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Opening Keynote | Innovation in the Age of Digital Transformation
Innovation
 Gordon E. Moore's famously predicted tech explosion was prophetic, but it may have hit a snag. While the number of transistors on integrated circuits has doubled approximately every two years since his 1965 paper, the ability to process and transact on data hasn't. We're now ingesting...Dec. 30, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 8,369 |
 Labor market analytics firm Wanted Analytics recently assessed the market for technology professionals and found that demand for people with proficient levels of Hadoop expertise had skyrocketed by around 33% since last year – it is true, Hadoop is hard technology to master and the lab...Oct. 13, 2014 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,661 |
 Operators and Over The Top (OTT) players are embracing partnerships with one another. Each week is bringing announcements of new strategic couplings, designed to match capabilities of both parties to create new products and services for subscribers.
With the communications landscape ...Jul. 11, 2014 09:39 AM EDT Reads: 3,446 |
 Dynamic coupling, therefore, represents a paradigm shift in how to build and utilize APIs. Up to this point in time, the focus of both SOA and REST has been on building loosely-coupled interfaces: static, contracted interfaces specified by WSDL and various policy metadata when those in...May. 30, 2014 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,324 |
 Is there no end to what mobile apps can do? Last week, several of us sat quietly on a weathered dock extended out and over a forested pond in the foothills of SW Washington. We watched the birds and other wildlife enjoying the spring sunshine. Suddenly we spotted an unidentified bir...May. 26, 2014 11:20 AM EDT Reads: 4,285 |
 Having the latest technologies can be great. But gambling with a possibly steep learning curve and the risk of unexpected faults in new technology can cost your organization more than just the expense of the upgrade. Why run these risks when your current tech already does what you need...May. 18, 2014 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,440 |
 Last week I was in Europe speaking and teaching enterprise mobility and digital transformation strategies. I worked with several large multinational companies where I heard the same questions asked, "How do we convince our executives that we must change, and invest in change? How do ...Dec. 21, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 6,728 |
 As you strive to achieve new levels of sophistication when creating performance baselines, it is important to consider how you will navigate the oscillating winds of application behavior as the numbers come in from all directions. The behavioral context of the user will highlight key t...Oct. 16, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,281 |
 This weekend I was clever. That is newsworthy because it doesn't happen very often. Our son is stationed at a military base that did not receive TV coverage of the Boise State football game on Saturday night. It must have been the government shut-down. I can't think of any other re...Oct. 14, 2013 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,639 |
 If you’re a regular here, you know how much we care about the full-stack view of applications. Today, let’s zoom in a bit, and talk about the performance of a single layer. In particular, let’s look at profiling in Python.
As an example, let’s take this bit of code for calculating con...Jun. 3, 2013 04:25 PM EDT Reads: 9,033 |
 We described in a previous post our experience about the different types of cloud models, and our view about how the main open-source Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) are targeting their needs. Our aim was to demonstrate that we will see an open-source cloud space with several offerin...Mar. 16, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,551 |
 "We're actually very bullish about PaaS as the architecture for a lot of next generation apps," noted Brett Adam, Chief Technology Officer at rPath, in this exclusive Q&A.; "But," he continued, "we see true PaaS as it's been popularized in the market - you may think of it as "Silicon Va...Oct. 18, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,005 |
 Many firms still dismiss the importance of social networking and some of them even ban employees from using these services while in the workplace. They think that “social” starts and ends with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other networks that might be best described as informal, consu...Oct. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,315 |
 In this acute age of class warfare, elitism, and social media tools, somewhere in the middle of all of it, the retail and financial services industries are spawning the latest “Must-have” digital bling: mobile wallets. (or digital wallets)
Will credit cards become a thing of the past...Sep. 17, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,050 |
 In the first quarter of 2012, FEMA reported 12 natural disasters throughout the country, including tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and severe storms from Florida to Alaska. The threats to your data are limitless – natural disasters, fires, water damage, equipment theft and hardware fail...Aug. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,738 |
 The combination of Wi-Fi and DAS (Distributed Antennae Systems) communications technology is becoming a new intelligent amenity in many sports stadiums for enhancing the fan experience by having apps like Stadium VIP and others providing new services available at your fingertips throug...Jul. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,946 |
 Yes, data virtualization is definitely about agility. We covered this from different angles in my previous article. Agility in this context is about accelerating the time-to-delivery of new critical data and reports that the business needs and trusts. It is also about an architecture t...May. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,772 |
 The Apple App Store has reached 25 billion downloads, and many of us have bought and enjoy some of them. Really, the apps for iPad, iPhone and Android astonish us many times. The bad part comes when we go back to our desktop computer to use the enterprise software and feel as if we tra...Apr. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,904 |
 To gauge the potential business benefits -- and threats -- from cloud, we also need to examine the confluence of these developments and how together they change businesses and business ecosystems.
