The Top 500 Design Firms Start to Rise Above Economic Woes | ENR: Engineering News Record | McGraw-Hill Construction
After four years, it appears the U.S. construction market has bottomed out and is beginning the slow climb out of recession. For many large U.S. design firms, this development is cause for both relief and celebration. But for other design firms, particularly in the public infrastructure markets, uncertainty about the future remains a constant.
Monday, April 30, 2012
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Review of The VID Delusion by Brian Madden, et al.
by Brian Madden, et al. reminds me of what one professor wrote on my Hunter "Thompson styled narration: "floats like a butterfly, but ....where's the sting." I recommend this book to clarify the industry and understand some of the greatest blog, tweet, flames going on in the industry today.http://www.brianmadden.com/ is fantastic resource on vid with a great podcast.
It really does describe a lot of the chaos caused by company marketing as well as technology challenges. Also adds to confusion about some of the acronyms. Great explanation of different technologies here http://www.virtuall.nl/request-whitepaper-access
I think the book misses on two major points:
1. "It's the data, stupid". In some industries, we are already in a multi-device, multi-os scenario that is not being solved by iCloud or dropbox. Add to this the requirement for multi-company collaboration on large data-sets. The compute power must be reside with the data and it must be accessible from multiple remote locations without planning or device constraint - ie the application I need to make since of the data doesn't execute on my iPad or my iPhone or my Android or my Macbook or on the little standard issue $300 XP based PC the corporation gave me.
2. My 10-50 person company doesn't have an IT department to handle all of the tasks outlined as the successful, time-proven desktop strategies to solve the desktop dilemmas. Outsourcing the entire desktop to a provider can be a good solution.
10 most powerful IaaS companies - in alphabetical order
10 most powerful IaaS companies
"We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC, and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. Each was asked to name the companies they believed have the most influence – whether that’s measured in market share, mind share, revenue, existing enterprise pull or underlying technology links – in the world of IaaS. They are listed here in alphabetical order."
"We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC, and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. Each was asked to name the companies they believed have the most influence – whether that’s measured in market share, mind share, revenue, existing enterprise pull or underlying technology links – in the world of IaaS. They are listed here in alphabetical order."
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Great Tool to Help You Configure the Size of your Vault Server
IBM Vault Sizing Guide - WikiHelp
Welcome to the IBM Vault Sizing Guide. Autodesk and IBM have worked together to help you save time and money by recommending suitable hardware configurations for your anticipated Autodesk Vault implementation. This guide features consistent and reliable recommendations based on the latest IBM hardware in conjunction with the software environment variables that you enter.
Each recommendation in this guide considers a number of parameters you provide based on your anticipated Autodesk Vault environment. Input parameters include:
• Total number of users
• Percentage of simultaneous users
• Amortization period of server
• New Vault implementation vs. migration from an older version
• Total size & number of files
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