Tom The Architect

It's the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website and was created by and supported by Best Buy Enterprise Services Inc and Bust Out Solutions, Inc. The standard release is known as BBYIDX and features the ability for users to simply post, tag, comment and vote on ideas. It also features the ability for administrators to moderate incoming ideas and comments as well as assign work-flow to certain ideas for further exploration. It also offers the ability to group ideas by "current" or category to create new "currents" which serve as problems or issues to be solved by comments and moderation. It also features read and write APIs that can be used to make access to an instance of BBYIDX via another website or mobile application.

Here is a very brief evolution of scaling ending with internet scale. That references MapReduce has to be good.

Gartner pointing out that we need to be as serious about hypervisor security as we are about other security domains.

IT is one of the strategic assets shared throughout the enterprise.  This makes IT and its cost structure sensitive to organizational changes in ways that executives may not immediately appreciate.  An organizational structure defines the distribut

An interesting Interview of John Brockman by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Mr. Brockman gives his perspective on the differences between Europe and America.

The blog of Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group

The Blog of Stephen O'Grady Great links and perspective.

Michael Cote again great links and opinions, a must follow.

Great links and thoughtful commentary, and opinons.

An interesting response to the question "are we ready for the Cloud?"

This a very insightful and well written article about the things that color or change our perception. A great read.

The always opinionated David Heineimeier Hansson talks about entrepreneurship. I enjoy his presentations no F-Bombs this time.

As site with alot of tips for software and Mac OSX.

A brief article on private clouds.