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Journal: Beginning, ITWorld Blogger, Global Industry Council, IFIP GA Poznan, IP3 AGM, ACM Practitioner Board NYC, ACM PDC NYC, FEAPO LA
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over 1 year ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
The Beginning This holiday morning I looked back at the beginning for IT Manager Connection. I was invited to co-found the blog with John Oxley and Barnaby Jeans, expressing my thoughts in my first blog in late 2005. I am the only one left out of the...
SQL Server 2000 End of Support - April, 2013
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over 2 years ago
by
Chris Di Lullo
There are some important support changes coming up for Microsoft SQL Server, per Microsoft’s Support Lifecycle policy . Being aware of these changes means the ability to potentially avoid the risk of running unsupported products and more importantly...
Nov. 20 Webcast with Kate Matsudaira: "Big Data Without Big Database—Extreme In-Memory Caching for Better Performance"
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over 1 year ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Learning Center Webcast, "Big Data Without Big Database—Extreme In-Memory Caching for Better Performance," presented on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, at 1 pm ET (12 noon CT/11 am MT/10 am PT/5 pm GMT...
April 12 ACM Webinar: "Security: Computing in an Adversarial Environment"
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over 2 years ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
The ACM is the world’s largest educational, scientific and professional association well known for their Turing Awards (the Nobel Prize of Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award ) and their special interest groups ( http://www.acm.org/sigs...
[Interview] Professor Hideyuki Nakashima, President Future University, Internationally Renowned Computer Scientist and Visionary
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Canadian IT Managers
This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with leading professionals. In this blog series, we talk with Professor Hideyuki Nakashima: President Future University – Hakodate; the internationally renowned computer scientist, inspirational...
Chat with Paul Niederer, CEO ASSOB, World Authority Equity Based Crowdfunding Investment, Top Innovation Leader and Entrepreneur
Posted
7 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
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In working with enterprises and businesses, an area increasingly getting attention is crowdfunding. It can be a viable way to fund projects. It started in the consumer space and now is entering the SMB domain. There is precedent, much like email, mobile...
Chat with Elizabeth Southerlan, Global Expert on Strategy, EA, Transformation, Operations Improvement
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11 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Elizabeth Southerlan works as an Associate for strategy and management consulting firm Oliver Wyman; she is based out of the firm's New York City office. Elizabeth has worked in-depth with major retail and healthcare institutions in North America...
Retooling IT staff for the new business technology reality - managers and CIOs need to get it right
Posted
4 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
David O’Leary shared this article with me today from his past roles as chair national council of IT Deans, CEO, CIO, VP, educator, writer IDG-IT World Canada, board member, … A fundamental change is rapidly impacting all businesses that use technology...
Considering a Windows 7 deployment? Get the right tools to rationalize your applications before you start.
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Ruth Morton
This is a guest blog post written by Dave Kawula , a Senior Consultant with 1E . Dave was the guest on our January episode of the AlignIT Manager Tech Talk where we talked about how IT managers can take the risk out of their Windows 7 deployment projects...
Journal: Speaking at ITU/UN WSIS Geneva and Astana Economic Forum ASTEX 2013
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over 1 year ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
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I am heading out this week: Vancouver, Toronto, Frankfurt, Geneva. In Geneva, I am speaking at the ITU/UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The session theme chaired by IFIP IP3 board chair Brenda Aynsley is, “Why We Need an ICT...
Register for February 27 ACM Webcast: "Achieve Massively Parallel Acceleration with GPUs"
Posted
11 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY for the next free ACM Webcast, "Achieve Massively Parallel Acceleration with GPUs," presented on Thursday, February 27 at 1 pm ET (noon CT/11 am MT/10 am PT/6 pm GMT) by Mark Ebersole, CUDA Educator and Developer and NVIDIA. The...
Ang Cui discusses security threats in embedded systems
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over 1 year ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
Watch the video on the ACM Queue website, and watch for more Queue Portrait videos in the future! ACM Queue, the popular website for practitioners, is continuing its series of video interviews of today's leading computing innovators who are also members...
