Today mark’s the release of Ubuntu 9.04, nee “Jaunty Jackalope,” and the debut of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by Eucalyptus. To get some insight into the release and what it means, I grabbed some time with Simon Wardley of Canonical. Simon, who joined Canonical near the end of last year, is the person tasked…
Devin Rickard is a Senior Director of Business Process Improvement at Symantec, the company best known for its Norton line of security products. The team that Devin belongs to acts as internal process consultants at the company and they’ve adopted Lombardi Blueprint as the common process modeling tool for the group. What they found however…
As an application that leverages all the agility and reach that the cloud provides, we thought it only appropriate that Lombardi Blueprint help sponsor Cloud Camp Austin 2009. Along with lesser known companies like Microsoft, Sun and Rackspace, Lombardi Blueprint is a gold sponsor of the event (actually since I took the screenshot to the…
I love taking pictures of San Francisco, I think its one of the most photogenic cities in the world. I was back in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago for Web 2.0 and I got a few shots as I was walking around downtown. Pau for now…
Next month I’ll be heading over to Houston to attend APQC’s knowledge management conference. One of the talks I’m interested in checking out will be given by Bryant Clevenger, the global leader for IBM GBS’s knowledge sharing strategy. On the KMedge blog, Bryant explains what they’ve been up to: At IBM, leveraging knowledge has always…
One of the more interesting people I met last week at Web 2.0 was Gaurav Mishra who is visiting the US from India as a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence. As a Yahoo! Fellow, Gaurav is doing research and teaching at Georgetown University in the field of social media. I was able to grab some of…
Last week Rackspace announced the appointment of Lew Moorman as president of Rackspace’s Cloud Computing Efforts. As luck would have it, Lew was attending Web 2.0 and I was able to grab a few minutes of his time to shoot a video. Not only that but as added bonus, recent Rackspace conscript Robert Scoble joined…
I’m currently attending Web 2.0 here in San Francisco. One of the cooler talks I saw yesterday was given by Scott Monty, the head of Ford Motor’s Social Media efforts. I was so intrigued that I thought I would grab him for an interview. He graciously agreed and here’s the result. Enjoy 🙂 To watch…
I came across an article in yesterday’s NetworkWorld.com that listed today’s “Top 10 Technology skills.” The list was based on work done by Foote Partners, which conducts quarterly assessments of IT pay trends in the US. Foote Partners’ CEO David Foote says “what’s unique about this downturn is that IT departments are hiring talent in…
Last month Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, CEO of Cannonical Ltd and First African in Space, announced that Ubuntu was going to be making a big push into cloud computing with their release slated for October. This will add to early cloud support that’s debuting in next month’s release, Ubuntu 9.04. (BTW, For a…
At SXSW interactive I came across the booth for the cloud-based app Animoto. I was intrigued since I have seen a couple of Amazon Web Services presentations and both held up Animoto as a great example of an application that would have been impossible to deliver any other way. Animoto, which creates videos for consumers…
On Saturday at SXSW interactive I ran into my old friend and former business school classmate, Charlene Li. Charlene who used to be an analyst at Forrester, is the co-author of “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies“ and has recently set up her own consultancy, the Altimeter Group. Charlene was at SXSW…
In answer to yesterday’s St. Patrick’s day puzzler, the Patron Saints of Scotland, England and Wales are: Andrew, George and David. St Patrick – Ireland St Andrew – Scotland St George – England St. David – Wales Whats particularly interesting, which my old boss Simon turned me on to, is the fact that Union Jack…
A few weeks ago I blogged about the Forrester review of Blueprint that was published in early February. We recently purchased licensing rights to the report, “Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between Process Discovery And Execution” and it is now available here. Quotable Quotes Here are some of my favorite quotes from the report:…
Well today is Saint Patrick’s day, a day for revelry and libations in many locations across the globe. Now most people know that St. Pat is the patron saint of Ireland, the guy who chased all the snakes out of Eire. (Fun facts to know and tell: St. Patrick’s real name was Maewyn Succat. Can…
As I previously mentioned, on Saturday I headed down town to the Austin convention center and SXSW. Although I’ve lived here in Austin for 2 years this is the first time I’ve checked it out. I drove down after lunch and bought myself a day pass to the show floor. The entrance to the convention…
As I mentioned in my last entry, yesterday I hit SXSWi. When the show floor closed, I moseyed over 311E 5th St. to experience the wild and wackiness that is BarCamp Austin. To accompany my video from the event, here are some stills. Enjoy… What’s in a Name If you’re not familiar with BarCamp,…
I just got back from SXSWi and Bar Camp. I will post pictures from there as well as interviews with Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Jason Hsiao of Animoto in the next few days. Before then I wanted to post this one minute walk-thru of Bar Camp that I shot near the end…
On Friday Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights, sent me a link to a virtual Business Process conference that he had received an invite to. I thought it was kind of intriguing. Today I found out that Gary Comerford across the pond had blogged about the conference last week and was actually associated with the group…
A bunch of cool Lombardi-related news bits came out last week. I’ve been a bit slow on the uptake so I thought I’d put them together into one entry. Lombardi Announces ’08 Results Last week we announced results for last year (our fiscal and calendar years are the same). It was our best year yet…