Cloud Computing is one of the many things enterprise CIOs, CTOs and other engineers will master in delivering capability.  I believe in the power of new Cloud Computing technologies and concepts and think we should all continue our focus there. I have said, and still say, the same thing about design approaches like Service...
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If you are a CTO or other senior enterprise technologist and if you use Twitter I would appreciate you checking something out the site at: http://ctolist.com This is a directory of Chief Technology Officers.  It is built with Floxee (they are graciously letting me use their capability as a beta user). I decided to...
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Words can hardly describe how neat this technology is.  I’m excited and enthused for many reasons, including the potential power of this technology to help us all make better decisions and of course to bring even more fun to our lives.  Watch and let your imagine go… Think of the wonderful ways we can...
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If you are a little rusty on your advanced science literature, theater and movies and don’t recall the story from the fictional Star Trek universe known as the Kobayashi Maru, please take a moment to watch this clip, just to get your mind going: This part of the story, reportedly written by Gene Roddenberry...
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There are several megatrends sweeping the technology industry today.  Some of them are about to be accelerated. I like to use five key topic areas to track megatrends in IT: - Convergence and trend towards unified communications and user empowerment - Globalization and increasing internationalization of IT and demographic shifts - Increasing open development...
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Nicholas Carr writes in ways that makes people think.  I really enjoyed reading his latest in the Atlantic titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” This article covers some rather significant trends that IT is pushing into the global social fabric.  The changes he talks about are disturbing.  They are infecting people like a fast spreading disease....
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The second annual Synergy Conference and expo will be held 12-15 August 2008 at Marco Island, FL.  Last year’s conference provided a great way for participants to learn from each other and interact with speakers from both operational and intelligence backgrounds.   I sure enjoyed it. It was one of my last official events before...
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I’ve previously blogged about Triumfant, a company that has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems.   I also think of them as the world’s greatest compliance monitoring capability.  What do I mean by compliance?  I mean compliance in the context of the many rules, regulations and configurations that external organizations and the...
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Reportedly Bill Gates said “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”  That is a very level headed observation.  I think it reflects the way we humans react to technology capability growth.   Think for a minute about most...
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The following is a review of some new capabilities at Google (these were all announced and discussed on the official Google blog): Better and faster route planning on maps.  Google maps now has dragable directions, and you can also enter guidance and info on Google maps like “avoid highways” or calculate “time-in-traffic”. That’s pretty...
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