CTOvision

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'For those of us who work in and around the enterprise security domain something unique has just happened. The U.S. Government has just approved a commercial consumer device, the Samsung Galaxy family of devices, for classified info. This means government organizations can establish new, smarter, more scalable mechanisms to get classified information to mobile users.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'Company expands cloud footprint, partners with CoreOS, Cloudera, and rolls out a Dell server pre-integrated with Azure Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'In his 1982 book Megatrends, John Naisbitt wrote “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” While written over 30 years ago, that line is as very true today…but I might change it a bit to match the current state of affairs. Today, we are drowning in data and starved for information. Every organization has a great deal of data and more data is being collected every day.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2014

'Technology That Every CIO Needs To Know About. As the CIO of your company, it’s your job to stay on top of all of the different forms of technology that the company uses to accomplish its business goals. This task is made even harder by all of the changes that are always occurring in the various technology fields. As the CIO you need to understand how to pick the correct type of database to be used on projects.

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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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CTOvision

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'With Edward Snowden’s revelations, the myriad of recent information breaches at large corporations, and the extraordinary level of digitalization in our country, the American public has never placed a higher value on cyber security. This heightened attention has manifested itself in recent actions by Apple and Google that have provided higher levels of encryption for smartphone data.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'As Internet approaches “true cusp” of widespread IPv6 migration, the company is making preparations Read More.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'The term “DaaS” is often synonymous with a “raw desktop in the sky”. But that’s a only like getting a new laptop… just an OS and maybe some antivirus. The rest of the set-up and customization is up to you. Meh. What lines-of-business really want are “ business-ready desktops “, customized, optimized and supported for a company’s industry and specific use cases.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 24, 2014

'This post is sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. Cyber intelligence is a growing discipline in the cybersecurity community, providing important information for cyber defenders in enterprises large and small. This post reviews key sources of cyber intelligence provided free from governments and academia. Most every enterprise with a mature understanding of the importance of protecting their digital assets has a cyber intelligence program underway.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'How are you controlling your power and UPS infrastructure? Are you working to mitigate the risk of UPS failure? Find out what it takes to help prevent utility failure. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'"The next generation of technology solutions will transform lives, businesses and economies." This is the theme at this year''s Dell World opening keynote and this view is supported by Gartner''s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 : C omputing Everywhere - As mobile devices continue to proliferate, Gartner predicts an increased emphasis on serving the needs of the mobile user in diverse contexts and environments, as opposed to focusing on devices alone.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 24, 2014

'This post is brought to you by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. When I speak to organizations about the cloud, I find the majority of them are using the cloud in some form or fashion today. Many have opted to build a private cloud to allow cloud-based systems while maintaining total control over the applications and security of the cloud.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site. Instead, organizations will have multiple sites, connected by high performance networks, with the ability to move workloads to where it’s less risky and more secure for the business.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Provider pitches facility as one with plenty of free cooling and low-cost hydro-electric power Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'If you are going to throw a retreat, then do it well Image Credit. Every CIO is looking to solve the same puzzle: what do they have to do in order to get the most productivity out of their IT department? It turns out that sometimes the solution to this puzzle is to temporarily forget the importance of information technology and take the IT department out of the company and go on a retreat.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'A while back I wrote a piece titled The Strategy Disconnect where I wrote: Millions can be spent on the ‘perfect’ strategy, but if that strategy isn’t understood and accepted by the people within the organization (and its customers), that strategy is worthless. If that strategy isn’t grounded in reality, it is worthless. I stand by that statement wholeheartedly.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'Here is some of the technology news we are tracking from across the tech community: Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015. Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'Data Center World: Data center managers can draw both warnings and inspiration from studying disasters outside of their industry Read More.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'Veteran''s 360 and Rick Collins, Founder & Executive Director of Vets 360, Inc., are being honored at this year''s Champions Leadership, and Research Conference™. This event, November 6th-7th, 2014 at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, NC, is an independent conference, and a component of eMerging Entrepreneurs'' “Veterans Economic Advancement project.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS region in Frankfurt, Germany. This is our 11th infrastructure region and was built to support the strong demand we are seeing in Europe and to give our customers the option to run infrastructure located in Germany. The new Frankfurt region provides low millisecond latencies to major cities in continental Europe and is also run with carbon neutral power.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'Intel has created a Bay Trail Atom PC that is only 1.6 ounces. It is manufactured by Shenzen Apec Electronics and can be purchased on AliExpress for just under $125 (with shipping). The device does not come with OS, but you are able to load Windows, Linux, Android or other OS systems. It’s similar to Google’s Chromecast, at least in the sense that it’s designed to plug into an HDMI port, can be powered via a micro USB port, and connects to the Internet via WiFi.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 24, 2014

'Attendees gathered at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida to network and attend sessions with a variety of facilities and data center management topics. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'(This post was originally published by Learning Tree International [link] ) The adoption of cloud computing is revolutionizing today’s business. This trend has also elevated the importance of IT and business alignment because cloud enables new business models that have until now were not economically viable. A recent study confirmed this trend by showing that the vast majority of organizations of all sizes use both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hosted infrastructure services.

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The Investing Edge

OCTOBER 24, 2014

'The BYOA movement continues to grow – both in enterprises worldwide and in social media. While Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and others continue to proliferate as means for employees to work more productively, social mentions of BYOA have increased as well, according to the latest iteration of the Ascent Index. But is BYOA getting the level of attention it really deserves?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'There are threats to your business and mission needs. Tracking them can give you insights that drive your decisions. This is the operating thesis behind ThreatBrief , our daily report on business risks (with a focus on cyber risks). Our analysts and experienced executives are collaborating to ensure this newsletter captures the insights you need. Our goal is to make this product your most anticipated read of the day.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Data Center World: Data center manager of former McAfee sees no reason to have internal data centers Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today. For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'In this post, I’ll describe a technique I found for simplifying the use of multi-machine Vagrantfiles by extracting configuration data into a separate YAML file. This technique is by no means something that I invented or created, so I can’t take any credit whatsoever; this is an idea I first saw here. I wanted to share it here in the hopes that it might prove useful to a larger audience.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 24, 2014

'Ayasdi provides advanced analytics software to healthcare, financial services, life sciences, energy, public sector, consumer products, high-tech, and for communications. The vision of Ayasdi: Deep Analytics Will Be Essential and Transformative For Every Organization. Our Goal is to Make the Analysis of Complex Data as Simple as Online Shopping or Searching the Web.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'When looking to the cloud, the goal for any business is to identify a solution provider that meets and exceeds the needs and goals that are already in place, writes Christopher Stark of Cetrom. To ensure your company’s needs are met, the following tips should be considered when evaluating a cloud.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Hello and welcome to this joint September and October Server and StorageIO update newsletter. Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as other activities including several webinars, on-line along with in-person events in the US as well as Europe.

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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.