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Is IT Still Relevant?
When an inpatient business unit marketing manager with a credit card can stand up an instance of Salesforce in a matter of a few days, and many companies have long outsourced their daily IT operations, many business executives are questioning if a traditional centralized IT organization is the right model for today's agile business. An increasing number of IT projects and purchasing decisions are coming from directly from business units, rather than central IT. IT managers need to rethink how they deliver services and interact with the rest of the organization to maintain their value and relevancy.
The death of IT has been a perennial topic since the beginning of the information age. The good news is that IT applications, services and process controls are needed more than ever. Even the smallest pizza shop business today is dependent on a complex web of applications and interrelated supply chain systems. The bigger question becomes, who should be responsible for making the critical business decisions about the IT spending and who should be maintaining the systems?
Over the years, the pendulum has been cycling between a centralized and decentralized model for the delivery of IT services. Until the mid-1990's the centralized model was dominant, more because computers were expensive and temperamental, not because it was seen as optimal. Computers were not designed with the idea that mere mortals would be able manage them and MIS was a black art. All that changed with the wide availability of the cheap PC and a useful set of office productivity desktop applications. Thank Microsoft for giving users a reason to take control of their computers for the first time. Central IT still held on to the large back office systems, but there was growing tension between corporate IT department and business units for ownership and control of users' systems and applications.
The pendulum swung back as we entered the 21st century with the widespread deployment of ERP, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), SAN storage and virtualization – large expensive systems that require specialized knowledge to maintain. Pressure to cut costs and improve IT efficiency drove rampant offshoring and outsourcing as companies were sold on the idea that specialized IT services companies would be able to manage the systems better and cheaper. While, as we all now know, outsourcing cost savings have mostly proven to be mirages, the fruits of the drive for efficiency are utility computing and the development of SaaS systems that have turned the old capital and labor intensive IT service delivery cost models on their heads.
Where does this leave centralized IT? For smart managers, the IT organization has never been a better position to deliver strategic value to ensure the success of an organization's business objectives. Unlike the business units that are mostly concerned with the success of their small corner, central IT has a unique overview of the entire organization. Use this knowledge to develop integrated systems that improve information flow throughout the organization. So next time you are thinking that centralized IT is dead, it is time to get to work on tying all those 46 one-off Salesforce deployments together so that the entire company can share vital information across the functions.
About the Author
Beth Cohen, President, Luth Computer Specialists, an independent consultancy specializing in cloud focused solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies. Previously, Ms. Cohen was a Senior Cloud Architect with Cloud Technology Partners and the Director of Engineering IT for BBN Corporation, where she was involved with the initial development of the Internet, working on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy
Cat or Cow Clouds – Which do you have?
Think of IT infrastructures as either Cats or Cows. Traditional enterprise infrastructure has always been treated like pampered and spoiled pet cats that require expensive care and feeding. Cloud infrastructures, on the other hand, are seen by the end users as indistinguishable commodities to be consumed like hamburgers. Cloud computing resources should be built and treated like cows, not cats.
What does this have to do with the just concluded April 2013 OpenStack Summit? Everything! The Summit was a big turning point for the just under three year old Open Source Cloud Platform Project. Never before has the Summit felt more like a real business conference with a clear-eyed agenda to architect a stable and viable enterprise ready cloud platform, rather than just a bunch of wild developers on a mission to save the world. After several years of intense development and shakedown, OpenStack is finally more than ready to take on the unique challenges of enterprises that want to deploy private clouds.
There were plenty of great examples of respected organizations, public and private that have crossed the innovation chasm by deploying OpenStack clouds into their production environments. The keynote sessions all highlighted large enterprise case studies to emphasis the message that OpenStack is a strong and very viable option. Here are just a few to whet your appetite:
- • Bloomberg has deployed a large scale internal cloud, for a variety of applications including analytics and support of their backend systems.
- • BestBuy built an OpenStack cloud to support their extremely spiky holiday rush traffic. In just eight months, 25% of their systems ran on their new cloud in time for the 2012 Christmas buying season. They found the new platform, combined with a move to a PaaS push button development environment and a server side delivery architecture, allowed them to speed delivery of their catalog content pages down to under 2 seconds, while saving over $500K per platform upgrade. How is that for some serious discounting!
- • Comcast Cable and NBC/Universal built an OpenStack cloud to move content delivery out of proprietary limited function set-top boxes and into backend servers, giving them more flexibility and capabilities for the development of new interactive features such as live streaming and gaming.
- • The NSA, yes the spies in DC, are using OpenStack. Of course, what, how and why they are using it were not shared, but clearly they are not overly concerned with reports of security deficiencies.
- • Samsung is rolling out a production grade platform that will support millions of users across the globe. If the success of the new Android based smartphones and tablets are any indication, Apple should be looking over its shoulder very carefully.
In conclusion, if your company is contemplating a public or private cloud deployment, you should be putting OpenStack at the top of your shortlist. The rich ecosystem of big names, such as Dell, IBM, RedHat and Cisco is a clear signal that OpenStack has arrived!
About the Author
Beth Cohen is a senior cloud architect for Cloud Technology Partners, Inc., focused on delivering solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies. Previously, Ms. Cohen was the director of engineering IT for BBN Corporation, where she was involved with the initial development of the Internet, working on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy.
The Enterprise Finally gets Cloud
Yes, it is a bit trite to say it now, but Cloud Computing has become a multi-billion dollar business which really has revolutionized Information Technology consumption for both the consumer and enterprise markets. It is well established in the white hot consumer market, especially with the widespread global uptake of mobile devices and Cloud services such as Dropbox, iCloud, Flikr, and Gmail, to name a few. The enterprise initially lagged in embracing cloud services to cut IT costs, improve time to market, and increase flexibility. It is now more than making up for its initial hesitancy, with nearly 50% of all enterprises in North America and Europe planning on a cloud investment in 2013.
From the Enterprise perspective, now has never been a better time to invest in cloud services. Enterprises are broadly adopting all types of cloud services at multiple levels in the organization. Initial predictions were for the enterprise to favor private and community clouds over public services, but the hottest trends in Cloud adoption has been Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud-based business applications which are projected to grow from $13.4 billion in 2011 to $32.2 billion in 2016, a 19.1% five-year CAGR! The rapid adoption of SaaS applications of all flavors by the enterprise has been a surprise to many, but the vastly reduced costs due to the pay as you go pricing models, and high degree of service delivery flexibility has overcome any perceptions of needing to trade price for reduced feature sets. Unsurprisingly, the most often added cloud-based application services are Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM), with Web Conferencing, teaming platforms and social software suites nipping at their heels.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) continues to appeal to companies that want to replace in-house and traditional data center models for the cloud hardware abstraction approach. Gartner is predicting Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), cloud management & security devices, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are growing from $7.6B in 2011 to $35.5B in 2016, a CAGR of 36%. A word of warning for companies that think just because the Amazon cloud is easy to use, it is easy to build and manage. Building a private cloud still requires a degree of expertise that few enterprises have in-house. In the next year or so expect more companies to see the value of using the services of cloud consultants to avoid painful and expensive mistakes when building private clouds; or alternatively using emerging enterprise focused public cloud services such as Bluelock or Terremark.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) which still does not quite know what it wants to be when it grows up, is lagging with only about $1B in revenue in 2012, but as the market matures, expect to see rapid uptake as companies recognize the value of standardized tools that can ease the pain of Cloud application deployments. Some of the newer PaaS tools like the ServiceMesh Agility Platform combine the features of a SDLC workflow engine, production support and orchestration across different cloud platforms.
New Cloud Technology Directions
Ultimately, innovation is the marriage of technology and organization change. The dilemma is how to pull innovation into IT core functionality without disrupting the flow of new ideas, when the modern enterprise understanding of IT is focused on operational excellence and cost control. The CIO should be leading the cultural change to the new flat organization by leveraging cloud and mobile application in new and interesting ways. The trick is to create tools for people to quickly test and validate their ideas so they can implement new ideas that work within the enterprise framework. Cloud tools can be used to deliver on that promise, but is the enterprise up to that challenge?
This is not the first time wrenching technology innovation has changed how companies do business, and it certainly will not be the last. Companies able to use disruptive technologies, such as cloud computing, effectively will leave companies who do not have that ability in the dust. By recognizing the seeds of change and embracing them, the smart company can leverage cloud services by using the efficiencies of pooled IT resources at the same time allowing greater flexibility to meet the challenges of the global economy. This combination of combining commodity utilities with innovation allows companies to compete effectively using the efficiency and flexibility strategies simultaneously.
