banks consort on interoperable data centers
Great article - the banks are getting on the interoperability band wagon and looking at standardizing the cloud environment. We might move out of the "Proprietary Age" of IT and into the standardized data world. This seems like an enternity, but if you realize that electronic computer sytsems are less than 75 years old, it is amazing progresss. The short term and long term gains of stndardardized data sets combined with cloud computing may make local server farms and proprietary approaches as quaint as an early factory running all of machines off belts from a centrally powered shaft!
Friday, November 5, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Radio Interoperability - NOT!!!!
http://www.wkrg.com/caught_on_camera/article/accidentally-caught-on-camera-car-crash-not-part-of-movie/1078904/Oct-12-2010_10-26-am/
I thought the billions of dollars spent in the last 8 years since 9/11 on radio interoperability would have at least prevented this police care from crashing into a movie set - apparently being supported by a different set of police and different radios!!!!!
I thought the billions of dollars spent in the last 8 years since 9/11 on radio interoperability would have at least prevented this police care from crashing into a movie set - apparently being supported by a different set of police and different radios!!!!!
Interoperable data for turbulent times
The economy is certainly having some severe problems on many fronts, and many businesses are looking for ways to improve their long term viability and short term productivity. Investing in interoperable data infrastructure is a very solid investment.
Like the adoption of the shipping container, the use of structured, interoperable data will have some immediate benefits in terms of easing sharing and accessing information. The real payoffs will come as this creates a cumulative effect and begins to impact software design. Software applications that plug together like Legos through defined data sets can be rapidly deployed and morphed as business requirements change; far better than legacy systems that need extensive, custom interfaces to be developed before any synergies can be obtained.
If you are a business owner, a CIO, deal with massive amounts of data, or an information architect, you need to be thinking about this as a critical element of your strategy over the next 5-10 years.
Like the adoption of the shipping container, the use of structured, interoperable data will have some immediate benefits in terms of easing sharing and accessing information. The real payoffs will come as this creates a cumulative effect and begins to impact software design. Software applications that plug together like Legos through defined data sets can be rapidly deployed and morphed as business requirements change; far better than legacy systems that need extensive, custom interfaces to be developed before any synergies can be obtained.
If you are a business owner, a CIO, deal with massive amounts of data, or an information architect, you need to be thinking about this as a critical element of your strategy over the next 5-10 years.
Monday, September 13, 2010
House, Senate agree on measure requiring standard format for spending data
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100908_9226.php?oref=rss?zone=NGtoday
Standard format for spending data - while this seems almost common sensical, it is a big step forward for the government. The idea of agencies doing things the same way is a major opportunity to eventually streamline government at the federal level, and eventually filter this down to the states and local level.
It also allows interface to business, making the entire process simplier, faster, more efficient and ultimately less expensive. There are millions if not billions of dollars spent on proprietary interfaces for data today. Kudos to the people thinking out of the box!
Standard format for spending data - while this seems almost common sensical, it is a big step forward for the government. The idea of agencies doing things the same way is a major opportunity to eventually streamline government at the federal level, and eventually filter this down to the states and local level.
It also allows interface to business, making the entire process simplier, faster, more efficient and ultimately less expensive. There are millions if not billions of dollars spent on proprietary interfaces for data today. Kudos to the people thinking out of the box!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Alzheimers and info sharing...
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
A great story of why remembering to share information is so important!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
A great story of why remembering to share information is so important!!!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Standards portend alternatives....See Facebook competitor
See the below threat to FACEBOOK, and you see the power of standards and cognitive intelligence (Clay Shirkey's new book). Imagine a distributed, open, free social networking capability, and there are lots of possibilities that come to mind....
From WIRED.com.....
1. Open, Distributed Alternatives
A pack of college kids drunk on Free Software launched an open-source, federated alternative to Facebook called Diaspora. After collecting an astonishing $120K in donations, the group is knocking out code. Meanwhile, there’s other cool stuff going on, including OneSocialWeb, the Appleseed Project and WebFinger. Get enough of these open protcols into decent shape and someone is likely to build them into an improbably powerful stack. Research the LAMP stack, if you don’t get my drift.
What might that look like? An elimination of the need for a centralized home and coordinator of social networking — where your social profile lives wherever you want it to (as your e-mail does) and can interact with any other profile around the net, on your own terms.
While it sounds far fetched, a recent poll suggests that people are as happy with Facebook as they are with their cable company, even if they do find it similarly indispensable.
Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/five-things-totopple-facebooks-empire/#ixzz0uKFKoRLU
From WIRED.com.....
1. Open, Distributed Alternatives
A pack of college kids drunk on Free Software launched an open-source, federated alternative to Facebook called Diaspora. After collecting an astonishing $120K in donations, the group is knocking out code. Meanwhile, there’s other cool stuff going on, including OneSocialWeb, the Appleseed Project and WebFinger. Get enough of these open protcols into decent shape and someone is likely to build them into an improbably powerful stack. Research the LAMP stack, if you don’t get my drift.
What might that look like? An elimination of the need for a centralized home and coordinator of social networking — where your social profile lives wherever you want it to (as your e-mail does) and can interact with any other profile around the net, on your own terms.
While it sounds far fetched, a recent poll suggests that people are as happy with Facebook as they are with their cable company, even if they do find it similarly indispensable.
Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/five-things-totopple-facebooks-empire/#ixzz0uKFKoRLU
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