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2012-02-11T16:31:00.001-08:00

clu.de | cluge Köpfe entwickeln gemeinsam Ideen

tags: Innovation ideas crowdsourcing
Iron Speed Designer - Build Database and Reporting Web Applications without Coding!

tags: .NET development programming coding code-generation

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2012-02-04T16:32:00.001-08:00

RenovablesOnline es tu tienda de fotovoltaica, solar térmica, LEDs y otras energías renovables.

tags: energy green energy solar
Atego - Home - Atego

tags: modeling visure
Skytree||Big Data Analytics||The Machine Learning Company

tags: big-data
Platfora

tags: big-data hadoop
WibiData

tags: big-data hadoop
Hadoop | Hadoop Download | Cloudera Hadoop | Cloudera

tags: big-data hadoop cloud opensource
Odiago

tags: big-data
Continuuity - Stealth BigData StartUp

tags: big-data
BloomReach : Home

tags: big-data
Kybele Consulting |

tags: consulting iso15504 iso12207 visure spice
Plastic SCM - distributed version control system (DVCS)

tags: version-control scm sourcecontrol software programming visure
Caliburn Micro: WPF, Silverlight and WP7 made easy.

tags: .NET development programming opensource visure
Fluent Ribbon Control Suite

tags: component controls Programming development visure .net opensource
MindFusion - WPF FlowChart Component, WPF Diagram Control, .NET FlowChart Control, ActiveX Flowchart Control, Diagramming Component ActiveX, Reporting Control, Java Class Library, Silverlight FlowChart Control, Schedule Component, Calendar Control, Chart

tags: component controls Programming development visure
Telerik .NET UI Controls, Reporting, Visual Studio Tools, Agile Project Management, Automated Testing, ASP.NET Web CMS

tags: .NET controls Programming development visure
Doc-O-Matic - Source Code Documentation and Help Authoring Tool

tags: Documentation Programming software development visure

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2012-01-28T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2012-01-21T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2012-01-14T16:34:00.001-08:00

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Another big company moving to Google Apps.... The biggest fo far!

2012-01-14T03:50:00.000-08:00

See this interesting article, where you'll see another very big company moving into the cloud with Google Apps. This was already a kind of no-brainer for the small ones, but if the big ones can see the benefit, even having to overcome the more complex migration, a path of no return is starting... as I've been saying for the last three years.

Microsoft's Exchange a Casualty of Bank's Cloud Move to Google Apps CIO.com:

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2012-01-07T16:32:00.001-08:00

Burtons Foods

tags: comida food cocina cooking cookies galletas
Khan Academy

tags: education training free training
Learn to code | Codecademy

tags: programming code coding tutorials training free training

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2011-12-31T16:32:00.001-08:00

Joaquin Rincon (jrincon) on about.me

tags: web2.0 socialnetworking

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2011-12-17T16:31:00.001-08:00

Libros para Papyre

tags: Books libros

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2011-11-26T16:32:00.001-08:00

Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb

tags: vacation rentals travel accommodations

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2011-11-19T16:31:00.001-08:00

Santa Teresa

tags: food cocina comida tienda
Pipetas Frontline Combo Gato - Mi Fiel Mascota

tags: cats gatos
The Programming Language Lua

tags: programming language opensource development

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2011-11-12T16:31:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-05T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2011-10-08T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2011-10-01T17:31:00.001-07:00

Retrospec - Retrogaming at its best

tags: spectrum emulation Retrogaming freeware
Identified | Home

tags: web2.0 facebook

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2011-09-17T17:31:00.001-07:00

Venta de Carne Online | La Mejor Carniceria por Internet

tags: food meat shops carniceria

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2011-09-10T17:31:00.001-07:00

Best Free Music Creation Software

tags: music software free

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2011-08-27T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2011-08-20T17:31:00.001-07:00

lorempixum - placeholder images for every case

tags: webdesign image placeholder generator

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2011-08-13T17:31:00.001-07:00

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Flash in the data center

2011-08-09T01:53:00.000-07:00

You can read here about eBay buying 100 TB of flash storage for its data center from Nimbus Data
I remember a post from Enrique Dans about the Seagate CEO saying that he's not worried about flash.
Enrique's post is from March 2008, if that guy was not worried then surely he should be now, although I agree that was already clear in 2008 this was going to happen sooner or later.
Now we need to see EMC or NetApp selling their storage systems with this thing istead of HD.

