January, 2015

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The Future Cheetah

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. MIT has created a robotic cheetah that has the ability to run and jump like a real animal. The robo-cheetah is built with a new algorithm that allows it to leap in a lively manner, while navigating the terrain of a grass lawn. This cheetah can run up to a speed of 10 mph, whereas a real cheetah can run at a speed of 60 mph. This new robot has helped researchers understand animal locomotion and how to make future robots move more efficiently.

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With Colocation Security, Never Assume Anything

Data Center Knowledge

'From random spot checks at colos to being part of Cisco’s utopic One Cloud vision, BT Americas CTO Jason Cook offers a glimpse into the giant’s infrastructure strategy Read More.

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The Right Services in the Right Way

Eric D. Brown

'I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to efficiently and effectively add, remove and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.”. I still stand by that definition but I wanted to expand on it a bit. Agility does allow organizations to ‘add, remove and changes services’ quickly and easily.

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Who Owns DevOps???

Social, Agile and Transformation

'An agile development team is humming along, maturing its practice, putting out regularly scheduled application releases, improving quality, and making business users happy. Then, something happens. Maybe the infrastructure needs an upgrade or needs to scale. Maybe there is a difficult to diagnose performance issue. Or maybe, the business and development teams are looking to deploy a new.

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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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Is This The Death Of Offshoring?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Offshoring As We’ve Known It May Be Dead Image Credit: Vitor Lima. Once upon a time, offshoring was the answer to every CIOs dreams. It offered a great way to significantly grow the IT department while at the same time reducing the total costs of running the department. What make it even better was that somebody else had to deal with the real-world issues of managing people and the person with the CIO job could just focus on results.

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Learn How To Buy Cloud From GovLoop & ViON

Cloud Musings

'"Government IT managers must accept that cloud computing services are services, not the purchases of technology. This usually represents a fundamental change in how technology is acquired and managed. Since the transaction doesn’t involve any physical entity, procedures and processes associated with the inspection, acceptance, inventory and management of IT may not apply.

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How Data Center Operators Can Avoid Energy Price Hikes This Winter

Data Center Knowledge

'Energy consumption is one of the largest operating expenses for a data center, contributing to nearly 50 percent of total data center spend. Data center operators and owners can minimize the impact of unpredictable energy markets by better understanding the markets and establishing smart energy.

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Building an Agile IT Group

Eric D. Brown

'Like the data center in most organizations, IT groups have been undergoing a transformation over the last few years. IT leaders have constantly been on the lookout for new systems, technologies, people and skills to meet the ‘do more with less’ mantra while continuing to build out the capabilities required of their teams. Thankfully, CIO’s have had the good fortune that cloud computing and virtualization were available to help transform IT operations and the data center.

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The What, Why, and How of DevOps

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I learned much about what I know today about systems operations from Bill, a head of network engineering that I hired for my SaaS company about fifteen years ago. We already built separate systems for managing dev and test from production, matured source code controls, and implemented some automation around testing and deployment. What Bill taught me is that we needed to separate developers.

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CIOs Need To Plan Their Move Into The Cloud In Order To Avoid “Cloud Stall”

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Even the best laid plans can run into a stall if you don’t plan correctly Image Credit: roger g1. Every CIO has heard about the Cloud by now – computing services provided by a vendor that your company can lease and access via the Internet. All of the articles sure seem to indicate that moving enterprise applications into the cloud makes good economic sense and can enhance the importance of information technology to the company.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Retro Chic: The IoT Means Hardware Engineers Are Cool Again

The Investing Edge

'In the beginning there were Military Engineers who built bridges and designed fortifications. When peacetime came, some headed to dig in the mines and others to build roads, canals and cities. For the first 50 years of the 19th century, engineers came in five basic flavors: Military, Mining, and Civil, and with the rise of steam, Naval and Railroad.

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Ventana Research: Big Data Integration Report 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Learn how organizations are using big data integration or how they plan to use it as well as an assessment of more general aspects of data integration and technologies that big data requires. Content covers: The importance of data integration for big data analytics. Various statistics regarding respondent use of big data integration technologies (ex: satisfaction rates and plans to switch technologies) and specific uses.

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Seeking Efficiency: The Data Center Holy Grail

Data Center Knowledge

'Efficiency is a key factor that all data center managers seek, whether they are squeezing a bit of power by making server fans variable speed or they are making bigger differences at the power and cabinet level, it is often the “holy grail” for the data center industry. Two session leaders at the.

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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

'In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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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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Best Data Vizualization and Dashboard Management Practices in Self Service BI Programs

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I''ve seen many organizations run into difficulty defining governance and best practices managing the lifecycle of BI dashboards. Perhaps you have deployed a self service BI program - data scientists have access to tools, IT has deployed severs to publish completed dashboards, and employees are anxious to leverage visualizations and become more data driven.

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A VETS 360 BENEFIT - LATINO FILM INDUSTRY POST OSCAR PARTY

Cloud Musings

'GUESS WHO SUPPORTS VETS 360? You can support them too at the: THE OFFICIAL LATINO FILM INDUSTRY POST OSCAR PARTY The Veterans 360 mission is to support our young combat veterans as they integrate into civilian life. In line with their four pronged approach (engagement, education, employment, and healing), and to help veterans get the skills necessary to obtain employment with a solid future, they leading the way with emerging technology courses.

