CTOvision
JANUARY 2, 2014
'By Joey Echeverria. Editor’s note: The guest post below from Joey Echeverria first appeared on his Techno Babble blog. I would like to associate myself with his views and have reposted it here with his permission. – bg. Some people may find this an odd topic for the first post for what is ostensibly a technology blog, but they’re probably wrong.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 27, 2014
'In a dramatic move that illustrates how cloud computing has altered the data center landscape, Microsoft is opening up the server and rack designs that power its vast online platforms and sharing them with the world.
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CIO Musings
JANUARY 11, 2014
'One thing that has changed about travel in the last decade is the amount of technology we take with us. A friend at work asked me for tips on travelling with technology. I don''t travel that much, perhaps a trip every 2-3 months. For me there isn''t that much difference between personal travel and business travel. I use a personal laptop during each, and take about the same amount of gear.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 6, 2014
'The potential benefits from technologies associated with the Internet of Things (IOT) lies in the intersection of multiple capabilities. IOT''s magic goes beyond just a simple application. Take wearable technologies - does the Nike Fuelband or the Fitbit represent our IOT aspirations? Home. automation has been around for at least twenty years, so is scheduling. the lights to turn on or off or.
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
JANUARY 22, 2014
'IT can play a role in helping the company to set the right price for their products Image Credit. In order for your company to be successful, they need to sell their product or service to the right customer at the right price. It turns out that this may be more difficult than you think. Here in the 21st Century, determining what the right price for a product is requires a great deal of support from the IT department and is just one more example of the importance of information technology.
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 14, 2014
'I read a lot of articles and blogs about big data. There are a lot of people singing the praises of big data and a lot of folks trying to sell services and platforms for helping with big data. I’ve done my share of praising myself but I’ve also tried to be realistic in my writings on big data. Big data isn’t the answer … or maybe it is. Regardless, big data concepts can be useful for any business, whether large or small.
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Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 21, 2014
'After getting started in garages and server closets, bitcoin mining is moving into data centers and the cloud. Some traditional data center providers will benefit, but this transition also has the potential to enrich a new generation of entrepreneurs emerging from within the bitcoin community.
Cloud Musings
JANUARY 10, 2014
'DBT Data and Potomac Officers Club are excited to announce that Al Tarasiuk, CIO of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), will be part of an ICITE panel discussion that will provide insight and updates on this mission critical, cross agency Intel program. Planned topics for the panel include: A non-classified discussion about ICITE benefits to the Intel community ICITE impact on the government contracting community Successful implementations and applications within the Int
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 20, 2014
'One of the best places a CIO and CMO to collaborate is when selecting new technologies and capabilities. As I showed in my last post, 5 Tips On Starting a Killer CIO - CMO Relationship, developing proof of concepts and pilots around new vendor technologies is an important area for partnership - Marketing owns the business driver and often the funding, while IT typically has the process and.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 8, 2014
'This is no way to treat your company’s customers! Image Credit. It’s starting to get to that point in the year where we all start to think about the importance of information technology and what our goals for next year should be. Most CIOs will of course be thinking about all of the things that you think that CIOs should be thinking about: clouds, mobility, optimization, etc.
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Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 21, 2014
'In “ Incorporating Big Data into your Business ”, I wrote: Big data is worth investigating and incorporating into your businesses. You may not be able to use all approaches or technologies – and maybe you don’t need them all – but taking time to understand the principles behind big data will help you use the data you have more efficiently. In this post, I wanted to follow up on the second sentence in that paragraph.
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2014
'By Bob Gourley The agenda for the 3rd Annual Cloudera Federal Forum (6 Feb 2014, Hanover MD) has firmed up and will no doubt lead to an incredible event. This will be a great venue for thought leaders from the federal government, great tech firms and very talented integrator firms. The speakers are a world-class-best mix of data and analysis practitioners, and from what I can tell the attendees will be the real action-oriented professionals from government really making things happen in Big Dat
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 21, 2014
'Today, data centers must be able to keep up with the pace of business where computing demands continue to increase at warp speed, and many managers are finding that legacy infrastructure can be expensive and difficult to scale as needed, writes Steven Carlini of Schneider Electric. To avoid these.
Cloud Musings
JANUARY 7, 2014
'Today I am proud and honored to announce that I will be participating in this year''s 3rd Annual World Congress of Cloud Computing 2014! Highlighting the theme of “Chinese Dream in Cloud” the event will be held in Dalian, China from June 19 to 21, 2014. CloudCon-2014 aims to strengthen the technical and business ties in cloud computing area, to bring together experts and industry leaders to share technological advancements and business experiences, and to jointly explore opportunities in emergi
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The Investing Edge
JANUARY 17, 2014
'By now the benefits of cloud computing are well understood. Whether by reducing costs, providing better services, or improving efficiencies, the cloud has transformed business operations in a wide range of industries. What’s not as widely known is how the cloud is disrupting legacy industries previously thought immune to the forces of cloud. Now industries like taxi services, custom furniture design, commercial printing, and others have moved toward virtual or cloud-based solutions that offer l
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 1, 2014
'Subscribe To The Accidental Successful CIO Newsletter! Yet another New Year is almost here! What is your plan for becoming a better CIO this year? Clearly you are already reading The Accidental Successful CIO blog and so that’s a step in the right direction! However, there’s one more thing that you need to do: subscribe to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter!
