CTOvision

JUNE 18, 2014

'I''m going to spell out a challenge in hopes that someone fixes this (if you have a way to fix this issue you will be a hero to us all and probably make a billion dollars at the same time). If you have been on a Navy ship recently then you know the ugly truth: there’s some amazingly OLD stuff out there! To fix that, the US Navy has made their Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) program one of their highest priorities.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2014

'Data center designers have generally gotten reliability right. except for that rare occasion when a truck runs into a power transformer or a ship drops an anchor onto a submarine cable. Read More.

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SPF13

JUNE 30, 2014

'Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl and PHP all support references. On the surface both references and pointers are very similar, both are used to have one variable provide access to another. With both providing a lot of the same capabilities, it’s often unclear what is different between these different mechanisms.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 2, 2014

'Don''t Panic, Posted by J Linwood. Agile teams are best organized when team responsibilities are clearly defined and separated from other teams, when business deliverables can be accomplished with a minimal number of teams, and when there is clear process to handle the communication and dependency between teams. Anyone who has led or participated in an agile organization knows that the easiest.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 4, 2014

'Everyone likes clouds, but what questions should you be asking about them? Image Credit. I like clouds, you like clouds, everyone likes clouds. CIOs everywhere are getting inundated with cloud requests , cloud proposals, and cloud projects. However, committing your company’s IT assets to the cloud is a big deal considering the importance of information technology to the company.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 3, 2014

'Recently, my wife wanted to buy an item for her photography studio. This particular item is something that you’d never think belonged in a studio…but photographers are creative people and they find many uses for all sorts of things. This item is a cat scratcher that looks similar to the item in the photo below. We don’t own cats so it didn’t make a lot of sense to me to need to purchase this device but after she showed me how this scratcher is turned into ‘prop

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 6, 2014

'Google isn''t the first company to use artificial intelligence to fine-tune its server infrastructure. Its work is the latest in a series of initiatives to create an electronic "data center brain" that can analyze IT infrastructure. Read More.

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SPF13

JUNE 30, 2014

'Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl and PHP all support references. On the surface both references and pointers are very similar, both are used to have one variable provide access to another. With both providing a lot of the same capabilities, it’s often unclear what is different between these different mechanisms.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 28, 2014

'How important is data quality to your Big Data strategy? I suspect that once you have business leaders asking good data driven questions and have the beginnings of big data tools implemented, data quality and governance will become a bigger business priority. Microsoft has the most successful Big Data tool - it''s called Excel. Most business users will jump into Excel first to do any kind of.

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The Investing Edge

JUNE 6, 2014

'There’s a common misconception that engineers and data scientists are “number crunchers,” and are not creative. They use the left side of their brains, as the popular opinion goes, to present stodgy, black-and-white data, trends, ideas, etc. The “creatives” reside on the other side of the company, immersed in the innovative and artistic work – design, music, advertising, PR, etc.

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A CIO's Voice

JUNE 5, 2014

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CTOvision

JUNE 9, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The reference below was provided by friends at Altamira. If you are an analyst, enterprise architect, CIO, CTO, CISO, CFO or even a business executive seeking insights into the nature of modern data solutions you will find the poster below to be a fantastic resource. Click to expand it to full view. Download and print and post on your wall to periodically review and to continue to ensure you are thinking of the many related elements of analytical solutions.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 3, 2014

'The company can now run its own network operating system and use its own SDN controller on Open Compute switches by the likes of Broadcom, Mellanox or Big Switch to optimize data delivery. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 4, 2014

'NCOIC’s Kevin Jackson to present new process for creating interoperability via a cyber-secure multi-cloud environment at cloud computing conferences in the U.S. and China WASHINGTON—June 4, 2014 —Cyber-secure cloud computing can help both businesses and governments improve their ability to collaborate with non-traditional partners so they can quickly and cost-effectively tackle complex problems.

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A Screw's Loose

JUNE 5, 2014

'Apple upgraded itself on Monday, or so the papers say. They had their big yearly developer conference and announced a lot of interesting things. In some corners people cheered wildly, in other corners people booed and hissed, finding fault with every new feature, and then in the far corner, the enterprise folks just went about [.].

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 30, 2014

'If you have primarily worked in a Windows Server environment, you may be asking yourself what’s the big deal about containers? After all, we’ve seen this all play out on the desktop side for years.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 5, 2014

'I’m often asked the following question: What is the difference between Business Intelligence and Big Data? Before getting into my approach to answering that question, let’s be clear on what we’re talking about. When most people say “Business Intelligence” they’re talking about the class of products that have been implemented in most organizations, not the actual information or knowledge that is derived from the use of these systems.

