CTOvision

JULY 25, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Stories are starting to make it into the tech media about what appears to be a massive melt-down of one of the nation’s most important IT systems. This system is not be as widely known as healthcare.gov, but it should be, because it is every bit as important. The system is the IT behind the critical missions of the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2014

'When you announce your next project, will it be greeted with praise or protest? A recent controversy surrounding a project in Newark, Delaware offers lessons for data center developers. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 15, 2014

'It''s hard to escape the media hype on the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, or the Industrial Internet. Whether its valuation on the size of the industry ($7.1 trillion by 2020 according to IDC), estimates on the number of sensors(50 billion by 2020 according to Cisco), or futurists predicting the disruption and opportunities coming from IoT technologies that connect the physical.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 9, 2014

'When a glitch is big enough, the government will step in Image Credit. In a perfect world, IT systems would always work and they would always work correctly. However, we don’t live in that perfect world. What this means for CIOs is that glitches happen. It’s our job to minimize them, but we’ll never be able to eliminate them completely.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 31, 2014

'I just finished reading Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT. The article had a good premise (e.g., IT and Marketing are fighting for budget) but rather than discuss the real reasons for this current predicament, the author obliquely places the blame at the feet of the Marketing group for ‘stealing’ budget from IT. The author claims that Marketing is shortchanging IT by taking budget away from IT initiatives.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 16, 2014

'The GovCloud Media Network features agency specific video playlist for registered members. Please enjoy this feature on the Army IT. Please visit the new GovCloud Network Media Library for more video content. For membership information please send request to info@govcloudnetwork.com. Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player ? Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2014

'Bitcoin miners are building massive "hashing centers" featuring high-density hardware, low-reliability power infrastructure and off-the-shelf enclosures. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 21, 2014

'This post isn''t about code reuse or developing web services. Surely, you and your development organization understand the benefits of developing modular code, packing it in libraries, developing APIs and web services, insuring that test cases are automated, and hopefully starting to enable continuous delivery. Hopefully you have the architectural practices that recognize build once, leverage.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 30, 2014

'CIOs can use business partnerships to achieve more Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job you are faced with a double challenge : despite the importance of information technology you have a limited budget and you have limited resources. This means that in order to get everything done that the rest of the company is expecting you to do, you are going to have to get creative.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 17, 2014

'I just read Jim Harris’ recent blog post titled “ Data isn’t everything “ In the post, Jim provides some quotes from an article titled “ Why Quants Don’t Know Everything “ One of the passages from Jim’s post that I wanted to share was the following: Quants have risen to prominence in fields as diverse as sports, politics, stock trading, and dating.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 28, 2014

'So you won your first Government Contract… Congratulations! Among the new issues you will need to consider, your accounting systems, both practices and technology, will need to pass muster with Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) auditors. This will require a combination of internal processes and controls. Your accounting system will need to properly delineate direct and indirect costs, must properly pool indirect costs, and must properly handle unallowable costs.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

'By Jeremy Glesner. Since the birth of Hadoop in 2005-06, the way we think about storing and processing information has evolved considerably. The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, and “What is its business value?”. The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2014

'Some data center providers are leasing significant amounts of space and power to Bitcoin specialists, while others remain wary of the density requirements and economics of deals. Read More.

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The Investing Edge

JULY 17, 2014

'Ascent portfolio company StrikeIron was acquired by Informatica last month in what was a rewarding and positive outcome for all. Having worked closely with the company over the past seven years, I’d like to share my perspective on what the company accomplished over that period, and why it became an attractive target for acquisition. Based outside Durham, NC, StrikeIron had an early vision for how data would be shared via web services and incorporated into live web applications.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 16, 2014

'Just like suspenders, the IT help desk may have gone out of fashion Image Credit. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years, one of the biggest crazes to sweep through the world of IT has been the BYOD trend: “Bring Your Own Device” (to work).The thinking is that workers have been purchasing and using such sophisticated electronic devices in their personal lives and because of the importance of information technology it no longer really made sense for

