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21/06/2017

Disruptive technology

A disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry.

Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen coined the term disruptive technology. In his 1997 best-selling book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," Christensen separates new technology into two categories: sustaining and disruptive. Sustaining technology relies on incremental improvements to an already established technology. Disruptive technology lacks refinement, often has performance problems because it is new, appeals to a limited audience and may not yet have a proven practical application. (Such was the case with Alexander Graham Bell's "electrical speech machine," which we now call the telephone.)

Here are a few examples of disruptive technologies:

The personal computer (PC) displaced the typewriter and forever changed the way we work and communicate.
The Windows operating system's combination of affordability and a user-friendly interface was instrumental in the rapid development of the personal computing industry in the 1990s. Personal computing disrupted the television industry, as well as a great number of other activities.
Email transformed the way we communicating, largely displacing letter-writing and disrupting the postal and greeting card industries.
Cell phones made it possible for people to call us anywhere and disrupted the telecom industry.
The laptop computer and mobile computing made a mobile workforce possible and made it possible for people to connect to corporate networks and collaborate from anywhere. In many organizations, laptops replaced desktops.
Smartphones largely replaced cell phones and PDAs and, because of the available apps, also disrupted: pocket cameras, MP3 players, calculators and GPS devices, among many other possibilities. For some mobile users, smartphones often replace laptops. Others prefer a tablet.
Cloud computing has been a hugely disruptive technology in the business world, displacing many resources that would conventionally have been located in-house or provided as a traditionally hosted service.
Social networking has had a major impact on the way we communicate and -- especially for personal use -- has disrupted telephone, email, instant messaging and event planning.

In his book, Christensen points out that large corporations are designed to work with sustaining technologies. They excel at knowing their market, staying close to their customers, and having a mechanism in place to develop existing technology. Conversely, they have trouble capitalizing on the potential efficiencies, cost-savings, or new marketing opportunities created by low-margin disruptive technologies. Using real-world examples to illustrate his point, Christensen demonstrates how it is not unusual for a big corporation to dismiss the value of a disruptive technology because it does not reinforce current company goals, only to be blindsided as the technology matures, gains a larger audience and market share and threatens the status quo.

25/11/2015

Word of the day: Shadow app

A shadow app is a software program that is not supported by an employee's IT department.

In the past, shadow apps were often installed locally by impatient employees who wanted immediate access to software without going through normal corporate channels. With the growth of software-as-a-service and cloud computing, however, the meaning has expanded to include third-party consumer software that is accessed over the Internet.

Skype, Lucidchart, Dropbox, Google apps and Docusign are all popular shadow apps. Although many shadow apps can improve productivity and collaboration with little or no financial cost to the company, their use comes with risks. If an employee accesses a cloud app with his personal account, for example, corporate data may be put at risk or even lost if the employee leaves the company. Shadow apps can also cause bandwidth issues on the corporate network, slowing things down and negatively impacting everyone's productivity.

To prevent problems, an IT department should have a service audit process in place to inspect outgoing packets and verify ownership of company-owned services in the cloud. The organization should also have policy in place that requires employees to use corporate accounts for web-based applications and restrict network privileges so end users cannot install software locally. If a large group of employees is using a particular cloud app, the IT department should consider providing the service in house and finally, the IT department should educate employees about the value of corporate data and the risks that shadow apps present.

20/11/2015

Word of the day: Alice, Bob and Eve

Alice and Bob are commonly-used names to represent Person A and Person B in security scenarios.In 1978, professors Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman (RSA) chose the names Alice and Bob to make it easier for people to understand how public key encryption works.

They introduced the names Alice and Bob in a paper entitled "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems." The names were intended to help people visualize how two entities could exchange information privately over an electronic mail system.Since that time, the names Alice and Bob have become standard placeholders for scenarios that involve untrusted communication channels.

For more complex security scenarios, Person C might be named Carol; Person D might be named Dave, and so on. Names for generic participants in the communication tend to follow a sequential alphabetic naming scheme, while names for significant participants are usually somewhat indicative of their roles.

Common characters from the large potential cast include:Charles - the certificate authority Eve - the eavesdropper Mallory - a malicious attacker Trudy - an intruder.The names Alice and Bob have become part of geek pop culture and can now be found in many science and math contexts, including programming, game theory, graph theory and physics.

19/11/2015

Word of the day: Hyper-converged storage is a software-defined approach to storage management that combines storage, compute, networking and virtualization technologies in one physical unit that is managed as a single system.

Hyper-converged technologies appeal to storage managers because it gives them greater control over storage provisioning in a virtual server environment. In addition to providing administrators with single pane of glass management capabilities, hyper-converged storage nodes can be connected and scale out horizontally. This allows administrators to create a distributed storage infrastructure in which direct-attached storage (DAS) components from each physical server are combined to create a logical pool of disk capacity.

