CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The FBI just posted the first official written articulation of why they believe North Korea is linked to the ongoing Sony Hack. As someone who has worked with FBI investigators in the past I have to tell you they do not go public like this unless they have evidence. It is true they have been wrong before, and it is a very American trait to be skeptical of government assessments.

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Malware Analysis Government Network 348

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Major data breaches make it clear that data security is a serious problem, writes Patrick Quirk of Emerson Network Power. But despite the rash of breaches, there remains an industry-wide naïveté when it comes to these types of security concerns. Read More.

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Network Security Industry Data 279

Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'I’m sure there are many definitions of a CEO out there. Plenty of people will say the CEO should be a leader, manager, communicator and facilitator. Other’s might say that the CEO is the person most focused on strategy and the ‘future’ of the business. Investopedia defines the CEO as: The highest ranking executive in a company whose main responsibilities include developing and implementing high-level strategies, making major corporate decisions, managing the overall ope

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'In 2014, many of my posts on BigData were actually about "small" data management practices. Specifically, I hope these posts educated readers that tools of "Data Science 1.0" such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and especially Access can disrupt - even kill - efforts to make organizations become more data driven. In addition to calling out this problem which is something I have been doing for a.

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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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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'Networking is all about meeting new people Image Credit: Freelancers Union. As CIO you know that despite the importance of information technology, networking is so much more than just connecting servers with cables. It turns out that it has a lot to do with meeting new people and expanding your social network. This is valuable stuff. Now the big question is how to go about doing it correctly…?

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Network Social Meeting How To 187

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'What is ITIL & how can it benefit your organization? Learn the answers to these questions plus gain an understanding of the ITIL Service Lifecycle in this video. Download a free white paper & learn more about ITIL training at [link] ( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.) ?

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'As data center change continues at a rapid pace, important trends are rising to the fore that will help shape the industry in 2015 and beyond, writes Kevin Leahy of Dimension Data. Read More.

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Data Center Trends Data Industry 275

Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today. Over the years, many data centers have become the dumping ground for all things technology.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'I started 2014 with several posts on the CIO / CMO relationship and where IT departments can help with digital marketing initiatives. The main touch point is around data and the technologies that enable CMOs to be more data driven. With so many technology vendors trying to tap into marketing budgets and when most of the key marketing data is is enterprise systems, SaaS products, and other data.

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Big Data Enterprise Systems Budget Data 169

The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Bad things have been happening at the Singapore Stock Exchange Image Credit: Reuters. Stock exchanges are challenging businesses to run. The people who use stock exchanges, stock traders, banks, brokers, etc. move very fast. The phrase “time is money” was invented to describe these people. They have a desperate need to be able to communicate with other people in a very rapid and very reliable way.

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Fractional CTO CTO Banking Software 149

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

'We are offering a fun and educational event just about the cloud. This session will help CEOs, Directors, Managers, and Dilberts learn what the heck the cloud is all about. Don’t get left out of the conversation. Learn how your business / organization can benefit from this technology. The cloud is all around you and you need to know what it is. When: January 15, 2015 Time: 4:00 – 7:00 (ish) Location: San Diego – Specific Location TBD – trust us we’ll pick a cool place.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By SeanLawson. On October 27, 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that bans the use of “unmanned aircraft and remote controlled aircraft” near stadiums. The move comes in the wake of a number of reports worldwide , including within the United States , of “drone” use at sporting events. Though these incidents certainly raise legitimate safety concerns, the FAA’s response is problematic for a number of reasons.

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Sports Policies Course Analysis 298

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'In building out a global federation of small cloud providers, OnApp is in the position to challenge the likes of AWS. That''s if it gets the technology right. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'The 2014 CIO State of the CIO Survey has some interesting data related to the role of the CIO. One of the interesting pieces of that survey relates to the idea that CIO’s are feeling as though they are being pushed aside. Nearly 30 percent of CIO’s reportedly feel ‘sidelined in their businesses as they watch shadow IT increase.’. My instinct tells me that many of those 30 percent of CIO’s are struggling today because they haven’t taken the step forward to drive innovation within the organizatio

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Data Center Agile Survey Symantec 198

