CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Genomics is a critically important discipline in contemporary biomedical research that takes a comprehensive approach to determining and understanding the structure and function of DNA to advance our understanding of life and our ability to make lives better for all. For IT professionals we can contribute to this domain through Bioinformatics.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 2, 2013
'A Utah data center supporting some of the web hosting industry''s best known brands has suffered a networking outage, causing an extended service outage. The problems at a Provo, Utah facility operated by Endurance International Group, have led to downtime for customers of BlueHost, HostGator and.
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CIO Musings
AUGUST 16, 2013
'A recent strategic planning exercise I attended focused on a discussion of the "Balanced Scorecard" concept. This helped tie together a lot of concepts that had been rummaging around in my head and in my organization for quite a while. I must pay homage here to Dr. Robert Kaplan, one of the originators of the Balanced Scorecard concept. I also credit Mr.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 7, 2013
'I ran across IBM’s “ How NOT to run a midsize business… ” site and immediately spent some time sifting through the site. You’ve most likely seen the cards from someecards.com running around the web these days. IBM has taken the idea of those cards and applied them to the midsize business (and business in general). You should jump over and read through some of the posts there…there are some that are quite funny.
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
AUGUST 14, 2013
'It’s How The CIO puts the pieces together that makes big data valuable Image Credit. The era of big data has arrived. CIOs everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools that will allow them to make sense of what they have. It turns out that there is another problem that has arrived at the same time and right now there is not a clear answer to how best to deal with it: how to back up all of that data.
SPF13
AUGUST 4, 2013
'I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web developers conference and this year it focused on HTML5. This was one of the hardest presentations I’ve worked on for the simple fact that the audience had name recognition, but not familiarity with the database industry. Typically I’ve leaned on the fact that most participants were familiar with at least one database prior to my presentation, I had no such luxury here.
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Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 23, 2013
'There''s a new buzz word in distributed computing - Fog Computing. The idea of fog computing is to distribute data to move it closer to the end-user to eliminate latency and numerous hops, and support mobile computing and data streaming.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 6, 2013
'A very interesting global survey title The Professional Revolution has just been released by Thomson Reuters (Disclosure: I long ago worked for its predecessor Thomson Financial as Global Director – Capital Markets). The report uncovers a number of very interesting insights into professionals and professional work. One of the most interesting is the differences between emerging market and developed market professionals.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Before we get started – a definition of “construct” is needed. Taking a page from my years in quantitative research, I submit this definition ( based on this definition ): A construct is a mental abstraction used to express an idea, object or any other ‘item’ (could be people, organizations, etc.). It’s a way of bringing theory into the ‘real’ world and attempting to explain it using other real-world examples.
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 28, 2013
'How much money will all of those IT projects put in the bank this year? Image Credit. Us CIOs are a very optimistic lot. If you take a survey of CIOs more often than not what you’re going to find out is that we truly do believe in the importance of information technology and we believe that each and every IT project that the IT department is scheduled to work on this year is going to result in money being saved for the company.
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SPF13
AUGUST 4, 2013
'I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web developers conference and this year it focused on HTML5. This was one of the hardest presentations I’ve worked on for the simple fact that the audience had name recognition, but not familiarity with the database industry. Typically I’ve leaned on the fact that most participants were familiar with at least one database prior to my presentation, I had no such luxury here.
CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Vogon’s are not bogons, but look like them. With this post we will dive a bit deeper into bogosity in networks, paying particular attention to the fundamental element of bogosity, the Bogon. We will then articulate a use case for the Centripetal Networks RuleGate which can ensure bogons never get to your enterprise. As a prelude let me first say there is a very high likelihood that your ISP is sending bogons your way right now, using the bandwidth you paid for to do so.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 9, 2013
'Solar flares are a potential threat to critical infrastructure, according to NASA scientists. who say the sun''s vast magnetic field is about to flip, an event that creates an elevated risk of solar activity and "space weather." One concern for data center providers is the potential for solar.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 6, 2013
'Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote at the Thought Leadership Forum on The Virtual University , which examined the future of business education. The event organizers, the Centre for Accounting, Governance, and Sustainability and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia , have now released a book The Virtual University: Impact on Australian Accounting and Business Education based on the conference proceedings.