Challenges, Always Challenges…
Consumers intuitively get cloud and have been more than willing to embrace it warts and all as it has matured. They are highly price sensitive and will easily sacrifice features in exchange for low cost. On the other side of the market spectrum, the more conservative enterprise market is still struggling with the basic model. Some companies worry that the emerging cloud companies are too small to do business with, while others are concerned with how to incorporate new technologies into existing technology portfolio investments. To address their concerns, at the same time as Cloud technology continues to mature and standards develop , innovation around service delivery and breakthroughs in storage technologies are making it ever more enterprise ready. The pace of cloud vendor consolidation has already picked up as the traditional enterprise vendors such as HP and IBM has rushed to add enterprise ready cloud services to their portfolios. This should alleviate the fears of even the most technology adverse companies.
A final word for any remaining cloud technology skeptics, as with any innovative force, the cloud is just a tool to drive change, not an embodiment of change itself. Enterprise cloud consulting leaders, have firsthand experience with how companies willing to ride the Cloud revolution will not only survive in today's hyper-competitive world, but thrive. I cannot wait to see where the next wave takes us!
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Beth Cohen is a senior cloud architect for Cloud Technology Partners, Inc., focused on delivering solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies. Previously, Ms. Cohen was the director of engineering IT for BBN Corporation, where she was involved with the initial development of the Internet, working on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy.
2013 – Year of the Cloud for Sure this Time
Will the predicted Cloud Computing revolution finally arrive? Has Platform as a Service (PaaS) finally matured enough to be widely adopted? These and other burning questions are part of Cloud Technology Partners' 2013 tech future predictions. In the spirit of the holidays I give you ghosts of predictions past and cloudy forecasts for 2013.
Enterprise SaaS takes off – With $14.5 billion in SaaS sales (an increase of 17.9% from 2011), lots of providers are getting it right. The biggest news is the boom in enterprise SaaS application adoption. Originally touted as the great leveler, allowing small businesses to take advantage of sophisticated systems hereto only affordable by big companies, the enterprise is rapidly dumping their high maintenance in-house systems and deploying a variety of SaaS services instead. Salesforce of course has long been a big player in this space, but the Workday's spectacular IPO in October indicates a bright future. Look for lots of interest in Microsoft cloud products such as Office 365 and Azure as companies realize that these are cheaper and more flexible alternatives to traditional desktop tools. The rapid adoption of mobile devices in the workplace and its demand for more business customized apps is only going to accelerate this trend.
OpenStack grows up – While it remains to be seen if OpenStack wins the cloud infrastructure wars against VMware, CloudStack and Eucalyptus, given the number of cloud service providers lining up behind HP and Rackspace to roll out Openstack commercial services, it is not difficult to predict that 2013 will be another banner year for OpenStack. Practically the every major tech company in the world with the notable exception of Amazon is throwing their support behind OpenStack. On the technology side, more tools and functionality than ever makes the future of the largest cloud Open Source project ever definitely rosy.
Cloud Hardware Architectures get real – Over the last year or so, several vendors including VCE, the uneasy coalition of EMC, Cisco and VMware, Dell, and NetApp, have announced prepackaged cloud hardware stacks. On the surface the idea is appealing to enterprise IT infrastructure teams unprepared for the cloud revolution. However, as companies quickly found out, there is a big difference between dropping in a rack of hardware and building a productive enterprise cloud infrastructure. Since a primary cloud objective is hardware and software abstraction, more vendors will be developing infrastructure architectures tolerant of commodity hardware and supportive of transparent upgrades.
VMware Cloud gets it right – All indications are that 2013 will be the year that VMware finally gets it right after years of passing virtualization off as cloud. Enterprises that have been patiently waiting for a full suite of cloud features and tools will be rewarded with a system that will be expensive (what else is new), but actually delivers the goods.
Cloud Tools mature – With more offerings than ever from startups and mature companies alike, the market for sophisticated tools will be heating up as companies realize that they need orchestration, brokering, PaaS and cloud management suites. There will be lots of activity, new offerings, acquisitions, and of course, the inevitable hype.
About the Author
Beth Cohen is a senior cloud architect for Cloud Technology Partners, Inc., focused on delivering solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies. Previously, Ms. Cohen was the director of engineering IT for BBN Corporation, where she was involved with the initial development of the Internet, working on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy.
OpenStack Take 3: Technology Overview
Question: Is there anything new about OpenStack's underlying technology?
As I mentioned my previous post on the recently concluded OpenStack Summit held in San Diego October 2012, OpenStack needs to be taken seriously by anyone who is interested in building a public or private cloud. For the more technically inclined the latest Folsom release has several new modules and features of interest to the enterprise and cloud service provider alike:
Quantum – Software Defined Networking (SDN), the latest darling of the cloud world is moving forward quickly with some really valuable features including L2 to L3 tunneling and a network API. Expect to see lots of new development here. On a side note, there was a great panel on the future of SDN moderated by Ken Pepple from Cloud Technology Partners, with people from Midokura, Big Switch and HP Cloud Services talking about their vision of the future for SDN.
Cinder – Now that Cinder has been spun out as its own named project, new features include intelligent location of Virtual Machine image storage, real snapshots, live migration, and more capability for large scale simultaneous VM initiations.
Keystone – New features includes support for role-based identify management (RBAC), PKI functionality, tools to add integration capability with enterprise grade account management systems such as Active Directory and other LDAP based systems. Rumors of Kerberos support coming were floating around.
Documentation and security are both finally being taken seriously, with a half day documentation track on Monday morning and a full day of security related sessions on Thursday. There was recognition among the lead techs that the developers who are creating OpenStack are not the users. This resulted in much discussion regarding new features to make it easier to do deployments, upgrades (finally!) and manage it by operations folks. There even was some discussion of IaaS/PaaS integration and how the VM's work with the platform, a long overdue recognition that the IaaS and PaaS layers of the cloud stack are intimately related.
On the subject of operations, the tools to manage OpenStack are still weak, but they are no longer non-existent. Ceilometer and heat among others look promising, but the better operations management tools are still mostly part of separate distributions such as Cloudscaling, Nebula, StackOps and others rather than being part of the product core. While I do see the reasoning behind this thinking, at the very least we really need to have some standardized installation tools. There is little benefit for every instance and distribution to reinvent the wheel.
One final note, one thing that was quite noticeable was that the Grizzly design sessions had a very different vibe from previous summits. While some were packed with lots of discussions about new features, more often the Technical Project Lead and a few others ran the show with little input from the other participants in the room. As the number contributors grow, the community is going to need to work hard to avoid having the immediacy of the Summit be diluted.
That doesn't mean there isn't plenty of meat already, but as can be seen by this tiny sampling of the current hot projects, there is still much work to be done. The good news is the OpenStack community is ready willing and capable of delivering the goods in the coming months and years.
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. Transforming Businesses with Cloud Solutions
Magic Quadrant IaaS Market Confusion
Just what is IaaS anyway? Based on what was written in Gartner's just published edition of Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, the answer is defined by Amazon as primarily a service for the SMB, emerging and mid-sized market. They seem to have a somewhat fractured view of how they are evaluating the market. Most of the services that they are evaluating are mid-market focused (which they state), so how much this applies to the needs of the enterprise is debatable. While there is no question that Amazon is the all-around leader – they did define the market after all, they have always been aggressively focused on delivering services for mid-market and emerging companies. I call it IaaS for the masses and there is plenty of money in building services that target the 80% of the market that is satisfied with a reasonably priced (at least at a small scale) generic product that works most of the time. I don't have to tell you about the most recent of a string of outages at Amazon just this week that calls into question the whole notion that a 98% uptime SLA is good enough.
From CTP's perspective, since the majority of our customers are the big enterprise, we need to evaluate IaaS providers against a very different set of criteria. The enterprise is going to be more cautious — partially because they need to be and partially because they can afford to be — about putting anything beyond dev/test in these types of public IaaS services. Gartner only touched on the IaaS requirements that are really important to the enterprise, regulatory compliance, true high availability SLA's, support for large scale global deployments and a cost structure that isn't essentially linear. From that perspective, the Magic Quadrant would look very different: CSC, IBM, HP, Savvis and Terremark would all be top tier players, with Rackspace and Amazon in the niche quadrant.
On a side note, it is quite noticeable just how many of the providers on the list have at least some OpenStack built into their infrastructure. HP Cloud Services is 100% based on OpenStack, while RackSpace is migrating from their legacy infrastructure as fast as they can convert their customers. Internap, AT&T and others have either already stood up OpenStack services or have announced that they are in the works. Definitely validates the OpenStack approach.
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. Transforming Businesses with Cloud Solutions
OpenStack Take 3 – Business Overview
Question: Is OpenStack a flash in the pan or is it for real?