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Thinking Out Loud: Does Docker on Windows Matter?

Scott Lowe

'Nigel Poulton recently posted an article titled “ESXi vs. Hyper-V - Could Docker Support Be Significant,” in which he contemplates whether Microsoft’s announcement of Docker support on Windows will be a factor in the hypervisor battle between ESXi and Hyper-V. His post got me thinking—which is a good thing, I’d say—and I wanted to share my thoughts on the topic here.

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Register Here For 20% Discount Code for San Jose Strata Hadoop World

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The Feb 17-20 Strata Hadoop World in San Jose has an incredible line up of speakers and hot topics. Attending is a great way to track the latest in the community, learn (and share) lessons learned and find the most capable technologies ready for enterprise use. If you register at this link and use the discount code CTOV you will receive a 20% discount: [link].

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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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Seven Questions to Ask Service Providers Before Signing Your Next Contract

Data Center Knowledge

'Selecting the best service provider for regularly scheduled preventative maintenance is important for the health of your data center, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. Here are seven questions to ask service providers prior to signing your next contract. Read More.

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Secrets to Big Data Success?

Eric D. Brown

'Last week I was asked whether there were any ‘secrets’ that companies can follow to ensure success with big data. My short answer was “Nope.” My longer answer was something along the lines of “there aren’t any secrets, just lots of work and a little bit of luck.’ Most folks don’t like to hear answers like that.

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CIO's Five Predictions for 2015

Social, Agile and Transformation

'It''s that time of year when the analysts and media predict the year to come in technology. If you missed some of these prediction, see Gil Press'' recap of Forrester''s, Gartner''s and IDC''s predictions. This year, I thought I would take a stab at some predictions and what may be important to CIOs in 2015. I''m not talking IoT everywhere, even bigger Big Data, and other big or bold predictions -.

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South Asia’s Biggest Tech Event - “Digital World 2015”

Cloud Musings

'I am proud and honored to announce that I have been added as a speaker at SouthAsia’s biggest tech event “Digital World 2015” , 9th - 12th February, 2015 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center Dhaka, Bangladesh. The event will also be attended by the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina along with local and International Ministers.

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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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Why Comments Aren't Available Yet

Scott Lowe

'A number of readers have asked—via e-mail, of course, given the subject of this post—why comments aren’t available yet on the new site. I’d like to take a quick moment to explain the current situation. First and foremost, it’s not because I don’t want feedback from readers. I would love to continue to have the outstanding feedback from readers that I’ve had over the last 9 years of this site.

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How and Where to Find and Download R

CTOvision

'By May Gourley. This is a second in a series of posts about the program R. In my last post (see: R is a Language and Environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics ) , I explained what R was. For those who are interested in starting a project in R, the steps to download a copy of your own are quick and easy: Simply go to www.r-project.org. . To download R, click on the link labeled CRAN on the left side, under the words "Download, Packages".

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Leveraging a Global CDN or Building Data Centers: Which Should Your Enterprise Choose?

Data Center Knowledge

'There is no formula to use when determining whether to leverage a global CDN or build a data center network, writes Sharon Bell of CDNetworks. However, thorough research with the goal in mind will help determine what is best for your enterprise. Read More.

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Perceptions Matter – CIO’s Take Note

Eric D. Brown

'CIO Magazine has released their “ 2015 State of the CIO ” report. I look forward to this report every year as it provides some great insight into the minds of CIO’s and the roles they are playing within their businesses. This year’s report has some great content but I wanted to point out one particular aspect of the report related to ‘perceptions’ of the CIO and IT group.

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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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Linear Thinking vs non-Linear Thinking

Future of CIO

In the real, physical world or business world, most relationships are nonlinear. The digital business and the world has become over-complex and hyperconnected, some thought linear thinking is a type of logical thinking and nonlinear thinking is an out-of-the-box thinking. But dig deeper, nonlinear thinking is an emerging type of systems thinking to understand such complexity and craft a good strategy.

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Fear Hackers? First invest in an IT security culture change

Cloud Musings

'by Kevin L.Jackson With all the news these days about cyberterrorism and hacking the cloud may seem like the last place you would want to put your precious information. Pew Research has even suggested that cyber-attacks are likely to increase. Some 61% of over 1600 security expert respondents to a recent survey said “yes” that a major attack causing widespread harm would occur by 2025 , according to the Pew Research study.

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Looking Ahead: My 2015 Projects

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I’m going to discuss some projects that I’ve set out for myself in the upcoming year. I’ve done this in years past, and the feedback that I’ve gotten from readers is that they found these posts to be quite helpful. I first started posting annual project lists in January 2012, when I posted a list of some projects for 2012. In January 2013, I graded myself on my progress (spoiler alert: I didn’t do very well), followed by a new 2013 project list in early February.

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Update on Invincea: Another year of breakthrough growth

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Editor''s note: I''ve previously mentioned how proud I am to be associated with Invincea as an advisor. The press release below underscores some of why I am so excited to be on their team. --bg. From: [link]. Invincea Announces Breakthrough Growth in 2014. Added 400 New Enterprise Customers to Total 1.8M Users Secured Worldwide; Secured Core IP Through Patent Awards; Leadership in Advanced Threat Protection Endpoint Security Market.

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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.