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Field Note: Are You Network Literate?

Posted in Field Note, Uncategorized, tagged on May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »

A colleague asked me to comment on a recent article “Are you ‘network literate?,” by Ben Casnocha. The author notes that the information you know “will determine whether you win or lose.” Very true. Information is changing too quickly (velocity), is to expansive (volume), and too diverse (variety) to make it possible for any one [...]

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Field Note: Quadrication of Big Data

Posted in Big Data, Field Note, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I thought I’d share this email observation I made earlier today about how Big Data seems to be quadricating into these orthogonal fields: 1. Data (the intrinsic 1/0 property of big data) which can be broken down subjective areas like interaction data, transaction data || structured, unstructured || realtime/streaming, batch/static || etc. 2. MapReduce platforms [...]

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5 Ways Big Data Can Create Value

Posted in Big Data, Data Lakes, Uncategorized, tagged , on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Every company should have a plan for dealing with the exponential growth in their data. That is, they need a Big Data Strategy. While the term, Big Data, has been thrown around a lot in both business and technical publications, very few stop to define it in such a way that make it a useful [...]

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The Science of Blogging

Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized, Webinar, tagged , , on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  I don’t usually promote webinars, but I am going to make an exception. On December 9, HubSpot is putting on a free webinar called, “ The Science of Blogging.” The agenda looks interesting, especially if you are looking for quantitative reasons to start or continue your work.  71.4% of consumers say that blogs effect their [...]

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Cloud Computing Standards – Top 4

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I have been asked to list a few of my top cloud computing standards, based on the recent eBiz post. My top four services: 1. Service Laye Standards (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) – For example, Infrastructure as a Service standards would include a common means of identifying, creating, starting, and terminating infrastructure components (e.g., a server, [...]

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Pandemic Planning – A Followup

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I posted a blog discussing risks that are not often associated with global product engineering. In that article I specifically raise the issue of pandemic planning, given the recent outbreak of H1N1. Disaster Recovery magazine pick up on the same concept in their article “Four Practical Ways to Improve Your Pandemic Plan.” While the article [...]

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Cloud Computing – Where to Start?

Posted in cloud computing, Uncategorized, tagged , on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have been asked a lot about the where/what/why/when/how one should start when addressing the need to adopt cloud computing within an organization. This is one of those questions that has many right answers and few wrong ones. The only wrong answer that I would address, for right now, is the “not addressing it at [...]

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Check out “Twelve Metrics to Monitor for SOA’s ROI”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Loraine Lawson just blogged on several metrics that are essential for measuring SOA ROI. Several of the measures are from a recent article I wrote “SOA Isn’t Dean, it Just Needs to be Measured Effectively.” She also included several additional measures from Mark Little, CTO of Red Hat, and Leo Shuster, who is responsible for [...]

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