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Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY for the next free ACM Webcast: "Navigating Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Six Key Issues," presented on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11 am ET (10 am CT/9 am MT/8 am PT/3 pm GMT) by Dr. Herbert Lin, Chief Scientist, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research...
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Dave O’Leary, bringing CEO, CIO, VP, Chair insights on his Microsoft Surface Pro Journey
Stephen.Ibaraki
I have known Dave since the 1980s’ as a leader in business, industry, government, media, society, academia and internationally. He has several interesting ideas he shared with me as articles that I will be posting starting with this one today. His profile is below followed by his article, “My Microsoft...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
The most important attribute for successful executives is to keep up with trends as they will influence your work, strategy and success. We have a singular opportunity to hear from Andrew Ng uniquely being in the Time 100, CNN 10, Fortune 40 under 40, MIT TR35. Andrew’s work is impacting you through...
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When I talk with CEOs and IT executives, their priorities involve driving agility and innovation and the resulting efficiencies gained. At the second IFIP World CIO Forum where I am a vice-chair, one of the sessions will be using entrepreneurial and start-up experiences within businesses to provide enterprise...
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Chat with Paul Niederer, CEO ASSOB, World Authority Equity Based Crowdfunding Investment, Top Innovation Leader and Entrepreneur
Stephen.Ibaraki
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, internet, social media started elsewhere and then...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
For IT executives and your teams, this is worth going to ‘ Advisor Limited Public Preview’ service: Collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data. Separate the signal from the noise with simple, powerful log management tools. Collect and search across multiple machine data sources from...
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I am fortunate to work with top executives worldwide. I gain added insights from the hundreds of interviews with notable leaders. There are three common lessons to learn from and then implement for stellar career growth. Lesson 1: Be challenged and seek diversity It’s important to stay constantly challenged...
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Register for June 17 ACM Learning Webinar: "The Marriage of BI and Big Data—Business unIntelligence"
Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY to attend our next free ACM Learning Webinar, "The Marriage of BI and Big Data—Business unIntelligence," presented on June 17 at 12 pm ET (11 am CT/10 am MT/9 am PT/4 pm GMT). Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting and co-editor of the ACM Tech Pack on Business...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
* Bill Gates indicates “As a leader in defining many of the key concepts of distributed computing that enable today’s mission-critical computer systems, Leslie has done great things not just for the field of computer science, but also in helping make the world a safer place. Countless people around the...
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We assume that our employers, customers, and colleagues are be guided by ethical principles. So, we may not necessarily think too close to home. Although it would be difficult to be completely prepared for an ethically challenging situation, however, armed with a bit of knowledge in advance...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
The NYC livestream #surface event begins at 11 am EST. Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us Surface -- designed to be the one device for everything in your life. Every Surface offers ports, Office compatibility, and Covers. Whatever you want to imagine, create, and share—Surface...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I found this news of great interest to the enterprise after speaking to my enterprise colleagues. An extension of the 20 year partnership between Microsoft and SAP was announced today in a post from Takeshi Numoto , corporate vice-president, cloud and enterprise networking Microsoft. Scott Guthrie...
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Microsoft Virtual Academy 2 millionth member wins for country
Stephen.Ibaraki
Check out the latest courses from the Microsoft Virtual Academy ? MVA is approaching 2 million members! The 2,000,000 th member wins for their entire country -- all MVA users from that country will get a bonus of 100 MVA points per person!
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Stephen.Ibaraki
For more details go here ! Summary of notable items quoted from the link: First , we will be increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. Second , all Office 365 ProPlus customers will get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user as part of their Office 365 ProPlus subscription...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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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. In January I was invited by the US Embassy...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Chat with Simon Dixon, Co-Founder, CEO and Author of 'Bank to the Future', Global Top Innovation Leader and Entrepreneur
Stephen.Ibaraki
Simon Dixon was originally trained as an economist before starting his career in investment banking. In his career he was originally a trader before moving into corporate finance where he helped venture capitalists exit their companies onto the London Stock Exchange. Having worked with venture capitalists...
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Chat with Yasas Abeywickrama Global Top Young Business, IT Professional, Entrepreneur and Author
Stephen.Ibaraki
Yasas V. Abeywickrama was recognised in 2003 by CIMA (UK) as an up and coming business leader for the future. In 2009 he was named the Young Professional of the Year by Professions Australia. In 2011, Yasas was recognised with a TOYP award (Ten Outstanding Young Persons). Yasas has enjoyed a distinguished...
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5 May 2014
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Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set and Design Patterns
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/en-us/documentation/articles/architecture-overview...
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Blog Post:
Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre in Vancouver
Stephen.Ibaraki
It was recently announced that MS Canada will be opening a brand new training and research centre at Vancouver’s downtown Pacific Centre mall. The Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre will create 400 new jobs, which will focus on the “mobile-first, cloud-first” future for the company.
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