The Top 500 Design Firms Start to Rise Above Economic Woes | ENR: Engineering News Record | McGraw-Hill Construction

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.

20 IWMS, CAFM and CMMS Blogs To Watch in 2012

20 IWMS, CAFM and CMMS Blogs To Watch in 2012

Review of The VID Delusion by Brian Madden, et al.

 The VDI Delusion 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."

Great Tool to Help You Configure the Size of your Vault Server

IBM Vault Sizing Guide - WikiHelp

IBM Vault Sizing Guide

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

Goto IBM Sizing Tool

BIM and Spec Software Continued - BSD's Speclink-e and Linkman-e

This presentation by Beth Stroshane will provide you with an in depth look at Building System Design Speclink-e and Linkman-e from a user point of view.

The presentation will include the following:
- An overview of the features of the software.
- A discussion of how the out of the box features can be used to help solve old and new challenges:
- Coordination and terminology.
- Tracking information for the 2030 Challenge for Products, Red list, Specification Status or many more.

Come learn what one firm is doing and start thinking about how you might use the same features in the same way, or in completely different ways, to raise the bar and move your practice and the industry forward.

Beth Stroshane is a Certified Construction Specifier who has worked with BIM specification systems on large complex architectural projects for the last 6 years with NBBJ and ZGF Architects. Prior to writing specifications, Beth achieved bachelor's degrees in structural engineering and construction management, and worked as a construction engineer for Mortenson Construction.

ESG Lab Report Validates Nasuni as a Superior Solution for Multi-Site Storage Access - MarketWatch

ESG Lab Report Validates Nasuni as a Superior Solution for Multi-Site Storage Access - MarketWatch

 PRESS RELEASE

March 13, 2012, 11:39 a.m. EDT

ESG Lab Report Validates Nasuni as a Superior Solution for Multi-Site Storage Access

Report Highlights Performance, Ease of Use, Ease of Deployment and Reliability; Nasuni Enables Enterprises to Eliminate Costly and Cumbersome WAN Optimization and Replication Schemes for Sharing Storage Access