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37. <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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42. <description><![CDATA[Over the last few years (2019, 2020), I shared my thoughts on how cloud platforms may evolve and shared my predictions on key changes and direction of innovation. This doesn’t mean that the predictions will happen in that year, the predictions could be over the coming years. My predictions are based on my interactions with customers, &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/predictions-for-cloud-platforms-2022/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Predictions for Cloud Platforms&#160;2022</span></a></p>]]></description>
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44. <p>Over the last few years (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/predictions-cloud-platforms-2019-marwan-tarek/">2019</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/predictions-cloud-platforms-2020-marwan-tarek/">2020</a>), I shared my thoughts on how cloud platforms may evolve and shared my predictions on key changes and direction of innovation. This doesn’t mean that the predictions will happen in that year, the predictions could be over the coming years. My predictions are based on my interactions with customers, industry SMEs and partners where I see the challenges, how cloud platforms are leveraged, and the vendors investments.</p>
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48. <p>Here are my thoughts for 2022!</p>
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52. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="multi-cloud-for-the-wrong-reasons">Multi-cloud for the wrong reasons</h2>
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56. <p>I mentioned multi-cloud in my post in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/predictions-cloud-platforms-2019-marwan-tarek/">2019</a>. This time I am looking at the reasons driving multi-cloud strategy. Multi-cloud is mentioned in many conversations, conferences, presentation and IT strategies. Multi-cloud strategy is considered for many reasons. However, I see that multi-cloud strategies are considered some times for ill-constructed reasons or the wrong reasons. Let me address two of the common reasons I hear.</p>
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60. <p><strong>Vendor Lock-in</strong></p>
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64. <p>Enterprises decide to follow a multi-cloud strategy to avoid “vendor lock-in” i.e. to avoid being locked-in to a cloud provider. Going through a cloud migration and transformation journey is a huge undertaking, and a long-term commitment. Hence, selecting the right vendor is important because most probably you are going to spend years working with that vendor and may be decades (I don’t know how cloud will look like in 20 years!). After all, Cloud is the platform for your enterprise IT so entertaining the idea that overnight you can give notice and hire a moving company to package and move to a new house is far from reality.</p>
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68. <p>Also, vendor lock-in is a one type of lock-in. Gregor Hohpe discussed other types in his article&nbsp;<a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/oss-lockin.html">Don&#8217;t get locked up into avoiding lock-in</a>&nbsp;like Product Lock-in, Version Lock-in, Legal Lock-in…etc.</p>
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72. <p>Architecture Lock-in is a famous example we are facing in IT, when you decide a certain architecture pattern for a new application and you get locked-in for years!</p>
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76. <p>I encourage CIOs and CTOs to reconsider their definition for vendor lock-in and how they perceive “vendor lock-in” within the other types of lock-ins and embrace the long-term relationship.</p>
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80. <p><strong>Availability</strong></p>
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84. <p>I have seen conversations online that cite cloud outages as a reason for multi-cloud strategy. I don’t agree with this because any architecture must be ready for platform failures. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, said&nbsp;<a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/werner-vogels-everything-fails-all-the-time">“Everything fails all the time”</a>. You need to think about your architecture resiliency, high availability. AWS offers services over multiple availability zones or regions. The&nbsp;<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/?wa-lens-whitepapers.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&amp;wa-lens-whitepapers.sort-order=desc">AWS Well-Architected</a>&nbsp;helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads.</p>
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87.  
88. <p>If you spread your workloads across multiple cloud platforms, you are increasing the architecture and operations complexity and not directly addressing availability challenges.</p>
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92. <p><strong>Things to consider when you are thinking of multi-cloud</strong></p>
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96. <p><em>Skills and talent</em>:</p>
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100. <p>Architects, developers and engineers need to be fluent in more than one cloud platform. It is difficult to get your head around a single platform, what about two or three platforms. When I was a developer, it was not easy to be fluent in many development languages!</p>
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104. <p><em>Operating model:</em></p>
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108. <p>You need to think about your operating model, operation processes, and the choices for observability, management, security, and governance cross the multi-cloud operations. This will stretch your team and adds complexity to your operation producers. Do you agree?</p>
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112. <p><em>Value realisation:</em></p>
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116. <p>Enterprises think of multi-cloud as an exit strategy so when the business wants to move from a cloud vendor the other, it can be done. In order for this strategy to work, Architects will always have to consider “cloud portability” in the architecture. Portability will push you towards decisions like avoiding cloud native services or avoiding capabilities that don’t exist in the other provider. These decisions push the architects to settle for the lowest common denominator among the selected cloud providers, and the architectures will not benefit from the new innovations.</p>
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119.  
120. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="connectivity">Connectivity</h2>
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123.  
124. <p>Enterprises are investing in cloud adoption. Connectivity is a key consideration. What is&nbsp;the latency, what if the available region is far, bandwidth requirements…etc.</p>
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128. <p>Investments in connectivity is an important factor in increasing cloud adoption and unlocking new workloads and use cases. Werner Vogels included ubiquitous connectivity in his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/tech-predictions-for-2022-and-beyond">2022 predictions</a>&nbsp;citing Amazon’s Project Kuiper of delivering fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Telco providers are investing in 5G infrastructure, and AWS announced its new&nbsp;<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/preview-aws-private-5g/">Private 5G service</a>.</p>
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131.  
