April, 2015

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Cisco: Creating value for enterprises by transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate

CTOvision

This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Cisco is one of the most widely recognizable brands in the technology landscape. They are known for enterprise scale delivery of solutions that really work. They are also known for their customer focus. In the DC ecosystem that is made apparent by their consistent and continuous interaction with thought leaders in agencies and with the major systems integrators that serve the federa

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How Data Center Virtualization Shrinks Physical Distance

Data Center Knowledge

'In working with cloud and virtualization, specifically around data center infrastructure, we see that there is an underlying theme: removing the complexity of distance. Read More.

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Who’s In The Driver’s Seat When It Comes To Analytics Projects

The Accidental Successful CIO

When it comes to analytics projects, somebody has to be driving Image Credit: Leslie Wong. You know, for years and years we’ve talked about trying to align business and IT and yet we never seemed to make much progress. Well I’ve got some good news for you: the arrival of analytics projects where large amounts of business data has to be crunched in order to get the answers that the business needs is driving IT and the rest of the business closer together than ever before.

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Humanizing Big Data – A Book Review

Eric D. Brown

I received a review copy of Humanizing Big Data by Colin Strong a few weeks ago. The subtitle to the book is “Marketing at the meeting of Data, Social Science and Consumer Insight”… that should give you a good feel about the contents of this book. It isn’t a heavy duty data science book…it is targeted more at folks in the marketing world to allow them to better understand the types of data that they may encounter as well as understand how that data might be analyze

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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20 Bad Behaviors of Agile Development Product Owners

Social, Agile and Transformation

I've worked with some very strong Agile Product Owners, others that needed a lot of help transitioning from BRD centric waterfall product management, and others that have strong backgrounds in other product roles (product strategy, management, or marketing) and are new to agile product development. I've partnered with many successful agile product owners that have launched innovative.

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PowerShell: Move PowerShell console during script execution

Mick's IT Blog

'I heavily use PowerShell during the SCCM imaging process for installing each application. There are often times that I will watch the build to make sure everything is working correctly. When it calls a task sequence which calls a PowerShell script, the script will often open up in the top left of the screen and is covered up by the build status window.

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Report: Apple Resuming Oregon Data Center Expansion Following End Of Controversial Tax

Data Center Knowledge

'Shortly following data center exemption from a controversial central assessment tax in Oregon, Apple is reportedly resuming expansion of its data center in Prineville. Read More.

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How CIOs Can Mine Other Company’s Data For Gold

The Accidental Successful CIO

'There is gold in other company’s data streams, CIOs just need to know how to find it Image Credit: Tony Oliver. Data, data, data everywhere. Oh, and then there is that security thing. When you have the CIO job today, you have your hands full because of the importance of information technology just trying to stay on top of all of the data that your company is generating.

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Making Theory Meet Practice

Eric D. Brown

'This won’t surprise many people (at least I hope it doesn’t)…there is a huge difference between “theory” and “practice” I’m an academic AND and practitioner. I have a Doctorate in Information Systems and have worked in aspects of IT / IS for almost 20 years now. Theory is great at preparing people for doing things in the real world, but many times theory is just that…theory.

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Don't Let Your SaaS Solutions Become Tomorrow's Data Silos in the Cloud

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Can your SaaS platforms support data and workflow integration or are they data silos in the cloud? I''m a big proponent of SaaS solutions especially when they offer simple user interfaces, configurable workflows and advanced analytics that enable the targeted organizations to be more productive and data driven. I prefer partnering with experienced SaaS providers that can deliver on their.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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PowerShell: Application List

Mick's IT Blog

'This script will generate a list of installed applications minus those in the exclusion list text file. I created this script so the help desk could have a concise list of applications that need to be installed post-build. The script excludes all apps that are in the exclusion list, which includes everything in our build. I wrote the script so that it can be executed from SCCM on a per system basis.

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About WayIn: A Social Media Intelligence Company

CTOvision

This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. We are very pleased to help bring WayIn into the DC tech ecosystem by introducing them at our Synergy Forum. This social intelligence company integrates content into new experiences for consumers and also provides enterprises with new ways to deliver value from social media.

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Venyu Turning Defunct Mississippi Department Store Into Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. Louisiana data center provider Venyu has walked through Katrina, Rita and Gustav. The disaster recovery specialist has its first data center outside of Louisiana in the works, repurposing a former department store Read More.

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Big Data Is Only Valuable To CIOs If They Know How To Use It

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Just having big data is not enough, you need to know what to do with it Image Credit: Ian Alexander Martin. CIOs everywhere are being overwhelmed with talk about “big data” This is simply using IT systems and tools to process very large data sets in order to answer questions about how best to run the company. What used to be too big of a task for anyone to attempt has become doable with new tools and techniques allowing us to harness the importance of information technology.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Maintaining the Delicate Balancing Act as CIO

Eric D. Brown

'I just ran across an article titled “ The CIO balancing act: agility, innovation, cost savings ” over on The Enterprisers Project. If you haven’t stumbled across The Enterprisers Project in the past, make sure to add it to your daily routine (RSS feeds, twitter, etc etc) as there is always some great content over there. In “ The CIO balancing act: agility, innovation, cost savings “, the author writes that the CIO maintain “a delicate balancing act… bet

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5 Principles on What Makes a Great Agile Development Team

Social, Agile and Transformation

'The CIO must learn and drive the business, set the strategic direction for IT and proves that he or she can get teams executing to the strategy. I''ve posted many times on how agile practices are key to a CIO''s success because it creates transparency, dives culture change, and is a key element to innovation. IT is All About the Team So yes, strategy is important.