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2011-08-06T17:31:00.001-07:00

Warren Buffett Says Congress Is Playing 'Russian Roulette'
- "I could end the deficit in five minutes," Buffett said in the interview from a technology and media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3 percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection."
LOTRO « DocHoliday's MMO Saloon

tags: lotro
LoTROInterface

tags: lotro
Online Fundraising Pages | Personal Internet Fundraisers | Fund Raise Online for Charity | Crowdrise

tags: fundraising crowdsourcing funding crowdfunding
FORA.tv - Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the World

tags: education lectures tv media learning

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2011-07-23T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2011-07-16T17:32:00.001-07:00

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New talk about cloud computing

2011-07-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

I had the pleasure to be invited again by itSMF this year to their summer course to talk about cloud computing (what else?).
As usual it was a great experience and the opportunity to meet again with some good friends.

I showed my view on how IaaS is becoming less and less important for big companies and how those clients prefer to contract SaaS if there's something available so they don't have to deal with hardware complexity, even if it's in the cloud.
Another important idea of my speech was about avoiding the trap of private cloud, you can try to improve your existing infrastructure use as much as possible, but, to me, it has no sense to buy new hardware to create your internal cloud.

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2011-06-25T17:31:00.001-07:00

Bime - Cloud Business Intelligence | Analytics & Dashboards |

tags: analytics dashboards visualization cloud

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2011-06-18T17:32:00.001-07:00

IKEA Hackers

tags: IKEA diy furniture hacks lifehacks Hack

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2011-06-11T17:32:00.001-07:00

edge IPK > Home

tags: SOA rendering-layer
Virtual Infrastructure Management and Automation

tags: infrastructure cloud
Plex - A Complete Media Solution

tags: mediacenter media tv
schema.org - Home

tags: schema seo search

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2011-05-28T17:32:00.001-07:00

Home

tags: cloud storage

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2011-05-21T17:32:00.001-07:00

Cloudability

tags: cloud invoicing
Microsoft DreamSpark

tags: microsoft software programming student download tools
Cloud Computing Vendors Taxonomy | OpenCrowd

tags: cloud computing vendors taxonomy

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2011-05-14T17:32:00.001-07:00

Sharwoods

tags: cocina cooking food indian
Cloud Foundry - Make it Yours!

tags: cloud paas opensource community
Welcome to Cloud Foundry

tags: cloud paas opensource

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2011-05-07T17:32:00.001-07:00

EnterBio

tags: bio ecologic supermarket

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2011-04-30T17:32:00.001-07:00

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Apple preparing a cloud music service

2011-04-29T23:17:00.000-07:00

No surprises, they have to react quickly to the Amazon offer for Cloud Drive and Cloud Player.

It's going to be very interesting to see how they make the offer, because, in principle, the cloud and the streaming model will impact the iPod market. If I do streaming I no longer need the music with me. If I do streaming, the iPod can still be the player, but any other can also do it: Android, BB, PC,... you name it.

If the Apple Cloud can only be played with an Apple device it looses part of the benefits of the cloud storage/streaming model. We will see how it's positioned and prices. Apple has very good design, the devices provide some kind of "status", but this is just a service, we'll not see if you're "wearing" the service, so it'll have to be good. The fashion, design, hype components are not so important if there's no device in the equation.

Everything happens very quickly. The MP3 player replaced the walkman or the CD player as a much better way to carry and hear your music, but it's clear that streaming is an even better model: I no longer carry my music or even a special device to hear it. It's always available in the cloud and any device can play it. Is Spotify the iPod killer so Apple has to create something to compete with Spotify and forget about selling more iPods?

Well, we don't know how it's going to be, but the name can be: iCloud. What a surprise, eh? It looks like Apple has payed more than $4 million for the domain.

I can see everybody running to register any possible domain starting with i. I've already registered iCat.

Some lessons from the masters

2011-04-29T03:38:00.000-07:00

The other day Facebook made public some of the strategies they follow in its data centers. Google has published a video with some details about the security measures they have in theirs.

