Rob, I like your comment about getting out and talking to your firm's customers -- it can be the best part of the CIO's job! (http://www.enterprisingcio.com/588/customer-contact-best-part-cios-job)
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At Xtrant.com we've created a cloud-based project and collaboration platform–a way for people to use the habits and protocols they are familiar with in the social sphere to get things done, we call it "Productive Sharing"...
In reply to: There is room for innovation as storage becomes commoditized
I've been in the IT field 30+ years but never attained the executive office because of quotas.
The ideal candidate would be a single black mom who's gay.
My wife works for yale univ, awash in women.
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Thanks for the reply. VMware picking up Cumulus is an interesting idea, but it also sort of goes against the story they've worked very hard to promote about NSX working over any hardware--VMware says that with network virtualization,...
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Laurianne - Sorry for tardy reply. The Swiss angle simply has to do with privacy concerns. By basing their servers in Switzerland, Silent Circle (as well as a host of other company's) , are not subject to the same reporting,...
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Weather Underground is collecting 20 TBs a day but doesn't need to save it all. At the same time, what a contribution to weather history and understanding worldwide patterns if it did. Granted, Weather Underground is not...
In reply to: A treasure trove of weather data
They stopped coming for the Lucky Charms... I had to diversify to stay relevant. I mean, I've got a family to think about now...
In reply to: Caption contest
My intent is certainly not to engineer people out of every process. The human mind and its insights are still not able to be replicated. Yes, Watson can win Jeopardy, but despite speech nuance, that is still rapid and massive...
In reply to: Re: An example
The first line mentions the "highly regulated banking industry". I would propose that was a true statement many decades ago. But we have been slowly but surely chipping away at those regulations since the 80's, which of...
In reply to: Highly regulated banking industry?
If Star Trek's vision is our future, there is no currency. By implication people will have their needs met through automation and the state. People are kept busy improving themselves through personal achievement....
In reply to: Re: An example
I'm not sure how I feel about the term "human middleware" -- at some point in the progression of robotics and AI, that will describe almost every job. Soylent green is ... OK, that might be overdramatizing...
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Red Hat is playing catch up here. Uhuru Software provided the same capability to Cloud Foundry in December 2011 and Tier3's Jared Wray (now part of CenturyLink) provided it through Iron Foundry before that. Both of these...
In reply to: Both of these initiatives are needed
Who would you put in charge of security if not the CIO?
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Many issues with drones start to pop up as we begin to explore some of the issues including: - Noise from overhead (a constant issue for many in Afganastan where it affects health), - Air rights (where will I loose my...
In reply to: Re: Drones and privacy
msmith,that is an interesting example. Thanks for bringing it up. the next question is what else do the fire-watching drones get to scan for -- and what is off limits.
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Can you share what industries you and your wife are in? It's frustrating to think that companies may be promoting not on merit but to fill some "quota," and that the firm then ends up with ineffective leaders. As to cliques...
In reply to: Re: you'll never see a MAN post like this
A key metric for the new system is "time to live" (TTL -- as in the time the data has left to live -- not "live" as in, on air). As I understand it, they don't need all that detail forever. The fine-grained detail is for...
In reply to: Re: Long-term outlook
It appears that only OEMs are locked in; users can select whatever search engine they want.
In reply to: Re: Windows 8 w/Bing
At the very least, it does seem that NoSQL is putting some pressure put on the Big 3 database vendors to keep innovating and not raise prices quite as much. Competition is competition.
In reply to: Re: Great report, but the market is more dynamic today
Yes, JREY146's post is the article that Information Week should have written. Target decided as a matter of business strategy to run the risk of customers' data loss rather than incur the cost of duely diligent security. OK,...
In reply to: Re: Where is the CEO's responsibility?
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