Big Data is the hot new buzz-phrase for something that buildings system integrators have long struggled with. Last Thursday (3/29), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched its public initiative on big data for government, the Big Data Research and Development Initiative.
The purpose of big data is to support analytics, that is the massive...
I use Outlook in my day to day life. It shows me an aggregate calendar, with meetings I accept at UNC (one account) meetings I accept not at UNC (anther email account) and two corporate calendars: one based in Exchange, and one in SharePoint. When I was working on the national smart grid roadmap, my Outlook showed the calendar of that SharePoint project as well. In Outlook, I can turn each calendar off or on, and when aggregated, each appointment was a different color by source. I live by Calendar aggregation.
In my Phone, which happens to be an Android, I used to have...
Recently, I wrote of standards for calendar synchronization, vcards, and directory services. This week, in a meeting on iResource, we explored the Enterprise IT perspective on the same issues. Today, I will place these two views side by side, and look for a solution.
In enterprise calendaring, conference rooms were originally added to corporate address books as if they were another person. An account was created in the corporate directory for each conference room, albeit an account that lacked an employee ID. This account was assocated with a calendar server and perhaps an email account. Conference rooms were set up Justas were senior staff that do not manage their own schedule. Anyone could invite the conference room to a meeting. An assigned administrative assistant received all schedule requests.
The power industry of North America has provided its customers with the greatest life style that any civilization has ever had. The old service model assumes an ever-present supply of power that is predictable, abundant, and inexpensive. World-wide, our plans are to reduce the power supplied by predictable an inexpensive power sources, to replace them with power sources that are intermittent and less predictable, and that are widely distributed across the grid, including within homes, businesses, and neighborhoods. The old service model will not survive...