Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
"The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products" says Mike Loukides on O'Reilly Radar. His "What is data science?" article, is an interesting read, that can be found here http://oreil.ly/dknxJV . ...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Big Tech is Broken - badly writes Vinnie Michandani. It makes for an interesting read. There is lots of talk about innovation in Enterprise IT (and vendors) but not much in regards to R&D budgets to back up the claims being made it would seem. ...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I keep reading how IBM's WebSphere Portal technology has been the leader in Gartner's Magic Quandrant for Portal technology for years. In fact, its the been the case ever since I can remember going back to WebSphere Portal 4.1. Really can't see how that can...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
After spending zero dollars, I have created a new web site newco1.com . Its integrated in with twitter @newco1 , has a Facebook Page and its own Linked In group . It even works with the iPhone and iPod touch and the newco1.com theme was done...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
An excellent post, " Bridging the IT generation gap " over at infoworld.com about the IT generation gap. "Older generations learned tech. The younger generation lives it. Organizations that want to succeed need the skills of both." I see...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Whats the biggest size database you have? Is it 500 GigaBytes or is it maybe 10 Terra Bytes? According to Google's CEO Schimdt: " People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution ". "There was 5 exabytes of information created between...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
My phone hardly rings. That's because most people contact and communicate with me through other means. At first I thought I must be unique but others are sensing it now like Stowe Boyd. He wrote about it here in The Death of The Phone Call . For me the...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
In 2009, we did some interesting market validation to see how potentially large the Australian SaaS (Software as a Service) ISV (Independent Software Vendor) market was. As part of this exercise, I created a chart to help me to find the ideal candidate ISV for...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I found this video via @sig on twitter. Its very funny. A lot of people that know me will realise that I'm not the biggest Microsoft fan. I could relate to a lot that was in this video. When Softies used to talk to me about interoperability with SOAP....
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: Portal | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I like reading Ed Brill's blog . Why you may ask, do I like reading a senior IBM Lotus executive's blog? Well, he is a superb writer, participates in the online community that he is a part off and gives some key insights into the inner workings of a large...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
The iPad had been selling like hotcakes in the US. With the majority of the online reviews being positive, since its US launch by Apple. As soon as I could, early in May 2010, I placed an order through the Australian Apple online store for a 32 GB iPad...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
This is a great video from Salesforce.com explaining Cloud Computing.
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I heard a high pitch squeal and looked at the server. No lights were flashing. Fear was starting to creep in. This happened early Monday morning May 3, 2010 and after a little investigation and changing of power supplies I realised that the server was dead....
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I still cut code! Yes, and I enjoy doing so. But many people, have never learnt to or have forgotten how to and the mere thought of writing a computer program is considered to be an inane task, that should be given to others. When its given to others, a...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I got a good laugh from this Statler & Waldorf sketch. A lot of persons are afraid or concerned about joining online conversations. Join in and you'll see how enjoyable it can be!
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
This C of course stands for Communications, so in context of ICT it is Communications Technology. What exactly is it? and why is it being grouped with Information Technology? From wikipedia Communication 's entry, we have a definition " Communication ...
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Its been 18 months or so, since I started on " Giving up on Microsoft software for work ". It has been an interesting adventure, one fraught with skepticism from some, but with joy from myself. The big question I faced then was, "Was it possible...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
This is an article that appeared on Australian Flexible Learning Framework websites in August 2009 from their e-newsletter. It is based on an interview that I gave and thought I'd share it with you. The risky business of social media Social media ...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Gartner's top 10 Strategy Technology Areas for 2010 Via Annie Shum's blog entry at MIT CIO Symposium blog . This is very interesting and reinforces the strong interest I've been observing with cloud computing. In addition, when you have...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Every time someone views my actual blog page (as opposed to reading it in a feed reader), it records some statistics about the visitor. I'm using a widget located at the bottom right hand side of my blog from As an Australian, what intrigues me is how...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
'The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content,' Murdoch says. These are some interesting words, which I found from a Slashdot article, titled " Rupert Murdoch Says Google is Stealing His Content...
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