July 19th, 2011

Comment from: Peter Mojica] · http://www.biovigilsystems.com

I wrote a short paper on how different technologies satisfy hand-hygiene monitoring requirements (http://tinyurl.com/43akud9).

There are schools of thought that “any” technology that improves hand-hygiene is a “win”, even increasing spend on secret-shoppers. At the end of the day if you increase compliance, your net effect is a lowering of HAI’S and bottom-line you save lives with a cost variable based on how you go about it.

So, when it comes to hand-hygiene one might say that anything is better than nothing. But commercial solution vendors should make sure that customers and readers alike understand [unequivocally] that certain technologies like RTLS cannot, will not and do not detect complaint or defective hand-washing events. They are recording location and proximity events, and sometimes correlating proximity with best guess timings, and possibly manual breaking of a beam of light – and all of these complexities, taken either separate or in combination, have little to nothing whatsoever to do with detecting if a health-care worker actually washed their hands.

If you believe, like the CDC, Joint Commissions and World Health Organization does that “efficacy”; the capacity to produce an effect, has anything to do with hand-washing, and/or detecting a minimum parts per million of alcohol within a sanitizer and both in combination have anything to do with detecting either a compliant or defective hand-washing event, then you should also agree that RTLS systems do not detect actual compliant or non-compliant hand-washing events.

While some organizations may be OK with using technologies that are “good enough” the reality is that without a high-degree of certainty these same organizations cannot employ something simple such as an employee incentive program for hand-hygiene compliance.

They really become hampered, by their own technology, in achieving the larger goal which is to change human behavior!

Peter Mojica
CTO/CIO BIOVIGIL SYSTEMS
http://www.biovigilsystems.com

07/21/11 @ 16:23

1. Email Storage Quotas

2. Is there a need for IM archiving in corporations?

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4. What is your definition of "Information"?

5. What are the top three issues with green or sustainable IT?

6. What is needed from Data Storage providers to enable Cloud Bursting?

7. Do you have geographic data restriction issues with cloud computing?

8. Application Retirement and Data Retention

9. Automatic classification

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    Securing Web Application Log Files

11. Google Search Appliance for the Enterprise

12. As a start-up, or a small, or a medium sized company, what would you expect from the Cloud Computing movement to help your business?

13. Regulatory requirements are driving longer record retention periods and the ability to prove data authenticity with threats of law suits or stiff penalties. What challenges do companies face when planning and implementing appropriate archival strategies?

14. Is anyone using an optical storage system for books and records - and does it meet FINRA/SEC retention requirements?

15. How much does your ISP business overcommit its physical disk space for subscriber's e-mail quotas?

16. Back End Storage For Virtual Environment

17. Are you the master of your inbox?

18. Why don't [huge external] disk drives come with "spotlight/desktop search" indexing built in?

19. In the age of Blue rays, Flash drives,etc do you think that still is there any need of floppy drives in systems ?

20. What is your current email retention policy?

21. The "easy" button....what would you like to see in a perfect Document Management system?

22. What's the best method for your Small-to-Medium Business: onsite email or hosted email?

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    What's the difference between single instance storage vs deduplication?

24. Does anyone work for a company that has more then 10 Terabytes of data that they currently back up on tape?

25. What are the tools and process to store intelligent?

26. How are Storage Assessments being recevied by the Storage community?

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29. What are the top security, privacy or compliance issues you face around data storage?

30. Any opinions about long term digital/electronic archiving? I understand CD's have a limited lifespan. So what is the best long term solution? This is for Corporate documents.

31. Has Cloud Computing matured enough for adoption?

32. What's the difference between Information and Data?

33. Is our ability to store and access huge quantities of information driving demand for bandwidth or is inexpensive access to high-speed networks creating a market for large-scale data repositories?

1. What are the pros and the cons of storing media in the file system versus a database?

2. What are the most important decision factors when selecting a provider for your next software development project?

3. As an "End Customer" do you really care if your application developer integrates third party products if the end result is a great application delivered at a lower cost and on time? If you do care, why?

