Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Meeting IRL: Why The Valley's So Cool

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IRL is a reference you see on twitter -  it means "In Real Life." Sometimes we underestimate the value of meeting in real life. ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

IT-as-a-Service: Resources and Pointers

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IT-as-a-Service. Possibly another buzzword that may reach the peak of hype and then fade away in a millisecond. But even if so, this new con...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

My IT is Ready. My People Are Not.

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By now you may know that I buy into the enterprise approach where cloud computing and its operational model are enablers for something bigge...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail

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Although I'm not a Big Data aficionado, I'd recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study:  It is es...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World

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(Or, Where Tomorrow's Clouds Will Form) Move Mohammed to the mountain, or the mountain to Mohammed?  In the context of data, applic...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012

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Political movements have their anthems. Starbucks has its background music brand. But I thought it might be fun to collate a playlist that s...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Steve Jobs in 1980... and Cloud + Big Data Today

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In 1980, Steve Jobs gave a talk (YouTube) about the early days of Apple. It's fascinating because it describes events that lead up to...