SecTor 2014 - Register Before Price Increase
Posted
5 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Take advantage of Standard pricing and register by August 31st for Canada’s largest IT security education conference, taking place on October 21st & 22nd with an optional training day on the 20th. Register Now . Groups of 5 or more get 20% off...
David Blei, ACM Infosys Foundation Award recipient in 2014, World-renowned Top-ranking Distinguished Researcher
Posted
5 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
David Blei is a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University. His research is in statistical machine learning, involving probabilistic topic models, Bayesian nonparametric methods, and approximate posterior inference. He works on...
Chat with Mark Walters, President and Chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance, International Technology, Standards and Policy Authority
Posted
9 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
Currently Mark serves as the President and Chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance, a consortium of over 200 leading manufacturers and service providers worldwide that are dedicated to interoperable wireless home control products based on the Z-Wave open standard...
Participate in the Imagine Cup and Achieve a Private Meeting with Bill Gates
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10 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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There are multiple ways that students, professors, and schools can get involved, from building final prototypes in the main competition to pitching their ideas in smaller, online competitions. This year, one lucky team will get a private meeting with...
Journal: ITU WSIS Geneva, Think Tank LA, PACE Washington DC, IFIP GA Vienna, IEA GIS New York, FEAPO LA, World CIO Forum Beijing, EU E-Skills Brussels
Posted
8 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
I am travelling much of this year and providing an update of my activities. The resulting articles and interviews will provides insights to you as IT executives to ensure you have the latest information to support your work and the goals of your organization...
Microsoft Azure with real-time analytics for Hadoop and machine learning–supported by UN Global E-Government Agenda
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3 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Earlier I had written about the key themes on the agenda of major governments worldwide for the United Nations Global E-Government Forum. From my prior post, you can see that Big Data and analytics are high priorities. Closely underlying this is Hadoop...
Chat Marios Damianides Partner Ernst and Young, Global Authority in Security and Risk Management
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over 2 years ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
Marios Damianides is a partner with Ernst & Young in the Risk Advisory Services division in New York. At Ernst & Young Mr. Damianides has worked with numerous Fortune 100 companies designing and implementing security management systems. Mr. Damianides...
Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set and Design Patterns
Posted
8 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
These recommendations came up via a query in one of the groups I belong to so I am sharing with you: Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=41937 Common design patterns: http://azure.microsoft.com...
Graham Jones Chair, Ashwin Kini Chair-elect, GITCA – on "24 Hours in the Cloud" and the IFIP World CIO Forum 2011
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over 3 years ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Come and get your Cloud geek on! GITCA and Microsoft are running an event called “ 24 Hours in the Cloud ”. There will be 24 one hour sessions around the world covering a wide range of Cloud Computing topics. The presenters will be live...
Chat - David Foote, CEO Foote Partners, World Renowned ICT Research Pioneer and Executive
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over 2 years ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
David Foote, Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Research Officer David Foote is an IT industry research pioneer, innovator, and one of the most quoted industry authorities on global IT workforce and compensation trends and multiple facets of the human side of...
A Journey is always easier with a MAP: Windows Server 2012 Migration Tools
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over 1 year ago
by
Pierre Roman
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Comments
I'm sure you heard the news regarding our new version of our server OS. Windows Server 2012 R2 ( the preview is available for download now ). Windows Server helps customers transform the datacenter, taking advantage of new hybrid cloud capabilities...
Back to the basics with Microsoft software licensing options
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over 3 years ago
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Ruth Morton
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My colleagues and I get asked a lot about licensing. Frankly, Microsoft doesn’t have a great reputation for keeping it simple. And to be totally transparent – I, like many of my colleagues, would usually rather stick a fork in my eye that...
Professor Andrew McGettrick, Pre-eminent Educator and Scientist, shares his views on education and the broader computing challenges
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over 4 years ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Professor Andrew McGettrick , Pre-eminent Educator and Scientist, who shares his views on education and the broader computing...
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