Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

‘Ever notice how difficult it is to find good data center space today?  It wasn’t all that long ago that I recall walking through (seemingly) acres of raised floor in mostly vacant hosting centers, being courted by the local sales team to place my infrastructure in their space. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
What a difference a few years makes.  [...]

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A very good friend of mine, Vaughan Merlyn, operates a blog called IT Organization Circa 2017. If you’ve not had the chance to visit it, I suggest you take the time to do so. Vaughan is a very insightful and clear thinker. In addition, he is a rock musician extraordinaire. In one of his blog [...]

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I’ve noticed a few articles in the news about contact lenses that put directly into your field of view things like Heads Up Display functionality, computer screen output, and can potentially deliver things like zoom and night vision capabilities.  A few links to articles are shown below:
 http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205916535
http://www.gizmag.com/electronic-contact-lens-promises-bionic-capabilities-for-everyone/8689/
http://gizmodo.com/346164/electronic-contact-lenses-give-future-you-crazy-eyesight-heads+up-display
There is truly some opportunity for communication acceleration here.  [...]

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One day, while updating my myriad of profiles on the Electronic Social Networking sites that I use, I stepped back and recognized what an odd problem this is that I have to manage content on several different sites just because I use different ESNs for different purposes.  Since I’m one person that lives in several [...]

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Electronic Social Networks are something in which I have a very strong interest. Popular examples of what I’m referring to as an “ESN” are LinkedIn, Plaxo, MySpace, et. al. I’ve been a user of several of these (and one in particular) for quite some time. As new ESN’s have emerged over the years, I’ve been [...]

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I am passionate about the work that I do for my Customers. I work as an IT/Business consultant, for medium to large companies across a variety of vertical markets. Though each of my Customers has unique businesses and unique concerns, in all cases there is a need to progressively and opportunistically close the alignment gap [...]

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