Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Sunday, February 5, 2012. The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail. Although Im not a Big Data aficionado, Id recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study: It is estimated that in 2011, 1.8 Zettabytes of information was created, 75% of which comes from individuals.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Recently web monitoring firm Semiocast published a list of the top 20 countries in number of Twitter accounts. Not surprisingly US was top with 107 million users, with Brazil coming in second at 33 million and Japan next at just under 30 million. I am always interested in comparing the degree of social media engagement across countries, so we did a simple analysis to find out the proportion of each country’s population that has a Twitter account, as below.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

'You can’t be a buddy and be a boss. When I’m working with new CIOs I often run into the buddy / boss problem. It’s perfectly understandable that any person newly placed into a CIO position would like to establish a positive relationship with the people in the IT department that they are managing. This is all well and good, but it’s all too easy for a CIO to go too far – you can be a boss, but you can’t be a buddy.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 06 February 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve.

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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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Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, February 09, 2012. How to Configure a Vanity Domain on Hotmail. The Oatmeal , one of my favorite comic sites, has an info-graphic on what your e-mail address says about you. While I disagree about the @gmail.com and @hotmail.com priority in life, I’m in pretty much agreement on using your own domain for your e-mail.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Richard Watson of NowandNext.com and I have collaborated extensively over the years, including on numerous client projects. Richard is very well-known for his Trend Blend annual series of maps ( here are the 2007-2010 trend maps ). I collaborated with Richard on several of them but not on the more recent ones, partly as he is now based in London. Our Trend Blend 2007+ map based on the London subway map spawned an entire genre of trend maps based on city train lines.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The wisdom and ultimate goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short term gain & long-term wins. Today’s CIO is one of the crucial leadership roles facing significant transformation, Being a Chief Infrastructure Officer to align IT operation with business is no longer sufficient, since the rate of changes is accelerating at the age of digitization.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

For a keynote speaker having a good showcase video is critical. Potential clients want to get an idea of your style and presence before booking you, and usually a video is the only way to provide that. I have just finished producing a new keynote speaker video. This was long overdue as the last one wasn’t nearly as good as it should be. The new one is a big improvement, though I think there is more scope for improvement yet.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The site rossdawson.com has long been where I point potential clients for my keynote speaking and other personal work. As usual it has taken longer than planned, but we now have just launched an entirely redesigned website. The visual theme of the site has been derived from my personal logo , which depicts me merging with the machine. The website, as before, includes a collection of speaker videos including my just-launched new keynote speaker video , detail of representative keynote speaking to

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Last week I did an interview on radio 2SER on Facebook’s IPO and its future. You can listen to a podcast of the interview below. A few key points I covered: * Mark Zuckerberg was keen to keep the company private, but the number of shareholders reached the point at which they had to disclose information, so there was no reason to wait to do an IPO. * The billions they raise could be used to build a social commerce platform and develop its financial services. * The primary driving intention

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

'I had an absolute blast presenting "A Decade of SharePoint Adoption Strategies" at SharePoint Saturday Philly this past weekend. In addition to the usual friendly, motley band of itinerant SharePoint speakers from various ISVs and consultancies, there were several hundred attendees (about 450 overall). . As one would expect from a group of people freely giving up their Saturday to learn about SharePoint, folks were engaged and enthusiastic about the subject matter, and my session was full of q

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