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Recently, I started working on a committee developing a technology plan for our school district.This has been a huge eye-opener for me. The web, social software and cloud computing will definitely have an impact on enterprise IT – but the impact on our educational system will be astounding, and many in our educational system don’t [...]

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A friend, fellow techophile, and relative of mine Jeremy Cameron (founder of Simple Solutions Inc.) alerted me to Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit mashup capability. It is fantastic!
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Akamai is a software company. It is not, fundamentally, an infrastructure company. You could blow up their network of servers from orbit, and most of the value of the company would be preserved.
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Earlier today an article about the role of open source software in difficult economic times made me reflect about whether government organizations will become more or less interested in open source with the budget cuts and cost saving targets many of them are being or will soon be faced with.
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I have been doing a lot of Cloud Computing presentations around the world since late last year when I became Gartner’s theme owner for the subject. In that time, I have spent a great deal of energy cataloguing different ways in which the Cloud would impact people.
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Gartner analyst John Pescatore was recently named one of Baseline Magazine’s “50 Most Influential People in Business IT.” Check it out here; John is number 20.

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Amazon’s previously-announced CDN service is now live. It’s called CloudFront. It was announced on the Amazon Web Services blog, and discussed in a blog post by Amazon’s CTO. The RightScale blog has a deeper look, too.
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In one of the more anticlimactic business moves in the brief history of the web, Yahoo! CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang announced he will step down once a replacement is found for the top spot at the iconic portal. For many, this will be a milestone in the drama that has surrounded Yahoo! in its [...]

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I never met Jerry Yang. Or, maybe what I should say is, I haven’t met Jerry Yang yet, but I guess I might some day. Anyway, he’s not going to run Yahoo any more, he says.
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Well, it’s sort of true.  Our survey data (n= 338) shows that “the business side” in both Europe and Asia will be statistically more likely to lead BPM projects than will be US business-side staff.  The differences are substantial; this is not a “margin of error” thing.
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