April, 2014

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Tech Titans To Visit At Geoint: Here is my take on the must-see firms on the expo floor

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This is a follow on to our post on planning your time at the Geoint Symposium. With this post I want to make some technology recommendations that may be helpful to you as you plan out your time at the Geoint Symposium 14-17 Apr. There are so many great firms on the expo floor you cannot possibly spend time with all of them. You really need to approach the floor with a strategy.

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Data Center Fire Leads to Outage for Samsung Devices

Data Center Knowledge

'A major fire at a Samsung data center in Gwacheon, South Korea Sunday morning caused a data outage for users Samsung devices, including smart TVs, phones and tablets. Read More.

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9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

SPF13

'I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for the release of MongoDB 2.6. This is the largest driver release in the history of MongoDB, both in terms of code changes as well as in terms of drivers released. Official Drivers for C, C++, C# (.net), Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala were all released with Perl following shortly.

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CIOs Need To Plan For The End Of A Cloud Relationship

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Even cloud relationships have to come to an end sometime – are you ready? Image Credit. Since the cloud is a new and shiny thing in the world of IT departments, we are all excited about it because it now has a lot to do with the importance of information technology. Part of having the CIO job is spending your day thinking about how you can move more of the company’s applications into the cloud.

Cloud 229
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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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What not to do with Unstructured Big Data - and Why NoSQL

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I should have written this post 5-10 years ago when I was an expert working with search engines and text data. Better late then never, and hopefully this will help some of you that are starting out looking at solutions to better store, search, and data mine text documents. . . So here are some things not to do (or avoid doing) with unstructured text Big Data: Develop home grown scripts to.

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ITAAC/ICH and TIA To Host Commercial Cloud Sourcing Brainstorming Session for NGA

Cloud Musings

'The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are honored to team with NGA in hosting the first " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session, April 23, 2014 at TIA headquarters. This not for profit and free industry event is designed to improve cloud computing standardization and interoperability.

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Microsoft to Build New $1.1 Billion Data Center in Iowa

Data Center Knowledge

'Microsoft is building even bigger in Iowa. The company today unveiled plans to invest a whopping $1.1 billion in a new data center campus in West Des Moines, where it already operates a large server farm. Read More.

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MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

SPF13

'I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for the release of MongoDB 2.6. This is the largest driver release in the history of MongoDB, both in terms of code changes as well as in terms of drivers released. Official Drivers for C, C++, C# (.net), Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala were all released with Perl following shortly.

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How A CIO Can Build The Next Generation Of IT Workers

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Building a next generation IT department is hard work Image Credit. Yea! The global economy is improving and that means that good things are going to be coming to the IT department because the rest of the company has finally come to realize the importance of information technology. Specifically, since you have the CIO position, it’s going to be time for you to whip the IT team into shape in order to take on all of the new initiatives that the company is going to be preparing to rollout.

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How To Question Developers and Learn What is Really Going On

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Anyone who''s ever worked with me knows that I love spending time with developers. I will ask simple questions, "What are you working on?", "Can I see the code?", "Who is also working on this requirement and what are they doing?", and my favorite question, "How will your work help customers?". This is far more than just getting in touch with the staff and understanding what''s going on.

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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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Interoperability Clearinghouse Launches "Agile Cloud" Collaboration

Cloud Musings

'Last Wednesday, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) John T. Brennan, Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH) Executive Director, kicked off the Agile Cloud collaboration. This industry-wide effort is targeted at developing an open and inclusive cloud service brokerage environment capable of rapidly provisioning innovative technologies to the US Government on a fee for service basis.

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Technology Context From the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. For a decade now the cyber security community has been treated to important strategic context coordinated by Verizon in their Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The information in the report can help drive strategic planning for enterprise technologists and members of the enterprise cyber security team and it is well worth a read by any CTO, CIO, CISO and most other members of enterprise technology teams.

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As It Expands in San Antonio, Microsoft Sees Data Centers Transforming the Power Grid

Data Center Knowledge

'Microsoft wants to use its data centers to help transform the way electricity is delivered in the United States. That process will focus on San Antonio, TX, where the company has confirmed plans to build a new $250 million data center. Read More.

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SPF13

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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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Why Scenario Planning Is A Critical Skill All CIOs Have To Have

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Scenario planning is a skill that every CIO must have Image Credit. Risk is a part of every CIO’s standard job description. However, we all find different ways to deal with it. We like to measure risk by measuring uptime, mean time between failures, and other ways that risk can impact the importance of information technology. However, is it possible that we’re missing the most important measurement of all?

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The Database Decision that Will Hurt Your Company's Big Data Opportunities

Social, Agile and Transformation

'One year ago, I completed the controversial post, Please Stop Creating Microsoft Access Databases. It drew an onslaught of comments from those that have been successful developing on this platform and others who struggle with the issues caused by siloed databases. Now, one year later I''ve decided to revisit this topic. Developers Love their Platforms - But Big Data Platforms Are Strategic.