132. <p>Unlocking connectivity constraints will unleash another level of cloud value and increase adoptions.</p>
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136. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="data-mobility-and-open-data-apis">Data mobility and Open Data APIs</h2>
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140. <p>Data is the centre of gravity of any workload and it is a value creation for business. Businesses start with a business model, and using the data they collected, they are capable of offering new services, and value added to their clients. Data in cloud platforms takes many shapes and formats, and with the virtually unlimited compute and storage in public cloud, Data is more valuable.</p>
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144. <p>I predict the growth in investments in offering services to smoothly move data between cloud platforms, creation of virtual data mesh across platforms, which will offer data to consumers through Open data APIs. This will be offered as a service for Enterprises to unleash the power of the data and enables new business models.</p>
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147.  
148. <p>Definitely data privacy and security will be a key topic for this!</p>
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151.  
152. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="continuous-abstraction-of-cloud-services">Continuous abstraction of cloud services</h2>
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156. <p>In 2006, AWS started with EC2 instances and continued the innovation and abstractions of services for builders. For example, the introduction of Lambda services removed the worry about any infrastructure to execute code. Moving up the application stack will continue and becomes faster. In re:Invent 2021, AWS introduced&nbsp;<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-redshift-serverless-run-analytics-at-any-scale-without-having-to-manage-infrastructure/">Amazon Redshift Serverless</a>&nbsp;to run analytics at any scale without having to manage data warehouse infrastructure. I expect abstraction will continue across services and abstraction will go up in the platforms stack, where we see services are integrated and abstracted from builders then they can focus on the business problems rather than the plumbing.</p>
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160. <p>I would love to hear your opinions. Do you agree or disagree with these predictions or do you have other observations to share?</p>
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177. <title>CEO vs. CIO &#8211; Hit the right tone</title>
178. <link>https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/ceo-vs-cio-hit-the-right-tone/</link>
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182. <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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189. <description><![CDATA[I watched a keynote in CIO Days 2019 by Frank Slootman CEO of Snowflake. You can watch it&#160;here, It is 14 minutes. I liked the talk because it was not typical sales pitch about a product (i.e. Snowflake) but Frank shared his experience as a CEO on what his expectations for CIOs and he doesn&#8217;t &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/ceo-vs-cio-hit-the-right-tone/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CEO vs. CIO &#8211; Hit the right&#160;tone</span></a></p>]]></description>
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191. <p>I watched a keynote in CIO Days 2019 by Frank Slootman CEO of Snowflake. You can watch it&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieuzMmbZ0jw&amp;t=265s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>, It is 14 minutes.</p>
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195. <p>I liked the talk because it was not typical sales pitch about a product (i.e. Snowflake) but Frank shared his experience as a CEO on what his expectations for CIOs and he doesn&#8217;t want them to do. The talk provides a first-hand experience and advice.</p>
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199. <p>I thought of summarizing in a different way, rather than writing an article about it, I drew simple handwritten mind maps to capture the key points of the talk.</p>
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203. <p>Following the mind maps. I would love to get your feedback if you find it useful and easy to follow on the key message from the talk.</p>
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257. <link>https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/predictions-for-cloud-platforms-2020/</link>
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261. <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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267. <description><![CDATA[Last year I shared my predictions for&#160;Cloud platforms on 2019. They were focused on three points Multicloud, cross workloads integration and development of cloud governance models. In 2019, Multicloud becomes a recognised term and&#160;#multicloud&#160;is commonly used hashtag on twitter, with many conferences and events running all over the world to discuss how multicloud can help &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/predictions-for-cloud-platforms-2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Predictions for Cloud Platforms&#160;2020</span></a></p>]]></description>
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274. <p>Last year I shared my predictions for&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/predictions-cloud-platforms-2019-marwan-tarek" target="_blank">Cloud platforms on 2019</a>. They were focused on three points Multicloud, cross workloads integration and development of cloud governance models.</p>
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278. <p>In 2019, Multicloud becomes a recognised term and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MultiCloud&amp;src=typeahead_click&amp;f=live" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">#multicloud</a>&nbsp;is commonly used hashtag on twitter, with many conferences and events running all over the world to discuss how multicloud can help businesses (<a href="https://www.idc.com/mea/events/65937-idc-multi-cloud-summit-2019" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IDC MultiCloud Summit 2019</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2019/12/30/vmware-pivotal-combining-the-skills-people-and-leadership-to-deliver-modern-apps-to-the-enterprise/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpWbFlqbGtaV0V6TTJKayIsInQiOiJ2S2JTOWU3UmFlK29kQzhJclFIZlV5MDc5SjNDOFBIM3VlU245Q0FQa2J1MGlnNFBEMkw5YWw1KzdUbFNncVdwYW9jNnQ3Mjl4cGJQR3g3SUI1cFFnb0lkT3BsVDFlZVwvQ0N1Y1FPTm1qZzVCNlE5ZGtCM1pHeXpTUWc5MDhWY3YifQ%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMWare and Pivotal committed to multicloud</a>)</p>
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282. <p>In my opinion, Multicloud is still at its early stages and on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.smartinsights.com/marketing-planning/marketing-models/diffusion-innovation-model/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the diffusion on the innovation model</a>, it is still in the innovators phase and getting closer to the early adopters phase!</p>
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286. <p>In a couple of days it is the end of 2019, and the end of a decade of a furious war between cloud providers. We have seen innovation from AWS and Microsoft for around&nbsp;<a href="https://mediatemple.net/blog/news/brief-history-aws/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">13 years</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10 years</a>&nbsp;respectively that transformed the shape of the industry and cloud technologies.</p>
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290. <p>I see the next decade is about serverless and portability! My predictions for next year (may be years)</p>
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294. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Multicloud will grow and moves to mainstream</h3>
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298. <p>CTO and IT Directors will continue exploring Multicloud. Discussions and design patterns around Multicloud will continue to grow in the industry. Many vendors will start developing services, products and solutions around the Multicloud models. These services are required to deliver design patterns, operating models, technical architectures, management tools&#8230;etc</p>
