CTOvision
DECEMBER 19, 2013
'By Bob Gourley If you love learning about technology this is a great time to be alive. There is so much out there worth learning. And there are so many free and open information sources. The only problem is picking your information sources. You have to prioritize or you can bury yourself in useless or even counterproductive info. With this post I want to highlight one of my favorites, SiliconANGLE.
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 15, 2013
'I just finished a graduate degree in public leadership from Virginia State University. My research for the degree focused on the opportunity to improve citizen satisfaction with local government by leveraging the trends of social media and the internet. I conducted an online survey, receiving 153 responses from 20 states. 70% of the responses were from Virginia.
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Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 11, 2013
'ManageEngine has already established itself in IT management. The company has expanded into facilities management for a DCIM product that manages the entire data center infrastructure.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 9, 2013
'Sponsored by Dimension Data. BYOD is a reality today. Organizations have been trying to figured out how to manage this new ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) reality but there are very few organizations that have robust strategies and solutions to manage this new mobile world. Most organizations have embraced BYOD with a few one-off solutions for data protection or security but for a long-term solution, organizations need a robust end-to-end strategy.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 11, 2013
'When team members don’t get along, everyone suffers Image Credit. I’m currently in charge of a department of skilled IT professionals. They each have their own set of skills that they bring to my company and I need each of them to be operating at peak efficiency if I want to have any hope of my company using the importance of information technology in order to become a success.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 26, 2013
'Thanks to everyone for making Social, Agile, and Transformation a part of your reading, tweeting, sharing, and commenting in 2013. Some of the top posts and themes of 2013 - Please Stop Creating Access Databases was the most read post and had several people commenting on their success and struggles using this database especially in the enterprise. I confess that I wrote the post out of.
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Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 4, 2013
'The theme for next week’s Gartner Data Center conference , “ Taking Charge, Leading Change — Your I&O Transformation Can’t Wait ”, is a real wake up call for today’s I&O leaders. Gartner’s focus on operational excellence highlights how the line-of-business and information technology (IT) management are being entangled by the fast moving and ever changing technology landscape.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 2, 2013
'It''s not exactly "Field of Dreams." But a field in Iowa provides evidence of how the data center revolution can transform a piece of empty land into a $1 billion Internet traffic hub in a matter of months.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 3, 2013
'I just read Tom Catalini’s “ Everybody Knows IT, But They Still Need Help ” where he wrote: People know IT now. But they also need help. That’s not necessarily obvious to them, because it can be obscured by their comfort level and experience. It’s obvious to you, though, so don’t be afraid to take a leadership role and help. Very true.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 18, 2013
'Not all standards are what they appear to be Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are always on the lookout for ways to simplify what the IT department is doing in order to boost the importance of information technology for your company. One way to make this happen is to have the department adopt the use of standards. You would think that that would be the end of it; however, those vendors are sneaky devils and you need to be careful that you don’t select a standard that is r
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Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 3, 2013
'How do IT departments and software development companies achieve consistency with their agile programs? Agile delivery methods make it easy to start small by winning one sprint at a time, one team at a time, and one product release at a time until organizations develop a rhythm of delivery and drive process improvement through retrospectives and self organization practices.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 30, 2013
'By Bob Gourley For years computer scientists have talked about the very interesting challenge regarding the desire to be able to operate over encrypted data in an advanced way called Homomorphic Encryption. This is a field that gets nuanced fast, with terms like “partially homomorphic” relevant to many existing systems that are in place, but Fully Homomorphic thought by many to be so far away to be just a dream.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 7, 2013
'In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information tech
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 15, 2013
'There were wide range of causes for data center downtime in 2013. The year''s major outages covered the spectrum, affecting clouds, companies, payment networks and governments at the federal, state and local level. Here’s our list of the Top 10 outages of 2013.