After four extraordinary days of immersion into all things OpenStack at the just concluded OpenStack Summit in San Diego, I can heartily say without reservations that OpenStack is not only very real, it is truly a game changer for the IT industry. With that being said, yes, there is certainly plenty of hype about this Open Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering – one wag even quipped that OpenStack was at the peak of the Gardner hype cycle, so it must be real. Here are just a few highlights for the terminally busy:
- The technology has come a long way since the project's August 2010 inception. With 13 major corporate foundation contributors, it seems like the only major technology companies not involved are Amazon and Apple.
- There was much discussion about the newly created OpenStack Foundation as an organization and its long-term viability. However, compared to where the Apache Foundation was at the same time in its lifecycle, the OpenStack Foundation is far ahead of the curve.
- OpenStack is definitely gaining market traction. There were plenty of academic, enterprise and service provider IT folks kicking the tires. To encourage more market adoption, the website is featuring user stories. A new one from WebEx was inspired by a visit to the Boston conference where the engineers saw the Mercardo Libra success story.
- While there was still a preponderance of developers in attendence (it was a design summit after all), there were more operations and business types than ever. The vendor area was busier than ever.
- The biggest technical buzz was around Quantum and virtualized Software Defined Networking (SDN) — standing room only at the technical update and all the design sessions, but Cinder, and Keystone were not far behind in incorporating new features and functionality.
- Every time I turned around there seemed to be a new distribution available from both the usual suspects, such as Piston and Nebula, and the big players such as Cisco, SuSe and ???. Niki Acosta' Vapor Trail blog has a nice summary of the many vendor announcements. More on the case of the proliferating distributions coming…
- And finally, the parties this time were for the most part more subdued. HP's soirée at the New Children's Art Museum was cool, but the endless Techno Musak at all of them just gave me a pulsating (pun intended) headache.
As can be seen from this tiny sampling of the Summit activities, an enormous amount of energy and momentum has built up in just over two years. For a project that will likely eventually be as important as Apache and Linux, every organization and person who has contributed to it should be justifiably proud of their accomplishments so far.
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. Transforming Businesses with Cloud Solutions
SSD Storage – Finally some new technology
Until recently, the massive changes to IT infrastructure brought on by widespread cloud architecture adoption have barely touched the relatively mature multi-billion dollar storage industry. The old adage that storage is cheap, but management of storage is expensive is as valid as it was 10 years ago. That is about to be turned on its head as prices on solid state drive technology continues to plummet (SSD) and the demand for massive amounts of highly scalable cloud storage surges.
The traditional storage market has settled into several distinct streams. On the high end is the EMC approach which is to build very complex storage systems with multiple redundant hardware plus many configuration options and features. This very expensive approach works for enterprises that really need fast reliable storage and have the budget to justify the investment. At the low end of the spectrum, there are lots of options for small storage pools — half a petabyte or so – which are generally sold through channels. The prices for these systems have remained relatively stable at the $1 million for a petabyte range.
For companies that want massive amounts (15 petabytes or more) of cheap storage or a horizontally scalable cloud type architecture, the options have been limited to a few vendors or for the technologically adventurous, a roll your own system. All this is happening despite the fact that there are now three hard disk manufacturers left, a de facto monopoly, and most users treat hard drives as interchangeable commodities with excessively high failure rates that require massive amounts of duplication. Any vendor that can demonstrate a system that reduces the need for three data copies to maintain integrity by improving the failure rate from the current 10-15% a year, would deliver a big win for everyone.
As the cloud storage business grows the traditional vertically scalable storage is less and less viable. There are several companies that are already working on building horizontally scalable storage, Scality and CloudBytes are two that come to mind. There are also several Open Source projects like Openstack Swift that are taking on the large data store architecture problem as well. Not all the cloud storage vendors are using a pooled block of storage approach. ScaleIO turns all the disks in the servers into a pool of storage. This radically different approach is dependent on the right use case and could have network bottleneck issues. The newer horizontally scaled cloudy architectures, such as Mezeo and Openstack Swift have finally opened up the possibility of building attractively priced massive data pools.
The biggest innovation of late is the incorporation of SSD technology. Amazon is already offering an all SSD cloud storage service and a number of new storage vendors, such as SolidFire are building SSD only storage systems from the ground up. SolidFire isn't the first vendor with an SSD offering, Nimbus Data began selling all-SSD systems more than a year ago. EMC jumped in with a Symmetrix with all SSDs this summer, and others are expected to follow shortly. Texas Memory Systems, Avere, Violin Memory and Alacritech, have all-SSD systems designed to speed SAN and NAS performance for internal storage solutions. Most storage vendors now give customers the option of installing some SSD alongside hard drives in their systems. In the long run, this is just an interim step as SSD prices will continue to fall over the next few years. The future is a move to all SSD units coming to a data center near you.
It is good to see innovation coming back in the storage industry after years of slack. Expect to see more hardware innovation as SSD technology becomes the standard for fast reliable cloud storage and new systems take advantage of more reliable hard disk hardware and continued rise in data densities. My crystal ball says that we might see a repeat of the massive changes that occurred in the 1990's as smaller disks rapidly swept away all the incumbent vendors who were focused on their established large customers. Watch your back EMC…
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. Transforming Businesses with Cloud Solutions
Extreme Enterprise BYOD
Question: What would happen if you took an employee owned devices policy to its logical extreme? What would happen if companies stopped providing systems and devices to their workers and required them to use their own tools?
Making employees buy their own IT tools sounds like a crazy idea. Thirty years ago, IT systems were so expensive that most access was through a dumb terminal, which was essentially nothing more than a session screen that allowed you to type in commands that were sent to the computer. The computer was of course housed in some data center attended by tens of administrators day and night. Then the PC – remember it is not called the Personal Computer for nothing — revolution of the 1990's shifted the paradigm again, so that each user had their own software on their own system. The corporate systems were still accessed through special terminal emulation software, but Microsoft got fat on selling millions of Windows and Office licenses to their enterprise customers.
Over the past 40 years nobody has questioned the wisdom of having a company purchase and control the hardware and software that employees use to do their jobs. The wide availability and acceptance of consumer devices is opening up the opportunity of resetting the equation again. It is not only possible, but there are many benefits from taking this approach. There are precedents in the construction industry. Most construction workers are expected to bring their own tools. It makes perfect sense when working with dangerous equipment. You want to be completely comfortable with the tools so you can focus on doing your job well. This even extends into the engineering and architectural professions; I have a complete set of drafting tools from my years as a Registered Architect.
From the enterprise perspective, support costs can be substantially reduced. Keeping track of thousands of devices is a known exercise in futility. A major broadcasting organization finally paid for an inventory of their workers' systems a few years ago and found an extra 3000 undocumented systems in the organization. Another company had a "don't ask, don't tell" policy about employee owned devices and now has to semi-support about 11,000 of them.
From the employees' perspective, using a single device that is used for both home and work, means eliminating nerd belt syndrome – two or more devices hanging from their waist or taking up space in carrying bags. There is nothing worse than hearing a ring from one of the devices and trying to figure out which one needs to be answered!
Rather than attempting to halt the demand, the smarter path is to embrace BYOD's by providing a safe and secure framework for their use. This framework should have two complementary components: a BYOD policy and the technology framework and administration software to enforce it. An official corporate BYOD policy would not be dissimilar to the corporate security policy. To make it easier, some companies just incorporate their BYOD device policies directly into their standard security policy that all employees are expected to adhere to. The key to successful enforcement is the implementation of the proper MDM software.
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. Transforming Businesses with Cloud Solutions
The IT Operations Development Disconnect
Question: With all the talk of how effective DevOps is, why is it not more widely used as an IT organizational methodology?
On paper, the concept of the development and operations part of an IT organization working in concert is wonderful. In fairness when a company makes the effort to encourage the organizational changes that need to be done, the productivity gains, velocity and quality improvements of the IT systems more than make up for the pain of the organizational changes. However the effort of making that transformation is often far more fraught with technical obstacles and political stumbling blocks than many over-stretched IT organizations is capable of handling. Fortunately with proper guidance there are Agile and organizational transformational techniques that can be used to overcome the issues.
Often the reasons why these transformations are not as successful as they could be fall into three categories:
Organization, Political and Business Issues – Anyone who has ever worked knows that organizational issues are the most deep-seated and difficult to overcome. The old boys' networks and entrenched ways of thinking are sometimes insurmountable roadblocks. There are several methods to address these issues, but in all cases strong sponsorship and support from the executive ranks is essential for a successful creation of a DevOps mindset in an organization. One way to influence the change is to take a page out of the old organizational change playbook; create an organization that aligns with the desired outcome. In one large enterprise the solution to the resistance to changing from the old IT operational mindset was to reorganize the entire IT organization so that the development and operations groups reported into the same structure. The manager of both groups was a strong believer in the need for DevOps to support the company's multi-million dollar cloud initiative. By forcing the groups to work together in Agile Swarms, they were able to build the trust and skills needed to bring about the organizational transformations.
