Fountainhead

AUGUST 30, 2011

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. IT-as-a-Service: Models for Consumption, Operations, Technology. In a week where products surely dominate the news (its VMworld, in case you live under a rock) I want to share some non-product insights Ive made while working with EMCs IT group regarding running IT as a Service.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 30, 2011

Going beyond human interaction with (quasi) intelligent machines, we are now beginning to explore interactions between (somewhat) intelligent machines. One of the concepts of the Singularity is that machines will before long be able to teach themselves and each other, to the point where their interactions and conversations are incomprehensible to our puny minds.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 28, 2011

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson tackles the question that all CIO’s are asking: just exactly what is “cloud computing”? Dr. Anderson identifies the 4 different flavors of cloud computing that are available and points out how a CIO would go about using each one of them. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 28, 2011

For years I have been writing about reputation and have often said that this will be the decade of the reputation economy. Yet until recently there has been very little in the space. The social media measurement systems such as Klout and PeerIndex have limited data scope and while they talk the language of reputation actually measure influence. Honestly.com is a more pure play in the individual reputation space, but has got limited traction so far.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 31, 2011

'What’s Your Company’s IT Grade? You would think that since all of these computers, networks, and software things have been around for so long that most companies would be just about even in how they make use of them, right? A recent study reveals that this is not the case: some of us are using IT to move the company forward and some of us are slipping behind because of IT.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 31, 2011

Knowledge@Australian School of Business recently published an interesting article on corporate blogging , which drew on an interview with me. Here are the quotes it took from my interview, along with a few comments. One of the greatest dangers is not getting involved in blogging at all, claims Ross Dawson – futurist, blogger and chairman of Advanced Human Technologies, a company that consults on “the network economy&#.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In 2008 the number of devices connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people connected, and in 2020 there will be 50 billion things connected, 7 times the world’s population, according to Dave Evans of Cisco. The infographic below highlights some of the key features of the Internet of things, including the pace of growth, how external data can be aggregated so that your alarm clocks, cars, and coffee makers make decisions to fit with your schedule, and that some cameras and compu

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