Social Media tools can create useful links between Big Science and Small Science. Examples include collaborative efforts within genomics, cancer research, space exploration, and high energy physics. I will discuss existing methods and future opportunities.

(See also: SlikeShare: Social Connections in Scientific Research)
(See also: MinneWebCon 09)

Bill Coleman contends we’ve reached an inflection point. Data centers and current standard practices are not sustainable. It is the end of data centers as we know them. If everything is ‘in the cloud’, the rest is network operations.

He has the sort of background that leads me to believe we should listen to him:

Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation) has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division.

When you consume services from the cloud, trouble-shooting and diagnosing modern complex applications, it isn’t about availability but service health. How do I get enough visibility into the cloud to fix a problem? I’ll need to know more than status equals ‘green’ for healthy or ‘red’ for failure. “It’s not us, we’re ‘green’. Have you called your carrier?”

It is quite possible we’re trading one set of problems for another.

(Subscribe: iTunes: Velocity 2008 Conference)

(See also: blip.tv: Velocity 2008 Conference)
(See also: blip.tv)

(See also: Cassatt: Energy efficiency software for data centers)
(See also: RedMonk: Hyperic review)
(See also: Hyperic: )

(See also: O’Reilly: Velocity 2008)

Nick Carr, author, business and technology writer, and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, became the center of the debate on IT value with his 2003 article “IT Doesn’t Matter“, and his subsequent book, Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage.

His latest book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its influence on business and society.

This keynote was reason enough to attend the Gartner Enterprise Architecture 2008 conference.

(See also: Nicholas G. Carr)
(See also: The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid?, by Nicholas Carr)

(See also: Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008)
(See also: Gartner EA8: Flickr pool)
(See also: Gartner EA8: Twitter feed)
(See also: Gartner.com)

Blogs:
(See also: Todd Biske: Outside the Box)

Attending the MinneWebCon on Monday to hear Eric Meyer speak about the emerging profession of interactive information design. An acknowledged leader in on-line design, Eric literally wrote the definitive guide on cascading style sheets (CSS), for O’Reilly and Associates.

Usability, design and standards will be the topics of the day. Hope to see you there!

Monday, April 14, 2008 8:00am – 6:00pm
McNamara Alumni Center, Twin Cities Campus,
University of Minnesota USA

My presentation is available on Scribd. Their embedded player code didn’t play well with my layout. You can find it here.

(See also: MinneWebCon)
(See also: Eric Meyer’s website)
(See also: Twemes: MinneWebCon)
(See also: The Next Web: Many parts, loosely joined)