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'For the last few years as CIO of McGraw Hill Construction, I''ve had four relatively strange items on my desk that I''ve kept around for special reasons. A few people on my staff have some understanding on why I kept them, but few have asked about them. I think everyone working in IT might have some interest in the stories behind these items as they represent different leadership principals.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'This module is designed to make automating the installation of software a breeze. It also provides logging that makes it easy to check and see if there were errors during an installation. The logging has been designed so that there is an installation log file that records all steps in the installation, an application log file that the installer creates, and finally a build.log file that records if the application was successfully installed.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'by Melvin Greer Managing Director Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation According to a Greer Institute Workforce and Talent study, the 2020 workforce is both “the most educated and culturally diverse of any generation” and “notorious job-hoppers who dislike bureaucracy and distrust traditional hierarchies.” Given this, it is crucial for leaders to understand how best to motivate and engage this 2020 workforce and win the war for top talent.

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Dell Mobile Trends Analysis 169

CTOvision

DECEMBER 20, 2014

'By SeanLawson. For more than a decade we have heard constant warnings about the coming of “cyber war” and “cyber terrorism.” The prophets of cyber doom have promised that cyber attacks are just around the corner that will be on par with natural disasters or the use of weapons of mass destruction. With every new report of a cyber attack, the prophets exclaim that their visions have finally come to pass, and so it is with the most recent attack against Sony.

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Meeting Government CTO Financial 291

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'HPC experts say adoption of liquid cooling will increase over the next three to five years, as data-crunching requirements of scientific research push workloads past the boundaries of air cooling Read More.

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Data Center Data Research 266

Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 29, 2014

'I just read through “ Four Ways to Innovate Using Big Data and Analytics ” over on Forbes. It’s a good read…you should jump over and read it yourself. If you don’t have the time (or just don’t want to), I give my thoughts on these ‘four ways” below. The ‘four ways’ are: The payback on big data investments is happening quickly.

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The Investing Edge

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'I’m a graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell and sit on the board of Change is Simple , a non-profit devoted to educating the next generation to become thoughtful and aware of environmental issues and social responsibility. I also surf as frequently as possible, when I can find free time, literally immersing myself as often as I can in the power of nature.

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Internet Resources Social Examples 93

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Is Docker, and for that matter containers in general full-on competition to VMware and other virtualization platforms? Docker has announced platform level features that include network virtualization and clustering. However, not every workload is suitable for containers. Containers lack much.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'2015 PREDICTION TIME!! The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! Rise of the "Cloud System Integrator" (a.k.a. Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the

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Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: I have been very excited to have the opportunity to observe the MACH37 team up close as one of their team of mentors. It is great being associated with Rick Gordon , Dan Woolley , Robert Stratton and Ledger West and the many virtuous firms they help accelerate into the market. For an update see their release below. – bg.

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Security Programming Nonprofit Analysis 289

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 25, 2014

'The data center is fundamental to keeping apps running. CA Technologies Lara Greden explains how to make sure availability, efficiency and capacity issues don’t derail your app agenda. Read More.

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Data Center Data Industry How To 265

Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'It’s been a bit quiet around here the past week. I’ve been doing some traveling over the holidays and enjoying some time with my wife and our cameras. This morning, we went out to one of the best locations in the area for bird watching and photography. We were pretty sure we wouldn’t see much nor get any good photographs due to the very thick fog that had rolled in overnight.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'If RAID were really not relevant anymore (e.g. actually dead), why do some people spend so much time trying to convince others that it is dead or to use a different RAID level or enhanced RAID or beyond raid with related advanced approaches?

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'I decided to create walk-thru’s to Johnathan Frappier’s #vDM30in30 labs. While I have no intention in doing 30 videos in 30 days Johnathan has laid out a very good framework for setting up a lab and I thought video walk-thu’s.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'By Jodi Kohut For the uninitiated, FedRAMP is the Federal Risk Authorizationand Management Program , a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Implemented to support the Administration’s “Cloud First” policy, some have pointed to FedRAMP as a great model for commercial industry’s adoption of cloud as well.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud Dell Government 163

CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. We have all been watching the growing cyber threat. Press reports on attacks are numbing and hard to put in context. Every attack seems more significant than the one before. What can be done? Our new book, The Cyber Threat , hits this issue head on. This book was made for technology and business executives who know they must mitigate a growing threat.

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