It's impossible to factor the implications of cloud computing without examining the cont...Mar. 31, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,735 |
 Over the history of computing, we can trace a pattern of continuous decomposition, from a single system into disparate components. Early on, these individual parts made it easier to design, program and maintain systems, and meet the fast-growing demand for more power and more capacity....Aug. 26, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,252 |
 As I had mentioned earlier, there is a paucity of free sample questions for the TOGAF 9 foundation or the part 1 test. I had created one set earlier and there are two other set available for free.
Here is another set of 40 questions.
Entire business group or corporation comprising of...Apr. 2, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,228 |
 This helpful role is because of the key relationship between this type of portal community web site and the principles and practices of 'Open Government'. Not only in terms of open source software but also in terms of utilizing Open Innovation principles to transform how government pro...Mar. 4, 2011 01:18 PM EST Reads: 8,109 |
 We made a small flurry of announcements last week, all of which were related to cloud computing. I think it is worthwhile to put some context around Ubuntu and the cloud and explain a little more about where we are with this critical strategic strand for our beloved OS.
First of all, ...Mar. 3, 2011 10:15 AM EST Reads: 9,872 |
 True, the computer system Watson, created by IBM, beat all human competition in the US reality quiz show "Jeopardy!" But does it make Watson intelligent – is it an important step towards Singularity? Is it a significant step in the field of AI? Or, is the win meaningless and does not i...Mar. 2, 2011 10:49 AM EST Reads: 8,224 |
 Open Government best practices can be utilized to transform national innovation programs.
Canada is scoring a 'D for Innovation', and falling behind other nations in their innovation capacities.
They also have perceived issues around the bite of their Open Government watchdogs, and w...Jan. 16, 2011 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,465 |
 If there were ever two concepts that are representative of where we are today in technology, they would have to be Government 2.0 and Community. Unfortunately, they are also two of the most overused and over-hyped phrases in our technology vocabulary.
Government 2.0 is a general term...Dec. 15, 2010 10:30 AM EST Reads: 11,495 |
 The open source movement is growing rapidly and having a major impact on the way businesses model their IT strategies. One of the business areas where open source is beginning to have a real impact is in the area of cloud computing. Free and open source software (FOSS) is software that...Dec. 6, 2010 08:15 AM EST Reads: 10,896 |
 A report by Black Duck Software, provider of products and services for aiding software development through managed use of open source, says that open source projects are helping in the adoption of cloud computing. According to the press release, cloud computing frameworks and platforms...Aug. 25, 2010 04:26 PM EDT Reads: 6,025 |
 Open source software is perfectly positioned to facilitate the massive overhaul that will be necessary to open up government data to the public. As consumers, this technology is already changing the way in which we go about our day-to-day lives. It powers maps on our phones and provide...Aug. 9, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,306 |
 As many of you know, a new open-source cloud platform, OpenStack, was recently announced. Here at OpenNebula, we think this is a very exciting development in the cloud community, and we're glad to see so many major players coalescing around an open-source solution. However, we have als...Jul. 23, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 11,543 |
 You wouldn't typically combine the words 'Government' and 'Innovation' in the same sentence, but actually it's the ideal way to highlight some of the most essential and exciting points about Cloud computing.
Although the technology can lower operational costs by moving processes 'int...Jul. 20, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 14,834 |
 GroundWork Open Source (GWOS) and private cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems have paired up to provide monitoring and management of applications running in Eucalyptus private cloud environments. Through GWOS's open source network and infrastructure product called Groundwork Monito...Apr. 8, 2010 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,246 |
 Most commonly, the term “virtualization” refers to the creation of virtual instances of an operating system or virtual machines (VMs) on physical server hardware, known as server virtualization. However, the development of server virtualization has led to the creation of other virtual ...Mar. 17, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,941 |
 The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce...Nov. 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 20,379 |
 As friend John Scott points out on his blog, Dave Wennergren, DoD CIO, has just signed out a very well coordinated, well staffed and well thought out clarification of guidance regarding Open Source Software (OSS). A copy is attached.
Some key points:
- Open Source Software meets t...Oct. 28, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,768 |
 By the way, if Ellen Degeneres wants to respond in a reasonable and constructive way to the lawsuits over her use of song snippets to dance to, she could always start using Creative Commons-licensed music, with a nice plug for the open-hearted musicians making our lives more tuney.Sep. 23, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,278 |
 For anyone interested, VMware has launched their Vcloud API specification. They describe their new "open" vCloud API as an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. Th...Sep. 8, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 15,309 |
 Many of the concepts first proposed and extolled during the Internet hype curve in the mid-1990s are now bearing fruit. Perhaps we should think of cloud computing as less than a separate hype curve, and more as the realization of the original Internet value curve , now some 15 years in...Sep. 4, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 12,171 |
 Open ERP has released its new service offer - Odoo, the Ondemand ERP solution with minimal costs involved for end user. Its a SaaS (Software As A Service) offer from Open ERP, which provides access to end user without any investments or any infrastructural costs.
Aug. 24, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,898 |
 This is the clear path for open source and Java developers to the cloud. Microsoft will have its hands full just keeping the .NET developers and operators on the farm, so to speak. SpringSource made headlines last week when VMware scooped up the Java infrastructure and management firm ...Aug. 22, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,363 |
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