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In this session we will dive into some of the use-cases companies are currently deploying MongoDB for in the energy space. It is becoming more important for ... 
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The morning of Friday, Feb. 7, the prominent Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announced that, due to technical problems, it would be putting bitcoin withdrawals on hold. Customers would still be able to cash their bitcoins in for other currencies, or trade on the market. But getting bitcoins out of Mt. Gox would be impossible. The...
Farid Mheir's insight:
Contains a high level description of the way bitcoins work. But be careful, slightly technical read ahead! ;-)
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Chiquita Brands is famous for the fresh produce it brings to the table. It’s a mature, established company that’s has a “cloud first” mantra for all new applications, said CIO Kevin Ledford.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Absolutely obvious lessons but then again, living by those principles is not easy in most organizations. Consider the first lesson, "go cloud first" appears natural and obvious but my experience still shows that most projects will be against it for security and cost reasons.
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Also worth pondering when looking at the graph is that cloud computing will soon become a matter of fact technology.
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Make Your Own GPS Pet Tracker with TinyDuino
Farid Mheir's insight:
no comment but a great weekend project! ;-)
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IT infrastructure managers must simultaneously capture the next rounds of efficiencies, accelerate the transition to next-generation infrastructure, reduce risks, and improve organizational execution. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Very good run down on the challenge and opportunities that IT infrastructure managers face in 2014. In this day and age of the cloud, large organization must transform the way they make private clouds available to the users.
VOS ANIMATEURS >'s curator insight,
February 6, 2014 1:30 PM
L'infrastructure TI reste important même en cette ère du "cloud". Ce post de McKinsey présente les enjeux importants auxquels font face les gestionnaires TI des très grandes organisations. On peut se demander si les mêmes questions se posent dans les petites et moyennes entreprises, ou si la réponse n'est pas simplement fournie par les offres de nuage public. Qu'en pensez-vous?
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While superfast Internet access is still scarce, average speeds worldwide inch up–and attacks rise, too.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Akamai State of Internet (SOTI) report always provides very interesting techno-geeky information regarding the traffic that is carried by Internet carriers worldwide. Released quarterly, it goes back to 2008 with stats and figures that can help you demonstrate your point with data - as we often have to do when considering digital disruptions.
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With tech jobs on the rise, these 10 programming languages are essential for aspiring developers.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Ned to learn to program - even if not as a job but only to understand how computers, phones, cars, etc. work - is definately worth it.
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The pace of technology-fueled business innovation is accelerating, and enterprise architects can take a leading role by helping their firms identify opportunities for shrewd investment.
Farid Mheir's insight:
still relevant insight in 2014.
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Dropbox is one of the top cloud storage providers available. Many users are drawn to the app because of the easy interface and seamless integration into the Windows infrastructure. A simple drag-and-drop and any file can be instantly transferred to any computer anywhere in the world. But Dropbox is so much more than just a simple file-sharing device. In this article, we will take an in-depth look at some of the top Dropbox tips and tricks we could find.
Farid Mheir's insight:
More often than not, dropbox is the preferred cloud document storage provider. Given the recent 250M$ investment, they will become even more important as a digital solution. I thought this post provides a very useful summary o fdropbox features.
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Economic conditions could invalidate Moore’s law after decades as the semiconductor industry’s innovation touchstone. The impact on chipmakers and others could be dramatic. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
In a classic, well documented and diagrammed article, McKinsey provides some early warning signs that Moore's law may not hold for many years. Unless technology improvements carry it beyond 2020. Not a digital transformation paper per se but very powerful insight for those that believe improvements will trail after 2020. The microelectronics engineer in me loves this one!
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Technology trends impacting the retail industry—the digital consumer is in the driver’s seat and the technology retailers implement today is instrumental.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Major trends in retail technology are illustrated with plausible scenarios and a roadmap. Useful reading with an executive.
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30000 attendees and 4 days of conferences and showcases and only 30000 tweets in total (with only 13600 original tweets). Look at the retweets and top 8 are tweets from corporations the NRF itself. Goes to show how few attendees bothered to tweet during the show. Is it because a) the conference was not popular (I doubt it, with 30K attendees) b) twitter is not appropriate to convey audience perceptions and news (would be a surprise as it is very much so in other events) or is it simply because c) retailers are not technology friendly and stil resort to email or pen-n-paper to capture and report on their conference highlights to their peers? I suspect c) to be the answer, to my dismay... No wonder Amazon is making a killing in the retail industry!
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Tesla and GM have both issued fire-related recalls, but Tesla’s fix doesn’t require owners to bring their cars in.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Benefits of having an Internet connected device - here a car - is that it can be remotely updated to fix issues or tune performance. Convenience and fast improvements. Remember that this means it can also be remotely monitored, both for good and bad reasons, which may also raise security and privacy concerns.