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SCCM: SCCM PowerShell SCUP Alternative

Mick's IT Blog

'I have wanted to be able to update an application on the fly without having to create new application packages in SCCM. This is especially useful for applications that are updated quite frequently, such as Java Runtime Environment. This can be done by using the custom script detection method. The following script I wrote will go out and extract the product code from the MSI installer located in the source installation directory.

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CTOvision Readers Eligible For 20% Discount Off Solid Conference June 23-25 San Francisco

CTOvision

The Solid Conference dives deep into Hardware, Software and the Internet of Things, June 23-25 in San Francisco, CA. You have been tracking the trends and realize the traditional boundaries between hardware and software are falling. Whatever you choose to call this disruption—the Internet of Things, new hardware, the Industrial Internet—it’s the same exciting revolution: a perfect storm of opportunity for a software-enhanced, networked physical world.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Another Layer of Defense Against Cyber Attacks

Data Center Knowledge

Once seen only as a tool for load balancing, application delivery controllers (ADCs) are now used as the final line of defense should a malicious attack penetrate the data center's perimeter. Read More.

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Tweeps Are People Too!!

Cloud Musings

I woke up this morning to the devastating news about the earthquake in Nepal. Sitting here in California that destruction is literally on the other side of the world but my mind immediately went to thinking about my good friend Jeremy Geelan. See Jeremy and his family have been living in Kathmandu for a while now. His wife, in fact, is the Danish Ambassador to Nepal !

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Beware the Strategy Trap(s)

Eric D. Brown

'A nice short post over on Farnam Street today highlights the various traps that people and companies can find themselves in when they begin looking at strategy and strategic planning. The article, titled “ Six Strategy Traps “, highlights a passage from a great book on strategy by Roger Martin and A. G. Lafley titled “ Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works.” I’ve read the book and enjoyed it.

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Interop Liveblog: The Post-Cloud

Scott Lowe

This session is titled “The Post-Cloud,” and the speaker is Nick Weaver, Director of SDI-X at Intel. Nick starts his presentation with a summary of our society: some people produce goods through an effort, and others consume what is produced. Things have changed over the years that have affected this production-consumption model, but Nick quickly turns his focus to the use of machines in the production portion of this cycle.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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System Thinking vs. Process Thinking

Future of CIO

There are more than synergy between System Thinking (ST) and Process Thinking (PT). Systems Thinking is how the whole system works together. A process is a smaller part of the larger system. A system is an entity which maintains its existence through the mutual interaction of its parts with a sequence of activities, to keep the coherence of the parts and ensure the required functions.

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Carahsoft: IT Solutions for Government

CTOvision

This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. The platinum sponsor of the 30 April Synergy Forum is Carahsoft Technology Corp. We have known and worked with Carahsoft for years, they have become an institution in the federal technology ecosystem, known for being able to help government agencies find the right technology to serve their missions and also known for helping tech firms do business with government.

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Testing is Key to Successful Cloud Migration

Data Center Knowledge

Once you decide that performance testing is a necessary step in the cloud migration process, you should follow three key best practices that ensure critical insight and awareness about the capabilities of your environment. Read More.

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Tweeps Are People Too!!

Cloud Musings

I woke up this morning to the devastating news about the earthquake in Nepal. Sitting here in California that destruction is literally on the other side of the world but my mind immediately went to thinking about my good friend Jeremy Geelan. See Jeremy and his family have been living in Kathmandu for a while now. His wife, in fact, is the Danish Ambassador to Nepal !

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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[Video] Ravello Systems Nested ESXi First Look

Virtualized Greek

A quick 3 min. introduction to Ravello Systems and their inception (running ESXi inside of AWS/Google Compute). This is a follow up to my earlier post on their announcement of support for ESXi.

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Interop Liveblog: Thursday Cloud Connect Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Thursday morning Cloud Connect keynote at Interop 2015 in Las Vegas. The title of the presentation is “Doing it Live,” and the speaker is Jared Wray ( @jaredwray on Twitter; he’s Cloud CTO and SVP of Platform at CenturyLink). As the session kicks off, Wray shares that his presentation was drastically altered, a nod to the drastic changes that he is seeing at CenturyLink.

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Problem vs. Opportunity Mindset

Future of CIO

So it comes down to how one perceives: A 'problem' for one, is an 'opportunity' for the other. We are all familiar with this philosophical reasoning: Every risk (problem) has an opportunity in it, and every opportunity has a risk (problem) in it. Isn't opportunities and problems the same thing only with a perceptive change? Doesn't it come down to how we view the situation - at the time it could be a problem or it could be an opportunity.

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Palo Alto Federal Forum 20 May 2015 at Newseum

CTOvision

Are you responsible for network security? Or do you manage security projects for your organization? You may want to check out the 2015 Palo Alto Federal Forum on 20 May 2015 at the Newseum in Washington, DC. This event is suitable for newcomers to Palo Alto Networks, as well as seasoned experts responsible for their organization's security, and will provide insight into the latest products.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.