Category Archives: SVForum

Extreme Transaction Processing in SOA

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

On the LinkedIn Mountain View campus, Anirudh Pandit, a senior architect at Oracle, spoke last night at the SVForum’s Software Architecture and Platform SIG on the topic of Extreme Transaction Processing in SOA. Pandit proposed an architectural pattern for improving … Continue reading →

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Analytics: The Next Wave

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

Speakers at the SDForum analytics conference last Friday on the Stanford campus made clear that the next wave of analytics brings with it exciting new opportunities. And here are the keys elements that make this next wave so exciting: New … Continue reading →

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Drivers of Corporate Sustainability

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

Speakers at SDForum’s Green and Clean Evening Series described the drivers of corporate sustainability: Cost Reduction Regulatory Compliance Retailer Pressures on Supply Chain Recruiting For more details, see the article I wrote for the SDForum newsletter.

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SDForum Mobile Internet Tsunami Conference

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

Global yet fragmented, innovative yet beset by technical challenges, growing explosively yet constrained by the carriers—the mobile internet tsunami is bursting upon us, bringing tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurs and exciting new possibilities for users worldwide. The SDForum Mobile Internet Tsunami … Continue reading →

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If the web were a structured dataset,…

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

I enjoyed the presentation YY Lee gave at the Marketing and Search SIGs joint meeting last week at LinkedIn. For a description of the presentation, see my article on the event. What struck me was how much I had taken … Continue reading →

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Implicit Semantics and Business Networks

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

At the Semantic Web SIG last week David Meyer and Michael Bechauf presented cutting-edge technology from SAP on extracting context from business networks. See my article for details. David also gave a preview of StreamWork, a collaboration tool in the … Continue reading →

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The Water Crisis: When Ignorance is Bliss

Posted on August 10, 2010 by

I attended the SDForum’s Green and Clean Evening Series last week on the topic of water. The experts agreed that we face a crisis: there is not enough water for all of the uses we have for it, and a … Continue reading →

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Virtual Security

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Kelly Robertson, CEO of 9Proof Americas, spoke on virtual security last night at VMware in Palo Alto during the monthly meeting of the SDForum Cloud Services SIG. He explained a few special security issues that should be considered when using … Continue reading →

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Data Management in the Cloud

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Daniel Graham of Teradata spoke Tuesday evening at the SDForum BI SIG on the topic “Data Management in the Cloud.” See my article summarizing his presentation. It’s interesting to compare his presentation with that of Donovan Schneider from Salesforce.com, who … Continue reading →

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SDForum Healthcare IT Symposium

Posted on June 12, 2010 by

At the SDForum’s first ever Healthcare IT Symposium held on June 8, 2010, I learned a great deal about the many roles of IT in the healtcare system. It is clear that healthcare IT is going to be a strong, … Continue reading →

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