Outsourced IT Business Model – Yup, you read that correctly. For all the touted benefits of outsourcing, and I will agree that there are many, agility and organizational transformation is not one of them. The outsource vendor is motivated to manage risk by eliminating as many unknowns as possible. Like traditional IT operations the easiest, but no always the best way to accomplish this goal is by minimizing changes in the environment. This encourages rigid thinking and highly delimitated roles. It isn't always that the work is off-shored that causes problems. Often the issues are related to poor project management, unclear articulation of the team goals, and a disconnect between the purchaser of the services and the vendor. One company is mostly using American labor, but they are so stuck in their ways that they are just starting to think about breaking down the barriers between the functional groups. Another is having an IT meltdown on the operations side of the house which is causing them major headaches. Communications issues across the organization and between the vendor and the customer in this mixed shop are behind much of the conflict.
Staff Skills – This is an often overlooked aspect behind the failure of DevOps initiatives, the skills and working habits of development and operations people are typically wildly divergent. Developers often work on new projects, so are typically more willing to take risks, work with underdeveloped and/or buggy code and generally are not very concerned if things break along the way. They know that breaking things is just a routine part of the development process. On the other hand, IT operations people are paid to keep systems running as smoothly as possible. They are often held to strict SLA's so they take five-nines seriously. One way to keep an environment stable is to introduce change as little as possible. IT operations are famously resistant to changing code on the fly or introducing other things that might cause them to be paged in the middle of the night when the systems have a hiccup. Who can blame them really? This defensive mindset can be addressed by applying newer architectures and technologies that are tolerant of component failure – the automated deployment and designed to fail architectures. Once it is demonstrated that a failure of a component is not a catastrophe, just one more expected event that has no immediate impact on the systems, the next logical step is to build processes that allow continuous incremental changes to the systems. Encouraging a set of shared standards is a good way to develop DevOps processes across the organization. For one enterprise this meant building a service catalog of standard images for the developers use with all the commonly used tools. The developers given the option of using either a pre-built applications tools platform or building a custom one took the easier path. Standard tools problem solved.
About the Author
Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. Transforming Businesses with Cloud Solutions


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(updated below - Update II)
Uncritical, fear-mongering media propaganda is far too common to take note of each time it appears, but sometimes, what is produced is so ludicrous that its illustrative value should not be ignored. Such is the case with a highly trumpeted Associated Press "exclusive" from Tuesday which claims in its red headline to have discovered evidence of "Iran Working on Bomb".
What is this newly discovered, scary evidence? It is a "graph" which AP says was "leaked" to it by "officials from a country critical of Iran's atomic program to bolster their arguments that Iran's nuclear program must be halted before it produces a weapon" (how mysterious: the globe is gripped with befuddlement as it tries to guess which country that might be). Here's how AP presents the graph in all its incriminating, frightening glory:
This, says AP, shows that "Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima." Moreover, "an intelligence summary provided with the drawing" - provided, that is, by the mysterious "country critical of Iran's atomic program" - "linked [the graph] to other alleged nuclear weapons work - significant because it would indicate that Iran is working not on isolated experiments, but rather on a single program aimed at mastering all aspects of nuclear arms development."
Where to begin? First, note that AP granted anonymity here not merely to an individual but to an entire country. What's the proffered justification for doing so? The officials wanted it, so AP gave it: "officials provided the diagram only on condition that they and their country not be named." That's very accommodating of AP.
Second, this graph - which is only slightly less hilariously primitive than the one Benjamin Netanyahu infamously touted with a straight face at the UN - has Farsi written under it to imbue it with that menacing Iranian-ish feel, but also helpfully uses English to ensure that US audiences can easily drink up its scariness. As The Atlantic's Robert Wright noted: "How considerate of the Iranians to label their secret nefarious nuke graph in English!". It's certainly possible that Iranian scientists use English as a universal language of science, but the convenient mixing of Farsi and English should at least trigger some skepticism.
Third, even if one assumes that this graph is something other than a fraud, the very idea that computer simulations constitute "evidence" that Iran is working toward a nuclear weapon is self-evidently inane. As John Glaser extensively documents, "experts from across the spectrum have agreed with the military and intelligence consensus [from the US and Israel] that Iran has no nuclear weapons program and presents no imminent threat." Buried in the AP article is a quote from David Albright explaining that though "the diagram looks genuine [it] seems to be designed more 'to understand the process' than as part of a blueprint for an actual weapon in the making."
The case for the attack on Iraq was driven, of course, by a mountain of fabricated documents and deliberately manipulated intelligence which western media outlets uncritically amplified. Yet again, any doubts that they are willing and eager to do exactly the same with regard to the equally fictitious Iranian Threat should be forever dispelled by behavior like this.
As always, the two key facts to note on Iran are these: 1) the desperation to prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon has nothing to do with fear that they would commit national suicide by using it offensively, but rather has everything to do with the deterrent capability it would provide - i.e., nukes would prevent the US or Israel from attacking Iran at will or bullying it with threats of such an attack; and 2) the US-led sanctions regime now in place based on this fear-mongering continues to impose mass suffering and death on innocent Iranians. But as long as media outlets like AP continue to blindly trumpet whatever is shoveled to them by the shielded, unnamed "country critical of Iran's atomic program", these facts will be suppressed and fear levels kept sky-high, thus enabling the continuation and escalation of the hideous sanctions regime, if not an outright attack.
Compare the super-scary graph in the possession of the Tehran villains that was unveiled by the sleuths at AP to what one randomly finds on the Internet from a Google Images search of the phrase "normal distribution cumulative probability", on a nice little website devoted to teaching people about how to use Excel documents (via @AtomTrigger):
This means that not only Iran, but also aspiring Excel users on the Internet, are plotting to develop nuclear weapons.
At the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Yousaf Butt and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress document that the graph trumpeted by AP "does nothing more than indicate either slipshod analysis or an amateurish hoax". That's because, they explain, "the diagram features quite a massive error, which is unlikely to have been made by research scientists working at a national level."
Moreover, "the level of scientific sophistication needed to produce such a graph corresponds to that typically found in graduate- or advanced undergraduate-level nuclear physics courses." And they echo what I documented in that prior update: "Graphs such as the one published by the Associated Press can be found in nuclear science textbooks and on the Internet."
That this AP graph quite strongly appears to be a hoax seems a much more significant story than the discovery of the graph itself, given the ends toward which this was clearly being put, and given the way that the war in Iraq was sold to the public.

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The Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public (SSP) announced on August 16, 2011 the selection of 300 middle school students as semifinalists in its first ever Broadcom MASTERS™ competition. The Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars) semifinalists come from 251 middle schools across the United States.
