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On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

By Ben Kepes on January 23, 2013

Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands what his participants (and at defrag, attendees really are participants and not simply an audience) most want to see. Defrag has always been a

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Abhinav Keswani, defrag, defragcon, eric norlin, programming, trineo

The 20 Year Enterprise Innovation Cycle–Defrag Session (Plus Free Passes!)

The 20 Year Enterprise Innovation Cycle–Defrag Session (Plus Free Passes!)

By Ben Kepes on November 2, 2012

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of decades thinking about the organization of the future – every now and then I bump into people or read something that renews my interest in this crystal ball-gazing habit of mine. I’m sensing a real acceleration in the need

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged conferences, defragcon | 2 Responses

The next big thing: WeeData

The next big thing: WeeData

By Paul Miller on September 25, 2012

‘Big Data’ has a problem, and that problem is its name. Dig deep into the big data ecosystem, or spend any time at all talking with its practitioners, and you should quickly start hitting the Vs. Initially Volume, Velocity and Variety, the Vs rapidly bred like rabbits. Now we have a plethora of new V-words, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, data markets, Data Warehousing, databases, defragcon, gartner, open data, strataconf, strataeu, weedata | 4 Responses

Mind Blown at Defrag

Mind Blown at Defrag

By Dave Michels on November 16, 2011

Defrag is an unusual conference. The simplest way to describe it as TED for geeks. Lots of these tech folks are really smart, and when given a forum to speak about whatever they want might result with interesting ideas. The conference creator, Eric Norlin, figured there is no shortage of cloud, social business, mobile, etc. events, but […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged conferences, defrag, defragcon, James Altucher, Robert Stephens, tech, twilio, twitter

Upcoming Conference: Defrag

Upcoming Conference: Defrag

By Dave Michels on November 2, 2011

Coming up next is Defrag – this is a pretty unique conference. Unlike most of my events that are focused on telecom, this one is a bit of a tangent. The content is phenomenal. The conference is 5 years old, and organizer Eric Norlin works to keep it intimate. Eric describes Defrag as the first […]

Posted in Business | Tagged conferences, defrag, defragcon

The Dreaded Predictions List

The Dreaded Predictions List

By Guest Authors on December 14, 2010

Ahhhh, December – how I love thee. I have this annual tradition in December where I completely suspend work for the last two weeks of the month, and I spend time assessing the past year (how I performed on personal goals; I’m big on writing down goals, etc), and plan out the coming 12 months […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged defragcon, ipo, linkedin, predictions

Defrag Wrap-up, Part 1

Defrag Wrap-up, Part 1

By Guest Authors on November 22, 2010

Defrag’s over, and my sense was that it was our best yet. I wanted to share some quick thoughts/reflections, and then come back in a later post (in a few weeks) and share my “here’s where we’re gonna improve” post that I do annually. 1. One of the ironies of being the guy that creates […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged conferences, defragcon

The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals

The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals

By Sadagopan on November 17, 2010

Over the weekend, I finished reading the recently released Microsoft paper on the “Economics of the cloud”. As I head to Denver today for participating in the defrag panel on the impact of cloud computing in the enterprise irregulars track, I just…

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud economics, Clouds, conferences, data center, defragcon, Economics, Emerging Models, microsoft

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Breaking the Echo Chamber

By Guest Authors on October 29, 2010

I’m writing this morning in a text editor, as I wait for internet to be restored at my house. And I’m suddenly thinking that I’ve got to get a 3G iPad or a mifi device (or an HTC Evo), because MAN do I feel cut-off from the rest of the world. All of that got […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged colorado, conferences, defragcon, echo chamber

“Why don’t you move it to California?”

“Why don’t you move it to California?”

By Guest Authors on October 27, 2010

It’s a question that I hear probably 6-8 times per “conference cycle” (ie, 6 to 8 times per year for every conference I run): “Why don’t you move Defrag to California?” Now admittedly, my personality bristles a bit at the suggestion. Over the years, I’ve tried to find ways to stay calm — but I’ll […]

Posted in Business | Tagged california, colorado, conferences, defrag, defragcon

Dawn of a New Day

Dawn of a New Day

By Guest Authors on October 25, 2010

I was reading Ray Ozzie’s blog this morning, and this struck me (quoting at length): In 1939, in New York City, there was an amazing World’s Fair.  It was called ‘the greatest show of all time’. In that year Americans were exhausted, having lived through a decade of depression.  Unemployment still hovered above 17%.  In […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged conferences, defragcon, ray ozzie | 1 Response

CloudAve Special: 3 - No, 5! -  Free Tickets To Defrag

CloudAve Special: 3 – No, 5! – Free Tickets To Defrag

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 21, 2010

Every year, when we get depressed about the darkness that is going to engulf many of us on the northern side of the country after the Daylight Savings time change, the only thing that keep our spirits up is the upcoming Defrag Conference. No this is not a hyperbole but a fact which many of the […]

Posted in General | Tagged conference, conferences, defrag, defragcon, eric norlin, social computing | 9 Responses

Earn your Defrag XP

Earn your Defrag XP

By Guest Authors on October 20, 2010

If you’re a gamer, you’re familiar with earning “XP” (experience points). If you’re not familiar with it, your kids are probably staring at you right now and wondering why you’re so weird. Basically, you accrue XP by playing a game over time – and that XP is good for boosting the benefits associated with your […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged blurcon, conferences, defragcon, Experience point, gluecon

Open: The Ultimate Buzzword

Open: The Ultimate Buzzword

By Guest Authors on October 19, 2010

Yesterday morning, while exercising, I found myself thinking that I wanted to write a blog post about “open vs. closed” and how the whole argument (open source, openstack, open business models) had gotten so confused that the word “open” meant NOTHING anymore. And then Apple released it’s earnings. Apparently, I’ve got some sort of secret […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, Apple, conferences, defragcon, google, iphone, open source

29 Days and Counting

29 Days and Counting

By Guest Authors on October 18, 2010

We’re 29 days from Defrag, and things are about to all fall into place. The final agenda gets posted this week. The registrations are rolling in. The amazing people are prepping to gather. And you do NOT wanna miss what’s sure to be our best Defrag yet. With that in mind, here’s how Morning 1 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged conferences, defrag, defragcon

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