4. Is Cloud Computing Secure?

1. How are others (particularly individuals in the financial sector whom have to comply with SOX) dealing with email messages that have to be kept beyond a policy designated email retention time because of e-discovery hold?

2. I am looking for information on ediscovery and digital forensics systems and services and would appreciate any advice, guidance and recommendations

3. What is a good place to start to ensure that my company data is protected?

1. What surprises should we warn IT practitioners about before the move to cloud computing?

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1. what are your best selling techniques to overcome a customer's desire to pilot test or competitively compare a high ticket (cost exceedng 2% of annual revenues), substantially proven, software product?

2. How do you handle the ‘comfort zone’ effect, whereby a salesperson’s income stream is large enough that they now become complacent or sluggish in growing their book of business?

3. What are the Top Five questions you would like to ask a prospect that came off your pipeline?

4. You sell a product that is regarded with a high degree of skepticism. Would you A. rather have the best product on the market and little company support; or B. a mediocre product with great company support?

5. Is it an advantage or a disadvantage for a sales person to have a high level of empathy?

6. I need some help with qualifying prospects. Anyone have any advice for me?

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2. Does a technical leader need to be versed in the architecture and tools used by their team.

3. HP seals EDS deal; Will they grow together or is there trouble ahead?

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2. What Technology is likely to kill off Google

3. What is the software industry average for % of revenue generated by training on a product or solution?

1. How to price an OEM whereas I give a unique technology for another company to use in it's products?

2. What are the different ways to estimate revenue for a new product feature?

3. What strategies are used to price a Software product ?

4. What is the most suitable pricing policy for repeat business ?

5. For enterprise software companies: Do you publish a price list for all to see (like on your werb site)? Why or why not?

1. With the increasing GSM/CDMA network speeds don't you think laptop and mobile phone will converge into just one device? And what will this device look like?

1. What are your thoughts on the Open source email system SCALIX owned by Xandros

2. What are the benefits for ISV(Independent Software Vendor's) to go for Software as a Service (SaaS) model of software deployment?

3. Looking for a webservice for automatic text / document classification

1. Hypothetical Data Retention Question

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   E-discovery on medical devices with data that relates to European and U.S. citizens on the same device?

3. What is the future of Financial Regulatory Authorities? Global and Local?

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   GOOD LEADERSHIP - DOES IT HAPPEN?

1. Google's Gmail space continues to grow - I am at 6 GB and growing daily. What is their planned upper limit?

1. Twitter? Are you using this SM tool?

2. Wireless: What are the elements to consider when pricing mobile multimedia services to final end-users?

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   Next disruptive shift : Why -Who -What ....?

1. Strategy defined.

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   For IT Directors or CIOs - What evidence or approach do you use when you need LOB funding for IT projects

I’ve responded to quite a number of questions (nearly 400) on the Linkedin System. With so much content stored and no guarantee of preservation I am moving selected q&a’s over to preserve them here. Ask more questions here…

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I’ve been selected for additional screening several times (both in Charlotte and in San Diego, two places which have made the news) and to be honest I just grin and bear it, as a seasoned business traveler I am trying to get someplace and the last thing I need or want to do is cause myself to be delayed, miss a flight and or a meeting.

I did learn however why I was being selected for the additional screening so often, since the X-ray machine requires that you take off your belt (plus everything else in your pockets), something that I didn’t do going through the metal detectors, my pants were falling down, and the minute I put my hands in my pockets to keep my pants up, I triggered a TSA protocol for the additional screening. It didn’t make any sense to me, I just went through the X-Ray and you saw me butt naked, why do I now have to go through an invasive pat down? I could’ve understood the logic if I went through the metal detector. Then, one of the agents finally explained that the second I put my hands in my pocket, as I was stepping out of the X-Ray machine, it’s an automatic thing. It still doesn’t make any sense, but OK, at least my question was answered.

