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Three ways to thrive

Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in...

Published 11-07-2009 12:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Multi-core, where will it end?

A number of times I've mentioned the rise of parallel processing and multi-core as well as the effect on development and the kinds of solutions that are consumed . I was talking with some folks at TI the other day about the projections of multi-core...

Published 11-06-2009 8:31 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Infrastructure , Innovation , Trends, Multi-core, Parallel computing

Toronto City Innovation Conference

Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications...

Published 11-05-2009 11:34 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Edge computing , Innovation , Trends, Applications, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Organizational relationships, User Interface

Data Virtualization: Essential but Approach with Caution

Data Virtualization is the current marketing banner for Enterprise Information Integration (EII). It is an important adjunct to SOA, but must be undertaken with caution. David Linthicum, Linthicum Group, and Bradley Wright, Progress DataDirect, recently...

Published 11-02-2009 7:34 AM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: SOA , Virtualization, Enterprise Information Integration, data virtualization

It must be getting closer to the end of the year than I thought

I am seeing more of the “ technologies you can’t ignore ” or “ technologies that will change everything ” articles. I usually don’t see a rush of these until December

Published 10-31-2009 4:29 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Trends

Windows 7, now the ball is rolling…

Many home users have Windows 7 in their hands (and more importantly on their machines), almost everything I've heard has been positive. I know HP has been working on preparing for deployments and various support services for Windows 7 , including...

Published 10-30-2009 9:46 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Technology adoption

Robotics capabilities for the next decade

This video provides some impressive examples of the kinds of sensing and robotics capabilities being demonstrated today (e.g. throwing and catching a cell phone). If it takes a few years to make it into production, there are still some tremendous advances...

Published 10-30-2009 4:30 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics

Revisiting 3D printing

I've done entries on personal fabrication and 3D printing ( printing organs ...). Until this point, these techniques have been applied mostly to software materials. Now it's been extended to printing 3D objects directly in metal . The current...

Published 10-29-2009 1:26 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Green IT, Manufacturing , Trends, 3D, Efficiency

Tech jobs replaced by cloud

Over the past few months I've seen numerous articles talking about tech jobs being replaced as organizations implement cloud, like this one in CIO magazine . This is really not anything new. When the mainframe came on the scene in the 50s, it replaced...

Published 10-28-2009 11:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Adaptation, Protectionism

The Challenge of Analytics

Since I got involved with analytics in the early 90s, I had asked myself why we don’t see more organizations use analytics and business intelligence . Early on, I thought the answer was that the algorithms and tools were inadequate, then I thought...

Published 10-25-2009 1:46 AM by Kas Kasravi

Filed under: business intelligence, Analytics

Mashup standards

I was reading SD Times the other day while riding an exercise bike at the gym (hey, you have to do something to keep your mind occupied) and I came across an article on the Open Mashup Alliance . I had quite a number of questions about the OMA . Although...

Published 10-25-2009 1:36 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Standards, Trends, Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Personalization, Flexibility, User Interface

Is Business-IT Alignment Suicide for the CIO?

Last week, Bob Evans published an article entitled, " Suicide Strategy For CIOs: Aligning IT With The Business ." In it he asserts that the CIO must abandon efforts to align IT to the business and instead align with customers. This does not...

Published 10-21-2009 1:51 PM by fredcummins

Filed under: Business transformation , CIO, Value chain , IT Services, SOA value chain, Business-IT Alignment

Technical trends from an HR perspective

A few weeks ago I participated in a technical trend conversation aimed mainly at the oil and gas organizations. Last weekend I did something similar but this time talking with some individuals from various HR organizations - at an HR Roundtable Summit...

Published 10-19-2009 11:55 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Trends, IT Services, Technology adoption

Dealing with information overload - email

In the October IEEE Spectrum there was an article on How to Beat Information Overload . that I found very timely since, during this past week, there were a number of cases where I saw a question go out to a distribution list asking for technical insight...

Published 10-13-2009 11:31 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Productivity

Tuesday, October 13th is "National Face Your Fears Day"

It even has an official site to help folks confront and overcome the fears that hold them back. There are many things that keep people (and IT organizations) from doing what they need to do to move their organization forward. One of the first is an inability...

Published 10-12-2009 3:36 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Trends, Technology adoption

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