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302. <p>Whether we agree or not, the key drivers for Multicloud would be to avoid vendor lock-in and benefit from the strengths of other cloud platforms.</p>
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306. <p><a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/downloads/special-feature-managing-the-multicloud-free-pdf/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">It will be easier to go to Multicloud</a></p>
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310. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Death of &#8220;Lift and Shift&#8221; and the rise of &#8220;Hybrid Cloud&#8221; &#8211; Less workloads will move as-is to the cloud, more Apps modernisation</h3>
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314. <p>Nearly two-thirds of companies report they have not achieved expected cloud benefits (<a href="https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/cloud/cloud-outcomes-perspective" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Accenture June 2019</a>). It has been challenging for many enterprises to realise the benefits of the cloud. In my opinion that this is due to two main reasons:</p>
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318. <ol><li>The business case of the cloud was always about cost reduction rather than supporting business objectives.</li><li>The operations and architecture of cloud platforms are different from traditional data centers architectures. Applications design should be different to benefit from the cloud capabilities</li></ol>
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322. <p>Most enterprises started by lift and shift of workloads without any re-architecture to the cloud (let&#8217;s scoop them and move ASAP) and they realised that costs could be more expensive especially for mission critical workloads and that requires high availability. Also, they have been hit by different types of challenges on how to secure the cloud environments and dealing with an underlying stack that is owned and managed by the cloud provider.</p>
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326. <p>I see over the next year, the lift and shift will start to fade out. Hybrid Cloud will rise! Enterprises will leave existing workloads on-premise, setup a hybrid architecture, and develop new workloads on the cloud using modern cloud native architecture patterns (Serverless!).</p>
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330. <p>I see a new pattern for moving to the cloud to become more prominent. I call it &#8220;Peeling the Onion&#8221; pattern :). It is the flow explained above and I will discuss it in a separate article</p>
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334. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>Hybrid setup -&gt; New workloads go to the cloud -&gt; old workloads stay on premise till decommissioning or modernise on the cloud.</p></blockquote>
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338. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Cloud Portability &#8211; the rise of new tools and services to move workloads across cloud platforms</h3>
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342. <p>With the growth of Multicloud and increase of the maturity of its architectures and tools, Enterprises will be looking to be easily move workloads between different cloud platforms to benefit from new features, new contract terms&#8230;etc.</p>
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346. <p>I understand this may sound outrageous as usually changes in applications and architectures are not that frequent. However, since more enterprises are pushing to be more agile and the modern cloud architecture and based on services (i.e. Lego blocks) that are integrated together, I see that there will be a need to move between cloud providers for different reasons and sometime moving parts of applications to a cloud e.g. move the analytics stack to cloud B and leave operational stack on cloud A.</p>
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350. <p>With these needs on the horizon, and the adoption of new open standards for cloud services like the&nbsp;<a href="https://oam.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Open Application Model&nbsp;</a>developed between Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud for developing and operating applications on Kubernetes. it will be easier to cross the river to the other side!</p>
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354. <p>The development of open standards for different types of services (e.g. serverless, bots, containers, storage, data lake&#8230;etc) will unlock new opportunities. There will be new services and tools that would allow the workloads to move seamlessly or upgrades based on these standards.&nbsp;<em>May be a new startup idea here</em>!</p>
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358. <p>I use the analogy of changing my gas and electricity provider every year using a comparison website (without a single phone call!). The experience for me is seamless and hassle free which was not achievable years ago.</p>
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362. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion</h3>
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366. <p>My predictions may not necessarily be only for 2020! It may take more years to be realised. The winner who is going to pick up on the weak signals of change and adopt their services, operations and business objectives to benefit from the upcoming changes.</p>
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370. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>It&#8217;s Not the Big That Eat the Small&#8230;It&#8217;s the Fast That Eat the Slow &#8211; Jason Jennings</p></blockquote>
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374. <p><strong>Disclaimer&nbsp;</strong>&#8211;&nbsp;Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.</p>
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393. <title>Books I read in 2019</title>
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398. <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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403. <description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! Last I read 5 books, This far behind my annual target of 12 books. I need to get better in 2020. The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture &#8211; by Damian Hughes In The Barcelona Way, sports psychologist Damian Hughes reveals the key principles that have defined FC Barcelona’s &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/books-i-read-in-2019/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Books I read in&#160;2019</span></a></p>]]></description>
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405. <p>Happy New Year!</p>
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409. <p>Last I read 5 books, This far behind my annual target of 12 books. I need to get better in 2020.</p>
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413. <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="687" height="258" data-attachment-id="451" data-permalink="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/books-2019/" data-orig-file="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png" data-orig-size="687,258" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="books-2019" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png?w=640" src="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png?w=687" alt="" class="wp-image-451" srcset="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png 687w, https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png?w=150 150w, https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/books-2019.png?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px" /></figure></div>
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417. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture &#8211; by Damian Hughes</h3>