Now tell me: Which place is more secure, your data center or the data centers of these guys that are the best of the best at global level?
Also tell me: Who is able to buy cheapest hardware? You buying hundreds (if you're big) of servers per year or this guys buying thousands? Or, as in the case of Google, not even buying servers but just components to make their own server: the "Google Server". Did you know that Google is the third biggest company in the world in server manufacturing? The point is that they are not selling them, to the relief of some.
Who is having better energy consumption per computation unit? Who is paying less for the space of the data center? Who has less people doing system administration?
Can you create your own operative system to optimize the management of the hardware and avoid patching and other expensive support operations?
Do you have access to the best of the best talent for hardware management?

Are you taking my point? There's no way you can compete. They do it better, they do it cheaper, they know more, they have economies of scale that you only dream about. You can still fight for some years against the new cloud model based on misconceptions of security or for compliance reasons, but at the end economic logic will win and I can't see how you can justify your incredible expensive, inefficient, insecure data center while the cloud can do it for you.
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Amazon cloud failed the other day... So what?

2011-04-28T03:32:00.000-07:00

Yep, the Amazon cloud can fail. And, by the way, in case you didn't notice, planes can crash, nuclear plants can have accidents and, in general, there's no way to have 100% security or it's simply just too expensive.
Does it mean that you'll never take another flight or that we have to stop all the nuclear plants? No it only means that you need to understand the reality of life: shit happens!

The royal family never flight all together in the same flight, it's their way to manage the risk of flying. You need to decide how you are going to manage the risk of cloud adoption, as any other thing that you do.

And managing risk is one of those things that they pay us for, isn't it? So go, manage your risk in the new environment as you were doing in the previous one. And don't think that cloud was a fad or that is going to disappear. It's here to stay as a much more effective model than previous ones for a lot of business cases.

You can see the same point well articulated in this article. Just read the SLA and understand what you're signing for. It's interesting to see that Amazon didn't fail to comply with the SLA at all along the crisis. Likely the customers will ask to see those other services that are not exactly EC2, but that are becoming critical, in the SLA in the future. So it’s a good learning for everybody.

Have you heard those voices saying: we already beware you about cloud computing! We were right, now that Amazon is down you see it. I cannot believe how somebody that pretend to be intelligent can do such a simplistic analysis.

And Amazon cloud will fail again, I bet for it. And SalesForce.com, and Azure and all the others either have failed before or will fail in the future. Again and again. Shit happens.

Google Docs: Start with your personal cloud

2011-04-26T08:00:00.000-07:00

Google has launched many services for particular users over the years: search, gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google sites, buzz, finance, groups, iGoogle, etc. The list is really impressive and you can use all this for free, but that's not the point of the post.

They have gone one step further in making the adoption of Google Docs much smoother. Now you can edit your documents with MS Office applications and save everything into the Google Docs cloud. It can save only to Google or it can keep a version localy and a copy in the cloud. You can also keep versioning of the documents if you want. You just need to install a plug-in for Office that you can find here

This way, as you work with your documents more and more of them end up in the cloud and available every where you go.
Same tools, same computer, cloud storage. Transparent for the user. Isn't it clever?

"De-perimetirization" is (was) the key

2011-04-26T03:01:00.000-07:00

This topic was raised already several years ago by the Jericho Forum, that is a special group dedicated to security inside The Open Group. One of my colleagues in Lilly was a member of the Jericho Forum and he was already raising the issue: The perimeter was no longer a sustainable security model if you need to open your doors to vendors, partners, alliances, employees working from home or from the field,....
The workers don't want to connect using code generators gadgets, VPN and three level authentication, they want to connect as they connect to their banks (at the most) and collaboration with other companies and universities becomes a critical need to survive.

In this situation you can no longer relly on the perimeter to keep the bad guys out. In this model, if you're in, you have access to almost everything. If you're out, you get nothing. Well, it was clear some time ago, but now with the explosion of cloud computing is even more clear that the model can no longer be sustainable, as they say in this article in Computer World.
Security has to be something that is attached to each asset and can not be based in a perimeter that in many companies no longer exists. So this is: De-perimerization, and incredible difficult to pronounce word.
It was clear at least two years ago, what has your company done to change the security model? Do you still have a perimeter? How are you going to keep it if you use cloud computing?

The security guys should be happy, they still have a lot of work to do.