Semifinalist Name, Age, School, Location
Abbasi, Aamna (14)
Orange Crescent School - Garden Grove, CA
Abbott, Lincoln (13)
Boerne Middle School South - Boerne, TX
Aggarwal, Shruti (14)
Medea Creek Middle School - Oak Park, CA
Agrawal, Serena (14)
Keystone School - San Antonio, TX
Alsheimer, Quinn (12)
Spring Ridge Middle School - Lexington Park, MD
Andraka, Jack (14)
Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School - Hanover, MD
Anthony, Dee (14)
West Hills Middle School - West Bloomfield, MI
Armstrong, Alyssa (14)
St. Joseph-Immaculate Heart of Mary School - Austintown, OH
Asirvatham, Roshini (11)
Friedell Middle School - Rochester, MN
Augusthy, Sebastian (14)
Canter Middle School - Chicago, IL
Auster, Jeff (14)
Murchison Middle School - Austin, TX
Baker, Thomas (12)
Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School for Innovation - Lynchburg, VA
Bakshi, Alexander (14)
Ascension Catholic School - Melbourne, FL
Balasingam, Namrata (13)
Challenger School- Strawberry Park - San Jose, CA
Barber, Justin (14)
St. Timothy's School - Raleigh, NC
Beckman, Kelcey (14)
American Academy - Castle Rock, CO
Ben-Porath, Adam (13)
National Inventors Hall of Fame Center for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Learning - Akron, OH
Benedict, Braeden (14)
Saint John Fisher Parish School - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Berg, Carley (14)
Redeemer Lutheran School - Kokomo, IN
Bethel, Meagan (14)
Doolen Middle School, GATE - Tucson, AZ
Bhetanabhotla, Sneha (12)
The Harker School - San Jose, CA
Blackman, Ethan (15)
Leakey Independent School District - Leakey, TX
Blonsky, Andrew (11)
Price Creek Independent School - Chapel Hill, NC
Bodnieks, Kiara (13)
Saint Rose of Lima Catholic School - Miami Shores, FL
Borden, Jeremy (13)
Saint Francis of Assisi - Louisville, KY
Bose, Meenakshi (14)
Howard W. Bishop Middle School - Gainesville, FL
Bram, Alanna (14)
John Adams Middle School - Rochester, MN
Braunstadter, Benjamin (14)
Spring Creek Middle School - Spring Creek, NV
Brown, Logan (14)
Alexandria Country Day School - Alexandria, LA
Butler, Jonah (13)
Sibley East - Gaylord Junior High School - Gaylord, MN
Campbell, Chad (11)
Topsail Middle School - Hampstead, NC
Campeau, Michelle (13)
Friedell Middle School - Rochester, MN
Chaikin, Claire (12)
St. Clare Elementary School - Lyndhurst, OH
Chandar, Jay (12)
Canterbury School - Fort Myers, FL
Chattopadhyay, Shubham (13)
Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace Technology - Rockville, MD
Chavez, alissa (14)
Albuquerque Christian School - Albuquerque, NM
Chaya, Prathyoosha (12)
Summa West at Stoller Middle School - Portland, OR
Chen, Glenda ()
South Pasadena Middle School - South Pasadena, CA
Cheng, Alan (13)
Summa Acadamy South at Whitford Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Chhabra, Ria (14)
Renner Middle School - Plano, TX
Chiou, Lilly (13)
P. R. Leyva Middle School - Carlsbad, NM
Chorost, Zachary (14)
The Wheatley Schoool - Old Westbury, NY
Choudhary, Priya (13)
Stratford Middle School - San Jose, CA
Clemens, James (13)
Dr. Bernard J. Dubray Middle School - St. Peters, MO
Cobos, Sergio-Steven (14)
St. Jude Catholic School - Fort Wayne, IN
Coldren, Ethan (14)
Preston Middle School - Fort Collins, CO
Conlon, Ryan (12)
John Ireland Catholic School - St. Peter, MN
Craig, Jessica (12)
Sequim Middle School - Sequim, WA
Cundiff, Kendra (14)
Academy of Saint Bartholomew - Middleburg Heights, OH
D'Souza, Alicia (13)
C.M. Rice Middle School - Plano, TX
Dale, Olivia (13)
Summit Academy Junior High School - Draper, UT
Dasarathy, Dhweeja (12)
Birchwood School - Cleveland, OH
Davis, Kyle (14)
Big Walnut Middle School - Sunbury, OH
Davis, Anne (13)
Lake Comfort School - Swanquarter, NC
de Wood, Isabelle (13)
Tom Hawkins School - Tracy, CA
Deason, Michelle (13)
Grove Middle School - Grove, OK
Denfeld, Edmund (13)
Orange Park Junior High School - Orange Park, FL
Devanathan, Nirupama (12)
Summit Middle School - Fort Wayne, IN
Dholakia, Shashank (12)
Peterson Middle School - Sunnyvale, CA
Ding, Valerie (14)
Summa Academy North at Meadow Park Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Dodsworth, Nathaniel (13)
Stuart Middle School - Stuart, FL
Du, Justin (14)
Rice Middle School - Plano, TX
Edwards, Rhiannon (13)
Ethel M. Gildersleeve Middle School - Newport News , VA
Eveloff, Ryan (12)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School - Los Angeles, CA
Fairchild, Elizabeth (12)
The Villages Charter Middle School - The Villages, FL
Fairley, Leigh Ann (13)
Laurel School - Shaker Heights, OH
Feeny, Daniel (14)
Woodside Elementary School - Woodside, CA
Frantz, Emma (13)
North Middle School - Colorado Springs, CO
Frieden, Kendra (13)
The Classical Academy - Colorado Springs, CO
Fu, Lisa (14)
Friedell Middle School - Rochester, MN
Fukunaga, Julie (13)
Elkhorn Middle School - Stockton, CA
Gallitano, Kaitlyn (13)
Dover-Sherborn Regional Middle School - Dover , MA
Gandhi, Nimit (13)
LISA Academy West - Little Rock, AR
Garg, Aarush (13)
Detroit Country Day Middle School - Beverly Hills, MI
Garg, Hari (12)
Ranch San Joaquin Middle School - Irvine, CA
Garg, Sarthak (14)
LISA Academy West - Little Rock, AR
Garimella, Mihir (11)
Dorseyville Middle School - Pittsburgh, PA
Geisinger, Thomas (14)
Saint Andrew the Apostle Parish School - Gladstone, MO
Gersch, Hannah (14)
Saint Maria Goretti Catholic School - Arlington, TX
Goodman, Marlee (13)
Murchison Middle School - Austin, TX
Graham, Peter (14)
Summa Acadamy South at Whitford Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Grimmett, Maria (12)
The Weiss School - Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Guastella, Peter (14)
Stimson Middle School - Huntington Station, NY
Gudiseva, Sairam (14)
White Station Middle School - Memphis, TN
Guevin, Joshua (13)
Renaissance Academy - Phoenixville, PA
Gutta, Ramya (13)
Mason Middle School - Mason, OH
Hall, Lauren (13)
School of Science and Technology - Corpus Christi, TX
Hallam, Kaitlin (14)
Spanish Fork Junior High School - Spanish Fork, UT
Hamorsky, Jessica (14)
Bak Middle School of the Arts - West Palm Beach, FL
Han, Nicholas (13)
Summa Academy North at Meadow Park Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Han, Nathan (12)
Jackson/Mann K-8 School - Allston, MA
Harris, Katherine (13)
St. Francis of Assisi - Louisville, KY
Harris, Lily (14)
Challenger Middle School - Colorado Springs, CO
Harrison, Caroline (14)
North Oldham Middle School - Goshen, KY
Hart, Emily (13)
Bishop Noland Episcopal Day School - Lake Charles, LA
Hassan, Olinah (13)
Andover West Middle School - Andover, MA
Havel, Morgan (14)
DeLaura Middle School - Satellite Beach, FL
Heckman, Robert (14)
Kailua Intermediate School - Kailua, HI
Hellerstein, Josh (14)
Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy - West Palm Beach, FL
Henderson, Olivia (13)
St. Columban School - Loveland, OH
Higginbotham, Steven (11)
Grace Christian School - Visalia, CA
Hill, Matthew (13)
Desert Sky Middle School - Tucson, AZ
Hillier, Claire (12)
Tillicum Middle School - Bellevue, WA
Hintz, Danielle (12)
Roncalli Elementary School - Aberdeen, SD
Hively, Madison (13)
Urbana Middle School - Ijamsville, MD
Hoeckelberg, Tiffany (14)
Darnell-Cookman Middle School - Jacksonville, FL
Holcomb, Rae (14)
South Lake Middle School - Irvine, CA
Huggins, Esther (13)
Spratley Gifted Center - Hampton, VA
Hylak, Benjamin (14)
Sacred Heart School - Oxford, PA
Ida, Nicholas (13)
Fairmont Private School Edgewood - Santa Ana, CA
Ince, Duncan (12)
All Saints Catholic School - Lakeville, MN
Ivey, Carlan (14)
Memorial Middle School - Conyers, GA
Jackson, Nathan (13)
Kahler Middle School - Dyer, IN
Jain, Anirudh (13)
Summa Academy North at Meadow Park Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Jaini, Janak (13)
Stonewall Jackson Middle School - Mechanicsville, VA
Jesperson, Alexandra (12)
Thunderbolt Elementry School - Fleming Island, FL
Jojoa-Portilla, Manuela (14)
Margatert Green Junior High School - Cleveland, MS
Jones, Reilly (12)
Wortham Middle School - Wortham, TX
Jons, Carolyn (13)
Central Middle School - Eden Prairie, MN
Kadakia, Kushal (14)
Westbrook Intermediate School - Friendswood, TX
Kalair, Junaid (13)
Islamic Quranic Academy - Richardson, TX
Kam, Joshua (14)
Summa Academy North at Meadow Park Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Kamat, Rhea (12)
Jose M. Lopez Middle School - San Antonio, TX
Kamimura, Jordan (14)
Hilo Intermediate School - Hilo, HI
Karthik, Anjini (12)
Challenger School - Sunnyvale - Sunnyvale, CA
Katipamula, Shanta (14)
Carmichael Middle School - Richland, WA
Keating, Alexis (14)
Nysmith School for the Gifted - Herndon, VA
Kendrick, Coleman (13)
Los Alamos Middle School - Los Alamos, NM
Keremane, Saumya (14)
Earhart Middle School - Riverside, CA
Kerr, Janine (13)
Saint Joseph School - Danbury, CT
Kerrigan, Nicole (12)
Academy of Math and Science - Tucson, AZ
Kessler, Morgan (13)
Bunsold Middle School - Marysville, OH
Kessler, Jacqueline (14)
Millhopper Montessori School - Gainesville, FL
Khaira, Maneet (14)
Summa Acadamy South at Whitford Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Khan, Ayaz (14)
