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Fountainhead: A Marketing Lesson For IT

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. A Marketing Lesson For IT. In an earlier post of mine, " An Image Makeover for IT " I shared about a surprising meeting Id had with our IT department -- where they were looking to learn how to better market their services within the company.

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5 facets of employees’ increasing technology expectations

Trends in the Living Networks

Earlier this week I spoke at an excellent event organized by Canon for the CIOs of major organizations. During an extended lunch, a diverse range of ‘celebrities’ including TV personalities, authors, and musicians gave short presentations. I spoke about how the evolving intersection of technology and society is shaping employees’ expectations, particularly in the technology they can use.

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Successful CIOs Know What The CFO Really Wants (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'The CIO Controls All The Money, It’s Good To Have Him On Your Side. In the classic Hollywood movie “All The President’s Men” , the heroes who are trying to unravel the web of corruption are told that they will be able to put the pieces together if they “… follow the money…” It turns out that even though today’s CIOs are not trying to solve a crime, if they want their career to take off, they would do well to follow this same advice.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Home Server and SBS Add-in to Automate.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, November 10, 2011. Home Server and SBS Add-in to Automate Client Backup of your MAC. One of the most popular posts on my blog is how to enable Apple’s Time Machine backup to backup to your Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.

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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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Convergence with Scott Adams

Nutanix

Converged architectures coming out of force-fit consortiums are just that — expensive toxic blobs.

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Australia’s continued rise as a global hub for crowdsourcing

Trends in the Living Networks

Over just the last few years, Australia has established itself as a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms. Early last year I wrote about the phenomenon , pointing to leading service marketplace Freelancer.com , which is now based out of Sydney (see my interview of its CEO Matt Barrie on Channel 7 last week), 99designs , which recently raised $35 million as the top graphic design competition platform in the world, and DesignCrowd , another top player in the space.

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The potential in a networked world to be more ourselves, towards perfection or destruction

Trends in the Living Networks

A nice video titled On the Brink of a Networked Society , shown below, has just been launched by Ericsson. It includes a series of excellent interviews exploring some of the many implications and directions of a connected world, including health, industry structure, how we socialize, and far more. It’s well worth watching. The single quote in the video that struck me the most was: “There has not been a time, I don’t think in history, that has enabled such rapid change, and in t

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How governments research and communicate about the future

Trends in the Living Networks

Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing that they have a responsibility for structured thought and research about the future, both to shape their own initiatives, and to assist companies and institutions in the nation to survive and thrive in times of change. Examples of government futures groups include: Egypt : Center for Futures Studies.