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421. <p>In The Barcelona Way, sports psychologist Damian Hughes reveals the key principles that have defined FC Barcelona’s success and shows how the DNA of a winning team can be successfully applied to any working environment, with dramatic results. &#8216;A powerful book on the important principles of creating a high-performing culture.&#8217;Eddie Jones, England RFU Head CoachFC Barcelona are one of the most successful football clubs in the world. What makes FCB unique is the winning culture that has delivered sustained success for much longer than the customary four-year cycle of an elite team. Lying at the very heart of their success is how they deal with people and the care and attention given to the environment in which those people are nurtured: practices which are of equal relevance to all organizations trying to channel the activities of their talented individuals for the corporate good.The key principles are: Big Picture, Arc of Change, Repetition, Cultural Architects, Authentic Leadership. These are the same principles that are adhered to in successful working environments across any industry. Drawing on interviews with key architects of the culture, as well as his own extensive experience as a sports psychologist working with leading sports and business institutions, Damian Hughes provides unique insights into the crucial issues confronting the modern corporate environment, and shows how the lessons learnt at FC Barcelona can also be applied to develop your own winning culture.</p>
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425. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute</h3>
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429. <p>The Arbinger Institute has helped millions with their books Leadership and Self-Deception and The Anatomy of Peace. Their newest book, The Outward Mindset, reflects their latest research and experience and offers a new and intuitive way to teach people how to implement mindset change in themselves and scale it across organizations, with incredible effect. One&#8217;s mindset governs how one views the world, what one does, and how one does it. One&#8217;s mindset can be self-focused, which Arbinger calls an inward mindset, or it can be inclusive of others, which Arbinger calls an outward mindset. It turns out that our own actions, and others responses to those actions, end up being dramatically different depending on which mindset we are operating from. The Outward Mindset teaches readers how to shift more fully to an outward mindset and how to help others, even whole organizations, to make that shift a shift that sparks innovation, increases accountability, and transforms collaboration, engagement, and fulfillment.&#8221;</p>
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433. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark</h3>
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437. <p>How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology&#8211;and there&#8217;s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who&#8217;s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today&#8217;s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn&#8217;t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues&#8211;from super intelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.</p>
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441. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant</h3>
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445. <p>In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?&nbsp;&nbsp;Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.</p>
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449. <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou</h3>
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453. <p>The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup &#8220;unicorn&#8221; promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes&#8217;s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn&#8217;t work. For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company&#8217;s value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.</p>
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457. <p>My favorites of the year and highly recommended:</p>
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461. <ul><li>The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture &#8211; amazing stories on leadership and how Pep managed a team of stars</li><li>The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves &#8211; I love this series including the other Leadership and self deception. It cultivates certain traits and behaviors that are required in all organisations!</li><li>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup &#8211; fascinating true story on the abuse of power and how startups can create monsters due to the lack of governance and strong charisma, Be Aware!</li></ul>
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465. <p>Happy New Year!</p>
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480. <title>IOT Edge Computing &#8211; Opportunities and Challenges</title>
481. <link>https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2019/07/09/iot-edge-computing-opportunities-and-challenges/</link>
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485. <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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492. <description><![CDATA[I am glad to be featured in CIO Applications Europe magazine through my article about IOT Edge Computing. In this article I discuss the need for Edge Computing and its challenges. Access the article here https://gdpr.cioapplicationseurope.com/cxoinsights/iot-edge-computing-opportunities-and-challenges-nid-1035.html orhttps://www.cioapplicationseurope.com/magazines/May2019/GDPR/#page=44]]></description>
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494. <p>I am glad to be featured in CIO Applications Europe magazine through my article about IOT Edge Computing. In this article I discuss the need for Edge Computing and its challenges.</p>
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498. <p>Access the article here<br> <a href="https://gdpr.cioapplicationseurope.com/cxoinsights/iot-edge-computing-opportunities-and-challenges-nid-1035.html">https://gdpr.cioapplicationseurope.com/cxoinsights/iot-edge-computing-opportunities-and-challenges-nid-1035.html</a> <br>or<br><a href="https://www.cioapplicationseurope.com/magazines/May2019/GDPR/#page=44">https://www.cioapplicationseurope.com/magazines/May2019/GDPR/#page=44</a> </p>
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516. <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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526. <description><![CDATA[Buying a house usually is a daunting, stressful experience, and a big part of it is the ability to get a mortgage to be able to buy the houses. You are buying a house, but the bank is selling you a mortgage, is the bank selling the right thing to you? From the consumer perspective, &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/selling-a-mortgage-or-selling-the-ability-to-buy-a-house-have-you-got-the-right-business-message/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Selling a mortgage or selling the ability to buy a house?! &#8211; Have you got the right business&#160;message?</span></a></p>]]></description>
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528. <p>Buying a house usually is a daunting, stressful experience, and a big part of it is the ability to get a mortgage to be able to buy the houses.</p>
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532. <p>You are buying a house, but the bank is selling you a mortgage, is the bank selling the right thing to you?</p>
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536. <p>From the consumer perspective, the aim is not to buy a mortgage but to buy the house, and the mortgage is meant to achieve the aim. If the consumer can avoid buying a mortgage to buy the house, then they will do. The consumer is looking for anything that would make buying a house experience smoother and faster.</p>
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540. <p>From the bank perspective, they are looking to sell their products. The mortgage is one of their key products because of the controlled risk and long-term annuity revenue. However, is the bank selling what the consumer wants?!</p>
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544. <p>This is a dilemma for most of the businesses. How to position your services/products to your clients? The bank should sell to the consumer the ability to buy a house and show its benefits.</p>
