WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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look ma, no hands! How to process half a million records without any servers on AWS #EDA

look ma, no hands! How to process half a million records without any servers on AWS #EDA | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In this article, I’ll walk you through the architecture of processing big records files within AWS services.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this short example shows how far we've come with serverless and event-drive architectures in the cloud, enabling complex processing as a pipeline of small operations. For old dudes like me this is a throwback to the command line pipelines we used to make in Un*x way back when. It makes for very resilient solutions, once you debug the flow. Should be used more often.

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Google has made it easy to find school report material online and now it provides teachers with the cure - where else should this be used? #consultant reports? #cheating #plagerism

Google has made it easy to find school report material online and now it provides teachers with the cure - where else should this be used? #consultant reports? #cheating #plagerism | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In addition to checking student work for matches across billions of web pages and books, originality reports can now check for matches against a repository of student work within your domain. 

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WHY IT MATTERS: Google search made it easy for a generation of students to "borrow" content from others in order to get "inspiration" for their reports. Now Google also provides teachers with tools to automatically check what is unique and what is not in automated fashion. Why is this not included in WORD or Google DOCS to automatically verify what is truly unique in documents you receive, say from consultants like me? Oh no, many would find this not a good idea I'm sure... ;-)

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Gartner report highlights different ways to React to the Impact of the Cloud on IT Operations Monitoring taking into account the partial visibility and control of #privateCloud, #IaaS, #PaaS & #SaaS

Gartner report highlights different ways to React to the Impact of the Cloud on IT Operations Monitoring taking into account the partial visibility and control of #privateCloud, #IaaS, #PaaS & #SaaS | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

IT operations teams struggle to maintain service quality when they apply legacy approaches to monitoring. Infrastructure and operations leaders responsible for monitoring should take the steps outlined here to increase their effectiveness and limit their exposure to challenges raised by the cloud.

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WHY IT MATTERS: cloud computing has moved infrastructure to the cloud, limiting visibility and control of IT teams on key components of the infrastructure that may be required to monitor and troubleshoot. This report from Gartner highlights the different solutions and skills required to cover cloud computing solutions from private cloud to SaaS.

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Moving large #datasets - Exabyte-Scale - to #AWS requires physical trucks & hard drives

Moving large #datasets - Exabyte-Scale - to #AWS requires physical trucks & hard drives | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. Snowmobile makes it easy to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video libraries, image repositories, or even a complete data center migration. Transferring data with Snowmobile is secure, fast and cost effective.

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Moving large amounts of data to the cloud - petabytes and exabytes - would take years to do if transferred using networks and the Internet. Amazon provides its customers with dedicated and secure hard drives - they call snowballs - and truck - they call snowmobiles - to move the data from one data center to the next.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

There are limits to our network infrastructures and physical solutions often are required to migrate data to the cloud or digitize products. For example scanning paper files or converting books to digital ones often require specialized equipments in order to perform the work rapidly and cost effectively. Google had patented a book scanning equipment in order to create its Google books project in the past. I assume this same kind of innovation will start to happen in other fields as well.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639016/google-books-scanner-vacuum-diy 

https://books.google.com/googlebooks/about/ 

 

More on this here: http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-snowmobile-truck-is-a-funny-for-real-product-2016-11 

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Top 12 Emerging #Digital #Workplace Technologies- leveraging personal digital tech with your employees 

Top 12 Emerging #Digital #Workplace Technologies- leveraging personal digital tech with your employees  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Give employees more agility by bringing these consumer technologies to work.
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A short run down on personal technologies coming our way soon.

 

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I've been speaking about the impact of digital technologies to transformation our personal lives and the opportunities this brings to business for a while in my "me.com" and "we.com" conferences (http://fmcs.digital/conferences). Looks like there is even more to it than originally I anticipated with the convergence of InternetOfThings, AI, BigData, and wearables. Your employees in the future will be even more connected and digital and companies should take notice and leverage it to 1) improve productivity 2) support work-life-wellness balance 3) tap the social networks to their benefits (ie. social recruiting).

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