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- Developing an open-source platform
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook discusses the company's open source strategy and its plan to improve the application environment for its more than 100,000 developers. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Open Source, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Balancing act: innovation vs. reliability
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook explains the challenges facing the company, including the trade off between site stability and innovating quickly. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Managing data in the social graph
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook describes how the company manages data within its social network, and how its archiving and indexing structure differs from Google. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Data, Social Graph, Social Networking, Business Intelligence, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Facebook VP of technical operations: Jonathan Heiliger
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook speaks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about the balancing act between innovating quickly and building a stable infrastructure at a company moving at breakneck-speed. Heiliger also discusses what he's doing to scale data center operations and support the addition of more...
- Tags: Facebook, Operation, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Securing data at E-Loan
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan describes the company's security and privacy model which gives more choice to customers about how information is shared with third party vendors. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: E-Loan, Security, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Using Web 2.0 to develop new loans
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan talks about taking mortgage products to market in a matter of weeks using Web 2.0 tools that foster collaboration and help speed up product cycles. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- IT survival strategies
- Jay Shah, CIO of E-Loan explains how the company is responding to the troubled mortgage industry by focusing on costs savings and the development of new financial products. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- E-Loan CIO: Jay Shah
- Jay Shah, CIO of internet financial services provider E-Loan, talks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about surviving a housing downturn by creating new compliant and certified mortgage products for its customers. He also discusses how the company is able to shorten the typical software cycle and develop financial solutions more...
- Tags: CIO, E-Loan, Web 2.0, Internet, Groupware, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Mining the LinkedIn network
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses new ways business professionals will communicate and consume information in the future. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Network, LinkedIn, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Scaling the LinkedIn social graph
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor talks about scaling challenges such as improving the value of user relationships. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: LinkedIn, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn vs. Facebook, MySpace
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations, Lloyd Taylor discusses the differences between LinkedIn's professional network and more personalized sites like Facebook and MySpace. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn VP of Technical Operations: Lloyd Taylor
- Lloyd Taylor, Vice President of Technical Operations at LinkedIn talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new role, managing a...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- LinkedIn Vice President of Technical Operations: Lloyd Taylor
- Dan Farber: Lloyd, thanks for joining me. Lloyd Taylor: And thanks for inviting me. Dan Farber: Lloyd you have been at LinkedIn since September of this year, what is LinkedIn and what compelled you to go there? Lloyd...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Theory, Network, LinkedIn, Data Centers, Storage, Social Networking, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki
- In a CIO Vision Series interview, Pat Lawicki CIO of PG&E talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about energizing one of the United States' largest utilities with new technologies, such as tagging utility poles with RFID, smart meters that will quickly measure customer energy usage and intelligent grids...
- Tags: CIO, PG&E Corp., Tagging, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Measuring energy usage with smarter meters
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes the company's new smart meter program, that will enable faster meter readings, and allow customers to change their behavior on a real-time basis. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Equipping PG&E workers with PCs
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E talks about her biggest challenges within the company, such as training her service and maintenance workers with new handheld devices and computers skills. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PC, PG&E Corp., Worker, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Fixing damages immediately with RFID
- Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes how PG&E will start tagging transformers and poles with new RFID tags so line workers can more efficiently access and fix damages when accidents occur. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: PG&E Corp., Tagging, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Pat thanks for joining me. Pat Lawicki: Thank you, I'm delighted to be here. Dan Farber: Now you've been at PG&E in 2005, it's a company that's undergoing some transition as you're putting in new systems. What is the scope of...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, PG&E Corp., Customer, Vision, Lawicki, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- AGL Energy CIO: Cesare Tizi
- Cesar Tizi, CIO AGL Energy speaks to ZDNet about his role at Australia's largest energy supplier where he's been focused on integrating and simplifying the company's billing and accounting systems. He also shares his thoughts on recent IT trends, such as virtualization, green datacenters, and RFID. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: CIO, Data Centers, Virtualization, RFID, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- AGL Energy CIO: Cesare Tizi
- Cesare Tizi: AGL was -- how's a nice way of putting it? Quite a challenge! AGL's an organization that … was growing at an amazing rate. When I joined AGL, we had pretty much every technology you could shake a stick at: we had mainframes; mid-range, Wintel-type platforms; we had...
- Tags: Phone, Data Center, Information Technology, Environment, Business, Unit, CPU, Technology, Encryption, CRM, AGL, Data Centers, RFID, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
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