Oct 3 2008 7:11PM GMT
Posted by: viip
Cloud Computing,
2020,
Inherent Quality
Today a reader shared this bit of info on cloud computing. Indented are a few related words that are interesting. Also of potential interest may be The Cloud, billing by consumption, and the future of business intelligence, continuity and competition.
among big metatrends, cloud computing is the hardest one to argue with in the long term
By 2020 will Cloud Computing, laptops and handhelds be virtually global norms?
Sep 10 2008 4:51PM GMT
Posted by: viip
CIO,
Inherent Quality,
IBM,
Software Quality,
Microsoft,
OpenSource
Trust is a great enabler and something that can be grown. It may also be that it is inherently essential to moving masses towards increased usage of open source solutions. For some related reading perhaps see today’s SearchCIO-Midmarket.com post by Zach Church entitled “IBM, friends push ‘Microsoft-free’ world”.
Aug 25 2008 10:42PM GMT
Posted by: viip
IBM,
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality
In today’s world what commonalities may make the daily decisions of a software manager similar to those of a movie producer? In today’s world is it true that 75% of all software projects at Fortune 500 companies fail, that 33% are cancelled and that twice as many exceed budget by over 200%? The IBM Rational Software Developer Conference sounds like it may have been interesting based on Grady’s June 12 blog postings in the handbook of software architecture. If not already registered for IBM TV you can do so here and perhaps watch some of the noted conference keynote videos or R-Heroes episodes. Perhaps the quality that is inherently associated will help you beam some value intrinsically and pervasively to others within and external to your organization.
Jul 10 2008 3:34PM GMT
Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality,
Oracle,
Cloud Computing
The best way to learn something very well may be to be responsible for teaching it. With that in mind this post has a few questions; your digging and answers may help others to learn.
Drawing upon this article (and 12 points stated within), is or isn’t cloud computing coming to your enterprise, and what database do you think may be largely associated with the Cloud and the future of innovative business intelligence?
Whatever your answers may be to the above questions, the words below may be worth thinking about and internalizing.
Businesses are undergoing a fundamental shift in the way they make decisions. In today’s rapidly changing environment, decision-making occurs more frequently and at all levels of an organization. Having access to your company’s crucial information and using that business intelligence to achieve strategic enterprise-wide objectives differentiates highly successful businesses from potential competitors. (data sheet here)
Will the Cloud help to evolve the intrinsic and pervasive value of your organization by 2020? How might moving up into the Cloud change things relative to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?
With respect to the latter question you may find these words interesting:
“The Meta Group reports that the downtime cost for each company in the Energy Industry is $2.8 million/hour; in the Telecom Industry $2.0 million/hour; and for Financial Institutions, $1.4 million/hour.” Who said it?
Jun 23 2008 9:23AM GMT
Posted by: viip
HP,
ITIL,
Inherent Quality
Sharing awareness: This week HP formally launches data dedupe products (including for the enterprise data center, HP sources Sepaton, embedding its DeltaStor post-process deduplication software into its HP virtual library systems). Full story on SearchDataBackup.com. From the perspectives of libraries, and frameworks, standards, capability maturity models and so on, it may not be surprising to see HP continually contribute to service improvement such as by continuing to bring forth or contribute to inventions which consolidate, elevate and integrate volumes of information for increasingly greater dimensions of quality, value, excellence and simplicity. In the meantime you may wish to replay ITIL V3: Offering real business benefits for the enterprise (where you can “meet each of the five authors from HP who have been deeply involved with the refresh of ITIL V3”).
Jun 22 2008 7:48PM GMT
Posted by: viip
HP,
IBM,
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality,
Oracle,
PeopleSoft
This book states “Computing is slowly coming closer and closer to the masses”. With current PeopleTools has the pace picked up, or has IT been enabled to empower the Business more, or has IT been enabled to provide stronger governance, or has IT been enabled to eliminate (or improve integration with) the tools of other vendors such as perhaps HP or IBM/Rational?
In the future will enterprise solutions for Business, and enterprise solutions for IT, increasingly align and more so move towards being (or acting more as) one? By 2020 will organizations everywhere enjoy TCO that is significantly lower, value that is significantly higher, and computing which is significantly closer to (and easier and safer for) the masses?
May 19 2008 3:14PM GMT
Posted by: viip
IBM,
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality
Simply sharing awareness and applauding progress.
“A green strategy for your entire organization“
May 16 2008 12:12PM GMT
Posted by: viip
PeopleSoft,
IBM,
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality,
Oracle,
Google
A: Oracle and PeopleSoft say they do.
