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Orange (France Telecom), one of the largest mobile operators in the world, issued a challenge " Data for Development " by releasing a dataset of their subscribers in Ivory Coast. The dataset contained 2.5 billion records, calls and text messages exchanged between 5 million anonymous users in Ivory Coast, Africa. Various researchers got access to this dataset and submitted their proposals on how this data can be used for development purposes in Ivory Coast. It would be an understatement to say these proposals and projects were mind-blowing. I have never seen so many different ways of looking at the same data to accomplish so many different things. Here's a book [very large pdf] that contains all the proposals. My personal favorite is AllAborad where IBM researchers used the cell-phone data to redraw optimal bus routes . The researchers have used several algorithms including supervised and unsupervised machine learning to analyze the dataset resulting in a variety of scena...

(This post was provided by Praveen Asthana, Chief Marketing Office of Gravitant, a cloud service brokerage and management company) Sequestration burst out of obscurity and entered our household vocabulary in 2013.   It got our attention because the impact of it is $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts from the Federal budget over the next ten years.   About $85B of these cuts will occur by September of 2013 - and these cuts are being disproportionately applied:   Once you exempt the sacred programs, what’s less sacred (like Federal I.T. spending) is going to get hit hard.   Forrester Research analyst Andrew Bartels expects that the Federal budget cuts will shave at least $12B out of 2013 U.S. tech spending ( http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237240/The_sequester_will_hurt_tech_nationally ). So what’s to be done? Computerworld points out that “ Dale Luddeke, chair of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), an IT industry group expects to see a shift in government to things with...

If you have been following this blog you would know that I mainly blog about enterprise software, cloud, and big data with a few occasional posts on design and design thinking. That's what I am most passionate about. Having spent my entire career building enterprise software I have realized that success and competitive differentiation in market place boil down to an organization's unique ability to get three things right where management plays a key role: 1) people who can continuously learn and adapt to change 2) processes that are nimble and evolve as the company evolves 3) products that solve a real problem and delight the end users. While I continue to blog about enterprise software I have decided to evolve this blog further by adding a few management posts going forward. There are a series of management topics that I am interested in but let's start with the basic one which is about my core management philosophy. My management philosophy is "lead, follow, or get o...

Please  join me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, June 18-20, 2013, where my session topic will be "Cloud Service Integration: Increasing Business Value and IT Operational Excellence". Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013 will help I&O leaders apply authoritative thinking, leading-edge strategies and tactical best practices to their enterprise I&O planning and initiatives. This informative session will explore how Cloud computing can deliver substantial benefits and operational technology efficiencies to an organization. Through the use of several recent multi-cloud services integration case studies, we will examine how secure command and control of hybrid technology infrastructure delivers IT operational excellence and better business agility and value. This presentation will give you new insight about how to create and execute a practical strategy for cloud computing adop...

Maldet also known as Linux Malware Detect virus scanner for Linux. Go to the below path:     cd /usr/local/src/ Download the tar file using the below link:     wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz Extract the file using the below command:     tar -xzf maldetect-current.tar.gz go to the maldet folder:     cd maldetect-* Now, run the below command to install maldet:     sh ./install.sh or sudo sh ./install.sh It will give below output:     Linux Malware Detect v1.3.4     (C) 1999-2010, R-fx Networks     (C) 2010, Ryan MacDonald     inotifywait (C) 2007, Rohan McGovern     This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL     installation completed to /usr/local/maldetect     config file: /usr/local/maldetect/conf.maldet     exec file: /usr/local/maldetect/maldet     exec link: /usr/local/sbin/maldet     cron.daily: /etc/cron.daily/maldet     maldet(32517): {sigup} performing signature update check…     maldet(32517): {sigup} local signature se...

http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-world-april-18-2008.html   "Sunday, April 18, 2008 Hello World ! - April 18, 2008 I've been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now. Initially I didn't see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere would matter to the world. The importance of this view, however, waned as I became more and more absorbed by the power of Web 2.0. As my participation in these technologies (Facebook, LinkedIn, RSS, wikis, etc.) increased, I began to understand the uniqueness of my personal interactions. This made the idea of doing a blog important on a personal level. As my on-line network grew, I then realized that a blog is not really for the rest world. It is really a most effective means for conversing with you own personal, on-line network. So today, I start my blog and in so doing, I start my public conversation in earnest." That was my very first post five years ago last month. Thank you all for al...