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The Night the NYT Used Hadoop and EC2 to Convert 4TB’s

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun!
I hen began some rough calculations and determined that if I used only four machines, it could take some time to generate all 11 million article PDFs. But thanks to the swell people at Amazon, I got access to a few more machines and churned through all 11 million articles in […]

Enterprise 2.0, All The Kings Men, Gartner, and The Coase Theorem

Monday, March 17th, 2008

While reading another Gartner Smartner article this evening, I started thinking, “What went wrong over there? How did they become so insignificant? When I first started in IT, circa 1977, Gartner was basically the Huey Long of the IT analyst group (AG) business. I worked at Exxon at the time, and I […]

Your vendors are doing it, why aren’t you?

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

How 300,000 IBM employees use Bluepedia wiki
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Seven Core Competencies for Enterprise Innovation

Cloud Movements

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Let’s have a cloud party 2009. Here is a list of my predictions.

Mosso adds a new service that is 3Tera like and now Rackspace has the holy trinity of hosting providers.
3Tera and Rackspace partner.
Rightscale becomes cloud agnostic by building their own grid framework.
Rightscale is acquired by a big player (e.g. Sun).
IBM waits for someone […]

Cloud Talk

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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Enterprise Beware!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

There was an interesting article yesterday in SearchDataCenter.com about how Motorola is using Splunk to troubleshoot IT management problems. Enterprise Search technologies are being used more and more by large customers to apply Google-like search technology to traditional data center analytics. Companies like Coke and Comcast are using Enterprise Search technologies to […]

Botchanomics and The Big Galupe

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

It’s been a while since we have been able to catch up with the international man of IT mystery, Botchagalupe. I was able to sit down with Botchagalupe to see what he has been up to lately.
Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again.
Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure.
Johnmwillis: The last time […]

Your Next Competitor May Not Be Born Yet

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Do you know who I am?

I am a Harvard dropout
I am 23 years old
It is estimated that I am worth 5 billion dollars

Seven Core Competencies for Enterprise Innovation

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Seven Core Competencies for Enterprise Innovation

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I am in the process of completing a 25-page white paper that describes the seven technologies that are going to disrupt legacy enterprise IT. Here is a list of the seven technologies discussed in the paper:

Content Management Systems

Cloud Computing

Semantic Web

Enterprise Search

Enterprise Social Networking

Work-Place Wiki’s

Open Education

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