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564. <p>I would love to hear your views. do you agree/disagree?</p>
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593. <description><![CDATA[It is time for my annual post to share my reading list for 2018. I set a target to read 24 books in 2018, but I couldn&#8217;t achieve this target! I managed to read (listen) to 15 books only. My main companion for 2018 was Audible because I was driving a lot and walking a &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/books-i-read-in-2018/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Books I read in&#160;2018</span></a></p>]]></description>
594. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is time for my annual post to share my reading list for 2018. I set a target to read 24 books in 2018, but I couldn&#8217;t achieve this target! I managed to read (listen) to 15 books only. My main companion for 2018 was Audible because I was driving a lot and walking a lot and this was the only useful thing could do.</p>
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596. <p>The books I read, not in any particular order</p>
597. <h3>The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi</h3>
598. <p>The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for the mind, The Courage to Be Disliked is the Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself from the shackles of past experiences and others’ expectations to achieve real happiness.The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be.Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of twentieth century psychology, this book follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher explains to his pupil how each of us is able to determine our own life, free from the shackles of past experiences, doubts, and the expectations of others. It’s a way of thinking that is deeply liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us have placed on ourselves. The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom.This is a truly special book in the vein of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up but for the mind. Those ready to embrace the insights and liberation promised by The Courage to Be Disliked will come to a deeper understanding of themselves and others, and find the inspiration to take the reins of their own life.</p>
599. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41641923-the-courage-to-be-disliked" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41641923-the-courage-to-be-disliked</a></p>
600. <h3>21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari</h3>
601. <p>In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today&#8217;s most pressing issues. How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari&#8217;s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today&#8217;s most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive. In twenty-one accessible chapters that are both provocative and profound, Harari builds on the ideas explored in his previous books, untangling political, technological, social, and existential issues and offering advice on how to prepare for a very different future from the world we now live in: How can we retain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching us? What will the future workforce look like, and how should we ready ourselves for it? How should we deal with the threat of terrorism? Why is liberal democracy in crisis? Harari&#8217;s unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Here he invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty. When we are deluged with irrelevant information, clarity is power. Presenting complex contemporary challenges clearly and accessibly, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is essential reading.</p>
602. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38820046-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38820046-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century</a></p>
603. <h3>Mindful Compassion: How the Science of Compassion Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, Live in the Present, and Connect Deeply with Others by Paul A. Gilbert</h3>
604. <p>Mindfulness is a powerful practice that can change lives but mindfulness alone isn t enough to completely change the way a brain works. In order to thrive, people need to practice both mindfulness and compassion. Written by the founder of compassion-focused therapy (CFT), Paul Gilbert and former Buddhist monk, Choden, Mindful Compassion is a unique blending of evolutionary and Buddhist psychology designed to help readers develop compassion toward themselves and others in order to end toxic self-criticism, heal trauma and shame, feel worthy and loveable, and live happier, healthier lives.&#8221;</p>
605. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210569-mindful-compassion" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210569-mindful-compassion</a></p>
606. <h3>Economics by Timothy Taylor</h3>
607. <p>Economic issues are active in our lives every day. However, when the subject of economics comes up in conversation or on the news, we can find ourselves longing for a more sophisticated understanding of the fundamentals of economics. These 36 lectures will help you think about and discuss economic issues that affect you and the nation every day-interest rates, unemployment, personal investing, budget deficits, globalization, and many more-with a greater level of knowledge and sophistication.</p>
608. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24857228-economics" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24857228-economics</a></p>
609. <h3>Strategic Thinking Skills by Stanley K. Ridgley</h3>
610. <p>Start making savvier decisions and outsmart your competitors with greater confidence and ease with this simple and comprehensive guide to the skills, tactics, techniques, tools, case studies, and lessons behind strategic thinking. Professor Ridgley has crafted these 24 lectures as an accessible way to engage with thinking that will help you think-and act-more strategically in business and in your own life, whether you&#8217;re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or you&#8217;re preparing to embark on a new career path. These lectures are loosely organized around several key topics central to effective strategic thinking, including: principles of conflict (in which you&#8217;ll follow the development of strategic theory from its roots in great military campaigns to its modern applications in business); competitive intelligence (which plays an increasingly important role in strategic thinking); and tools of strategy and analysis (which can aid your understanding of the forces that shape our future and can help you make sense of a rapidly changing world). Central to these lectures are the tools and tricks that strategic thinkers have used to better approach problems and seek lasting solutions. Among those you&#8217;ll learn how to use are the indirect approach (which offers you a much greater utility in achieving your objectives without approaching your opponent head-on); the value chain (a method that divides your team or organization into its value &#8211; producing activities so you can better inform yourself on its internal strengths and weaknesses; and the four actions framework (in which you ask yourself four questions to challenge your established logic in an effort to gain a stronger competitive advantage).</p>
611. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31654261-strategic-thinking-skills" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31654261-strategic-thinking-skills</a></p>
612. <h3>The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth</h3>
