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Over on Active Information, I wrote a post inspired by a recent consult. As I was thinking about the post, and the consult, I scribbled and then preview tweeted the following:
“Data isn’t just a mechanism to manage the business you have, it’s a tool to learn what business you could be in.”
Read the post. Implement the message.
It’s official: ‘Cloud computing’ is now meaningless | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld
Dave was inspired by our recent podcast:
“…yet another Gartner hype cycle report is now out. You can expect to see its accompanying graphic (below) used in every vendor’s presentation from now on. (There must be a law or something.)”
tags: linthicum cloudcomputing
CloudCamp Boston @ OpenStack, Oct 6, 2011
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.
tags: boston cloudcomputing
Schumpeter: Think different | The Economist
“Mr Christensen and his colleagues list five habits of mind that characterise disruptive innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Innovators excel at connecting seemingly unconnected things…”
Twitter to open source Hadoop-like tool — Cloud Computing News
Twitter retains BackType’s plan to open source Storm. “Twitter says it is planning to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like real-time data processing tool.”
tags: Twitter storm streamprocessing cep
This week on Active Information, I highlighted a piece by Houston Rockets GM, Daryl Morey, on the value of data over hot-shot analysts. Check it out.
This morning, Dave and I exchanged top cloud computing stories for July. During the podcast, we nominated mutual friend Lori MacVittie of F5 to be the official arbitrator of “cloud / not cloud” labeling. We were inspired by Gartner’s July Cloud Computing Hype Cycle, in which everything is suddenly cloud. Perhaps we need a #snark warning for parts of this podcast. Give it a listen.
For the last few months, I’ve been hunkered down applying my SOA, active-information and execution skills on a [redacted] project for an organization in the [redacted] industry. It’s a cool project. But, it seriously stymies my writing. First, I can’t write about it. Second, I don’t have time to write, or hardly think, of anything else.
So, for me — a so-called low metabolism writer — it’s a good thing I was previously contracted to write for Esther Schindler at the HP Input Output site. Over the last few weeks, I’ve published the following Active Information posts:
“As digital emitters and sensors pervade the physical world — cars, bridges, medical devices — the opportunity to exploit active information patterns for business and societal innovation increases exponentially.
However, with technology-driven innovation comes risks. The most cited risk associated with digital pervasiveness is lack, or even absence, of privacy. But those of us with development and engineering backgrounds realize there is another, potentially more significant risk. Bugs…” [Read the post.]
Lessons from US CIO Vivek Kundra: Data-driven innovation:
“Buried between tech bubble talk in the most recent Fortune Magazine is a good interview of Vivek Kundra, US CIO. The interview is a retrospective on Kundra’s term as the first CIO of the US…
…The interview covers a lot of ground, including Kundra’s Cloud First technology plan [pdf], being stymied by bureaucracy, the power of data for transparency and publishing data to spur innovation…” [Read the post]
Big Data as Story Teller — Story of Big Data:
“…Too often, we geek types think about visibility in terms of business analytics and intelligence tools. However, an interesting, and very powerful technique is data visualization.” [Read the post.]