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2011-04-23T17:32:00.001-07:00

Quijotipsum

tags: lorem quijote web webdesign development
awesomize.me

tags: socialnetworking web2.0

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2011-04-16T17:32:00.001-07:00

IndieGoGo

tags: funding crowdsourcing crowdfunding startup Business ideas projects Innovation
» La Red Innova – Madrid 2011

tags: Innovation events
Club de Innovacion - Inicio

tags: Innovation

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New talk about cloud computing

2011-04-14T07:44:00.000-07:00

What a surprise, right?

Well, clearly Cloud Computing is the topic with most Hype right now, it's like SOA four or five years ago.

I'll be talking in a Cloud event on the 18th of May. I'll tell you how it goes.

I'm one of the first ones to talk along the day, I don't think that most of the hardware vendors will like what I have to say about private clouds, hybrid clouds and public clouds, so we will see what happens and if I survive.

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2011-04-02T17:31:00.001-07:00

Envisioning technology — by Michell Zappa

tags: technology future visualization trends

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2011-03-26T17:31:00.001-07:00

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Article published about Cloud Computing (What else?)

2011-03-24T03:48:00.000-07:00

The Dintel Magagazine has publishes an article that I wrote about Cloud Computing.
Dintel Magazine is the publication of the Dintel Foundation

The article is part of their 12th issue (October/November) and you can find it in the Enterprise Perspective section, or just going directly to this link. It's written in Spanish an I was quite limited on the available space, so it's only a very basic introduction to Cloud Computing, trying to touch many things at the same time.

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2011-03-19T17:31:00.001-07:00

Joomla!

tags: cms opensource php
Umbraco - The open source ASP.NET CMS

tags: cms opensource free

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2011-02-26T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2011-02-19T16:32:00.001-08:00

Remember Everything | Evernote Corporation

tags: notes gtd productivity

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Open Source provides flexibility... and is cheap!!

2011-02-10T03:07:00.000-08:00

Well, we already knew, didn't we? Open Source is good.

Now you can see in this small article that a study made by Gartner is showing more and more adoption of Open Source and that CIOs are happy with it.

Clearly, CIOs are not very much on the risky side of life, so whoever decide to adopt Open Source long ago has been benefiting from this attributes that now everybody is starting to accept.

Congratulations to the disruptive CIOs... and for the others, what are you waiting for?

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2011-02-05T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2011-01-29T16:31:00.001-08:00

Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning

tags: education opensource free training e-learning
LIBOX - Your Media. Your way.

tags: media sharing web2.0 filesharing
mSpot

tags: Music mp3 storage cloud
MP3tunes Locker: Your Media Everywhere

tags: music mp3 storage cloud
Home » LibreOffice

tags: opensource office openoffice free
VectorFinder

tags: graphics graphs vector search
Veezzle, the ultimate free stock photo resource

tags: photos free search

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Another (long) video talking about cloud computing

2011-01-25T06:17:00.000-08:00

I already commented that I participated in a summer course in 2010 at the UPM university organized by itSMF. I talked about cloud computing and what my company is doing in that area.

Now the video of my conference is available on YouTube. And you have it embedded below

In case you wander why I'm not wearing a tie and a suit, it was a very informal set up.

The speech is in Spanish, as the slides that I was using, and it's a long one, with some questions at the end so it runs longer than one hour.

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2011-01-22T16:32:00.001-08:00

sharpcloud

tags: web2.0 roadmap
Hub List - Open Source GTD Style Productivity

tags: gtd productivity todo
Gtdagenda.com

tags: gtd tools webapp
Google Shared Spaces : Create a Space

tags: google collaboration shared-spaces web2.0
Revolution Health - Start your Revolution - Revolution Health

tags: health web2.0 healthcare health2.0
DCMI Home: Dublin Core® Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

tags: metadata standards
Nimbula

tags: cloud cloud_management
QuietWrite

tags: writing notepad write
Zimory GmbH: Overview

tags: cloud cloud_builder
OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

tags: opensource cloud cloud_builder
Open Source Cloud Computing Software | Cloud.com

tags: cloud cloud_builder opensource
SpotCloud - Cloud Capacity Clearing House / Spot Market: Home

tags: cloud cloud-broker

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CIOs roundtable video available

2011-01-21T06:25:00.000-08:00

Hello, here you can find the video of the CIOs roundtable that I attended in November as part of the itSMF congress.

