CTOvision
OCTOBER 31, 2015
Ready Player One is great science fiction set in the very near future. It is well done drama that leverages totally realistic visions of what technology is rapidly evolving to. Imagine a world where virtual reality and global connectivity enables universal access to high quality education. Incredible. Awesome. And achievable by us if we put our minds to it.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Centralized caching that can be easily implemented into a SAN environment can make SSD storage available to all applications in different hosts, without forcing the storage administrator to replace the entire system. Read More.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 27, 2015
"Digital Transformation is about looking at the business strategy through the lens of technical capabilities and how that changes how you are operating and generating revenues"- Isaac Sacolick Enabling Digital Transformation The diagram above is my digital lens. On the right side you'll see some of the new technologies that enable digital transformation while on the left side you'll.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 22, 2015
When you read about big data and/or data analytics projects and systems, it is rare that you also read bout communicating the outcome of those projects. Without the ability to communicate the results of any analysis to the broader business, most big data / analytics projects are doomed to mediocrity…or even failure. The quantitative mind is a great one.
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
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Just exactly how well do the CIO and CMO get along? Image Credit: Melissa. Making a company be successful is tough work. For this to happen, it’s going to take a great deal of work on everyone’s part and, tougher yet, everyone is going to have to find ways to work together. As a CIO this means that you are going to find yourself having to work with the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Tim Cook, top Apple chef, talks turkey: At the WSJD conflab, Cook was interviewed by Gerry Baker, who grilled him about many and various savory topics. F'rinstance: Watch sales figures (or lack of them), Music momentum, televisual hobbies (and Apple TV 4 release date), iPhone déjà vu, fractious carrier relationships, Car talk, the demands of the NSA and GCHQ, and Apple's corporate activism.
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Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Without properly addressing the dynamics inside and outside the data center, the many benefits offered by IoT will be interrupted and wide-scale adoption will slow. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 19, 2015
My first step in looking at an existing business through a digital lens is to ask two questions about how a startup might disrupt it by creating a competing digital business. A startup does not have sunk investments, legacy thinking, and existing practices that need to transform so if you can "blue sky" what would a startup do you should get some insights on what you need to become through a.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I’m currently reading Brett Steenbarger’s “ Trading Psychology 2.0: From Best Practices to Best Processes.” I’m a fan of Dr. Steenbarger’s work and bought his new book as soon as it was released. While this book is targeted at traders and investors, there’s a great deal of knowledge that can be gleaned from it that can be applied to many other aspects of your personal life as well as business.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 17, 2015
Grow Your CIO Career. Just becoming your company’s CIO is not enough. Once you reach this lofty point, you are going to have to take on the responsibility of growing your career so that it can truly become the challenging opportunity that you’ve been seeking. The good news is that this can be done. The bad news is that it’s never easy.
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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.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
OCTOBER 16, 2015
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years in U.S. workplaces and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still coming to grips with it. In hard numbers, the prevalence of BYOD in the workplace is difficult to measure. Researchers offer a wide variety of statistics. Research firm Strategy Analytics, for example, said three-quarters of business smartphones and tablets shipped in the second quarter in North America were slated to wind up in the
CTOvision
OCTOBER 30, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Halvorsen says 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' probable. GSA Looks for New Chief Customer Officer - Nextgov (blog). GSA Looks for New Chief Customer Officer - Nextgov. How USCIS went agile and open to move application process online - GCN.com.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Enterprises often place higher expectations on the security practices of their MSPs than they enforce for their internal IT teams. To maintain security, be educated about the risks you’re most likely to face, test your strategies, and show your clients you can fully protect their data. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 15, 2015
How important is managing culture change in a digital transformation? By the size of the "packed room" at Gartner's session on "How to create a culture that is ready for anything", at least CIO have recognized how critical it is to either own or be a part of an organization's cultural changes. Here are some highlights from this and other sessions related to cultural changes: Culture change.
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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.