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Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 31, 2013
'I’ve written many times about big data and the benefits and challenges that come along with attempting to ‘do’ big data. The one thing I haven’t said much of is how easy it is to ‘do’ big data. It really is fairly straightforward and inexpensive to get started in the big data realm. Before I go any further, let me make a clarification – if you are going to use large amounts of data across multiple locations and you’ll be doing large-scale analysis, you’ll most likely need top spend some m
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 4, 2013
'The shadow IT department is the one that the CIO doesn’t know about Image Credit. As the person who has the CIO job, you’d like to think that you have things under control That when the rest of the company has an IT need they’ll come to you, ask your permission to do something, and then live with whatever you tell them. The reality is a bit different.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 23, 2013
'This year I have not been able to publish many back-to-basics readings, so I will not close the year with a recap of those. Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". The presentation was part of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum helt in September of this year.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2013
'By Bob Gourley If you are an analyst or executive or architect engaged in the analysis of big data, this is a “must attend” event. We will be there engaging with the community and hope to see you there. Registration is now open for the third annual Federal Big Data Apache Hadoop Forum! Register here. Join us on Thurs., Feb. 6, as leaders from government and industry convene to share Big Data best practices.
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Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 20, 2013
'In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information tech
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 4, 2013
'Liquid Web has a new private cloud offering that consists of a bare metal server on its Storm cloud platform that can be easily partitioned and moved between private and public clouds.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Big data is everywhere these days. Everyone’s talking about using data to make better decisions. According to most, big data is the answer to everything (although I’ve argued that big data isn’t the answer ). Many organizations from large to small are trying to find ways to collect and analyze data to make business decisions. Additionally, some organizations are looking for ways to collect even more data than they currently do because the current thinking is that ‘more data’ equates to ‘more in
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 25, 2013
'Here’s Hoping That You Name Shows Up On The “Nice” List This Year! Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming Christmas season week is a great week for you – I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume after the holidays… Everyone seems to celebrate something different this week, but I’m hoping that no matter how you choose to spend your time, you will enjoy yourself.
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Mick's IT Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2013
'I had the not so pleasure of replacing the screen on my wife''s iPad 2. There are plenty of videos on Youtube on how to do this. I am providing some tips on what I learned while doing this. It takes about 30 seconds of leaving the hair dryer on high with hot air to soften the adhesive Make sure you keep the hair dryer only on the edge of the iPad blowing away from it.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 16, 2013
'By Bob Gourley If you are a national security professional we most highly recommend pausing to watch the video at this link and embedded below. It is the video of a 60 minutes examination of NSA which includes interviews of General Alexander, Rick Ledgett and several NSA analysts. It also includes first ever public footage of key NSA watchfloors and analytical workspaces.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 8, 2013
'In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information tech
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'Storage has been a hot topic in 2013, and with the demand for storage only on the increase. We spoke with Radhika Krishnan, Vice President of Product Marketing and Alliances for Nimble Storage, a hybrid flash-disk storage provider at the Gartner Data Center Conference, and she noted the company had.
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The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 5, 2013
'While having my morning coffee this morning, I was reading t Preview hrough my emails and caught Martha Heller’s “The Heller Report” Martha’s report is one of the few newsletters that I always open and read – it is that good ( you should sign up ). The first item in the newsletter was an article by Chris Van Liew, Chief Information Officer, Weyerhaeuser Company titled CIO Says “I’m to Blame” if Vendors Don’t Deliver.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 22, 2013
'In order to be a success, a CIO needs to be able to find and work with partners. These partners have to be committed to the same things that the CIO is: the overall success of his or her company and IT department. What You’ll Find Inside: 7 WRONG WAYS TO OUTSOURCE YOUR IT DEPARTMENT. WHY DON’T IT ALLIANCES WORK OUT? DEALING WITH VENDORS AFTER YOU’VE SIGNED THE DEAL. 6 TIPS FOR PICKING THE RIGHT CLOUD PROVIDER TO PARTNER WITH.
Mick's IT Blog
DECEMBER 9, 2013
'Here is a script that will uninstall Autodesk 2014. This will uninstall BDS Ultimate, which should cover all Revit 2014 applications. This also uninstalls Civil 3D 2014, but does not cover anything else from the IDSP suite. There are three sections in this script. You can enter the argument at the command line to uninstall architecture, engineering, and Civil 3D.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 27, 2013
'By Bob Gourley If you work in enterprise technology, earth science or national security affairs you will immediately get the significance of the video at this link and embedded below. Please just pause and watch and think about how your world is changing and what new use cases you will have for this. After the video we also provide more via a press release from Skybox Imaging.
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