613. <p>The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible. Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard Roth, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school contends. In The Achievement Habit, Roth applies the remarkable insights that stem from design thinking—previously used to solve large scale projects—to help us realize the power for positive change we all have within us. Roth leads us through a series of discussions, stories, recommendations, and exercises designed to help us create a different experience in our lives. He shares invaluable insights we can use to gain confidence to do what we’ve always wanted and overcome obstacles that hamper us from reaching our potential, including: Don’t try—DO; Excuses are self-defeating; Believe you are a doer and achiever and you’ll become one; Build resiliency by reinforcing what you do rather than what you accomplish; Learn to ignore distractions that prevent you from achieving your goals; Become open to learning from your own experience and from those around you; And more. The brain is complex and is always working with our egos to sabotage our best intentions. But we can be mindful; we can create habits that make our lives better. Thoughtful and powerful The Achievement Habit shows you how.</p>
614. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23462640-the-achievement-habit" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23462640-the-achievement-habit</a></p>
615. <h3>Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long by David Rock</h3>
616. <p>Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients&#8217; offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul&#8217;s brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they&#8217;re presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they&#8217;re in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it&#8217;s possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today&#8217;s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it-and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day. YOUR BRAIN AT WORK explores issues such as: &#8211; why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources &#8211; why it&#8217;s so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions &#8211; how to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems &#8211; how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible &#8211; how to collaborate more effectively with others &#8211; why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier &#8211; how to be more effective at changing other people&#8217;s behavior.</p>
617. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6899290-your-brain-at-work" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6899290-your-brain-at-work</a></p>
618. <h3>Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr</h3>
619. <p>&#8216;Measure What Matters shows how any organization or team can aim high, move fast, and excel&#8217; Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of Leanln.org and OptionB.org In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested $11.8 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, and with OKRs at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google. Since then Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than fifty companies, helping tech giants and charities exceed all expectations. In the OKR model objectives define what we seek to achieve and key results are how those top­priority goals will be attained. OKRs focus effort, foster coordination and enhance workplace satisfaction. They surface an organization&#8217;s most important work as everyone&#8217;s goals from entry-level to CEO are transparent to the entire institution. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations.</p>
620. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36388445-measure-what-matters" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36388445-measure-what-matters</a></p>
621. <h3>Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian</h3>
622. <p>A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they&#8217;ve found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one&#8217;s inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.</p>
623. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by</a></p>
624. <h3>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari</h3>
625. <p>Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.</p>
626. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus</a></p>
627. <h3>The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute</h3>
628. <p>Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute&#8217;s first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon—not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended it to colleagues, relatives, and friends.&nbsp;The Anatomy of Peace asks, What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? And what if, as a result, we unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve?&nbsp; Through an intriguing story we learn how and why we contribute to the divisions and problems we blame on others and the surprising way that these problems can be solved. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of the other&#8217;s ethnic cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is the story of how they came together, how they help warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the struggles that weigh us down.&nbsp;This second edition includes new sections enabling readers to go deeper into the book&#8217;s key concepts; access to free digital study and discussion guides; and information about The Reconciliation Project, a highly successful global peace initiative based on concepts in The Anatomy of Peace.</p>
629. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25480369-the-anatomy-of-peace" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25480369-the-anatomy-of-peace</a></p>
630. <h3>The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg</h3>
631. <p>A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter &amp; Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year. An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives.&nbsp; They succeeded by transforming habits.</p>
632. <p>In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.&nbsp;Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter &amp; Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.&nbsp;Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.</p>
633. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit</a></p>
634. <h3>Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens</h3>
635. <p>You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage if we have the virtue of resilience.</p>
636. <p>In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn&#8217;t seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging town, he d been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, as Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives.</p>
637. <p>Eric&#8217;s letters drawing on both his own experience and wisdom from ancient and modern thinkers are now gathered and edited into this timeless guidebook. Resilience explains how we can build purpose, confront pain, practice compassion, develop a vocation, find a mentor, create happiness, and much more. Eric s lessons are deep yet practical, and his advice leads to clear solutions.</p>
638. <p>We all face pain, difficulty, and doubt. But we also have the tools to take control of our lives. Resilience is an inspiring meditation for the warrior in each of us.</p>
639. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609866-resilience" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609866-resilience</a></p>
640. <h3>Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy by Mo Gawdat</h3>
641. <p>Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy.</p>
642. <p>In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness.</p>
643. <p>Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of “moonshot” goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier.</p>
644. <p>In&nbsp;<em>Solve for Happy</em>&nbsp;Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths.</p>
645. <p>No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.</p>
646. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30354426-solve-for-happy" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30354426-solve-for-happy</a></p>
647. <h3>Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons</h3>
648. <p>For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession&#8211;until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. &#8220;I think they just want to hire younger people,&#8221; his boss at&nbsp;<em>Newsweek</em>told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of &#8220;marketing fellow.&#8221; What could go wrong?</p>