Mick's IT Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2015
I was deploying a package earlier today. It took a few iterations to get everything correct. All of a sudden on the fourth update of the package, it would no longer install. It continuously failed. I thought maybe something was wrong with the installer that got downloaded to the machine, so I cleared out the cache. The issue persisted after SCCM re-downloaded the package.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Younger workers tend to make more mistakes Image Credit: Hussain Isa Alderazi. As the person in the CIO position, I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve come to realize that not all of the workers at your company are the same. It turns out that some of these workers need a little bit of extra help from your IT department. You might instinctively think that I’m talking about the company’s older workers.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
OCTOBER 19, 2015
During the week of October 5th I had an opportunity to attend the AWS re:Invent 2015 conference in Las Vegas , of all places. As someone who has built an entire career on putting together custom application server software, I should be the last one to get excited about server-less applications. Just like Salesforce’s “no software,” Amazon’s “server-less software” mantra is about a world where application development is not limited by IT, software to install and servers to manage.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 29, 2015
In a world of increasing cyber-hacks and threats, it is vital to provide strong protection for sensitive information. CEO and board-level demand have been the driving force behind new technology innovations to protect corporate networks and data. This is matched by rapidly increasing investments in cybersecurity startups, with companies and venture capital firms pouring money into dozens of cybersecurity companies each year.
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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.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 20, 2015
In an era where cybersecurity is at the top of every CIO’s list of business concerns, it can be easy to overlook the importance of physical security in protecting legacy hardware solutions and ensuring critical assets remain safe. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 11, 2015
Gartner filled their opening keynote with lots of advice for the Digital CIO. As I've been saying on this blog for some time (see posts on agile thinking, cultural practices, and program management) digital transformation is not a bunch of business driven projects that have a beginning and an end. Transformation requires significant culture changes in how enterprises work internally, how they.
Mick's IT Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2015
We recently did a complete upgrade on all equipment in one of our remote offices. After the upgrade, I had to setup a new distribution point. I began by using Prajwal Desai's blog post on setting up a remote distribution point. I went through all of his process three times and still no sucess. It was constantly returning ERROR DPConnection::ConnectWMI() - Failed to connect to. error = 0x800706ba.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 10, 2015
Grow Your CIO Career. Just becoming your company’s CIO is not enough. Once you reach this lofty point, you are going to have to take on the responsibility of growing your career so that it can truly become the challenging opportunity that you’ve been seeking. The good news is that this can be done. The bad news is that it’s never easy.
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.
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 23, 2015
One cloud does not fit all organizations. That’s true whether it is a public or private cloud. A hybrid cloud option allows your business to create a custom solution that fits your organizational needs. However, there are always questions with new solutions. We reached out to industry thought leaders to answer some of the marketplace’s most pressing questions on hybrid cloud.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Cyber security is one of the highest priority topics for organizations today. Spanning a wide range of malicious activities from destructive malware and denial of service attacks, to the theft of intellectual property and even espionage, cyber threats pose a significant risk to any business. In recent years, multiple high-profile, high-impact breaches have raised awareness of the cyber threat.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 15, 2015
A good power and cooling strategy is no longer enough to maximize efficiency in today’s modern data center. A future in which all devices and networks are connected requires data center design elements that can evolve with the Internet of Everything and the related demands of hyper-connectivity.
Lundberg Media
OCTOBER 29, 2015
The chief digital officer was the third most in-demand C-level position this year, according to executive search firm Korn Ferry. The rise of the chief digital officer (CDO) reflects the disruption being felt across industries from digital transformation and the impact this is having on organizations' business models. Well over half of respondents to a recent survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services say their organization's business model will be radically different in three years.
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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.
Mick's IT Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Recently, we had a software deployment that required.Net Framework 4.5.2. I deployed the.Net update via SCCM 2012 Software Updates. Within a day, it showed most all systems were now compliant. We were ready to begin testing the deployment of the application upgrade. My colleague came back to me the next day and said the app would not install because 4.5.2 was missing.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 7, 2015
It’s not always clear when there is an IP issue at stake Image Credit: E Theriot. As CIOs we tend to focus on the immediate problems that are in front of us. These include such things as growing the number of servers that the company is using, picking the right data center, and implementing yet another company wide application. However, it turns out that there is an issue that may be lurking in the background that we really should be spending some time on: IP issues.
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 13, 2015
On Tuesday, October 6 th , the European Court of Justice (ECJ), invalidated the U.S./EU Safe Harbor Framework. This framework, in place since 2000, gave blanket permission to data transfers from the European Union to the United States. The ruling means that national data protection authorities can now review such data transfers on an individual basis.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Businesses all over the world have seen the trending movement toward big data, and if they’re not already on board, they’re looking to join the fun soon. Big data analytics brings a lot to the table as it helps companies discover new insights on how to run their organizations, how to reach customers, and in what areas they should be focusing their attention.
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