of the conversation was about how to use crowds effectively, Martin focused through the interview on my motivations for what I do. At the end of the interview he asked me to summarize what I felt was most important in what we’d covered.
The Investing Edge
JUNE 26, 2012
'We know bringing your own device to work (that’s ‘BYOD’ for most of us) is a hot topic right now – and getting hotter. Over the past two weeks alone, the term had nearly 22,000 mentions on social networks which is a 10 percent increase over the first half of the month. One reason for the uptick could be the latest Fortinet study , which found that more than half of workers in their twenties believe it is their “right” rather than a privilege to use their own mobile devices at work.
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Mick's IT Blog
JUNE 25, 2012
'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.
A Screw's Loose
JUNE 29, 2012
'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Cow Chips. by Brian Katz on June 29, 2012 · 2 comments. Justin Pirie , Mark Thiele , Barb Darrow and I had great exchange on twitter a little more than a week and a half ago. It all stemmed from Barb’s excellent post. It addressed Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the fact that many IT departments were locking down phones and this was encouraging people to go around them.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 26, 2012
This article was originally posted in Future of Sex magazine. Social gaming giant Zynga , purveyor of Facebook games such as CityVille and FarmVille, is making things a little racier with its latest product The Ville, launched today. As the video shows, users can build the “home of your dreams” and invite their Facebook friends over to have fun there.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 26, 2012
Sorry, Grant Thornton, I think your instinct is very likely wrong. I saw this advertisement (also in French and Flemish) in Brussels-Midi station when I was recently passing through. Grant Thornton claims to have an ‘instinct for growth’ For some reason it seems to have an instinct (it appears without any evidence) that expanding into new markets will lead to loss of intellectual property.
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