BTW recently the PeopleSoft Technology Blog shared awareness of a new site that is devoted to the Middleware Developer and perhaps a place to help you start creating SOA with your PeopleSoft applications. The site includes a link to this page of Oracle Blogs (semantic web view here, not all blogs included). Ideally the blogs further beam value inherently (intrinsically and pervasively) into your step. In any event, if your neighbors are partying and you can’t sleep perhaps you’ll find yourself doing some related reading… for example, William Vambenepe (IT management in a changing IT world) recently wrote about various IT management stories and provided a link to RedMonk’s People Over Process blog which included a link to Eric Schmidt IBM and Clouds | IT Management and Cloud Blog.
As the cloud and related applications continue to evolve and transform the value of the user experience, what database do you think will be largely inherent?
May 7 2008 10:10AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Gartner,
IBM,
Inherent Quality
Q: How can innovation be increasingly unlocked? Can it be with increased visibility, control and automation? For example see this IBM - Gartner Video.
A: By making quality, value, excellence and simplicity increasingly intrinsic and pervasive (for related thinking read Inherent Quality Simplicity; Thank you for doing so).
Apr 2 2008 2:12PM GMT
Posted by: viip
IBM,
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality
Some interesting posts these days over at Booch’s blog (Handbook of Software Architecture). For example see the March 10 post, Rational Machines, which at end includes a great quote of the day: Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, ‘Information’; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. — Grace Murray Hopper.
As you read towards present day you will encounter the March 18 post, Living A Life of Ands, which includes a very different, real and enjoyable self-description by Grady. In the post he also shares awareness that he is joining the Software Technology Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering.
All the best Grady; I look forward to eventually hearing of a publish date for your much anticipated new book.
Mar 28 2008 12:34PM GMT
Posted by: viip
IBM,
Inherent Quality
Info and Video here on Whatis?com.
(taking no credit, simply sharing awareness and applauding the efforts of others to share awareness of progressive steps to make quality increasingly more inherent from various perspectives)
Mar 12 2008 10:10AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality,
Internet Evolution,
United Way,
Nortel,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Unification,
Alliance,
Networking,
Cisco,
Interoperability
Did Oprah’s first webcast class of “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”, set a new World Wide Web record? 1,860,000 streamed or downloaded it within 1 week. Have you listened to the Flavor of Life? Many likely have not; however click the link and look at the numbers reported by Wikipedia about the Flavor of Life, and then imagine the potential of the Internet and the new records and improvements to quality of life that could be related before, by and beyond 2020. For example, imagine how the United Way is and can be increasingly enabled by software, technology, information, the Internet, and pros and public coming together increasingly as one to be of help to others. This way, this unified hand, could potentially increasingly enable harmonization around initiatives of high purpose. In general a united way is a good way. It can increasingly enable a helping unified hand with far positive reach. In any event, some good news reported today by Tony Bradley (see: Microsoft and Nortel Strengthen UC Partnership; IBM Pledges $1 Billion Investment in Unified Communications). A positive open unified interoperability of people and machines is on the rise and may even lead to unimagined goodness from various perspectives.
Mar 8 2008 2:20PM GMT
Posted by: viip
CIPS,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Inherent Quality,
Software Quality,
Bell,
Gartner,
CGI,
HP,
IFIP,
CSSA,
BCS,
ACS
A few bits of news that may interest you:
- 2.21.2007 Global IT Profession comes nearer
- 3.13.2007 IT Industry moves towards a Global Standard of Professionalism
- 9.12.2007 Microsoft supports plan for International Standard for IT Professionals
- 2.21.2008 CIPS National Board of Directors: Call for Nominations
- 3.05.2008 CIPS hosting special Microsoft 14-city workshop tour across Canada (the first Community Connection event starts Feb 26, 2008 in Toronto with the last event scheduled for April 16, 2008 in Quebec City)
- 5.07.2008 Summit 2008, organized by DPI (Association of Public Sector Information Professionals) and CIPS, celebrating their 45th and 50th anniversaries respectively (Elite Sponsor is IBM, Premier Sponsor is HP, Keynote Sponsors are Microsoft and Bell, other sponsors and friends include Global Knowledge, Workforce Ageing in the New Economy, Novell, Eagle, Veritaaq, Robert Half Technology, Brainhunter, Ajilon, CGI, and Gartner)
Note:
CIPS National is seeking nominations for positions that become vacant on the National Board of Directors at the AGM on May 7, 2008. The AGM will be held in Ottawa, Ontario in conjunction with Summit 2008. All nominations must be received in the National office by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 28, 2008.
PS: Mr. President, Thank you for being a Friend