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2011-01-15T16:32:00.001-08:00

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itSMF Congress in Computerworld

2010-12-30T07:55:00.000-08:00

Computerworld talks about the last itSMF congress, where I attended the CIOs round table, and they mention one of my interventions here.

This is probably the last post of 2010, so I'll take the opportunity to wish everybody a happy 2011.

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2010-12-11T16:31:00.001-08:00

RMD Kwikform | productos | construcciones modulares

tags: DIY: Building Bricolage: Construccion Bricolage: Casas de metal DIY

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2010-11-27T16:32:00.001-08:00

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The last Cloud Computing conference (of 2010)

2010-11-25T13:51:00.000-08:00

This afternoon I had the opportunity (again!) of giving a speech about Cloud Computing.
It's mainly the same presentation that I've done several times, this time at a two days event more focussed on virtualization and cloud computing organized by Marcus Evans

itSMF Congress round table

2010-11-22T03:16:00.000-08:00

I was part of the "CIOs" round table at the end of the itSMF two days congress last week in Madrid (15 and 16 of November).
Here you have a photo of the event. I'm the one in the middle :-)

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2010-11-20T16:31:00.001-08:00

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2010-11-13T16:31:00.001-08:00

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2010-10-30T17:31:00.001-07:00

Kickstarter

tags: funding crowdsourcing startup Business ideas projects networking
Arduino - ArduinoBoardLilyPad - Annotated

tags: arduino wearable lilypad opensource hardware
- microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textile

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2010-10-23T17:31:00.001-07:00

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Another talk about Cloud Computing

2010-10-20T09:37:00.000-07:00

I was invited by ASM to give a speech about Cloud Computing at their third CIO Summitt. I think it was well received by the audience, but we'll see when I receive the feedback results.

I already gave a speech at the second CIO Summitt on 2008, mainly about SOA and how to allow external access to company provided services.

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2010-10-16T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2010-10-02T17:31:00.001-07:00

Online Task Management - Producteev

tags: collaboration productivity gtd

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2010-09-18T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2010-08-28T17:31:00.001-07:00

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2010-08-07T17:31:00.001-07:00

KÖRFEST

tags: muffins comida food

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2010-07-31T17:32:00.001-07:00

rascadores para gatos | tabla rascadora para gatos | muebles para gatos

tags: rascadores cat cats cat tree gatos

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2010-07-17T17:32:00.001-07:00

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2010-07-10T17:31:00.001-07:00

ajaxWindows - Your Desktop Anywhere

tags: webos
eyeOS - Cloud Computing Operating System | Web Desktop - RIA Framework - Web Office - your files and applications everywhere

tags: webOS opensource
- Imagine being able to sit down at any ordinary computer in an Internet cafe or public library, start up the resident web browser and access your personal desktop - along with your applications, messages, and information - with a click of your mouse button. Then, when you're done, you simply close the web browser to have all of the documents you've just - post by Jason Simaker
- Looks innovative: an ajax desktop via the web. YouOS has something similar. - post by Justin Whitaker
- web 桌面软件 - post by elfox
- web 桌面软件 - post by elfox
- Welcome to eyeOS, a web based operating system. With eyeOS you can access your data and your applications anywhere, anytime. A virtual office in your hands, no need to install anything in the computer. Everything lives in the browser, for you and your wor - post by Peter Meyer
- eyeOS is a web-based personal desktop. It includes, calendar, text editing, and RSS 'apps' with many other available. It could be useful as a persistent scratch pad accessible anywhere. - post by Jay Dugger
- Potente Web Desktop (ajax) con varie interessanti applicazioni. Sfruttabile anche all'interno di un proprio server (con permessi di scrittura/lettura, preferibilemente linux server).
  - post by Gordii Go
- Interesting site, well put together apps but to slow of a response rate for me to use seriously
  - post by crytel
TribalOS » Storage, share & communicate

tags: webOS collaboration

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itSMF Summer Course, talking about Cloud Computing (what else?)

2010-07-09T05:39:00.000-07:00

From the 5th to the 9th of July itSMF has organized a summer course (Agenda and presentations) at UPM Computer Engineering School where I was giving a speech about Cloud Computing.