Abraham Lincoln Middle School - Gainesville, FL
Kharkar, Anant (13)
George H. Moody Middle School - Henrico, VA
Khaykin, Alan (14)
Oceanside Middle School - Oceanside, NY
Kidd, Christina (14)
Central Middle School - West Melbourne, FL
Kim , Sang-Chan (14)
Henderson Middle School - Atlanta , GA
Kirschner, Preston (13)
Conniston Middle School - West Palm Beach, FL
Klages-Mundt, Teva (15)
Winona Middle School - Winona, MN
Kocherovsky, Mark (11)
Orchard Lake Middle School - West Bloomfield, MI
Koenig, Cleo (14)
Stone Middle School - Melbourne, FL
Kojenov, Victor (14)
Summa Acadamy South at Whitford Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Kunka, Karina (14)
Powhatan Junior High School - Powhatan, VA
Kurji, Ali (13)
Jose M. Lopez Middle School - San Antonio, TX
Lall, Kriti (13)
Challenger School - Palo Alto - Palo Alto, CA
Landoni, Katherine (14)
Sequim Middle School - Sequim, WA
Lang, Samuel (13)
Valley Oaks Charter School - Bakersfield, CA
Le, Nathan (11)
Sierra Canyon Middle School - Chatsworth, CA
Li, Shixuan (13)
Bay Haven Charter Academy - Panama City, FL
Li, Qingkai (14)
LISA Academy West - Little Rock, AR
Li, Ray (14)
LISA Academy West - Little Rock, AR
Lim, Brandon (13)
Wangenheim Middle School - San Diego, CA
Lin, Jessy (14)
Commack Middle School - Commack, NY
Lin, I-Chun (14)
Schimelpfenig Middle School - Plano, TX
Lin, Anthony (14)
George H. Moody Middle School - Henrico, VA
Lindbloom , Kelsey (14)
Salida Middle School - Salida , CO
Loehde-Woolard, Hailey (14)
Mission Hill Middle School - Santa Cruz, CA
Loken, Sean (14)
Wishek High School - Wishek, ND
Lou, Anna (11)
Acaciawood College Preparatory Academy - Anaheim, CA
Lowry, Emily (13)
Pioneer Heritage Middle School - Frisco, TX
Ma, Benjamin (12)
Carden Day School of San Jose - San Jose, CA
MacKay, Evan (14)
Gifford Middle School - Vero Beach, FL
Mackintosh, Eleanor (Ellie) (11)
Good Shepherd Catholic School - Denver, CO
Maheshwari, Sagar (12)
Charles F. Patton Middle School - Kennett Square , PA
Malin, Heather (14)
South Asheboro Middle School - Asheboro, NC
Mani, Nitya (13)
Joaquin Miller Middle School - San Jose, CA
Mann, Jared (14)
Classical Conversations - Christianburg, VA
Markley, Jennifer (13)
Walnut Springs Middle School - Westerville, OH
Martin, Thomas (14)
Northern Guilford Middle School - Greensboro, NC
Martinez, Juliana (12)
Casas Christian School - Tucson , AZ
Mathew, Rohan (14)
George H. Moody Middle School - Henrico , VA
Mazza, Samantha (14)
Saint Margaret School - Rumford, RI
McKernan, Laura (12)
St. John the Evangelist School - Severna Park, MD
Meier, Mark (14)
Our Lady of the Visitation School - Cincinnati, OH
Miller, Ian (13)
Salt Lake Center for Science Education - Salt Lake City, UT
Mitchell, Stephanie (14)
Lenape Middle School - Doylestown , PA
Mohammed, Ayeesha (13)
Harmony Science Academy - Laredo - Laredo, TX
Monzon, Adriana (11)
Academia del Perpetuo Socorro - San Juan, PR
Mosley, Jacob (12)
Osceola Middle School - Ocala, FL
Mosley, Cassandra (14)
Osceola Middle School - Ocala, FL
Muckle, Andrew (14)
Our Lady of Mercy - Madison, CT
Muir, Aleesa (13)
The Classical Academy - Colorado Springs, CO
Mulamreddy, Trisha (14)
Keystone School - San Antonio, TX
Mulumudi, Suman (12)
The Evergreen School - Shoreline, WA
Myhre, Justin (13)
Woodcrest Christian Middle School - Riverside, CA
Naguski, Izzy (13)
Londonderry School - Harrisburg, PA
Nair, Sahil (14)
Beaumont Middle School - Lexington, KY
Nason, Zachary (14)
Briar Academy - Prairie Village, KS
Nathan, Neil (14)
Caddo Middle School - Shreveport, LA
Nayak, Siddharth (13)
Roberto Clemente Middle School - Germantown, MD
Negron, Alexander (14)
Lakeside Junior High School - Orange Park, FL
Noonan, Andrew (15)
Resurrection Catholic School - Lakeland, FL
Odzer, Nicole (13)
Highland Oaks Middle School - North Miami Beach, FL
Omais, Maya (12)
Theodore G. Davis Middle School - Waldorf, MD
Pallin, Madison (14)
Cloquet Middle School - Cloquet, MN
Panaparambil, Rohan (13)
Coppell Middle School West - Coppell, TX
Pande, Swapnil (13)
George H. Moody Middle School - Henrico, VA
Park, Michelle (14)
Renner Middle School - Plano, TX
Parrish, Margaret (13)
Adams Middle School - Tampa, FL
Parshionikar, Mihir (14)
Mason Middle School - Mason, OH
Partridge, Morgan (13)
Saint Philomena School - Portsmouth, RI
Patel, Sonam (14)
Fairmont Private School Anaheim - Anaheim, CA
Patel, Nikhil (12)
Sanford Middle School - Sanford, FL
Patton, Kyra (14)
Rachel Carson Environmental Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Pauca, Sofia (12)
Hanes Magnet School - Winston-Salem, NC
Peterson, Joseph (12)
Garfield Elementary School - North Mankato, MN
Pike, Sabrina (13)
Kealakehe Intermediate School - Kailua-Kona, HI
Poole, Crystal (14)
Thurgood Marshall Middle School - San Diego, CA
Potharaju, Sunny (14)
Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy - Charlotte, NC
Powell, Andrew (14)
Mount Vernon Middle School - Mount Vernon, OH
Prasad, Vidur (12)
Ferguson Middle School - Beavercreek, OH
Punjabi, Amol (13)
Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School - Marlborough, MA
Raboin, Tyler (13)
Seabrook Intermediate School - Seabrook, TX
Rafner, Jeremy (13)
Adeline E. Kent Middle School - Kentfield, CA
Ragland, Davy (14)
Parker School - Kamuela, HI
Rahangdale, Aneesh (13)
Maclay College Preparatory School - Tallahassee, FL
Rakocevic, Lara (13)
Summa Academy North at Meadow Park Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Ramanujan, Suruchi (13)
Harmony Middle School - Overland Park, KS
Ranganath, Kushi (14)
Rodney E. Thompson Middle School - Stafford, VA
Renier, Tim (14)
Holy Rosary School - Duluth , MN
Ridge, Jr., Thomas (15)
St. Peter School - Geneva, IL
Rocha, Ivanna (14)
Stone Middle School - Melbourne, FL
Roman, Alex (14)
Enoch Home Educators - Boca Grande, FL
Rowland, Samantha (13)
Tippecanoe Middle School - Tipp City , OH
Roy, Preeyam (14)
Summa Acadamy South at Whitford Middle School - Beaverton, OR
Ryan, Haley (14)
St. Rose of Lima School - Newtown, CT
Sandbakken, Tucker (14)
Diamond Fork Junior High School - Spanish Fork, UT
Sandeep, Sandra (13)
Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School - Hanover, MD
Sankari, Mohammed (12)
Eman Schools - Fishers, IN
Santos, Amy (13)
Benjamin A. Friedman Middle School - Taunton, MA
Sarkar, Orko (14)
George Washington Carver Middle School - Miami, FL
Sarkisian, Emily (14)
St. Mary's Catholic School - Mansfield, MA
Savage, Evan (13)
Boulder Country Day School - Boulder, CO
Sawant, Nilay (12)
John F. Kennedy Middle School - Cupertino, CA
Sayana, Anin (12)
Challenger School - Sunnyvale - Sunnyvale, CA
Scheffers, Marielle (14)
Maclay College Preparatory School - Tallahassee, FL
Schenone, Mauro (12)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School - Germantown, TN
Schmidt, Kendall (14)
Maclay College Preparatory School - Tallahassee, FL
Schroeder, Oliver (13)
Saint Agatha School - Columbus, OH
Seger, Peter (13)
Valley Catholic Middle School - Beaverton , OR
Sekhar, Harish (13)
Ridgewood School - Springfield, OH
Sercel, Zachary (11)
Sky Mountain Charter School - Placerville, CA
Seshadri, Anish (12)
Stratford Middle School - San Jose, CA
Sevostianov, Vlad (14)
Sierra Middle School - Las Cruces, NM
Shaikh, Fizzah (13)
George H. Moody Middle School - Henrico, VA
Shankar, Nikash (14)
The Harker School - San Jose, CA
Shutthanandan, Swetha (13)
Carmichael Middle School - Richland, WA
Simpkins, Nina (14)
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School - Rockville, MD
Singh, Jai (13)
Overland Trail Middle School - Overland Park, KS
Sinha, Kapil (12)
Buena Vista Middle School - Salinas, CA
Slusarewicz, Joanna (13)
Beaumont Middle School - Lexington, KY
Smith, Karin (14)
The Classical Academy - Colorado Springs, CO
Snowden, Hunter (13)
Liberty Christian School - Argyle, TX
Somasundaram, Sriram (14)
The Harker School - San Jose, CA
Sooklal, Shiloh (15)
Stone Middle School - Melbourne, FL
Stewart, Robert (14)
Oceanside Middle School - Oceanside, NY
Stockwell, Matthew (13)
Miller County R-III School - Tuscumbia, MO
Sturm, Matthew (14)
Iao Intermediate School - Wailuku, HI
Subramaniam, Vivek (14)
Sarah W. Gibbons Middle School - Westborough, MA
Surdahl, Emily (12)
Saint John Catholic School - Bartlesville, OK
Suri, Simran (13)
Chapin School - Princeton, NJ
Sustich, Sara (14)
Douglas MacArthur Junior High School - Jonesboro, AR
Tandon, Tanay (14)
Peterson Middle School - Sunnyvale, CA
Tiwari, Mahesh (13)
Floral Park Memorial High School - Floral Park, NY
Tovinkere, Mahita (11)
Summa West at Stoller Middle School - Portland, OR
Vance, Preston (14)
Mueller Park Junior High School - Bountiful, UT
VanderKlugt, Matthew (14)
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[February 13, 2014]
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Monday's event at St. Clara's Manor, Anna Strampp was unable to
attend. However her son Harold and daughter-in-law Marilyn did
attend in her honor. During the program, Marilyn thanked the
staff at St. Clara's Manor for having the centenarian celebration
each year.