649. <p>HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place &#8230; by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; &#8220;shower pods&#8221; became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the &#8220;content factory,&#8221; Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on &#8220;walking meetings,&#8221; and Dan&#8217;s absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had &#8220;graduated&#8221; (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball &#8220;chair.&#8221;</p>
650. <p>Mixed in with Lyons&#8217;s uproarious tale of his rise and fall at Hubspot is a trenchant analysis of the start-up world, a de facto conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them, a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their post-collegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to reach an IPO and cash out.</p>
651. <p>With a cast of characters that includes devilish angel investors, fad-chasing venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and &#8220;wantrapreneurs,&#8221; bloggers and brogrammers, social climbers and sociopaths,&nbsp;<em>Disrupted</em>&nbsp;is a gripping and definitive account of life in the (second) tech bubble.</p>
652. <p>Source: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26030703-disrupted" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26030703-disrupted</a></p>
653. <h2>Personal Reflections</h2>
654. <p>I enjoyed last year read. I had a range of books covering different topics, I have learnt a lot and explored new topics. You can notice I am a fan of Non-Fiction books!</p>
655. <p>My best reads for 2018 are</p>
656. <ul>
657. <li>Disrupted: amazing insights for a startup and funny book. I knew Hubspot before reading the book.</li>
658. <li>Solve for Happy: I listened to the audiobook. It is read by the author Mo Gawdat, and you can feel how genuine he is in his voice when he was telling the stories of his son. Brilliant work Mo</li>
659. <li>The Power of Habit: an eye opener book on one of the biggest myths in our life. How do we develop new habits or break old ones. a must for everyone.</li>
660. <li>Homo Deus: as usual Yuval shares provoking thoughts that stretch your mind and opens new &#8220;sometimes scary&#8221; horizons.</li>
661. </ul>
662. <p>I would love to hear your thoughts if you read any of these books.</p>
663. <p>Happy New Year!</p>
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683. <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
684. <category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
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691. <description><![CDATA[2018 has been a busy year with a furious competition between the major cloud providers (Top cloud providers 2018: How AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba stack up &#124; ZDNet) to provide new features, lower the entry barriers and figure out what is the next innovation?! With a huge focus on Machine Learning, Cognitive Services &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/predictions-for-cloud-platforms-2019/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Predictions for Cloud platforms&#160;2019</span></a></p>]]></description>
692. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2018 has been a busy year with a furious competition between the major cloud providers (<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-cloud-providers-2018-how-aws-microsoft-google-ibm-oracle-alibaba-stack-up/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Top cloud providers 2018: How AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, Alibaba stack up | ZDNet</a>) to provide new features, lower the entry barriers and figure out what is the next innovation?!</p>
693. <p>With a huge focus on Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and IOT, The cloud providers are looking to differentiate themselves to avoid (delay) the price war, increase penetration and accelerate adoption.</p>
694. <p>In my opinion, next year(s) will see a slight shift in the market demands and the rise of new cloud models. I started to signs of this change and <a href="https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-make-sense-of-weak-signals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">weak signals</a> of the future trajectory of the cloud market.</p>
695. <h3>Multi-Cloud &#8211; Many enterprise organisations are looking to adopt more than one cloud platform.</h3>
696. <div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right"><img class=" alignright" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQGdTY5_YYaIHQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1551312000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=QzkgRmM0kLylZUnTWULXR-lvW_7avoTO1hKUm_yNRsk" width="399" height="399" data-media-urn="" data-li-src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQGdTY5_YYaIHQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1551312000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=QzkgRmM0kLylZUnTWULXR-lvW_7avoTO1hKUm_yNRsk" /></div>
697. <p>There are several reasons for this</p>
698. <ol>
699. <li><strong>Diversification</strong>: Enterprises are trying to avoid vendor lock-in and sometimes it is pushed by procurement policies so that the IT Infrastructure is not dependent on one vendor</li>
700. <li><strong>Leverage Individual Strengths</strong>: Each Cloud provider is trying to differentiate by highlighting particular strengths from the other vendors. Microsoft are pushing Hybrid Cloud, Intelligent Cloud, Edge for IOT and PaaS. Google are playing on the big data and AI workloads. AWS are relying on the strength within the start-ups market, IaaS and Machine learning. Enterprise are looking to pick the right cloud for the workload. Although most of the cloud providers can do all workload with strengths, approaches. It is furious race!</li>
701. <li><strong>Disaster Recovery</strong>: Especially for mention critical workloads, Enterprises look to have an element of disaster recovery in case of the main cloud provider has serious issues, they can use another infrastructure.</li>
702. </ol>
703. <h3>Cross-Cloud migration/Integration &#8211; Enterprises are looking to be able to move between cloud providers and integrate workloads across clouds</h3>
704. <div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right"><img class=" alignright" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQEGj8x6PHjYnA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1551312000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=a5R6mZ5azk08EPDufKDWpVnWobq6URCaGU49DmgITi4" width="409" height="311" data-media-urn="" data-li-src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQEGj8x6PHjYnA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1551312000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=a5R6mZ5azk08EPDufKDWpVnWobq6URCaGU49DmgITi4" /></div>
705. <p>Following from the multi-cloud strategy, Enterprises will look to build integrations and networks between workloads across cloud providers. This will require a lot of design work and security planning, and I wonder if the cloud providers would facilitate or slow down this from happening.</p>
706. <p>As the competition gets stronger, Enterprise will request to move workloads across cloud providers to benefit from additional features, better prices&#8230;etc. This like any other IT products when client wants to change CRM platform or database&#8230;etc.</p>
707. <p>On the back of this, I see many Third-party tools will appear in the market to facilitate the migration between cloud providers, and as these tools get more robust, the move between cloud providers will be easier and this would add more pressure on the cloud providers to ensure their clients don&#8217;t leave them!</p>
708. <h3>Governance &#8211; new and enhanced operating models are needed to manage Clouds</h3>
709. <div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right"><img class=" alignright" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQF73tzYX0Ovmw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1551312000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=8cNaPwkaTxPbCmtpU9X6eufD_3cwvQKap-kGV7MGBxo" width="345" height="326" data-media-urn="" data-li-src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQF73tzYX0Ovmw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1551312000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=8cNaPwkaTxPbCmtpU9X6eufD_3cwvQKap-kGV7MGBxo" /></div>
