May, 2014

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Symantec Finally Agrees With Everyone Else In The Security Community: Says Antivirus Software Is Dead

CTOvision

'As a technologist I have long respected Symantec and their many capabilities (they do far more than antivirus, see the list here). But the hottest firms in cyber security, those growing because they make real, measurable, virtuous differences in enterprise security, are growing because they realized that Symantec''s core antivirus features just are not sufficient.

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Google Using Machine Learning to Boost Data Center Efficiency

Data Center Knowledge

'Google is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to wring even more efficiency out of its mighty data centers. The humans remain in charge, but Google expects to reach new frontiers in efficiency in its server farms. Read More.

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My Simple Recipe for Technology Leadership Success

Social, Agile and Transformation

'This is my 200th post! I reserved this post to highlight why I named the blog Social, Agile, and Transformation. I renamed it a few years ago when I was thinking about my career and accomplishments in startups as a CTO and now as a CIO for the last seven years. At the time, I was also reflecting on something a key adviser said to me, "Isaac, you''re not a CIO".

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Big Data, People and the SMB

Eric D. Brown

'According to the 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data survey , most large organizations today (almost 49% of survey respondents) claim to be well along the implementation path for big data initiatives and projects. Additionally, those large organizations are well ahead of their small and medium business (SMB) counterparts. There are a number of reasons for the lag between large organizations and SMB.

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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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Viper : Go configuration management with Fangs

SPF13

'Viper is a complete configuration solution. Designed to work within an application to handle file based configuration and seamlessly marry that with command line flags which can also be used to control application behavior. Why Viper? When building a modern application you don’t want to have to worry about configuration file formats, you want to focus on building awesome software.

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PDNS Offers “Anchor” Cloud Services to Agile Cloud Consortium

Cloud Musings

'Private Digital Network Services (PDNS) and partners will provide its national, Private Digital Network (PDN) core and a suite of highly sought after services to the Interoperability Clearinghouse Agile Cloud effort. Its partners include Gannett Company Inc., Global Interactive Solutions , ICON Voice , and others. Gannett designed and implemented the PDN to support its national base of 300+ business units, which include well known digital properties such as CareerBuilder.com and Cars.com , and

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Data Storage Location: Four Things to Consider

Data Center Knowledge

'Deciding where to house corporate data requires an understanding of the relevant laws across countries, as well as a thorough risk analysis, writes John Landry of Intralinks. Read More.

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Succeeding in Big Data Transformation - It is a Journey, Not a Destination!

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Charting the Big Data Journey Last week I participated in an Executive Boardroom with other CIOs discussing their challenges formulating, partnering and executing their Big Data and next-generation analytic strategies. There were some common themes challenging the CIOs - so if you''re a CIO then you''re not alone. Big Data can be transformational if you focus on the right questions, develop the.

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Trends in the SMB Technology Space

Eric D. Brown

'I just finished reading a report from SMB Group titled “ Vendor Strategies to Bring Game-Changing Technology Trends to SMBs ”. The report is a pay-per-access report but I received a copy from IBM to review and I’m happy I got to see it. The report describes research performed by SMB Group into how small and medium businesses (SMB) are viewing and using technology in their business.

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The AWS Activate CTO to CTO series on Medium

All Things Distributed

'I''m excited to announce a new blog dedicated to AWS startups. We''re launching it on Medium , itself a startup on AWS. I kicked off the blog with a Q&A with the Medium CTO Don Neufeld. I really enjoyed Don''s answers to my questions and there are some real gems in here for startup CTOs. Check it out. We''ll be keeping this blog fresh with other startup spotlights and good technical content so follow the collection and keep up.

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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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ICH Releases Agenda for Agile Cloud Service Catalog Session

Cloud Musings

'The Agile Cloud consortium''s second event will occur on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters in Arlington, VA. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog and will feature prospective government user presentations. Current agenda is as follows: 12:30p - 1:00p Registration 1:00p - 1:15p Welcome / Planned Way Forward - MGen John Brennan, USAF (Ret.) 1:15p - 1:30p Session 1 Outbrief / Service Catalog Candidate Services 1:30p - 2:00p CAPT Christopher Page, USN,

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Marc Andreessen on the Future of Technology and Implications for Government Service to Citizens

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. If you are a professional in technology, government and/or business you have no doubt already been exposed to the very interesting Marc Andreessen. Odds are many of our readers are already tracking his thoughts closely via his blog, his media interactions captured on YouTube and his very dynamic and thought engaging Twitter Feed where you can now track the dynamics […].

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Cisco Kicks Off Manufacturing of UCS Servers in Brazil

Data Center Knowledge

'Vendor attempts to capture share of rapidly growing cloud market, but recent revelations of NSA''s alleged tampering with exported IT gear give foreign manufacturing a whole new meaning. Read More.

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Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence

Virtualized Greek

'Convergence is aiming to change the data center with the promise of simplifying overall IT operations. We’ve seen tightly engineered solutions from VMware, Cisco and EMC in the form of vBlocks from VCE.

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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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Is there an information or data recession? Are you using less storage? (With Polls)

Storage IO Blog

'Is there an information recession where you are creating, processing, moving or saving less data? Are you using less data storage than in the past either locally online, offline or remote including via clouds? IMHO there is no such thing as a data or information recession, granted storage is being used more effectively by some, while economic pressures or competition enables your budgets to be stretched further.