Anna was the
oldest centenarian at St. Clara's Manor. On Monday evening
Anna died. She was 107 years old. (Obituary)
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Time to cut the cake.
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Grains finished sharply lower ahead of the report with double digit losses for corn, beans, and wheat.
The first thing that set the market on edge was the overly dismal weekly corn sales of only 130,000 MTs (old crop) and 27,000 MTs (new crop). We did see a USDA sale announcement 120,000 MTs of US corn to China for 11/12 and then another 120,000 MTs of new crop to "unknown" for 12/13. These sales obviously didn't seem to do much for the bulls though as we saw trader liquidation ahead of tomorrow's reports. This is now the lowest level we have seen December 12 corn futures since March of last year.
Even with today's washout the soybeans still gained on corn (relatively speaking). The corn-soybean ratio is at the high for the move just as we are heading into this report. If you look at the chart below, you will see we are now trading at 2.49 to 1, suggesting the incentive for soybean planting for many areas. Obviously this late in the year we aren't likely to see a massive switch but 1-2 million acres is certainly possible.
Chart – November 2012 Soybeans Divided by December 2012 Corn
The market is pricing in the potential to see higher corn stocks and high corn acres. I have pointed out in recent grain letters that the last three quarterly stocks reports have resulted in "limit-down" moves in corn. How many acres has the market accounted for and how many stocks? I have included the average estimates in the chart below. Anything above 95.5 million corn acres and 76 million bean acres looks negative to me, especially with this recent downward momentum we have seen. Overall I believe we could ultimately see a combined acreage of 172 million between corn and soybeans.
Tomorrow's report is still anyone's guess as to what the USDA actually releases. If we get a bearish report, we can start to look for re-ownership strategies on a large break. If we get a bullish report, we still have plenty of room to sell at higher levels. If you would like to see the current EHedger recommendations, please sign up for a free trial of our research using the link below. Thanks and good luck on tomorrow's report.
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Mir Yeshiva Established in 1815, the Mir Yeshiva gained renown as a leading institution for Torah study. By the 1930s, this rabbinical academy attracted scholars from all over the world.
When the town of Mir fell to the Soviets in 1939, the students knew that their religious studies would be forbidden. Mir was one of the first yeshivas to depart for Vilna. Most students left on October 15, 1939, reaching Vilna legally before the border was sealed. They found temporary accommodations in the building of the Rameillas Yeshiva, where space was so limited that they slept curled up on their suitcases. Eventually they located adequate, if cramped, quarters in Vilna.
In early 1941, seizing an opportunity to continue their escape, the rabbis and students of the Mir Yeshiva traveled as a group across the Soviet Union to Japan and then to Shanghai, where members spent the war years. Mir emerged as the only eastern European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact.


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How Lack of Communication Breeds Gangsterism
an open letter to the South Asian Community & the Community At Large of Metro Vancouver
by Mani Amar
It is not the inability to take action, but instead it is the comfort found in inaction that has truly plagued the South Asian community of Metro Vancouver in regards to youth and gang violence.
A community that has thrived in so many aspects continues to be befallen by lack of communication. This lack of communication extends beyond the boundaries of families. It has taken its toll on how effectively law enforcement can perform their duties and continues to put innocent and non-innocent lives at risk for serious injury or even death.
Since early March, over 30 shootings have occurred in Surrey & North Delta. More than half are suspected to belong to a turf war between two rival gangs. It is prudent to note that these young men are far from being involved in organized crime. This so called gang war is linked to low-level drug trafficking, tit-for-tat brazen shootings, and the desperate showcase of bravado.


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Sola scriptura (Latin: "by Scripture alone") is the doctrine that all teachings concerning faith and life that are necessary for salvation are taught in the Bible and nowhere else. It does not mean that everything that is true is addressed in the Bible or that the Bible is written clearly enough for every believer to find and understand all that is contained therein equally as well as every other believer. It was a pillar of the Protestant Reformation, which rejected Roman Catholicism's claim that Tradition has as much authority within the Church as the Bible.
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There are several potential technical complexities which a Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) team may face:
- New technology platforms. Your team may choose to work with a technology platform which is either new to the team or sometimes even new to the industry. In the past few years new technology platforms include the Android operating system, Apple's iPad platform, and various cloud computing (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud/) platforms. Working with these platforms may require you to adopt new development tools and techniques, not to mention the need to train and mentor your staff in their usage. Furthermore, your team may need to allocate time for architectural spikes to explore how to use the new technology and to prove the overall architecture with working code early in the project lifecycle (this is a DAD milestone).
- Multiple technology platforms. IT solutions often run on multiple platforms. For example, a system's user interface (UI) could run in a browser, access business logic implemented using J2EE on Websphere which in turn invokes web services implemented in COBOL running on a Z-series mainframe, and stores data in an Oracle database, a DB2 database, and in several XML files. Implementing new business functionality, or updating existing functionality, could require changes made on several of these platforms in parallel. The implication is that you'll need to adopt tools and strategies which enable your team to develop, test, and deploy functionality on all of these platforms. Testing and debugging in particular will become more difficult as the number of technology platforms increases, potentially requiring you to adopt the practice of parallel independent testing. The Agility at Scale survey found that 34% of respondents indicated that their agile teams were working with multiple technology platforms.
- Legacy data. IT solutions should leverage existing, legacy data wherever possible to reduce the number of data sources and thereby increase data quality within your organization. Also, using existing data sources can potentially speed up development, assuming your team has a good relationship with the owners of the legacy data sources (sadly, this often isn't the case as the Data Management Survey found). Working with legacy data sources may require improved database regression testing, practices, database refactoring practices, and agile approaches to data administration. The Agility at Scale survey found that 42% of respondents indicated that their agile teams were working with legacy data sources (personally, I'm shocked that this figure is so low, and fear that many agile teams are contributing to data quality problems within their organization as a result).