I decided to attend the course, mainly focussed on IT Governance, because I'm not an expert on those areas. My feeling is that Governance and, more specifically, Service Management will become increasingly important as we move to cloud models. Things like ITIL certification, ISO 20000 knowledge and many others like this will be the main skills that IT professionals will need in the future.

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2010-07-03T17:32:00.001-07:00

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2010-06-26T17:32:00.001-07:00

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2010-06-19T17:32:00.001-07:00

OpSource - Web Operations for Serious SaaS and Web Businesses
This company is participated by NTT
tags: cloud, hosting, saas

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Three problems of information management

2010-06-17T00:50:00.000-07:00

Here I link a YouTube video of Larry Ellison talking about the issues at the "dawn of the information edge". It's from 2003, but it looks as it was done yesterday.

Why the situation hasn't improved since then? It really looks that seven years later we are still dealing with exactly the same problems.

In my case I've been working with data federation tools to improve the first problem: Data fragmentation. With tools like Composite or Denodo you can, in a quick and flexible way, connect remote data sources without having to create big and complex data-warehouses, but the success of such solutions have been limited so far.

To me the question is way? If you analyse the three problems I think that you can see ways of, at least, improving them today. Why are we not using the possible solutions at hand?

My view is that root cause is resistance to change. The DB administrators and the IT people have been doing this things in the same way for ages. They know how to do a DW but some of this tools are new for them.

In the Spanish popular culture we have a phrase: "Is better the known bad than the good to be known" ("Más vale lo malo conocido que lo bueno por conocer"). This is at the core of our cultural values: Do not try new things, even if they are better. Stick to the known even if it's clearly bad.

I've been fighting a crusade against Data Warehouses for ages, since the first time I heard about the concept long time ago. Mainly because I see as a duplication of resources and databases just to provide some reports. Instead of creating those big monsters we should rationalize the solutions and the data at the sources and then connect directly to those sources and provide the reports in real time. I know this can not be realistic in a lot of companies today, but be careful with the cost of a DW compared with its value.

So, bet on the people that is happy to change tools and ways of working. An unknown better can be outside (it probably is already), but is very easy to identify possible problems to justify to keep current solutions, and consequently current problems.

Credits: I've seen the video referenced in this post of Enrique Dans

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2010-06-12T17:32:00.001-07:00

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2010-06-05T17:32:00.001-07:00

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2010-05-29T17:32:00.001-07:00

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Another Cloud Computing conference

2010-05-27T05:17:00.000-07:00

On May 27th I was invited to talk about Cloud Computing on an IDC event.
Somebody from IDC was in the conference that I gave at the CioNet event on April and they were so kind to invite me to this one.
It was a very "dense" agenda, with more than 20 speakers. It was funny because they told me that I should do my presentation in 20 minutes and I said: no way! If you just have 20 minutes for me you better look for somebody else. Finally they gave me 30 minutes and I used almost 40 (as usual) but I think people was happy with what I had to tell them.

IDC made a great work with the logistics and the organization and less than one week after I had the feedback of my speech. I'm very happy as my presentation was considered the best one and I appear as the second best speaker. Thanks to everybody for the rating!!

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2010-05-15T17:32:00.001-07:00

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To be or not to be cloud

2010-05-09T08:42:00.000-07:00

I gave a speech about the use of cloud computing in Lilly on the 22nd of April as part of a bigger event organized by CIONet. This is a reference to that speech.
It's in Spanish but all of you know how to use the Google language tools, right?

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2010-04-24T17:33:00.001-07:00

Main Page - Askmonty.org
tags: data, database, opensource, free

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Cloud Computing conference

2010-04-22T05:07:00.000-07:00

I gave a speech about Cloud Computing at an event organized by CionNet the other day.

CioNet is a online community of CIOs or senior managers of IT and they organize interesting events like this one where they were so kind to invite me.

I just can say thank you by the feedback that I got from my presentation.

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2010-04-17T17:32:00.001-07:00

Greenplum: Driving The Future Of Data Warehousing And Analytics
tags: data, database, software

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Basic introduction to SOA

2010-04-14T01:04:00.001-07:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
This is a quite old presentation, but I'm mainly testing the capability of publishing a post from Slideshare.

