CTOvision
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'By Bob Gourley. Cloudera’s Doug Cutting delivered a presentation at Hadoop World that outlined key forces driving the data world forward which shed some important insights on where enterprise technology is going. This presentation is summarized and embedded below: Doug starts with a review of his models for predicting the future and this is important, since every model has strengths and weaknesses.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
'Ubiquity Critical Environments plans to build a national chain of IT facilities by converting dozens of Sears Auto Center stores into data centers. It is partnering with Schneider Electric to build and operate mission-critical facilities in at least 23 second-tier markets around the country.
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CIO Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
'One chart from a recent survey I did on citizen involvement in local government. Interesting that as many people get information on their local government via word of mouth as by TV and Newspaper. More research to come!
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'I like to cook and I really look forward to the Thanksgiving Holiday. For the past thirteen years, I''ve enjoyed locking myself in the kitchen and perfecting the Thanksgiving feast largely from scratch everything from home made cranberry sauce to my evolving sweet potato pie/casserole recipes. But this year we''re going to family and I already miss the prep work that I always start the weekend.
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
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'CIOs need to learn how to ride the tsunami of big data Image Credit. CIOs have always had to find ways to deal with data. Collecting it, storing it, processing it, and eventually archiving it. The arrival of the era of Big Data has almost overnight turned what was already a challenging task into a nearly impossible task. Everyone in the company understands the importance of information technology and they all believe that the IT department can solve all data related problems.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'While developing Hugo I became disappointed with the interface limitations flags alone provide. A quick look at virtually any command line application (ls, grep, less, etc) reveals that most applications overuse flags to do everything and often allow conflicting flags to be applied. Even though hugo is relatively simple, we already had the ability to stack flags that didn’t make sense.
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Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
'Google purchased a 60-year-old paper mill in Finland, which it has converted into one of its most modern, efficient data centers worldwide, and its now investing an additional EUR450 million (about 608 million in USD) to continue expansion of the facility.
CIO Musings
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Every year I give a presentation at a local technical high school through Junior Achievement on ethics. The kids in this program are sharp, sharp, sharp. They have tremendous potential, and will one day be the CIOs, CTOs, network administrators and innovators in our society. They will have the keys to the kingdon, so to speak, and their need for ethics will be paramount.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
'Fourth Grade Lesson on Data Science Last week, I attended my fourth grade son''s open house at school and sat through his math class. The teacher walked through the steps to solve a word-math problem. You know the kind - "Sally has $3.85, spends $1.20 on materials for lemonade then sells four cups at $0.65. How much money does she have?" This was a great experience for me to observe.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'CIOs need to find ways to turn IT departments from cost centers into money makers Image Credit. CIOs have since the beginning of time struggled to get the respect that the other C-level executives get. One of the big reasons that it can be so hard to get the IT department to be viewed by the rest of the company as being valuable is because all too often, despite the importance of information technology, the IT department is considered to be a cost center.
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SPF13
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'While developing Hugo I became disappointed with the interface limitations flags alone provide. A quick look at virtually any command line application (ls, grep, less, etc) reveals that most applications overuse flags to do everything and often allow conflicting flags to be applied. Even though hugo is relatively simple, we already had the ability to stack flags that didn’t make sense.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'By Bob Gourley. All of us are awash in data and real analysts love that! Data is good! And more data is better! Your enterprise will need to continue to support more data. But you knew that didn’t you? Too frequently our organizations can’t make sense of the data they have, and too many decisions are being made based on gut calls or by fudged data.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'From the time it enters production, Facebook''s data center in Altoona, Iowa, will run exclusively on renewable energy, thanks to a wind project located less than two hours away, the social networking giant announced today.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'I was recently interviewed for an extended article Networked Business: The wealth in your connections written by Nick Saalfeld for the Microsoft Talking Business series. Here are some excerpts from the article, which provide a neat summary of some of my thinking on the space. It’s a fallacy to think of networking as a sales tool. Firstly, it’s not.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'Agile Product Development Leveraging Data The number one question that I ask agile product owners these days is simple, "What does the data tell you?" To develop excellent web 2.0 products, it may have been sufficient for product owners to understand workflow needs or to define user pain points that need addressing. A reasonable recipe for product owners often includes identifying core users. agile planning agile software development big data cio data management data scientist enterprise 2.0 in
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Over the past few months, I’ve heard and/or read the following statements from consultants: Big data is complex. Big data is complicated. Big data is the future. While I would generally agree with those statements, I would also argue they are used as ‘scare’ tactics to try to drive business to consultants and big data vendors. Big data is complex, complicated, scary and time-consuming to do correctly.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'Setting the right price for your company’s products may determine if they will be a success Image Credit. As a CIO, your job is to make sure that the company’s IT systems are up and running at all times, right? You really don’t play a role in what the company does to make money – after all, you’re in charge of a cost center.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'By Bob Gourley We announced two weeks ago that we are now part of the Google Glass explorer program. Our view is that we need to dive into this technology for several reasons, including a need to track the impact of trends to wearable computers will have on enterprise IT. We also intend on writing more about Google Glass on our other web properties, including Analyst One (which focuses on analysts and analytics) and Delphi Brief (which has a national security focus).