710. <p>Traditional data centre or virtualized environments management is different from Cloud. The operating model, governance, quality gates and cost management are different. I see with the rise of PaaS adoption where you cannot have a limit on the maximum usage (e.g. number of messages goes through a queue or read/writes on a database), the cost management for usage-based services will be a huge topic, and it requires different ways of planning, control and management.</p>
711. <p>These are my personal views and I would love to hear your opinions and views the cloud next year.</p>
712. <p>Happy New Year!</p>
713. <p><strong>Disclaimer &#8211; </strong>all views are mine and doesn&#8217;t represent my employer or any cloud provider.</p>
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732. <title>It is the perfect storm! (AI, Cloud, Bots, IoT…etc.)</title>
733. <link>https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/it-is-the-perfect-storm-ai-cloud-bots-iotetc/</link>
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736. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marwan Tarek]]></dc:creator>
737. <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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741. <description><![CDATA[I am sure everyone who is close enough to technology notices how fast the technology is changing the face of the world. There are a lot of buzz words flying around by most of the vendors who are trying lead the market, just to name few (the most famous) Cloud Internet of Things (IoT) Artificial intelligence &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/it-is-the-perfect-storm-ai-cloud-bots-iotetc/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">It is the perfect storm! (AI, Cloud, Bots,&#160;IoT…etc.)</span></a></p>]]></description>
742. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="430" data-permalink="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/it-is-the-perfect-storm-ai-cloud-bots-iotetc/perfect-storm/" data-orig-file="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png" data-orig-size="1039,543" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="perfect-storm" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png?w=640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-430" src="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png" alt="perfect-storm" width="1039" height="543" srcset="https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png 1039w, https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png?w=150&amp;h=78 150w, https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png?w=300&amp;h=157 300w, https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png?w=768&amp;h=401 768w, https://marwantarek.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/perfect-storm.png?w=1024&amp;h=535 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1039px) 100vw, 1039px" />I am sure everyone who is close enough to technology notices how fast the technology is changing the face of the world. There are a lot of buzz words flying around by most of the vendors who are trying lead the market, just to name few (the most famous)</p>
743. <blockquote><p>Cloud</p></blockquote>
744. <blockquote><p>Internet of Things (IoT)</p></blockquote>
745. <blockquote><p>Artificial intelligence (AI)</p></blockquote>
746. <blockquote><p>Machine learning</p></blockquote>
747. <blockquote><p>Bots</p></blockquote>
748. <blockquote><p>Data science</p></blockquote>
749. <blockquote><p>Big Data</p></blockquote>
750. <blockquote><p>Blockchain</p></blockquote>
751. <p>I get comments from people saying with always had Artificial Intelligence so what’s new? we always could connect to devices and get data from sensors so what’s new?!</p>
752. <p>Personally I developed an artificial intelligence based intrusion detection system to detect software attacks, and it was using neural networks. This is was part of a software project in the university years ago.</p>
753. <p>So What’s new?</p>
754. <p>In my opinion, it is the perfect storm. A lot of tools and capabilities are available now that was hard to get before and thanks to the “Consumerisation of IT”.</p>
755. <p>Currently, everyone of us hold a device in his hand all the time (mobile), this device generates and contains a huge amount of data, it has GPS capabilities and always connected. Internet connection is now a commodity and available everywhere. Thanks to the cloud computing power and storage are available at any time 24&#215;7 and cost almost nothing.</p>
756. <p>When all of these factors gets together then you can connect to any device and analyse data in the cloud all the time using high computing power to build a machine learning algorithms.</p>
757. <p>Previously, all these components were fragmented and the barrier to entry was very high.</p>
758. <p>What we are seeing now is the perfect storm. All these components and much more are coming together, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/28/google-facebook-amazon-ibm-microsoft-partnership-on-ai-tech-firms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the biggest vendors in the world are investing billions of dollars in these different technologies</a>. I don’t see this stopping here. Systems will get smarter, more connected and we will get close to data. Data required for decision making will be obsolete and we will have access directly to the “Decision” at our finger tip — no need to make a decision!</p>
759. <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/28/google-facebook-amazon-ibm-microsoft-partnership-on-ai-tech-firms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">‘Partnership on AI’ formed by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft | Technology | The Guardian</a></p>
760. <p><a href="http://www.futuristgerd.com/2016/09/29/ai-is-not-the-future-its-the-present/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AI Is Not the Future, It’s the Present</a></p>
761. <p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/samsung-acquires-viv-a-next-gen-ai-assistant-built-by-creators-of-apples-siri/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri</a></p>
762. <p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/siri-creator-shows-off-first-public-demo-of-viv-the-intelligent-interface-for-everything/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Siri-creator shows off first public demo of Viv, ‘the intelligent interface for everything’</a></p>
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779. <title>Speaking at Collab365 Global Conference &#8211; Application modernisation using Microsoft Azure</title>
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784. <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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792. <description><![CDATA[It is great to announce that I am selected to speak in the most famous online event for Office 365 and Azure &#8211; Collab365 &#8211; Register for the event it free. Application modernisation using Microsoft Azure Overview: In this session, we are going to look at how the cloud technologies can help in applications modernisation. How &#8230; <p><a href="https://marwantarek.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/speaking-at-collab365-global-conference-application-modernisation-using-microsoft-azure/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Speaking at Collab365 Global Conference &#8211; Application modernisation using Microsoft&#160;Azure</span></a></p>]]></description>
793. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is great to announce that I am selected to speak in the most famous online event for Office 365 and Azure &#8211; <a href="http://collab365.events/collab365-global-conference-2016/" target="_blank">Collab365</a> &#8211; Register for the event it free.</p>
794. <h2><a>Application modernisation using Microsoft Azure</a></h2>
795. <div class="row-fluid">
796. <h5 class="roomLabel">Overview:</h5>
797. <div class="value">In this session, we are going to look at how the cloud technologies can help in applications modernisation. How Cloud can help and what the aspects you need to look at for a successful transformation.</div>
798. </div>
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800. <h5 class="roomLabel">You Will Learn:</h5>
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802. <li class="roomValue">Road to the cloud</li>
803. <li class="roomValue">Re-architect solutions to benefit from the cloud</li>
804. <li class="roomValue">Requirements for a successful transformation</li>
805. </ul>
806. </div>
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