Hyper-converged solutions can be delivered either as appliances, providing both the hardware and the software, or as software-only products. The Nutanix Virtual Compute Platform and SimpliVity OmniCube were early players in the hyper-converged storage market. Maxta Software (Maxta Storage Platform), Scale Computing (HC3), VMware (Virtual SAN), Nimboxx (Atomic Unit Hardware) and Pivot3 (vSTAC) also have hyper-converged storage products.

05/11/2015

Word of the day: Robert Morris worm

The Robert Morris worm is widely acknowledged as the first computer worm to be distributed across the Internet and the first computer virus to receive mainstream media attention.

Designed by Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr., the Morris worm was released Nov. 2, 1988, from the MIT campus to disguise its point of origin. The 99-line program was reportedly an experiment Morris created to measure the size of the ARPANET.

The program's job was to record a statistic and search for other Internet-connected systems. However, a number of bugs and design flaws caused the program to target system vulnerabilities (namely the sendmail and finger implementations in Unix-based systems) and create more copies of itself than intended. This in turn caused buffer overflow and denial-of-service attacks on infected systems, rendering them useless within 90 minutes of initial infection.

In less than a day, the Morris worm affected approximately 10% of the 60,000 Internet-connected computers across the United States. Even if the infected systems were cleaned or rebooted, the worm would return and re-infect them. Each infection reportedly cost between $200 and $53,000 to remove and, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office, as much as $100 million may have been lost due to the Morris worm.

The Morris worm served as a wake-up call for the information security industry, drawing attention to the potential danger posed by computer viruses and the need for strong protections. It also resulted in the first conviction under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; Robert Morris was fined $10,000 and was sentenced to three years' probation and 400 hours of community service

21/04/2015

Word of the day:Spark

Apache Spark is an open source parallel processing framework that enables users to run large-scale data analytics applications across clustered computers.

Apache Spark can process data from a variety of data repositories, including the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), NoSQL databases and relational data stores such as Apache Hive. Spark supports in-memory processing to boost the performance of big data analytics applications, but it can also do conventional disk-based processing when data sets are too large to fit into the available system memory.

The core Spark engine functions partly as an application programming interface (API) layer and underpins a set of related tools for managing and analyzing data, including a SQL query engine, a library of machine learning algorithms, a graph processing system and streaming data processing software.
Spark provides programmers with a potentially faster and more flexible alternative to MapReduce, the software framework that early versions of Hadoop were tied to. Spark's developers say it can run jobs 100 times faster than MapReduce when processed in memory and 10 times faster on disk. It can also handle more than the batch processing applications that MapReduce is limited to running.

Apache Spark can run in Hadoop 2 clusters on top of the YARN resource manager; it can also be deployed standalone or in the cloud on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Its speed, combined with its ability to tie together multiple types of databases and run different kinds of analytics applications, has prompted some proponents to claim that Spark has the potential to become a unifying technology for big data applications.
Spark became a top-level project of the Apache Software

Foundation in February 2014, and Version 1.0 of Apache Spark was released in May 2014. The technology was initially designed in 2009 by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, as a way to speed up processing jobs in Hadoop systems.

02/04/2015

Word of the day: V2V communication

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication is the wireless transmission of data between vehicles.
The goal of V2V communication is to prevent accidents by allowing motor vehicles in transit to send position and speed data to one another over an ad hoc mesh network. Depending upon how the technology is implemented, the vehicle's driver may simply receive a warning should there be a risk of an accident or the vehicle itself may take preemptive actions such as braking to slow down.

V2V communication is expected to be more effective than current automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) embedded systems for lane departure, adaptive cruise control, blind spot detection, rear parking sonar and backup camera because V2V technology enables an ubiquitous 360-degree awareness of surrounding threats. V2V communication is part of the growing trend towards pervasive computing, a concept known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

In the United States, V2V is an important part of the intelligent transport system (ITS), a concept that is being sponsored by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). An intelligent transport system will use the data from vehicle-to-vehicle communication to improve traffic management by allowing vehicles to also communicate with roadside infrastructure such as traffic lights and signs. The technology could become mandatory in the not-too-distant future and help put driverless-cars on highways across America.

The implementation of V2V communication and an intelligent transport system currently has three major roadblocks: the need for automotive manufacturers to agree upon standards, privacy concerns and funding. As of this writing it is unclear whether creation and maintenance of the supporting network would be publicly or privately funded. Automotive manufacturers working on ITS and V2V include GM, BMW, Audi, Daimler and Volvo.