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 26, 2014
'6 Signs You Need a New IT Strategy — CIO Dashboard. Quote : IT must institute massive change on multiple fronts: deepen and reshape business relationships, overhaul IT skills, relax and reformulate governance approaches, and adopt more flexible and accessible infrastructures while increasing security. But, before embarking on big change, you need to take stock of where you are now.
CTOvision
JANUARY 24, 2014
'By Bob Gourley At this link and embedded below Dave Vellante of Silicon Angle leads a discussion with Stu Miniman and David Floyer on the $2.3 Billion purchase of IBM’s server business by Lenovo. Dave, Stu and David are three of the most plugged in/truth seeking analysts in this space. They are always thinking and writing about these issues are are continuously in direct contact with decision makers in the enterprise market and also with leaders in the IT community.
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Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 28, 2014
'Over the last three years, Facebook has saved more than $1.2 billion by using Open Compute designs to streamline its data centers and servers, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose.
Cloud Musings
JANUARY 27, 2014
'DBT-Data further established itself in the data storage industry as a formidable force with the $35 million dollar purchase of the state of the art Cyber Integration Center on 1175 North Main Street in Harrisonburg Virginia. Credit DBT-Data Possessing Uptime Institute’s Tier III certification for operation and design, and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for power usage, the data center adheres to the stringent requirements and standards of private e
Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 26, 2014
'If you have been trying to find a way to search through all of your Youtube comments you have ever posted, there is a way. Youtube does not seem to have a feature that allows for you to see all of your comments, but you can use their parent company, Google, to find them. Go to google.com and enter the line below. Change the to your Youtube account name and then hit.
The Investing Edge
JANUARY 21, 2014
'This post is the second installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things. The first post can be found here. Robert Bosch is a German-based global leader in brake and automotive technology that has established a 500-person subsidiary, Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions, to develop sensors and actuators for the Internet of Things (“IoT”).
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.
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 16, 2014
'My wife and I just moved to Tulsa from Dallas. I keep getting the question of “why?” My answer? Because we could. I was born and raised in Oklahoma and have lived in Tulsa before. When we started thinking about places to move, Tulsa kept jumping to the front of the line. I have friends and family in and around Tulsa with most of my family back ‘home’ (about an hour from Tulsa).
CTOvision
JANUARY 16, 2014
'By Prayson Pate When discussing innovation, most people focus on advances in technology. Technology is important, but it is only one of three key components required for innovation. In order to maximize the opportunity for successful innovation, one must combine the following: A customer problem or opportunity. Domain knowledge. Advances in technology.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 24, 2014
'So how does a widely-used app like Gmail go down, as it has today? There have been a number of Gmail outages over the years, usually involving software updates or networking issues.
A CIO's Voice
JANUARY 24, 2014
'I am a horrible golfer. I am first to admit it. I struggle with having a complete game. There are days when my long game is on point and others when my short game and putting is phenomenal. It is rare that both are working together. I struggle with it because I want to improve. Like anything in life, if I was good at it from the start what fun will be that be?
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Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 19, 2014
'I ran into a situation where we had to mirror our local DFS to all of the remote DFS locations. The problem was that there was one directory in each of the remote shares that was unique to that location and had to remain untouched. The first thing I thought of was to have powershell parse through the base directory trees and perform a recursive robocopy on each base.
The Investing Edge
JANUARY 14, 2014
'If you are like me, you might be wondering how large the “Internet of Things” could become, and whether it will get the press, hype and activity that “Big Data” has received. Well, Google answered that question yesterday when they bought Nest for $3.2 billion. Several industry analysts and participants, including Cisco, BRI, Bosch, Gartner and IDC are all predicting several trillion dollar markets in goods and services, as well as billions of devices connected to the internet by 2020 that sense
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Popular thought is eventually every product gets commoditized. Some industries may take longer than others, but competition normally catches the market leader and costs a driven down. Or more efficient ways of providing a product or service is developed. Vendors then have to find some way to add value around the commoditized product. I’m wondering if enterprise infrastructure engineer is quickly becoming a commodity and what value-add needs to occur to stay happily employed.
CTOvision
JANUARY 10, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Enterprise CTOs are increasingly seeking new ways to enable assistive technologies into mission applications and to assist those with needs in interacting with organizational assets and others in the workforce. This makes the category of Assistive Technologies one of growing importance. We have just established Assistive Technology as a new category at our research site CTOlabs and will be populating it with reviews of the technologies and firms we believe to be most virtuous in
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