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Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 6, 2013
'I just finished reading an article written by John Mason titled When Small Businesses Use Cloud and Mobile to Go Global ” over on IBM’s Smarter Planet Blog. The article is a very good one and worth the jump to read… just remember to come back here and finish up with my post. In the article, John writes: By adopting a cloud and mobile worldview and considering the whole end-to-end experience, small business owners today can quickly be on their way to seizing new, global market opportunitie
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 21, 2013
'CIOs need to realize that not every data problem can be solved by noSQL Image Credit. If you were to create a list of the buzz words that are filtering through the world of IT right now, “noSQL” would have to be at the top of your list when you are talking about the importance of information technology. CIOs everywhere have decided that they’ve had enough of traditional databases and the high vendor fees that come with them.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Managed service providers know they want to offer exemplary customer-focused hosted services including apps and hosted desktops. But these firms (players ranging from niche players to global Telcos) also all struggle with the same questions: What are the right services to lead with? What customer sizes should I pursue in what markets? Does market geography matter?
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2013
'By Bob Gourley CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com , has just announced a white paper titled “ Empowering Analysts with Big Data.” This paper, the results of four years of study and assessments and use case review focused on the use of Big Data in the federal government, provides design tips, concepts of operation and overarching design requirements which can inform any big data sol
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Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 6, 2013
'Last July 1, the "Leap Second" bug caused many Linux servers to get stuck in a loop, endlessly checking the date and time. At the Internet''s busiest data centers, power usage almost instantly spiked by megawatts. Here''s a look at Facebook''s experience, which has led the company to develop its own.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 7, 2013
'Tomorrow I am giving the closing keynote at Oracle Cloud Day Auckland on The Power of Social Media. Below are my keynote slides. The usual disclaimer applies: the slides are designed to accompany my keynote, not to be viewed as stand-alone slides, but may still be of some interest to those who have not attended my presentation. The Power of Social Media – Keynote slides from Ross Dawsn.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 25, 2013
'Data Science for Business – O’Reilly Radar. Quote : Data analytic thinking means knowing what questions to ask, how to ask those questions, and whether the answers you get make sense. Business leaders don’t (and shouldn’t) do the data analysis themselves. But in this data-driven age, it’s critically important for business leaders to understand how to work with the data scientists on their teams.
The Investing Edge
AUGUST 29, 2013
'We’ve written frequently about BYOD , the consumerization of IT and their impacts on enterprise technology. As disruptive to the enterprise as BYOD has been, it’s also somewhat become the norm, with reports that as many as 70 percent of employees who own a smartphone or tablet choose to use it to access corporate data, and more than 60 percent of companies either have BYOD plans in place, or will have them by the end of the year.
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.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 13, 2013
'This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. These developers want to engage their users with timely, dynamic content even when the users haven’t opened their mobile apps.
CTOvision
AUGUST 15, 2013
'By Bob Gourley We previously brought your attention to a Defense Science Board study on Cloud Computing (see: DSB Report on Reliability in a Digital Cloud ). I continue to believe this report captures critically important, actionable information and makes conclusions that should form the underpinning of DoD IT modernization efforts. It is a good read.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 12, 2013
'The growth is back at Rackspace Hosting. The cloud computing specialist added 4,762 physical servers in the second quarter of 2013, an average of 52 servers per day.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 19, 2013
'The Weekend Australian last Saturday had an interesting article titled Facebook shakes up house hunt (subscription may be required). It described how a couple had bought their dream home after finding it on the Facebook page of a real estate agent. They arranged to inspect it immediately after it appeared on the page and bought it the next day, before the for-sale sign had been put up in the yard.
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Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 18, 2013
'Unicorn, Shmunicorn: Be a Pegasus | UX Magazine. Quote : But who better to take on the product challenges of the future than cream-of-the-crop UX professionals? No one is closer to the intersection of people’s goals and a company’s products than the designers sweating over every detail of the user experience, day in and day out. Rather than re-inventing yourself as a part-time, mediocre coder, consider aiming your trajectory squarely at these product leadership positions.
The Investing Edge
AUGUST 23, 2013
'I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Verivo CEO Steve Levy for 5 years. Steve is a sharp executive and has consistently built his businesses through creating new revenue models, extending product offerings, and identifying new market opportunities. It’s no surprise, then, that Verivo is considered an emerging enterprise mobility leader. Verivo helps businesses simplify the complexities associated with building, securing, and managing enterprise mobile apps.
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 24, 2013
'NBC 4 in Washington, DC highlighted government cloud computing today as part of their GovInnovate show. Below is just a taste of the informative public service they provided. Go to the NBC Washington video site for much more! Casey Coleman: How the Cloud is Becoming Part of IT Spending. Keith Trippie: What cloud computing does for the government, in practical terms.
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2013
'By Kimberly Kelly Entrepreneur Elon Musk has envisioned an ultra fast transportation system called Hyperloop. The Hyperloop is not only fast but it would be two times faster than the fastest commercial train in the world. On Monday, Musk released plans for this project. Though the project is highly speculative, in the past Musk has sent private rockets into outer space, so the project shouldn’t be dismissed all too quickly.
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