So don’t put your hands in your pocket or conversely put your hands in your pockets if you want to test the security protocol. Anyway, yes – the screenings were invasive and maybe it’s a male vs. female thing, but quite frankly I just didn’t care (as long as it’s just me). If I was traveling on leisure with my 10 year old daughter, I would not allow her to be “patted” down; my view point would be totally different, to the point where I would re-consider air travel all together.  But, for a lone road-warrior– it’s just one more thing – and I do keep in mind that the end goal is security, percentages of effectiveness aside, it is for security – so why would I be against that. Plus, we are at version 1.0, like software products version 2.0 will hopefully be more effective and more user friendly.

As a frequent business traveler I just want to get to my seat and get my roller board in the overhead, near my seat without having to swim upstream when the plane lands – so I don’t have time to get into debates with TSA agents when I travel – and actually I take a different approach, for the airports that I frequent often, you tend to see the same agents over and over, so I make sure I greet the TSA agents, say hello, get to know their names, and make a little small talk if at all possible, so they remember me the next time – the old adage you get more with honey than with vinegar still works. I certainly can’t afford to turn away and go back home when I’m traveling on business, so maybe I’m a bit taken hostage by the process and cavalier with the bigger issues, but I don’t think so.  The news talks about the beginnings of a police state, and such. Well, if you’ve ever lived in a shore community, where the night life gets a little wild with youth in the summer, then you have been overly subjected to the weekend DWI road blocks, quite the inconvenience if you are a local, but we put up with them and they are nothing more than legalized excuses to stop and scrutinize motorists for which there would otherwise be no reason to do so. And for how long have these been around, and don’t make a U-Turn to get off the line (or else).  Or, have you ever been stopped by a State Trooper, let’s be honest you know the protocol, “Yes Sir, No Sir, Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Thank you sir, Good day sir” I’ll take my ticket and shut up. So the TSA security pat down is tantamount to the beginnings of a Police State? HHmmmm.

All that said, I do disagree with many of the cable news pundits. I do believe the security screening is (capital letters IS) effective. To me it’s just common sense, if someone has bad intentions, and that bad intention is on their person, how could all of the hullabaloo taking place at the security entrance at the gate areas not make anyone think twice about going through? Is it a stop gap measure, just one plug in a large damm with many holes, OK, yeah I get it – put on your big boy pants stop the whining and just devise a better, smarter way to solve the problem and make a boat load of money in the process, isn’t that the American way.

Also, I’m not sure what the percentage of road warriors is to non-road warriors but I’ve heard that less than 4% of the traveling public are frequent fliers, which means that the lion share of the people chiming in on this debate are barely affected. Overall there seems to be two sides to the debate, the give an inch take a mile concern in terms of government intrusiveness vs. take all you want just keep me safe, perception vs. reality, whatever – safe is safe. Which side do us road warriors fall on this one?

Good Luck and safe travels,

-Peter

csi1000.com

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You can read Awarepoint’s announcement of my appointment here.

I am extremely excited, humbled, and, candidly, torn by this opportunity.

In early 2003, Andy Typaldos, Elias Typaldos and Gerry Vendome the co-founders of AXS-One (formerly Computron Software) and the then current CEO John Rade all took a chance on me. I was a former IT executive (or Chief Bottle Washer) who left the corporate world several years prior to join the dot-com ranks of start-ups and entrepreneurs – after several ventures in management consulting, e-commerce and storage management I was a storage and long-term archive or better said, a digital preservation, compliance and legal discovery evangelist and I spent most of my time advising companies, governments and some academia types on how to keep large volumes of electronic data around and readable for a very long time, typically the 100 year + category, along with all of the risks [or not] of doing so. I was also doing some work with various start-up ventures helping them to differentiate their storage and data encryption security products for the US storage market.

