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		<title>Most Cloud Compute cycles will be HPC</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/most-cloud-compute-cycles-will-be-hpc/1923</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/most-cloud-compute-cycles-will-be-hpc/1923#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 12:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Van Holst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 Open Data]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I was chatting with a friend on the phone about HPC when he made the statement which is the title of this post.  I jotted it down, and it&#8217;s been rattling around in my brain ever since.  At first it seemed very odd, HPC is a neiche market, a small proportion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Buys Skype &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s a good thing&#8221;.</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/microskype-skypesoft-or-a-move-to-voice-in-the-cloud/1771</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 12:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Live Meeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lync]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s rumor of a Microsoft bid for Skype is no surprise.  While legions of Skype users may bemoan that their low-cost alternative to international calling is being swallowed up by the behemoth, they shouldn&#8217;t really fret. It may very well be what saves Skype. As it turns out, Skype isn&#8217;t really an independent company having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud computing for dummies</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/cloud-computing-for-dummies/1719</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/05/cloud-computing-for-dummies/1719#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public cloud benefits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actually it was a room full of CIOs and IT decision makers, but what I heard last evening at the Midsize Enterprise Summit 2011 keynotes provided one of the better explanations of cloud computing&#8230; And it came from a major vendor no less! Jordan Chrysafidis, Microsoft&#8217;s VP of SMS&#38;P outlined cloud computing based on needed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shameless tagging</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/shameless-tagging/1270</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/shameless-tagging/1270#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2) Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Pitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrity name dropping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coca-Cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Duceppe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harley Davidson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J-Lo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Layton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Bieber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motorcycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motorola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pepsi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product placement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shane Schick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Spielberg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to watch a movie by Stephen Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, or starring Brad Pitt, J-Lo, or even (gasp) Justin Bieber without seeing product placements from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nike, RIM, Dell, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and others. On screen stars are using iPhones, iPads, iPods, Android phones, and you will soon even see Motorola tablets and RIM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Important Blog Post on Strategy You&#8217;ll Ever Read!</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/the-most-important-blog-post-on-strategy-youll-ever-read/1258</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/the-most-important-blog-post-on-strategy-youll-ever-read/1258#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Pashuk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2) Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6) Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core vs Context]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Differntiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoffrey A. Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office 365]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogidol.ca/?p=1258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IT folks are busy people.  Their typical workday doesn&#8217;t fit in the 9-5 slot (equipment NEVER breaks down during the workday &#8211; 3am being the preferred time.) Busy is good, right?  There&#8217;s so much to do! Maybe. A wise IT leader should never, ever, confuse motion with progress. You can be busy, but busy doing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Technology re-use = innovation</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/technology-re-use-innovation/1218</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2011/04/technology-re-use-innovation/1218#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Van Holst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2) Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5) Bring Your Own Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphics processing unit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kinect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supercomputing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology re-use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top500]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this interesting video while checking on those I follow on Twitter; this is really cool:  I&#8217;ve never been much into video games, but the technology can be leveraged for more interesting things as seen in the video above. Innovation usually isn&#8217;t about anything brand new, but often re-using something designed for one purpose and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Getting Social in Canada: Jive Software</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/getting-social-in-canada-jive-software/710</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/getting-social-in-canada-jive-software/710#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jive Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SharePoint]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended Jive Software’s Get Social tour stop in Toronto and left impressed not only with the company’s software and strategy, but with the quality of attendance at the event. The event featured a hour (and a bit) of keynotes including a look at how Canada’s RIM has used Jive’s SBS to deploy mybackberry.com. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Microsoft Outlook Connector suddenly stopped working</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/my-microsoft-outlook-connector-suddenly-stopped-working/667</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/my-microsoft-outlook-connector-suddenly-stopped-working/667#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tania Samsonova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlook Connector]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our dependency on technology becomes rather alarming. If a global disaster strikes and you live in the country in an 18-century house, you will be able to get some firewood in the forest, bring water in a bucket from the river, catch a rabbit with a snare made of your suspenders, and roast that rabbit [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Office in the Cloud Showdown: Office Web Apps vs Google Docs</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/cloud-computing-showdown-office-web-apps-vs-google-docs/607</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/cloud-computing-showdown-office-web-apps-vs-google-docs/607#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging Idol 2010 Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office 2010 is being released this week. Will its Office Web App beat Google's Google Docs?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Microsoft Enterprise Solutions, Sneak Peak of Windows 7 Phone</title>
		<link>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/microsoft-enterprise-solutions-sneak-peak-of-windows-7-phone/599</link>
		<comments>http://blogidol.ca/2010/04/microsoft-enterprise-solutions-sneak-peak-of-windows-7-phone/599#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SharePoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sql]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft illustrates its IT solutions in Azure, SharePoint, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. Microsoft's application development on the Windows 7 Phone was also demoed.]]></description>
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