- Legacy systems. There are several potential challenges with legacy systems. First, the code quality may not be the best either because it was never really that good to begin with or because it's degraded over the years as multiple people worked with it. You know you've got a quality problem if you're either afraid to update the code or if when you do so you have to spend a lot of time debugging and then fixing problems revealed when doing the update. If the legacy system is a true asset for your organization you will want to pay off some of this technical debt by refactoring the code to make it of higher quality. Second, you may not have a full regression test suite in place, making it difficult to find problems when you do update the code let alone when you refactor it. Third, your development tools for your legacy code may be a bit behind the times. For example, I often run across mainframe COBOL developers still working with basic code editors instead of modern IDEs such as Rational Developer for System Z. Some of the strategies to deal effectively with legacy systems are to adopt a modern development toolset if you haven't already done so (better yet, if possible adopt a common IDE across platforms and thereby reduce overall licensing and support costs) and to adopt agile practices such as static code analysis, dynamic software analysis, and continuous integration (CI). The Agile Project Initiation Survey found that 57% of respondents were integrating their new code with legacy systems and 51% were evolving legacy systems.
- Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions. COTS solutions, also called package applications, can add in a few complexities for agile teams. The packages rarely come with regression test suites, they often have rules about what you can modify and what you shouldn't (rules that are ignored at your peril), and they're often architected with the assumption that they're the center of the architectural universe (which is a valid assumption if they're the only major system within your organization). As I describe in my article Agile Package Implementations it is possible to take an agile approach to COTS implementations, although it may require a significant paradigm shift for the people involved. The Agility at Scale survey found that 15% of respondents indicated that their agile teams were working with COTS solutions.
- System/embedded solutions. For the sake of simplicity, if your team is developing a solution with both hardware and software aspects to it then you're a systems project. Embedded systems are a specialization where the system has a few dedicated functions often with real-time constraints. Bottom line is that systems/embedded projects are typically more challenging than software-only projects – it gets really interesting when laws of physics starts to kick in, such as when you're building satellites or space probes. I highly suggest Bruce Douglass's book Real-Time Agility if you are interested in taking an agile approach to systems/embedded solution delivery.
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The first All-American in the history of the men's tennis program, Chris led the Eagles to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1997, a season in which he broke the school record for victories. One of the only players in program history to play at number one singles and number one doubles all four years of his career, Wallace finished his senior season ranked 16th in the nation and led the Eagles to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament.
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Everyone I talk to is starting to get excited about MAX. Maybe it's the Mark Hamill appearance, maybe it's that some of the new features of the Flash Platform are starting to leak out, or maybe everyone is just excited to see a bunch of friends and hang out to talk tech. The keynotes this year should get Flash developers really excited about the platform this year. We've got some great stuff to show off and a couple of surprises that people will be talking about.
If you can't make it, you'll be missing out on the networking and the chance to
bother talk to the engineering teams but we still want to give you as much access to the conference as possible. So this year we'll be streaming the keynotes live AND if you show up 10 minutes early you'll get some behind the scenes peeks that even the regular attendees won't get to see. There's going to be some special content just for those of you watching online and we're going to make it fun and entertaining so you not only get to see the news live but also get some insight into what's happening at MAX.
In addition, the team is making the most popular sessions in our three tracks – Design, Develop, and Envision – available each day and the other sessions will be following shortly thereafter. So you not only get the info live from the keynote but you can see the best sessions at MAX from wherever you are.


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The Simpsons (1989)
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Episode 1 - Bart Gets an FRelease Date: 1991-03-23
Bart fails four consecutive history exams and the school psychiatrist recommends that Bart repeat the fourth grade.
Episode 2 - Simpson and DelilahRelease Date: 1991-03-16
Homer uses his medical insurance to buy Dimoxinil, a miracle hair-growth formula. After growing luxurious locks, he's given a promotion which allows him to hire a secretary named Karl and makes grand promises to his family at home.
Episode 3 - Treehouse of HorrorRelease Date: 1991-03-30
The Simpson kids hide in the family treehouse and tell each other spooky stories. The first regards haunted houses, the second introduces Kang and Kodos for the first time in an alien abduction, and the third is a Simpson-adapted retelling of The Raven.
Episode 4 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every FishRelease Date: 1991-04-06
Bart catches a three-eyed fish in a river downstream of the Nuclear Power Plant. This causes the plant to become inspected, and in order to prevent it from being shut down, Mr. Burns decides to run for governor. After a hard campaign which sees Burns rise from being universally despised to running neck and neck with popular incumbent Mary Bailey, it is decided that Burns will have dinner with a random employee the night before the election. Homer is chosen, much to Marge's chagrin.
Episode 5 - Dancin' HomerRelease Date: 1991-04-13
Homer fires up the crowd at a Springfield Isotopes baseball game and is chosen to be the team's new mascot. He immediately becomes a popular attraction and the Isotopes start a winning streak. As a result, Homer is promoted to a team in Capital City, the Capital City Capitals.
Episode 6 - Dead Putting SocietyRelease Date: 1991-04-27
Bart and Todd Flanders decide to enter a miniature golf tournament. Homer becomes confident that Bart will win and makes a bet with Ned that the father of the boy that does not win will have to mow their neighbors lawn in their wife's Sunday dress.
Episode 7 - Bart vs. ThanksgivingRelease Date: 1991-04-20
Lisa makes a table centerpiece for the Thanksgiving dinner, which Bart accidentally destroys. After he is sent to his room by his parents, Bart angrily runs away from home and experiences a very different kind of Thanksgiving holiday.
Episode 8 - Bart the DaredevilRelease Date: 1991-06-29
The Simpsons go to a Monster truck rally that features famous daredevil Lance Murdock. Bart immediately becomes enamored and decides that he wants to become a daredevil as well. His first stunt ends in injury, but to gain the respect of his friends, he promises a far more impressive feat to them: to jump the Springfield Gorge.
Episode 9 - Itchy & Scratchy & MargeRelease Date: 1991-05-04
Maggie attacks Homer with a mallet after seeing it on Itchy & Scratchy. Marge begins a protest outside the production offices, demanding the show be retooled to prevent further violence.
Episode 10 - Bart Gets Hit by a CarRelease Date: 1991-05-11
After Mr. Burns hits Bart with his car, ambulance-chasing attorney Lionel Hutz persuades Homer and Marge to sue for a million dollars.
Episode 11 - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue FishRelease Date: 1991-05-18
After eating poisonous blowfish at a sushi restaurant, Homer decides to live life to the fullest in the 24 hours he has left to live.
Episode 12 - The Way We WasRelease Date: 1991-05-25
When the TV breaks, Marge and Homer entertain the kids with the story of how they first met.
Episode 13 - Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th CommandmentRelease Date: 1991-06-11
Homer becomes the most popular guy in town when he gets an illegal cable hook-up, but Lisa fears he will go to hell for violating the Eighth Commandment.
Episode 14 - Principal CharmingRelease Date: 1991-06-08
When Marge begs Homer to find Selma a husband, he sets her up with Principal Skinner... who falls in love with Patty instead.
Episode 15 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?Release Date: 1991-06-15
Homer's long-lost half-brother is the CEO of a car company that's wildly successful... until he hires Homer to help design a car for the average man.
Episode 16 - Bart's Dog Gets an FRelease Date: 1991-08-22
After a series of destructive acts, Homer decides that Santa's Little Helper must go unless he passes obedience school. As the dog's last hours with the family approach, Bart must find a way to get through to him.
Episode 17 - Old MoneyRelease Date: 1991-06-22
When Grandpa's new girlfriend at the Springfield Retirement Castle dies, he inherits her savings and must decide the best way to spend his windfall.
Episode 18 - Brush with GreatnessRelease Date: 1991-08-20
Marge rediscovers her interest in art and takes up painting. When Mr. Burns hires her to paint his official portrait, Marge tries but fails to find his "inner beauty."
Episode 19 - Lisa's SubstituteRelease Date: 1991-08-21
With Miss Hoover out sick, a substitute teacher takes over the class and becomes an inspiring role model for Lisa.
Episode 20 - The War of the SimpsonsRelease Date: 1991-08-23
At a lakeside retreat for married couples, Marge is determined to fix her marriage with Homer, but Homer is more determined to catch General Sherman, the freakishly large catfish that lives in the lake.
Episode 21 - Three Men and a Comic BookRelease Date: 1991-08-26
Bart, Milhouse, and Martin pool their money to buy the first issue of Radioactive Man, but their investment and their friendship are threatened when they can't agree on who will keep it.
Episode 22 - Blood FeudRelease Date: 1991-08-27
When Mr. Burns is saved by a transfusion of Bart's blood, Homer expects a handsome reward but is outraged to receive only a simple thank-you note.


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This special looks back at the greatest "crooners" and "canaries" of the 1940s, featuring the greatest vocalists of the period when they started their careers performing with orchestras and dance bands, with the most popular singers ultimately becoming stars on their own. Among the legendary artists and timeless hits included in the rare, vintage footage are Louis Armstrong, Perry Como, Doris Day, Helen Forest with the Harry James Orchestra, Peggy Lee with The Benny Goodman Orchestra, Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and many more favorites from the World War II era. Hosted by Nick Clooney & Peter Marshall.
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