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Soon billions of devices will be connected to the Internet.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This chart highlights a very important fact: "things" like cars, TVs, doorbells, refrigerators, baby monitors, etc. will all be Internet connected soon. This will mark a very important step in the digital transformation of enterprises: the ability to "google" device data to find out what they are doing now (and historically). Similar to stock market charts, we'll start to find websites dedicated to providing raw data and analysis on that data. power of the web and big data will allow your individual device (say your heart monitor) to compare your data with that of similar devices and users worlwide to detect patterns, such as heart attack probability. In the corporate context, with an Internet connected fleet of delivery vehicles, it will be possible to analyze the efficiency of the fleet with comparable fleets, and even maybe compare drivers. This will pose interesting challenges for IT departments as they'll have to manage a flood of new data. We can however expect this data to be consolidated within fleet management solutions and software and sold as a service by those providers.
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An introduction to eCommerce Platforms for non-technical people. Ben explains some of the key trends in the eCommerce platform and online retail space.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Provides useful visuals and some market research. Useful starting point.
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Ladies, your lacy underwear is about to get a whole lot smarter.
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Face it, this is also what "wearable tech" means... ;-)
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Developers hope apps that improve upon their smartphone versions will help Google’s head-worn computer catch on.
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Explores some google glass apps that may become killer apps:
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If you are competing with the plumbing company across town—or a startup across the world—you now have the same capabilities as the world’s largest corporations at your beck and call.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Don't be misled by the title but read through the post. It provides a number of very useful links towards open technologies that may indeed transform businesses over the next few years. For those leaders out there, embrace them and you may have a strong differentiator. One example, Elance. An amazing site to find talent for short duration contracts. Need to translate documents, update a website, touch up images, etc. this is a great place to go to identify skills and price points when you prepare business case or business plans.
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Bot traffic is up to 61.5% of all website traffic. Is Google winning the war on spam?
Farid Mheir's insight:
I don't like the analysis as it makes it appears as if the web is being overtaken by hackers and impersonators. What is interesting is the steady rise of non-human traffic. With a larger and larger number of devices being connected to the Internet - from cars to watches to refrigerators - we can expect this trend to continue in the years to come.
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Here’s what you’ll find at howtogomo.com:
Farid Mheir's insight:
Useful website to help businesses evaluate how "mobile friendly" their website is and then understand what can be done to improve it. With signs that users are turning to mobile (iPhone, Android, tablets) for browsing and shopping online this appears to be a must have for any business that has a face online. Unfortunately most of the tools have been removed from the site but I find the Get started and the Resources and Articles particularily useful
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Furthermore, we are introducing TechnoVision 2014 to you in a gradual, stepwise way. To be more precise, we are releasing a building block every working day, ever since Monday the 4th of November. Each building block is described through a separate blog post on the CTO Blog with many contributions of Capgemini’s leading technology experts. By the end of December you should be equipped with at least 37 interesting perspectives on the way technology will shape business change in the forthcoming year.
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A good overview of technologies requires to have a digital business, with key insights from leaders at Capgemini.
nXtshift's curator insight,
December 10, 2013 2:51 PM
Some missing links in the model, but over the years proven to be a fairly good reference #nXtshift
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Remote manipulation demonstrated by @mit via @MartinLessard (great french blogger in #mtl #lasphere)
Impacts d'Internet sur la communication, notre société, nos vies (depuis 2004) par Martin Lessard, nommé un des 8 incontournables du Montréal 2.0 par La Presse
Farid Mheir's insight:
(in french but video from MIT in english) Quite amazing telepresence opportunities in this video. I also wanted to bring forward the work of Martin Lessard in his blog and the Radio Canada radio programme La Sphère which does an amazing job at bringing digital technology news to the Montreal public every week.
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“It’s one thing to talk about ‘rapid experimentation’ and ‘validated learning’ as abstract concepts. It’s quite another to see them in action, in a real-world setting.”
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*** website URL has changed! See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szr0ezLyQHY Or checkout the new homepage: https://www.nordlab.co/ Absolute must watch for anyone interested in innovation and rapid prototyping. The video shows how the team has developed an ipad app in one week by setting up shop in one of their stores and rapidly iterating over a simple application with real live customer to get instant feedback. Contrast this with the typical way things are done in organizations and you'll see why setting up "labs" is an essential step of innovation.
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Excerpt from review article by TechCrunch:
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
Farid Mheir's insight:
For my technology friends, you may know of this already, if you don't I find it interesting.
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I find useful when mongoDB provides use cases for its tools. Great to hear you can do big things with big data. Better when someone actually provides pointers to good scenarios where to apply it.