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CTOvision

JUNE 17, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Google is certainly difficult to pin down – part search engine, part Internet service provider, part investor and entertainment provider and researcher and driverless-car developer, and the list goes on and on. In a YouTube blog post dated May 29 th , Google announced that YouTube watchers can now access a free Video Quality Report to assess the speed (or sluggishness) of the Internet service.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 24, 2014

'During a May meeting with a group of CIOs in Berlin Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith witnessed something unusual: a CIO for a German state came in carrying a copy of a legal decision. It was a magistrate’s decision in a federal court in New York on the question of… Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 28, 2014

'This is quite an unusual post for me but I would like to congratulate GovCloud Network partner SDP Networks on their launch of the Security & Defense People website ! Security and Defense People offers a tremendous opportunity for experts and consultants, whether you are focused on building your brand or seeking work. You can target your messages and interactions to the right targeted audience, publish your content that connects with that audience, and extend engagement both on and off the

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SPF13

JUNE 8, 2014

'To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the origination of the concept. The first object oriented language, simula, emerged in the 1960s. It introduced objects, classes, inheritance and subclasses, virtual methods, coroutines, and a lot more. Perhaps most importantly, it introduced a paradigm shift of thinking of data and logic as completely independent.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 28, 2014

'I’ve spent the past 2 years working for a Big 4 Consulting firm as a management consultant. The experience has been like nothing else I’ve seen professionally. I’ve advised a Fortune 500 in their global data center strategy.

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CTOvision

JUNE 19, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Google recently released a free Video Quality Report , a means for Internet users to determine the quality of their Internet connections and to compare the speeds of their Internet service provider with other local ISPs. Much of the tech community received the report positively because the increased transparency – although it has the potential to “shame” ISPs that provide inferior service – will likely result in more competition and a better product for consumers.

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CTOvision

JUNE 2, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. This is the third installment in our series flowing from recent dialog with Marc Andreessen. Previous posts discussed future tech scenarios around the year 2030 and context on government services in the future. In this post we provide Marc’s thoughts around the future of technology including automation, robotics and AI and implications for government, business and citizens.

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Government Open Source CTO Analysis 287

CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. SAN JOSE, Calif. , June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Hadoop Summit – According to the O’Reilly Data Scientist Salary Survey , R is the most-used tool for data scientists, while Weka is a widely used and popular open source collection of machine learning algorithms. Today, Pentaho Corporation announced the Data Science Pack , a toolkit to operationalize these two commonly used technologies.

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Data Big Data Open Source Analysis 284

CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

'By George Romas. We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. The underlying technology enabling IoT is Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Your running shoe tracks your workouts, sending the data to a mobile app. Your wristband tracks your daily activities, including sleep patterns.

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CTOvision

JUNE 18, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. OnLive is a firm I recommend enterprise technologists watch closely. Their core capabilities have been proven in delivery of high performance games via cloud services (their focus has been cloud-gaming). They have proven, scalable capabilities that have been operating at a scale of millions of users with zero downtime. By delivering high-end visual computing experiences successfully to any device they have created capabilities that can apply to just about every enterprise.

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CTOvision

JUNE 27, 2014

'By Gregory Piatetsky. Editor’s note: This post by Gregory Piatetsky first appeared at KDnuggets.com. It it he dives into a key question regarding the possible shortage of data scientists. -bg. Many people have read the McKinsey report on Big Data (May 2011) which predicted . The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers and analysts with the skills to understand and make decisions based on the analysis of big

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Data Big Data Analysis Groups 277

CTOvision

JUNE 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below provides an overview of conclusions from CTOvision research into ways to automate the removal of cyber threats (including malware) from your enterprise. It highlights ten requirements CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and CFOs should articulate as critical to success in automating security response. Additional context into this topic is available in our research report downloadable here: .

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CTOvision

JUNE 16, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Responding to slow connectivity speeds for its online content, Netflix posted an error message in early June to alert its customers that Verizon is to blame for slow speeds. The message read, “The Verizon network is crowded right now. Adjusting video for smoother playback…” Verizon responded with a cease and desist letter demanding that Netflix stop sending the message and demanding proof of Verizon’s responsibility for the slow speeds.

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