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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Final Wrap Up – Top Three Take Aways
Well, I am reaching complete mental overload and capacity at this point. It has been a great conference. I feel like my brain is a suitcase stuffed to overcapacity that I have managed to sit on and smash enough to … Continue reading
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Cloud Computing Architect: The new role in IT
Drue Reeves Cloud computing discussions now have been discussed for several days now. “Cloud Architects” keep coming up over and over again. Folks are acting as Cloud Architects, some people have those titles. Cloud Architects are all about leadership: “Leadership … Continue reading
Testing in the Middle
Sean Kenefick GUI testing is not efficient. UIs are constantly changing. Very difficult to maintain. Better way is to do Unit Testing. This is a good base solution. Then a bulk of the testing should be at the API level. … Continue reading
The Emerging Architecture of Modern Identity
Mary Ruddy Identity systems must be more agile. Need to think of them differently. Traditionally, it was an on premise staff member, accessing servers and desktops locally. All kinds of physical security could be in place. Today that is not … Continue reading
Cloud Collaboration, Content and Security
Bill Pray Mitigation Is Your Best Bet How can we mitigate the risk of moving collaboration and content to the public cloud? Cloud Collaboration: dropbox problem, gmail problem, facebook collaboration, youtube instruction. Lots of social or cloud based public tools. … Continue reading
AWS: Field Notes from Expeditions in the Cloud
Matt Wood State of the cloud and observations. Launched in 2006, and often asked why should I do this? Today benefits are well known. Originally, Amazon thought this would be best adopted by start up companies. But today, Amazon finds … Continue reading
kenote: Decoding the science of ultimate human behavior
Steven Kotler Ultimate Human Performance. What does it take to do the best you can when it matters most. Asked many world leaders, and executives what it takes to do the impossible. State of consciousness known as Flow. It’s the … Continue reading
Do you Really know what your Boss Wants?
Jack Santos – reporting on survey of IT Leaders and IT Professionals What do my boss and I agree on? Where don’t we see eye to eye? What can I do about that? Hypothesis: CIOs are operationally adept, while being … Continue reading
Gartner One on One: Lori Robinson
Identity Management Replacement Had a great conversation with Lori Robinson, VP from Gartner. Talked to her about the future plans that we have for replacing our Identity Management solution. She asked me some great questions to first learn about what … Continue reading
Yammer or Chatter: Which Social Software in the Workplace is for you?
Larry Cannell Social Software used to be called Collaboration software. It is used inside of companies to help groups and teams coordinate and communicate more efficiently. In the digital work space: competition between Microsoft Office and Salesforce. Microsoft Yammer and … Continue reading
Dan at a Conference 