Emerging Technologies
Survey Results - March 2009 Chapter Meeting
Web 2.0 in Business (Wikis, Social Networking, Facebook, MySpace) – 9
Cloud Computing – 6
Tele-presence (Voice, Video, Messaging) – 3
Internet Marketing – 2
Role-focused BI, Statistical Analytics – 2
Scrum, Collaborative Development – 2
Biologically Based Processors
Blade Computing
Electronic Signatures
Grid Computing
Information Security (PCI in particular)
Mind Mapping
Mobile Devices
New User Interfaces
Semantic Web
Sensor Networks
Software as a Service
Vehicle Telematics in Remote Geographies
Virtualization
Voice Translation

Report of the Emerging Technologies SIG - May 17, 2009

The Emerging Technologies SIG met via phone conference call last week on 4/14/09. Yvonne Hyland, Peter Schay, John Bucknavage and Andres Fortino held a half hour meeting at 2:30 PM. We missed Lars Kielhorn who unfortunately logged after we closed the meeting.

We reviewed the data from the member survey taken at the March meeting. It appears that the membership wants to be better informed about two topics in particular: Web 2.0 application to business and Cloud Computing. These two topics received the most votes. Others topics had one vote only and some had only two votes. Although these two topics are not strictly emerging technologies, there seems to be a need here for information that our SIG can meet. We agreed to proceed in two parts:

Create a solid informational white paper on best practices for Web 2.0 application to business based on a preliminary paper stated by Andres' team last summer. Begin to research in earnest cloud computing with a view to offer a briefing soon on its import to CIOs, its business value and a road map to implementation. These are considered leading edge emerging technologies mature enough for implementation which need support and information. The team will continue to meet and discuss and issue briefings and white papers on these.

The work on Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 briefings to be concluded this summer.

We also decided that we want to look at (and need to look at) bleeding edge, just emerging, technologies which are beginning to appear on the radar screen of the CIO. For these we would hold a once per year electronic survey of the FWSIM members to find out which of these they want to be kept informed on and the SIG would prepare short briefings produced on the top ten and keep track of how they are developing and emerging in importance. We would do this survey annually and electronically which would guide the work of the SIG.

NYU-Poly will make available at no cost to SIM a graduate intern this summer for 200 hours of research. Poly would bear the cost of this intern on behalf of SIM to work under the guidance of the Emerging Technologies SIG.

Warm Regards,
Andres

Dr. Andres Fortino
Associate Provost for Corporate Graduate Programs
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
40 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Phone: 914-323-2001
Cell: 845-242-7614
Fax: 914-323-2010
E-mail: afortino@poly.edu

Techno-Social Expectations of New College Hires - March 17, 2009
Dr. Andres Fortino, Associate Provost for Corporate Programs
Performed under contract with Graduate Research Assistant Amit Jagirdar

Last summer Elizabeth Hackenson, CIO of Alcatel-Lucent asked us to investigate the following question
Given the state of new technologies like texting, twitter, blackberries, Facebook, wikis, and blogs:
What technology and means communication will attract the best and brightest to Alcatel and help us retain that talent and make them productive?

Portals/0/Content/Chapters/Fairfield - Westchester/Documents/NYU Poly NYS CIO Academy presentation by AFortino.ppt

The Green CIO – What CIOs are doing to improve the greening of the IT function - March 20, 2009
Dr. Andres Fortino, Associate Provost for Corporate Programs

Worked with many CIOs and colleagues to create CIO Survey on Green IT Practices. Preliminary results of 36 responses. Fairfield/Westchester and New Jersey Chapters of the Society for Information Management
General corporate and CIO shop questions. Specific IT operations green practices questions.

Portals/0/Content/Chapters/Fairfield - Westchester/Documents/Green CIO SIM Survey.ppt

A Roadmap to Data Center Greening - June 1, 2008
Armand Keim, Adjunct Professor and Research Associate

Greening our world has become an imperative as we learn more about the existing and anticipated effects of global warming. The preponderance of scientists who work in the area of climate studies have concluded that our modern civilization is creating greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and that we must act relatively quickly to avoid catastrophe. Data centers use between 1.5 and 2% of the world’s electricity and much of it is wasted. It is predicted that at the current rate of use greenhouses gases that are created by producing the energy required by data centers will exceed that created by all the jet liners in the world in the year 2020.

This paper presents a Roadmap for reducing energy use in the data center, controlling the use of materials, and disposing of electronic equipment. Much of the content of this paper applies not only to large data centers but also to data centers of small businesses (anything from a server farm to a small room with several servers). Departments of a company other than the data center may find specific areas of this paper applicable to them too.

Portals/0/Content/Chapters/Fairfield - Westchester/Documents/Armand Keim Green Data Center Paper Final.doc