Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

In earlier posts and conversations, I’ve mentioned my interest in container data centers and the opportunities they bring for certain types of implementations and use cases.  As a big fan of agility in IT in order to meet the dynamic demands of the Business, containers can be a valuable weapon in the arsenal.
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An article appearing today on Reuters describes how researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University’s Machine Learning Department have been experimenting with brain activity related to thinking of words.  The process involves capturing MRI images of a person’s brain as they are shown and asked to think about specific words.  The image captured on the MRI of the [...]

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We’ve become fairly comfortable with the structure of our IT organizations, but new trends in technology product development are increasingly challenging these traditional models.
In the traditional (i.e., over the past 10 years or so) IT organization we have roughly aligned the organizational chart with a logical stack corresponding to our data processing footprint. We [...]

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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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