Basic introduction to SOA

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2010-04-10T17:32:00.001-07:00

BUY A HUGE FRESNEL LENS GREEN POWER SCIENCE WOULD BE NICE ON THE DISCOVERY NETWORK SOLAR STIRLING ENGINES FRESNEL LENS PARABOLIC MIRROR
tags: green, energy, solar, diy

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2010-04-03T17:32:00.001-07:00

Noticias
tags: news, links
Belcolade
tags: cooking, food, chocolate, comida, cocina

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2010-03-27T17:32:00.001-07:00

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2010-03-20T17:32:00.001-07:00

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Manifiesto “En defensa de los derechos fundamentales en internet”

2010-03-19T02:16:00.000-07:00

I use to write in English in this blog, but what is happening in Spain is so serious that I include here again this Manifesto:

Ante la inclusión en el Poyectroyecto de Ley de Economía sostenible de modificaciones legislativas que afectan al libre ejercicio de las libertades de expresión, información y el derecho de acceso a la cultura a través de Internet, los periodistas, bloggers, usuarios, profesionales y creadores de Internet manifestamos nuestra firme oposición al proyecto, y declaramos que:

Los derechos de autor no pueden situarse por encima de los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos, como el derecho a la privacidad, a la seguridad, a la presunción de inocencia, a la tutela judicial efectiva y a la libertad de expresión.
La suspensión de derechos fundamentales es y debe seguir siendo competencia exclusiva del poder judicial. Ni un cierre sin sentencia. Este anteproyecto, en contra de lo establecido en el artículo 20.5 de la Constitución, pone en manos de un órgano no judicial -un organismo dependiente del ministerio de Cultura-, la potestad de impedir a los ciudadanos españoles el acceso a cualquier página web.
La nueva legislación creará inseguridad jurídica en todo el sector tecnológico español, perjudicando uno de los pocos campos de desarrollo y futuro de nuestra economía, entorpeciendo la creación de empresas, introduciendo trabas a la libre competencia y ralentizando su proyección internacional.
La nueva legislación propuesta amenaza a los nuevos creadores y entorpece la creación cultural. Con Internet y los sucesivos avances tecnológicos se ha democratizado extraordinariamente la creación y emisión de contenidos de todo tipo, que ya no provienen prevalentemente de las industrias culturales tradicionales, sino de multitud de fuentes diferentes.
Los autores, como todos los trabajadores, tienen derecho a vivir de su trabajo con nuevas ideas creativas, modelos de negocio y actividades asociadas a sus creaciones. Intentar sostener con cambios legislativos a una industria obsoleta que no sabe adaptarse a este nuevo entorno no es ni justo ni realista. Si su modelo de negocio se basaba en el control de las copias de las obras y en Internet no es posible sin vulnerar derechos fundamentales, deberían buscar otro modelo.
Consideramos que las industrias culturales necesitan para sobrevivir alternativas modernas, eficaces, creíbles y asequibles y que se adecuen a los nuevos usos sociales, en lugar de limitaciones tan desproporcionadas como ineficaces para el fin que dicen perseguir.
Internet debe funcionar de forma libre y sin interferencias políticas auspiciadas por sectores que pretenden perpetuar obsoletos modelos de negocio e imposibilitar que el saber humano siga siendo libre.
Exigimos que el Gobierno garantice por ley la neutralidad de la Red en España, ante cualquier presión que pueda producirse, como marco para el desarrollo de una economía sostenible y realista de cara al futuro.
Proponemos una verdadera reforma del derecho de propiedad intelectual orientada a su fin: devolver a la sociedad el conocimiento, promover el dominio público y limitar los abusos de las entidades gestoras.
En democracia las leyes y sus modificaciones deben aprobarse tras el oportuno debate públicoy habiendo consultado previamente a todas las partes implicadas. No es de recibo que se realicen cambios legislativos que afectan a derechos fundamentales en una ley no orgánica y que versa sobre otra materia.

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2010-03-13T16:32:00.001-08:00

Microsoft BizSpark
tags: Startup, software, microsoft

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2010-03-06T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-27T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-20T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-13T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2010-02-06T16:32:00.001-08:00

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2010-01-30T16:32:00.001-08:00

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