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I’ve always been attached to the platonic idea of an attic, where traditional families who live in the same house for forever stick their prized possessions and junk, so that other family members can go up and trawl through it at watershed points in their lives to discover some curio that leads them to a cave under a seasonal restaurant that contains a fully intact 18th-century pirate ship. Yeah, if you’ve seen my Flickr account, you know I’m one of them.

Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything

Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything

Excerpt from a book. Always love some tech history. The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android

Excerpt from a book. Always love some tech history. The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android

I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report estimates that in 2012, the data-driven marketing economy added $156 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and fueled more than 675,000 jobs. To put that statistic in perspective, that’s nearly half of total U.S. expenditures on marketing and advertising services (estimated at $292 billion annually), more than half the size of the entire Internet ecosystem (estimated by the IAB at $300 billion) and more than two-thirds the size of the entire e-commerce market.

I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report estimates that in 2012, the data-driven marketing economy added $156 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and fueled more than 675,000 jobs. To put that statistic in perspective, that’s nearly half of total U.S. expenditures on marketing and advertising services (estimated at $292 billion annually), more than half the size of the entire Internet ecosystem (estimated by the IAB at $300 billion) and more than two-thirds the size of the entire e-commerce market.

Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors. I’d expect to see a lot more of this swapping stuff into OpenStack. For those companies with IP, it’s an easy way to differentiate.

Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors. I’d expect to see a lot more of this swapping stuff into OpenStack. For those companies with IP, it’s an easy way to differentiate.

Broadly speaking, CSO responsibilities fall into three categories—strategy development, resource allocation, and strategy execution—but activities within these three categories vary widely. (See Exhibit 1.) Most CSOs are responsible for identification of growth opportunities (84 percent of the executives we interviewed), strategic planning (82 percent), and M&A and divestments (82 percent). Other common responsibilities include monitoring long-term trends and outlook, gathering competitive intelligence, driving cross-business-unit initiatives, and sustaining business model innovation.