by Jack Santos | January 6, 2011 | Comments Off
A few weeks ago I went public with a Facebook breach that I incurred. That post here. I suppose hacking is a relative term. A few years ago, my (then) college aged son got into hot water during the early days of Facebook; he “hacked” Facebook to get a collection of MoveON.org aficionado email addresses, [...]
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Category: Cloud Externalization management Managment security Tags: consumerization, Externalization, management, security
by Jack Santos | December 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Our Data Management guys in the Gartner IT1 offering do a lot of research on data – in all its forms. They are looking at things like “Big Data” and “Data Clouds” and “MODS” (the Methodology for Overcoming Data Silos). My cohort, Mike Rollings, passed along this link: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/. It really is very interesting, and [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Information Management Tags: Cloud, consumerization, data management, information, Predictions, Strategy, UI
by Jack Santos | November 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
I have a thesis that the recent history of bubbles are not just reflective of economic “irrational exuberance”, but in fact reflect social reality – the ability of individuals to influence and communicate with each other. The “bubble” is just the final effect, the consequence of that behavior. Our ability to influence and communicate has [...]
Category: Cloud economy Externalization Future management Managment Predictions Strategic Planning Tags: Cloud, IT relevance, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | November 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday I cancelled my home PC backup contract. It was with a leading online (cloud based) provider of backup services. It’s not that I wasn’t happy with them. In fact, when I signed up 4 years ago, it was one of the things that made me realize cloud services were players – not only for [...]
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Category: Cloud Externalization management Managment Outsourcing security Tags: Cloud, data management, Outsourcing, security
by Jack Santos | November 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Monday’s Wall Street Street Journal was rife with news of the effects of QE2 (Quantitative Easing 2 – the new Fed money program), the outcry by growing economies, and a dissenting op-ed piece by one of the Fed Board of Governors. That dissenting governor, Kevin Warsh, makes the case that he is concerned about Fed [...]
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Category: Cloud economy Externalization Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, economy, IT relevance
by Jack Santos | November 5, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s interesting to note two pieces in today’s (11/5/2010) Wall Street Journal that, when juxtaposed, portend serious social changes afoot, due to social computing. The first is an ad on page D7 of the print version: It’s an ad for Unigo – a site which helps students and parents with the college admissions [...]
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Category: Cloud Future management Managment Tags: culture, Predictions, privacy, Strategy
by Jack Santos | October 5, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s been about a month now since I started using Google’s prioritized inbox; Craig Roth talked about it in an earlier post. I was a skeptic; with 30,000+ messages in my personal Google inbox, and hundreds more every day, I could only dream of a solution that would help reduce my blood pressure. But…I’m believer, [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Tags: consumerization, data management, information, privacy, symposium, UI
by Jack Santos | September 24, 2010 | Comments Off
“He who controls vocabulary controls thought.” Ludwig Wittgenstein As a CIO, often times a final decision for a product or service gets framed in these terms: “What value are we getting?”; or “Is it worth the value?”. Vendors will often flip this around and base their sell on their “value” , as in “we give [...]
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Category: CIO issues Cloud Tags: CIO, Cloud, management, Strategy, vendor, words
by Jack Santos | August 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about he intense scrutiny Comcast is under for its purchase of NBC. An excerpt for Comcast’s filing stated: “Comcast, on the other hand, argues that Internet video won’t be a direct competitor to cable any time soon, removing any incentive for it to cut off online competitors’ access [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Predictions Tags: culture, Mergers, network, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | August 26, 2010 | Comments Off
I live on a tiny picturesque street in a small picturesque town (as in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” – e.e.cummings). The property I live on originally belonged to a sea captain, and was part of the gardens of his house, frequently visited by George Washington. The houses on the street, Victorian in [...]
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Category: Cloud Future Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, data management, privacy