27/01/2015

70-20-10 rule

70-20-10 is a formula that describes how someone learns to do their job.The formula, which was developed by Morgan McCall, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo at the Center for Creative Leadership, proposes that on average, 70% of a person's learning at work is internal and experience-based, 20% comes from interacting with fellow employees and 10% is the result of formal training and reading.

In human resources, the 70-20-10 rule is often used to define the ideal balance for how to provide corporate learning and staff development opportunities. 70% of training should take place while on the job, 20% should be conducted informally through mentoring programs and 10% should be conducted formally through training sessions.

Although learning management systems (LMSes) have traditionally been used to deliver the 10% portion of the 70-20-10 formula, some systems can now support the 20% by providing employees with the ability to collaborate and the 70% by providing employees with learning opportunities when necessity demands it, a concept called just-in-time training.

A Eulogy to Clip Art, in Clip Art.The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop," Microsoft announced in a b...
10/12/2014

A Eulogy to Clip Art, in Clip Art.

The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop," Microsoft announced in a blog post on 1 December 2014. The collection of images that have graced so many PowerPoint presentations, family newsletters, and school-field-trip calendars is no more; now, if you want to decorate a document, you'll have to do what you've probably been doing already, anyway: search online. Within Microsoft products, you'll be directed to Bing for your image-finding needs.

This was inevitable, probably, but it also marks the end of an era. If we were writing a newsletter announcing Microsoft's decision, the clip art we might select to illustrate the development would probably involve a tombstone, or a clock with a red X over its face, or simply a face—one whose expression conveys an acceptance that times change, but a sense of nostalgia for what we lose as we move forward.

But this isn't a newsletter. This is a eulogy—for a form of artistic expression that added wonder and whimsy to the words of a youthful Internet. Clip art may have been clumsy and weird; it was also earnest, and full of the possibilities that came with our newfound capabilities as publishers and creators and communicators.

Clip art was made possible because of the invention of desktop publishing in the early 1980s. The first library of professionally drawn clip art was provided by VCN ExecuVision and introduced in the IBM PC in 1983. It offered images to be used in presentations and newsletters.

During the mid-1990s, Microsoft also began offering clip art as a built-in feature in many of its products. In 1996, as part of its default installation, Microsoft Word 6.0 included 82 WMF clip-art files. (Compare that to today: Microsoft's Office product suite currently offers clip art as part of more than 140,000 media elements.)

RIP, Clip Art. You will still live on the Internet. And you will always be with us in spirit.

09/10/2014

Word of the day: cold storage

Cold storage is the retention of inactive data that an organization rarely, if ever, expects to access.

Facebook has devoted considerable attention to the hardware used for a cold storage system through the Open Compute Project. Facebook found that storing its subscribers' older photos in the regular facility and making them available immediately took up huge volumes of storage space and wasted electricity. Today, the servers in its primary data centers are "always on" to provide immediate access to users' data but the servers in the cold storage facility are on "sleep mode" and kick-start only when there is a request for an archived image.

Object storage is one of the most common storage system types for cold data. Media choices for cold storage include tape or low-cost commodity hard disk drives because data retrieval and response time can be slower.

25/09/2014

Word of the day: BYOC (bring your own cloud)

BYOC (bring your own cloud) is the trend towards allowing employees to use cloud application or cloud storage services of their choice in the workplace.

In a small or mid-size business, allowing employees to use public cloud services like Google Apps or Dropbox may be more cost-effective than rolling out the shared service internally. Problems can occur, however, when employees fail to notify anyone when they use such services. The use of any shadow IT can pose security and compliance concerns in the workplace and BYOC in particular can prevent business owners from knowing exactly where their company's information is being stored, who has access to it and what it's being used for.

To prevent BYOC from becoming a problem, businesses should implement policies that strictly define what personal cloud services can be used for work-related tasks (if any) and who needs to be notified when a personal cloud service is used.

27/08/2014

Word of the day: content delivery network

A content delivery network (CDN) is an interconnected system of cache servers that use geographical proximity as a criteria for delivering Web content.

In a CDN, content exists as multiple copies on strategically dispersed servers. A large CDN can have thousands of servers around the globe, making it possible for the provider to send the same content to many requesting client computing devices efficiently and reliably -- even when bandwidth is limited or there are sudden spikes in demand. CDNs are especially well suited for delivering streaming audio, video, and Internet television (IPTV) programming, although an Internet service provider (ISP) may also use one to deliver static or dynamic Web pages.

CDN management software dynamically calculates which server is located nearest to the requesting client and delivers content based on those calculations. This not only eliminates the distance the content travels, but also reduces the number of hops a data packet must make. The result is less packet loss, optimized bandwidth and faster performance -- minimizing time-outs, latency and jitter, while improving overall user experience (UX). In the event of an Internet attack or malfunction at a junction of the Internet, content that's hosted on a CDN server will remain available to at least some users.

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