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Facilitators Announced For NGA Agile Cloud Brainstorming Event

Cloud Musings

'The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are announcing a slate of innovative leaders to serve as facilitators for the upcoming " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session being held in Alexandria, VA on April 23, 2014. Enjoying a great response thus far, industry participants include Boeing, Oracle, Google,SAP, Leidos and Capgemini.

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Spies Want Your Money: Look at this pinhole camera used to steal credit card numbers

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have to be sophisticated to be successful. Two relatively easy to execute attacks were recently highlighted by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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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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Facebook Ready to Begin Second Data Center in Iowa

Data Center Knowledge

'Facebook hasn''t even finished its first massive data center building in Altoona, Iowa. But the social networking company is ready to begin construction on a second 476,000 square foot building. Read More.

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Expanding the Cloud: Docker Containers in Elastic Beanstalk

All Things Distributed

'We launched Elastic Beanstalk in 2011 with support for Java web applications and Tomcat 6 in one region, and we''ve seen the service grow to 6 container types (Java/Tomcat, PHP, Ruby, Python,NET, and Node.js) supported in 8 AWS regions around the world. The Elastic Beanstalk team spends a lot of time talking to AWS Developers, and in the last few months they''ve noticed a common theme in those conversations: developers tell us they''re interested in Docker , and ask if we are thinking about mak

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Is the software defined data center a security project?

Virtualized Greek

'Can security be the catalyst for the software defined data center (SDDC)? Security may be one of the one areas of information technology that’s easy to convey to non-IT executives. The fallout from data breaches such as the one at Target highlight the enormous cost associated with failed security. These events create opportunities for security […].

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Enterprise SSHD and Flash SSD Part of an Enterprise Tiered Storage Strategy

Storage IO Blog

'Solid State Hybrid Disks (SSHD) are the successors to previous generation Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD) that I have used for several years (you can read more about them here, and here). While it would be nice to simply have SSD for everything, there are also economic budget realities to be dealt with. Keep in mind that a bit of nand flash SSD cache in the right location for a given purpose can go a long way which is the case with SSHDs.

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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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Have You Ever Had A Complaint/Suggestion About How The Federal Government Buys Technology

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Everyone with any history in or around government has stories they can tell about federal government procurements. It really is a different beast. There are many reasons why. Perhaps the first 535 reasons are the 535 voting members of the US Congress that have the funding, oversight and legislative powers for how government works. Name another organization in the world that has a board of directors with 535 voting members?

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The Final DATA Act: Here’s What It Means, Here’s What It’ll Do

CTOvision

'By HudsonHollister. Editor’s note: Hudson Hollister is the executive director of the data transparency coalition. His insightful update below covers issues of interests to technologists in and out of government. -bg. Sweeping change and open data are dawning for U.S. federal spending. On Thursday 10 April 2014 the U.S. Senate passed the DATA Act — unanimously.

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You Should Run R On Your Computer: Not just for stats, but to know what all the excitement is about

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. “ R ” is a freely available language for interacting with your computer that is designed for a wide variety of functions. It is most frequently associated with statistical computing and graphics. R runs on a wide variety of systems, including Mac, Windows, Linux and Unix. Every analyst who deals with data should have a copy of R and be familiar with it.

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Salesforce Announces new Industries Strategy: With Vivek Kundra Leading The Way

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Salesforce.com Announces New Industries Strategy. BOSTON, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the world’s #1 CRM platform, today announced a new industries strategy aimed at accelerating the company’s growth and transforming the way companies across key industries connect with their customers.

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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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The 2014 Analytics Forum Will Be Held 30 July in Reston VA

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Save the date! The 2014 Analytics Forum will be held 30 July in Reston VA. This event is focused on analytical insights for mission impact. The Analytics Forum is co-sponsored by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and the Analyst One website. The forum is the premier Big Data analytics event for mission-focused government and business analysts and executives.

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It’s Time to Halt The FAA’s Arbitrary and Expanding Domestic “Drone” Ban

CTOvision

'By SeanLawson. This week we learned of two new FAA actions against domestic operators of what are popularly called “drones” and what the FAA calls “unmanned aircraft systems” (UAS). In one case, the FAA has claimed that it is illegal for volunteers to use radio controlled model aircraft to search for missing persons. In the other, an agency spokeswoman advised a news outlet against publishing donated video taken by a model aircraft, implying that the agency could take legal action against the n

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Video From Samsung Knox Press Conference at Mobile World Congress 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. At this link and embedded below is a video from Samsung which captures the new features of Samsung’s well engineered approach to enhancing mobile security. Look for my cameo appearance at 11:55 where say something I believe, but which must be totally obvious to you good readers. The real reason to watch is to get an overview of their well engineered approach and how it has evolved over time to the benefit of enterprise users.

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Dangerous New Lows In NASA-Russian Collaboration: Will we cede the Space Station High Ground to Russia?

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. On the Crimean Peninsula, Russia writes the rules because they control the territory. They control who goes in and who goes out. Anyone who wants access to the Crimea can only do so if Russia allows it. You might have a treaty that says it is not supposed to be that way, but the fact is, Russia is in charge because they control all access.

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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.