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Big Data Means 5 Big Problems For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

'With more data comes more problems for CIOs… Image Credit. If you pick up just about any IT magazine these days, you’ll see that everyone seems to have decided that we are now living in the age of “big data” No data set is too large to be processed by your IT department. The rest of the company now understands the importance of information technology and they believe that all you have to do is drop the data in and magically actionable information should pop out that the entire

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Cloud Computing In Government Lesson's Learned From On The FrontLines Magazine

Cloud Musings

'Congratulations to my friends at "On The FrontLines Magazine" for an EXCELLENT presentation of important operational and managerial cloud computing transition lessons. This issues showcases cloud computing leaders from government and the private sector that share their views on this critical topic. A few of the educational gems enclosed in this 20 PAGE ISSUE: Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP Program Manager, GSA - “The first one is security is largely not a technical issue.

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Optimizing The Data Warehouse: A Big Data Blueprint from Pentaho

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. We previously wrote about the Pentaho Big Data Blueprints series, which include design packages of use to enterprise architects and other technologists seeking operational concepts and repeatable designs. With this post we provide more information from the blueprint on Optimizing the Data Warehouse: Optimizing your data warehouse can reduce strain on your existing systems and reduce overall project cost by offloading less frequently used data and corresponding transformation wor

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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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Internap Data Center Outage Takes Down Livestream, StackExchange

Data Center Knowledge

'Power outage at Google-owned 111 8th Avenue in New York City followed by problems with UPS system supporting Internap''s data center wreaks havoc for clients Read More.

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Why should CIO’s and business leaders care about Software Defined Networking

Virtualized Greek

'Software Defined Networking is a meaty topic and a good follow-up to last week’s conversation on Software Defined Storage. There’s a lot at stake from both the software and hardware vendors in this space.

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The Next Inflection Point in Business Analytics By: Gili Keshet-Aspitz, Verix

A CIO's Voice

'Big Data is the latest tech jargon to cause grief in the industry. As CIOs we are often charged with explaining it and implementing it. Far too often Big Data is baffling and often misused in business. Gili Keshet-Aspitz has over 2 0 years of experience providing counsel to various startups and high tech leaders in marketing, strategic planning and management.

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Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer

All Things Distributed

'This is an extended version of an article that appeared in the Guardian today. We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the 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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How Healthcare Can Keep Up with Accelerating Tech Cycles

CTOvision

'By Eugene Borukhovich. Verner Vinge, in his 1986 sci-fi novel, Marooned in Realtime , explored his ideas about exponentially accelerating technology. The novel was set in, “a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.” Certainly, his vision in 1986 is almost a reality today, but with the hope that we will never reach b

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This is the second installment in our series flowing from recent dialog with Marc Andreessen. The first post reviewed some likely scenarios of the tech enabled environment of 2030 and some foundational considerations regarding converged cyber-physical systems all citizens will have access to (see the first post here ). In this post we provide some of Marc’s views around the nature of government services in the near future.

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DigitalGlobe Teams with Cloudera to Accelerate Delivery of Geospatial Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. DigitalGlobe is widely known as a leading provider of commercial high resolution imagery from space. Its constellation of 5 satellites has generated a 60PB archive of imagery that is approaching 5B square kilometers and is in a position to precisely document global change to meet the needs of defense, energy, agriculture, and NGO customers.

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SoftwareAG Unveils New Internet of Things Solution Accelerator

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. An Essential Starter Kit for Any CIO Considering the Internet of Things or Software Companies Needing a Jumpstart. Reston, VA, May 27, 2014 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today unveiled its Internet of Things (IoT) Solution Accelerator, a tightly-bundled set of smart tools that help business leaders gain actionable insights from different, disparate data sources in real-time enabling them to make better business decisions.

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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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Veteran or Active Duty In Transition? Join CTOvision Pro Free

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. If you are an active duty military technologist or are in transition out of the military and could benefit from in depth research into enterprise technology we would like to sponsor you for free access to our CTOvision Pro research and analysis service. CTOvision Pro provides access to more in-depth analysis and reporting. Subscribers receive a bi-weekly newsletter with up to date context and analysis that can help you apply emerging technologies to your mission needs.

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Catelas: Next-Generation ‘Relationship Forensics’ Software

CTOvision

'Catelas is a solution on the market today that maps out large communications networks. The software''s unique value is its ability to automatically identify the people that matter in any dataset – a specific case (collected data) or across the entire company (log files or email meta-data). Catelas is used for Legal (Early Case Intelligence & Identification), Compliance (Supervision in Financial Services and 3rd party Compliance & Risk Oversigh.

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Context on D-Wave Systems from President and CEO Vern Brownell

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. I recently caught up with D-Wave Systems President and CEO Vern Brownell and asked him to provide a bit more context for our readers on what this very unique system is and does. Vern has a very interesting background that instantly grabbed my attention. He has terrific past performance leading a world class enterprise IT company (Egenera, he was the founder at CEO).

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Nextgov Enables Examination Of Big Data’s Role in Cybersecurity

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Three highly regarded community technologists will meet in a NextGov morning event 3 June 2014 to examine Big Data’s Role in Cybersecurity. Details from the invite: When addressing cybersecurity, it is tempting to think that strengthening walls is enough to prevent unwanted intruders–yet data breaches continue to occur at alarming rates.

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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.