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Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'LinkedIn, the social network for business, continues to expand its data center infrastructure to support its rapid growth. The company signed a $116 million, 11-year lease for a large chunk of data center space in Dallas.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
'This morning I attended the Innovation Bay breakfast on Where to for retail now? It was a fascinating discussion, which was definitely useful as I develop my forthcoming Future of Retail framework. (Still working on it, I don’t know when it will be ready for the public, more later.). Michael Fox , founder of the highly innovative and successful Shoes of Prey , spoke about some of what they envisage for the future of retail.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6 and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
'Accelerating human invention with all the computers you’ll ever need — Tech News and Analysis. Quote : Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe dives deep into the economic and innovative benefits of running massive scientific workloads in the cloud. When researchers aren’t constrained by the systems the can afford, they can ask bigger questions and get better results.
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
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
'I''ve just had the opportunity to preview my good friend Melvin Greer''s newest effort, " 21st Century Leadership: Harnessing Innovation, Accelerating Business Success ". Now in pre-release, this book highlights the compelling linkage between internet scale technology, advance business models and the need for forward thinking leadership. From the vantage of hindsight, I can see how my own professional career has been molded by the global changes Gartner describes as the Digital Industrial Revol
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
'By Bob Gourley On 21 November 2013 FCW and GCN hosted a day long summit focused on efficient Agency IT Modernization Strategies. First speaker was Tod Weber, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Software AG Government Solutions. Todd brings the experience and background of successful execution of IT based solutions from the perspective of a vendor ( SoftwareAG ).
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'Cisco today launched new switches, software and services through its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative, which is the networking giant''s response to emergence of software defined networking.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
'The latest in the Meeting of the Minds series of conversations between fellow-futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself is on the Future of Media, Print, Publishing , produced by Jonathan Marks. The video and some summary notes from the conversation are below. Some of the things we discuss: * In just the last few years the few rapidly growing newspaper markets remaining, such as India, have turned around and are now declining. * Print will survive in pockets, including free, suburban, and rural papers.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Image Credit Here's Hoping That This Week Is Special For Everyone. Loyal readers & subscribers, here’s hoping that this upcoming week is a great week for you — I’m taking it off! Blogging will resume next week… For my readers in the U.S., you know that this week is all about family, turkey, and of course football. I’m not sure what it is about turkey that always seems to make everyone fall asleep, but I’m hoping that when I wake up this year the glob
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
'Are technologists trying to solve the wrong problem? — Tech News and Analysis. Quote : Technologists tend to forget that normal people have a different take on technology. That’s why they should pay more attention to interfaces. Innovate on Purpose: Why innovators are like astronauts. Quote : Ralph Waldo Emerson said that once a mind is stretched by new experiences it rarely returns to its original status.
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
'Yesterday over lunch, a good friend of mine from the Limelight Marketing Group and I started talking about my recent transition. As you can imagine being in the DC metro area our discussion centered on the many business challenges associated with sequestration and our deadlocked government leaders. After a short while, she then hit me with the quintessential question,"So what kind of consultant are you?".
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
'By Bob Gourley. We have previously discussed research and analysis we did for the Cyber Conflict Studies Association on the many “Wake-Up Calls” the nation’s policy makers have declared themselves to have had regarding cyber security. If history is any predictor of the past, we will still be getting these wake-up calls long into the future.
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