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TechCrunch DISRUPT Europe 2013 Recap and Winners
At TechCrunch DISRUPT Europe in Berlin (Oct 25 – 27, 2013), coders, hackers, engineers, and designers from multiple countries spent the last 24 hours to build the best product possible. Top price was $5000 with many other sponsored prizes [tablets, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Hacks, Tech Events, TechCrunch DISRUPT Europe 2013, Technology, Technology
Tagged A Colorful Gift, coder event, coders, coding event, Crunchbase, DISRUPT 2013, DISRUPT Europe 2013, Foarsquare, Foursquare preCheck-in, hack, hacker event, hacking event, Lufthansa, Mashery, PayMill, TechCruch, TechCruch conference, TechCrunch DISRUPT 2013, TechCrunch DISRUPT Europe 2013, TechCrunch DISRUPT Europe in Berlin, Teleapp, Weather Underground, Xing, Yammer, Zalando
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IT Certifications, Innovation, and Career Growth – Making the Right Decisions
I often get asked, “What certification should I get next?” There is no right way to answer this question without a deeper analysis of why a certification is being sought in the first place. I’ll focus specifically on IT certifications … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Life, News, Technology, Tips
Tagged best certifications, best IT certifications, Bill Gates, CCIE, CCIEs, CCNA, certifications, Cisco, Cisco CCIE, Cisco CCNA, CompTIA, CompTIA Linux+, employment, IT certifications, job, job opportunity, jobs, Larry Page, linux, Mark Zuckerberg, opportunity cost, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, technologist, top certifications, top IT certifications, vmware
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Is Life and Work Like a Big Game of Chess?
Chess is fascinating. I always tell people it reminds me of real life in the way of developing a strategy, reading your competition and thinking several steps ahead of them, and of course battling it out for that final checkmate. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chess, Entertainment, Tips
Tagged 1962 Candidates Tournament, 1962 Candidates Tournament in Curacao, Bobby Fischer, business is chess, Chess, Chess Grandmaster, Curacao, famous chess game, famous chess games, Fischer, Grandmaster, is business like chess, is life like chess, life is chess, Mikhail Tal, Robert Fischer, Sicilian Defense
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Investing Into Entrepreneurs More than Ideas/Products?
I’ve seen it many, many times where investor(s) invest into an idea because they have some belief in the idea/product but more belief in the entrepreneur(s) behind it. This isn’t to say that investors/angels just throw money down on worthless … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Tips
Tagged angel, angel investor, angel investors, angels, Business, cash, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, founder, founders, funding, investor, investors, start-up, start-ups, startup, startups, Upstart, venture, venture capitalist
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The Importance of Making Quick Decisions
As with so many things in life, I’ve found through experience just how critical and rare it is to have the ability to make quick decisions. Nowhere is this more important than in business, but it can also apply to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Tips
Tagged analysis, analysis paralysis, Business, business decisions, business partner, business rule, business rules, business tip, business tips, chossing a business partner, decisions, electronic trading, Importance of Making Quick Decisions, New York Board of Trade, productivity, quick decisions, the pit
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Cloud Computing and the Pace of Technological Innovation
Everyone knows for the most part that technology, especially in Silicon Valley, is a fast moving beast. Nowadays, it’s not a field for people to get into halfheartedly; otherwise, you may find yourself being eatin’ alive by the competition. It’s … Continue reading
The Commoditization of the Hypervisor
It’s amazing; since the introduction of hardware based virtualization made possible with processor technology such as the Intel-VT and AMD-V (see prior blog The Power of Virtualization – a competitive edge), everyone and their mother is coming out with a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Tagged AMD-V, Citrix, commodity, hypervisor, Intel VT, Live Migration, live storage migration, Microsoft, Oracle, oVirt, paravirtualization, Red Hat, Storage VMotion, virtualization, vMotion, vmware, Xen, XenServer
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The Rise of the Hybrid Cloud
As many organizations move their corporate services to private clouds to cut costs, enable rapid provisioning of resources, enable advanced monitoring, and increase up-time, I believe we will see a continuous uptake of solutions which tie private cloud services and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Tagged Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Storage Service, American cloud companie, avoid US cloud, avoid US-based cloud, cloud, controversial Patriot Act, hybrid cloud, Jon Stokes, non-US cloud provider, Patriot Act, PATRIOT Act Gives Foreigners Good Reason to Avoid US Cloud, private cloud, public cloud, unconstitutional Patriot Act, United States Patriot Act, VPN
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HumairAhmed.com: Top 500,000 Websites in US – Not Bad for a Blog!
Well, it looks like I’ve finally broken into the top 500,000 websites in the US in terms of traffic according to Alexa. Not bad for a semi-periodically updated blog I suppose. Most sites, especially personal blogs, don’t even make the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Humair's News Releases, Internet Search, News, Technology, Technology, Websites
Tagged ahmed, alexa, blog, blog rank, blogging, humair, Humair Ahmed, Humair Ahmed's blog, Humair's blog, site, site rank, website, website rank
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