Archives for June 2011

• Obama IT Czar Leaves D.C. for Harvard – Technorati IT

  Setting direction is easy. Executing transformation is hard.

  “A massive task and challenge awaited Mr. Kundra as he sought to change the direction of the government’s $80 billion annual Information Technology budget. In December 2010 the changes in direction were outlined in his 25 point plan to reform government IT.

  Reports of his success levels vary, but no doubt Kundra stirred the pot and set a direction. Changing the direction of anything at the Federal government is not for the faint or impatient heart.”

  tags: execution transformation IT government

• High Scalability – High Scalability – 35+ Use Cases for Choosing Your Next NoSQL Database

  “We’ve asked What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?. We’ve asked 101 Questions To Ask When Considering A NoSQL Database. We’ve even had a webinar What Should I Do? Choosing SQL, NoSQL or Both for Scalable Web Applications.

  Now we get to the point of considering use cases and which systems might be appropriate for those use cases.”

  tags: scalability nosql

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• VMware: Rethink IT: The future of cloud and NYSE Euronext’s capital markets community platform

  “NYSE Technologies (a unit of NYSE Euronext) announced their new “community platform” cloud computing service today, running on vSphere and vCloud Director from VMware. The target customers for the service are capital markets organizations such as hedge funds and the trading departments of banks, with initial customers including a unit of Goldman Sachs and the hedge fund Millenium Partners.

  …

  NYSE’s service is innovative in several ways. NYSE Euronext is primarily known for being a financial exchange as well as a provider of market data, rather than as a cloud provider. So why start offering cloud computing? NYSE saw how it could significantly simplify and improve its customers’ competitiveness in capital markets by providing an integrated service that combined on-demand computing with access to the market (the exchanges), a low-latency secure network and instant access to data feeds. In a reversal of traditional approaches to IT, computing capacity is literally coming to the market and the data — rather than the data and market being piped to the computers.”

  tags: nyse cloudcomputing capitalmarkets

• 5 Technologies That Will Shape the Web – IEEE Spectrum

  “Today the Web is going through another reinvention, morphing into a place where our social interactions are ever more important. And the main force behind this phenomenon is, of course, Facebook, led by Zuckerberg, now a 27-year-old billionaire.

  So where will the Web go next? We asked two dozen analysts, engineers, and executives to describe what technologies they think will shape our online experiences in the next several years. Their predictions could easily fill this entire issue, but we distilled their wisdom into a more palatable list of five key technologies that our sources mentioned most frequently.

  We also asked six of the experts to tell us what these technologies mean for today’s dueling titans, Google and Facebook. What challenges do they face? Who’s got an advantage?”

  tags: tech trends

• EA: To infinity and beyond! « Adam Deane

  Adam Deane employs the Toy Story characters as Enterprise Architect and (requisite) cast of doubters:

  “Buzz: All this is going to change. I am Buzz Lightyear; I am the new generation of Enterprise Architects. No longer IT oriented. I’m business oriented. I come in peace.

  Woody: How are you going to make a difference?

  Buzz: I will create business growth instead of trying to find ways to save money. I will generate revenue. I will speed up business cycles. I will make myself indispensable to the organisation.”

  tags: entarch humor

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