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 13, 2014

'Innovators overcome the can’ts. Quote : Merely recognizing the can’ts and addressing them in advance can help, but that’s not enough. Doubt and prior experience always creep back in, so even if you can stymie the can’ts early on, you’ll need to constantly fight the same battles throughout an innovation activity. Because while the innovation team may be on board to resist the can’ts, often others that they need data, information or assistance from haven̵

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Mick's IT Blog

JULY 25, 2014

'This error in my case was being caused because the MSI was being executed through SCCM. The MSI file had to be executed locally and not from a network source. It would install with no issues if you double-clicked on the MSI. It only happened when SCCM tried to install it. During my troubleshooting, I tried a few different alternatives: I use a PowerShell script to install the package.

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CTOvision

JULY 30, 2014

'By Eugene Borukhovich. With U.S. agencies mandating that healthcare providers engage their consumers through patient portals, data science may be the secret weapon for physicians and health care organizations to not only comply with that mandate, but provide a level of service that bonds them to patients under their care. Combined with electronic health records (EHR), patient portals allow physicians and patients to collaborate, providing a means for patients to meaningfully participate in thei

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 3, 2014

'Second-generation Hadoop and the ecosystem grown around it are much bigger than MapReduce, which has become just another way to do Big Data analytics Read More.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

'A basic requirement for entry into senior roles within the Federal Government you must provide evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability. The information below was taken from the USAJobs.gov website. Every leader, whether or not they are looking for a job in government should be able to answer these questions.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 23, 2014

'If only picking the right cloud vendor was this easy… Image Credit. Face it, we are all going to move our company’s IT applications into the cloud eventually. The importance of information technology demands that we do this. Just exactly where that cloud is going to be located and who will be running it for us is another question. What questions does a CIO need to ask when you are trying to select the right cloud vendor for your company?

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The Investing Edge

JULY 11, 2014

'As we enter the middle of summer, new college graduat es are setting out to change the world with their innovative ideas. . The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects 1,606,000 students at the bachelor’s degree level will graduate as the college Class of 2014. This year many of those students will choose to start their own companies, as entrepreneurship has become a popular career option across the United States.

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Virtualized Greek

JULY 21, 2014

'I’ve always felt the current flavors of hyper-converged bricks are incomplete. The focus is on storage and compute with no solid consideration for networking. In my opinion to be considered a converged infrastructure you have to offer storage, compute and.

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CTOvision

JULY 19, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. RESTON, Va., Jul 18, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Software AG was among the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc., a leading independent research firm, invited to participate in its report, “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Streaming Analytics Platforms, Q3 2014 1 ”. In this evaluation, Software AG received top scores in the Current Offering and Strategy Categories, and among the highest scores in the Market Presence Category.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 29, 2014

'Businesses understand the importance of big data so the problem doesn’t come from getting them on board, writes Rick Delgado. The difficulty lies in finding the right people for the various big data jobs. Read More.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 1, 2014

'The last few months I have been interviewing with firms for the top IT spot. it has been difficult. I have come across several organizations with an interview process that is very unprofessional. I am not sure that this happens to other C level executives or just to CIOs. I would be interested in hearing how other executives are interviewed. 1. A small non-profit educational firm that specializes in charter schools wanted a VP of technology.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2014

'In case you missed it today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Zocalo an enterprise class storage and file sharing service. As you might have guessed, by being file sync and share of cloud storage Zocalo can be seen as a competitor or option to other services including Box, Dropbox and Google among many others in the enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) space.

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A Screw's Loose

JULY 31, 2014

'Whenever people talk about creating apps the conversation turns to delighting the customer. Companies build apps that will delight people. They will have a great user interface (UI) and an even better user experience (UX). They will enable people to do what they want/need to do. We learn from day one when you walk into [.].

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Virtualized Greek

JULY 27, 2014

'One of the great things about both VMware NSX and Cisco ACI is that both have brought a great deal of attention to Software Defined Networking (SDN). SDN is fascinating and innovating technology. Whether you are taking Cisco’s programmable hardware-based.

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CTOvision

JULY 15, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “ Net Threats ”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study targeted thousands of Internet experts to measure their thoughts and concerns about the future of the Internet.

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