In 2003, when Andy (one of the original founders of the company) walked me into AXS-One the executive team gave me the opportunity to build a new commercial software product and business venture for enterprise scale archival, compliance and legal discovery within a publicly traded 40Mil dollar a year co. and steer it where it needed to go in order to grow a new world wide software business. What they didn’t know, at the time, was that I had actually started my career working as a software developer for large law firms developing case management and discovery systems, something that would a few years later turn out to be a be a pretty good thing.

My 5+ years at AXS-One were some of the best years of my career, working with great people who have pushed me to work harder, become smarter, and do better. I was fortunate to be in the middle of a number of industry inflection points around storage, new cloud innovations, decreasing storage cost, huge data volumes, major concerns around e-mail and electronic communications such as social media, new search technologies, increasing compliance mandates and a heated need for legal discovery – and we were able to continually invent and build great software that “killed the competition” and served our large enterprise customers needs, some before they or even the industry knew they needed it. That’s real magic.

It’s not every day that you get a chance to build new products in a newly emerging software category and go head-to-head competitively with IBM, EMC, Symantec, and a few other billion dollar entities, and beat them to the punch regularly.  Our early success drove a 1200% increase in the company’s stock value, and drove new successive wins, quarter over quarter, with Blue Chip accounts and quarter over quarter profitability.

And although I’ve been very fortunate to help the company to grow, I also had a chance to experience first-hand its down-slide, another type of learning experience that you don’t pick up in business school.

A US economic down-turn that affected nearly every business and that combined with some poorly executed management decisions by a newly hired CEO eventually took a highly successful nearly 300 person company with employees and customers in over 15 countries and a market cap that we grew from 12mil to nearly 100mil to become an acquisition candidate in the fire-sale category – and while it may have been nice to roll-up my sleeves and prove that it can be done all over again, the cheese had moved and I realized it was time for change.

I reached out to several friends and business contacts to solicit their help in re-joining the likes of the bigger companies (Microsoft, Cisco, a couple of big investment banks, EMC, EDS/HP, Sun/Oracle etc.) and I was all but ready to pull the trigger on another Chief Bottle Washer opportunity when I received a call from Awarepoint, a company that I was already working with as an advisory board member, and they were growing and looking to expand in several areas.

As a member of their advisory board I was already impressed with the caliber of their people and their tremendous value proposition, products and overall market strategy.

Well, after meeting with them further I felt right at home, these are bright, driven people and I was primed and ready to join them in whatever capacity would work best for the company, so here I am the newly hired VP of Product Management. It is an opportunity to expand my experience and to work on some really hard and varied problems; it’s also the opportunity to work again with some fantastic people.

As the Vice President of Product Management,  I am tasked with aligning the company’s strategic goals with the delivery of consistently great products, the optimization of day-to-day product management, and extending Awarepoint’s market leadership position. Some of these things are very familiar to me; others like being a new vertical industry aren’t. That’s precisely the challenge I feel I need!

I will remain living in Charlotte but will commute regularly to San Diego, where most of the Awarepoint  executives are based.

A big thanks, to all of my friends and business contacts who were willing ready and able to help me re-join one of those “big” companies again and I won’t think any less of you for staying holed up in your cushy corner offices, while I enjoy the never ending entrepreneur spirit to build the next billion dollar company!

Peter Mojica, VP Product Management | pmojica@awarepoint.com

See press release

Peter has launched a new company in the mental health-care space called, TimeMind.me. (Our focus is a SaaS based software solution and strategy for improving and managing ADHD).

Served as, Vice President of Product Management at Awarepoint

Served as, Senior Director of Product Strategy and Product Management at Unify Corporation (formerly VP, Product Management/Strategy, Business Development & Global Partner Strategy for AXS-One).

Served as, Co-Chair for SNIA-DMF Long-Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative (LTACSI) & Chair for SNIA-DMF Reference Guide Committee

• Contact me at peter.mojica@gmail.com
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*On June 30, 2009 Unify Corp. (NASDAQ: UNFY) acquired AXS-One.