Sat.Oct 20, 2012 - Fri.Oct 26, 2012

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GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services Now

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

Cloud 137
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Slides from opening keynote at Crowd Business Models Summit

Trends in the Living Networks

Yesterday I chaired Crowd Business Models Summit in San Francisco. Here are the slides from my opening presentation, which provided an introduction and frame for the event. Crowd Business Models Summit Opening Keynote – Ross Dawson from AHTGroup. The big frame for thinking about crowd business models is the future of work and organizations. Crowdsourcing and crowds will be central to how value is created in future.

Trends 138
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Wrapping libvirt Virtual Networks Around Open vSwitch Fake Bridges

Scott Lowe

'In a previous article , I talked about how to use Open vSwitch (OVS) fake bridges to bring VLAN support into your environment. In this article, I show you how to wrap a libvirt virtual network around your OVS fake bridge. You might ask, “Why wrap a libvirt virtual network around an OVS fake bridge when you can just use the OVS bridge directly?

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Ways That CIOs Can Introduce Innovation Into The Business (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit CIOs need to join the party and help the company to become more social…. Quick question: what is the #1 job of a CIO? Hmm, good question, eh? Although this should really be part of the definition of information technology, I’m pretty sure that we could sit around and debate just exactly what is the #1 job of a CIO all day; however, I’m also pretty sure that we could agree that bringing innovation into the business has to be one of the top jobs of both the CIO and the en

Strategy 100
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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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The CIO Paradox - A Must Read - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, October 23, 2012. The CIO Paradox - A Must Read. One day, I hope to write a book and share my best ideas, secrets and wisdom with fellow CIOs and CTOs.

Agile 100
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Insights on using crowdsourcing for marketing

Trends in the Living Networks

As I will be running a Crowdsourcing for Marketing workshop in New York this Thursday, I was keen to attend the Marketing session at CrowdConf today. Here are brief notes from the speakers through what was an excellent panel discussion: Neil Perry, CEO, Poptent. A key to getting quality contribution is giving education. They are junior filmmakers, so they want tips, contributed by veterans.

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Mick's IT Blogs: OpenLM Agent Silent Install

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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Struggles With The Cloud

A CIO's Voice

'A few years back we outsourced our server backups to a vendor’s private cloud. It made sense at the time and was cost efficient based on our current data growth. As time marched forward and business grew, so did our data growth. Adding more and more growth capacity to the cloud began to cost us more than if we were to perform our own backup internally via old fashion tape.

Cloud 93
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Slides for Crowdsourcing for Marketing Workshop in New York

Trends in the Living Networks

Today I ran a Crowdsourcing for Marketing for Enterprise & Agencies workshop in New York as part of the global Crowdsourcing Week series of events. I was very happy with how it went and the response from the participants. There was a good mixture of brand and agency participants, and great discussion throughout. Little of the richness of the workshop and discussion is shown in the slides, but some of the frameworks might be of use to those who did not attend the workshop.

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SANs free live migration – VMware vs. Hyper-V

Virtualized Greek

'With the introduction of Hyper-V 3.0 and vSphere 5.1 both major virtualization vendors have introduced SAN free live migration solutions. To give a quick recap live migration is the ability to migrate a virtual machine from one physical host to another physical host without interruption of service for the target virtual machine. In the past, the one consistent requirement in both Hyper-V and vSphere has been that you had to have a SAN in common between the two hosts.

Vmware 63
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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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Rainbow Farting Unicorns? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Rainbow Farting Unicorns… by Brian Katz on October 25, 2012 · 4 comments. It’s always nice when a good friend asks your opinion on a subject. Although, when you realize that it’s mostly because he can’t sleep due to jetlag and his only other choice is a Paris Hilton movie, well…. I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with my good friend Philippe Winthrop tonight about a presentation he is putting together on “Cloud, Big Data

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Why Mess Around with libvirt? - Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe

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How Is IT Perceived by Business?

Future of CIO

The data shows a disturbing gap between IT perception of itself as reasonably innovative and effective, and non-IT’s the lukewarm view. There’re discrepancies between how IT evaluates its own performance and how IT perceived by business. Here is a brief summary. Statistically, less than 50% of non-IT people consider their IT teams integral to the business, the survey finds, and 54% consider IT a support or maintenance organization and not an innovator.

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- I-Everything, Lawyers, Watson and Plumbers

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'The I-Everything? Robert Reich* had an interesting piece on October 10th on NPR’s* Marketplace : “Is technology to Blame for Chronic Unemployment?” He talked about the immanent end of many jobs and professions in the developed world, and specifically the United States, due to massive changes in technology. Read or listen to it here. The logic of his arguments is quite clear.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Mobile first? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Mobile first? by Brian Katz on October 23, 2012 · 3 comments. A lot of people like to talk about how to design apps, myself included. Many times they talk about the different languages that they should be building in or they start going on about how they should build for mobile only. They look at their developers and have them come up with a strategy for creating apps.

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