Sat.Dec 03, 2011 - Fri.Dec 09, 2011

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Fountainhead: Celebrating Innovation at EMC

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Sunday, December 4, 2011. Celebrating Innovation at EMC. Can innovation be fostered or facilitated? Can it be measured? Is it a formal or informal process? Can you have an innovation competition? Is it limited to Engineering?

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How to Be Successful with Electronic Document Management (EDM)

A CIO's Voice

'All organizations seek knowledge. Knowledge is the information gathered and stored by its people. Quality knowledge is not possible without access to all sources of knowledge held by an organization. All companies face the challenge of ‘knowing’ what information it holds and of being able to access that same information instantly. Organizationally, a company holds this knowledge information in three forms: Paper – Traditional Information.

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Tech-savvy children are driving the future of education

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week I participated in and spoke at an Education Roundtable organized by Telstra, which brought together a small group of very senior executives in all layers of education in Australia. In the same way that I have been drawn into discussions on the future of government over the last 18 months, I am finding myself increasingly frequently asked to engage with decision-makers on the future of education.

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Building your First app with MongoDB at MongoSV 2011

SPF13

10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the first session on building an application in MongoDB. This talk will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. It covers the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture.

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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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Do You Have Enough Personal Energy To Be CIO? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit. Do You Know How To Manage Your CIO Energy? So what’s it going to take to make you a successful CIO? Is it going to be your understanding of a wide variety of the IT sector’s emerging technologies? Is it your ability to understand where the company stands in the marketplace and where it wants to go? Or is it your business skills that allow you to seamlessly network with the rest of the company in order to lead the IT department?

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IT at Cutting-Edge, CIO leads as a Bridge

Future of CIO

The modern organization is like the mini-city, with its own sophistication: the silo functions, the sea of data, and the pool of talents. For us not so far away from San Francisco, once a while visiting could be both entertaining and educational: running out of suburb’s fresh air, blue sky’s simplicity, diving into urbanized sophistication and cultural quintessential.

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E-commerce in LA

SPF13

This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran the MongoDB LA Users Group. Notably I met with Magento about the possibility of Magento 2.0 being built on MongoDB. On my final night in LA I presented on MongoDB, E-commerce and Transactions. I really enjoyed my time in LA and am looking forward to returning. I was impressed by how many companies are using MongoDB in LA and how great the interaction was at the Meetup.

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Video: The 5 Secret Characteristics Of A Truly Great CIO

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson looks into why so many high-profile CIOs have been getting fired lately — could it be because they weren’t great CIOs? Dr. Anderson identifies the 5 different things that every CIO needs to do in order to become a great CIO. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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The realities of intellectual property and crowdsourcing: don’t hold on too tight

Trends in the Living Networks

When you talk about crowdsourcing, consistently one of the first objections you hear is worries about losing valuable ideas and intellectual property to unscrupulous overseas contractors. Our new book Getting Results From Crowds is designed to help people get the most value from crowdsourcing. Part of doing that is giving perspective on the challenges and opportunities of using crowds.

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Many sensors + Imagination = The Internet of Things

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week I gave a keynote at the National Broadband Network – what’s in it for me? conference in Bunbury, Western Australia, a town 2 hours south of Perth, the most geographically isolated city in the world. Not surprisingly the hunger for broadband in the region is enormous – you could feel it in the room. My keynote on The Killer Apps of Connectivity roamed through through some of the killer apps of massive broadband, including work, health, education, media, and new busines

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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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Apologies! The rossdawson.com contact form has been down since late October

Trends in the Living Networks

Not a good start to the day. Through a potential client following up on the phone and email after having not received a response to a message on the RossDawson.com contact form , I discovered that it has not been working since the end of October. It is now working again. So if you have tried to contact me on the form over the last six weeks, could I ask you to get in touch again?

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12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead

Trends in the Living Networks

Towards the end of each year I share some thoughts on what awaits in the year ahead. It is actually a lot easier to look years into the future than just a single year, as while we can readily discern broad trends, the major events in a year are usually unforeseeable, though they may express the longer-term directions. However as the pace of change accelerates, it is becoming a little easier to see the themes, if not the specifics, of the year ahead.

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Launching my new book today! Getting Results From Crowds

Trends in the Living Networks

Today we are launching my new book Getting Results From Crowds: The definitive guide to using crowdsourcing to grow your business ! This has been, in all, many years in the planning and making, and I’m extremely happy with how it has come out. It is definitely my most useful book, and while it’s hard to compare it with my other books as it has a distinct purpose and design, it is in some ways my best work.

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