CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority , mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude (from Wikipedia ). . The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments published in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 27, 2014

'In the ultimate manifestation of the "server hugger" who wants to be close to their equipment, hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 18, 2014

'I was surprised this morning to see an article about the "janitorial" work data scientists have to perform to be able to find "nuggets" in big data. Actually, my only surprise is that the story is in the NY Times and that they are covering the least glamorous side of the "sexiest" job. Why is data so messy? Let''s start with the past. The history of data science starts with complicated.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 27, 2014

'CIOs need to prepare for the day that traditional IT comes to the end of the line Image Credit. The era of IT as we’ve come to know it is coming to an end. The IT department functions that have gotten us this far are now coming to an end. Keeping the company’s email systems up and running, implementing an big ERP project, and securing the corporate network from the bad guys is no longer what the company needs us to do for them.

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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.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 13, 2014

'A recent article Inc.com article claimed that the percentage of U.S. small businesses using cloud computing is expected to more than double during the next six years, from 37 percent to nearly 80 percent ( [link] ). This forecast was gleaned from a just released Emergent Research and Intuit study. This statement is also very scary in that it also highlights the growing importance of the cybersecurity threat to the nations economic livelihood.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 28, 2014

'Without even debating, I again found myself on the losing end of an argument with VMware’s Martin Casado. In our first conversation over a year ago, he explained to me why network virtualization and specifically NSX, which hadn’t been released.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Columbus Business First has uncovered a massive Amazon project in Central Ohio. Amazon''s hosting subsidiary Vadata has filed for a tax credit in Central Ohio for a project estimated at $1.1 billion. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Sometime ago I saw a question posted on a social media site, "Why is Agile hard to adopt?" My initial gut response was surprise. The basic practices of agile are relatively straightforward, so what''s hard? Driving an agile culture, or getting an organization to "operate with agility", yes, that''s not trivial and it takes time for teams and individuals to "think agile".

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 15, 2014

'It turns out that CIOs can transform the IT department into a revenue generator Image Credit: Joe+Jeanette Archie. One of the biggest challenges that the person with the CIO job has is that the department that they are responsible for is more often than not viewed as being a cost center. What this means is that the IT department spends and spends and spends and never seems to actually bring in any money.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

'GovCloud Network is proud to announce that we have teamed with Tech Equity Ltd to deliver cloud education and training on a global basis. With this partnership, GovCloud Network will also add the Cloud Clinique Online Training and Cloud Computing Best Practices program to it''s list of services. CloudClinique is an online cloud certification platform that contains over 7,500 cloud best practice concepts across 18 separate domains.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 30, 2014

'I while back I talked to VMware’s Martin Casado about their Goldilocks Zone concept within the VMware hypervisor. The ability to implement security concepts such as micro-segmentation with your virtual infrastructure is a great example of this Goldilocks concept.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously written about Wayin (I am proud to be one of their advisors). Their capabilities continue to evolve to enable organizations to continually improve how social media is used to both understand and engage. Wayin’s success in the marketplace has centered around sensemaking over social data in ways that can improve the value delivered to consumers and clients.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Switch''s SuperNAP 8 data center has now earned Tier IV Gold certification for Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute, recognizing its best practices as well as facility design. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store (part of ESXi hypervisor) built on top of a SCSI LUN (e.g. SAS, SATA, iSCSI, Fibre Channel aka FC, FCoE aka FC over Ethernet, IBA/SRP, etc) or an NFS file system presented by a storage system (or appliance), VVOL’s push more functionality and visibility down into the storage system.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Avon made a big mistake when they designed their new software Image Credit. As CIO we have a number of different tasks that the company is expecting us to do. However, there is one task that takes priority over all of these other takes: implementing large software projects. Over at Avon they just did one of these big projects and it has ended in failure.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Veterans 360 will be attending the Gartner Catalyst Conference. They are also sponsoring the attendance of active duty service members that are currently in the US military and serving in an IT related position. If you are in such a technology role and are interested in attending this “must-attend” technology conference to learn strategies on how to leverage mobile, cloud, and big data.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 31, 2014

'I’ve been giving containers a second thought at least from a concept perspective. One of my more faithful readers Lennie, has been pushing containers for the past year or so. I wrote about how containers will probably never catch on.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost and Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. This event us unique in the DC ecosystem. We are focused on enabling people who make a difference in things cyber. We serve the community of practitioners who really get things done.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 28, 2014

'The “software-defined” term, applied as a modifier to data center, networks or storage, is growing in popularity. Software-defined solutions, like virtualization did before them, can allow for a great deal of flexibility and efficiency of shared resources.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'Recently the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) made an announcement pertaining to the continued development and enhancements including FC-BB-6 that applies to both "classic" or "legacy" FC as well as the newer and emerging FCoE implementations. FCIA is not alone in the FCIA activity as they are as the name implies the industry consortium that works with the T11 standards folks.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 6, 2014

'The office is where a CIO must do the best job of communicating Image Credit. In the 21st Century, all business seems to be done globally. However, in order for the person with the CIO job to be effective, you are going to have to be able to communicate in the old fashion way – face to face. What this means is that you will need to master the art of office communications as yet another way to capture the importance of information technology.

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A Screw's Loose

AUGUST 15, 2014

'I spend a lot of time talking about devices and apps. Not necessarily because I want to be talking about them, but that’s what people think mobility is about. They want to get into conversations about Android or iOS (they both have their strengths), why they think Windows Phone OS will succeed or fail, or [.].

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

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.

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 15, 2014

'Sorry no Mrs. in this video. In preparation for a deep dive on micro-segmentation, I give a high level over of Micro-Segmentation as I understand it currently. High level mirco-segmentation is a attribute of the Goldilocks zone VMware believes.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 28, 2014

'By AdamElkus. Over at Wired , a headline blares “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How To Treat You.” Sounds unique, novel, and even scary. Those AIs are replacing humans, to the point where even the detailed knowledge of the physician is superseded by a Dr. HAL! The article talks about Modernizing Medicine database and IBM’s Watson supercomputer.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Cooling is changing in the data center, and the latest technological advances, while not implemented universally yet, are making headway in specific instances in the data center space. Scot Heath, an engineer with CLEAResult, was asked about the present and future state of cooling in the data.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'For those of you in VMware environments, now is the time to add VVOL to your vocabulary which might mean simply taking the time to read a piece like this, or digging deeper into the theories of operations, configuration, usage, hints and tips, tutorials along with vendor specific implementations.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 13, 2014

When you are hiring, make sure that you hire the right people… Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, one of your most important jobs is to hire the right team to help you run the IT department. The importance of information technology is understood by CIOs, but the importance of the hiring process all too often is not. CIOs will often try to perform this job based on their “gut feel” What we all need to understand is that hiring the right people is a process.

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A Screw's Loose

AUGUST 20, 2014

'We all hear about shadow IT. It’s a scary term, brought up in articles and conversations. It’s defined as people going around the rules and policies of IT or implementing technology outside of IT’s purview. It’s used by a lot of vendors to point out what can be going wrong in a company. Normally they [.].

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2014

'VMware made what I felt are 3 major announcements at VMworld 2014 - EVO – Hyper-Converged It took 30 minutes for VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger to get to this announcement. He spent a lot of time prepping.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 18, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Enterprises everywhere have been seeking improved ways to make use of their data. Federal agencies have in many ways been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

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