CTOvision

JANUARY 20, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The 2015 State of the Union address was full of technology related content. Here are key takeaways from the perspective of a CTO: The President showed respect for something many American''s may not have heard of, but you dear readers know very well: Coding! In the context of education he remarked that "we’re connecting community colleges with local employers to train workers to fill high-paying jobs like coding, and nursing, and robotics.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 22, 2015

'IT facilities design is being driven by increased demand for compute and storage, according to James Cuff, Assistant Dean for Research Computing in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 19, 2015

'I learned much about what I know today about systems operations from Bill, a head of network engineering that I hired for my SaaS company about fifteen years ago. We already built separate systems for managing dev and test from production, matured source code controls, and implemented some automation around testing and deployment. What Bill taught me is that we needed to separate developers.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 21, 2015

'Offshoring As We’ve Known It May Be Dead Image Credit: Vitor Lima. Once upon a time, offshoring was the answer to every CIOs dreams. It offered a great way to significantly grow the IT department while at the same time reducing the total costs of running the department. What make it even better was that somebody else had to deal with the real-world issues of managing people and the person with the CIO job could just focus on results.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2015

'By Allen Bonde. Editor''s note: Allen Bonde, of embedded analytics leader Actuate (now a subsidiary of OpenText), believes that the opportunities around Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables are about to change our world – and that of business applications. - bg. There are officially now more mobile devices in the world than people – the number crossed over in 2014 somewhere around 7.19 billion mark.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 22, 2015

'One of Bitcoin’s biggest players is turning to immersion cooling to address the shifting economics of cryptocurrency mining. Bitcoin hardware specialist BitFury Group said today that it will acquire cooling specialist Allied Control. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

'I am proud and honored to announce that I have been added as a speaker at SouthAsia’s biggest tech event “Digital World 2015” , 9th - 12th February, 2015 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center Dhaka, Bangladesh. The event will also be attended by the Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina along with local and International Ministers.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The webinar below should be of interest to any enterprise technology professional in any industry. That is a broad statement but the webinar hits on a huge issue that concerns just about everyone who contributes to mission successes with technology. Cybersecurity professionals (including CISOs) will have a particular interest. So will CIOs, CTOs, Chief Risk Officers and architects.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 20, 2015

'Widely known for its Linux-based operating system, the company spent 2014 positioning itself as a major player in the OpenStack space Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 20, 2015

'Over on The CIO Leader, Ian Cox asks “ Are CIO’s running out of time? ” In the article, Ian provides an excellent analysis of the current state of the CIO and argues that CIO’s are definitely not running out of time especially if the CIO realizes that the role today is different than it was in years past. Ian writes that CIO’s need to better understand the New role of the CIO and follow a new model.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 21, 2015

'GUESS WHO SUPPORTS VETS 360? You can support them too at the: THE OFFICIAL LATINO FILM INDUSTRY POST OSCAR PARTY The Veterans 360 mission is to support our young combat veterans as they integrate into civilian life. In line with their four pronged approach (engagement, education, employment, and healing), and to help veterans get the skills necessary to obtain employment with a solid future, they leading the way with emerging technology courses.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 17, 2015

'By Kord Davis. " Simply hiring expensive data scientists isn’t enough. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively. ". In September 2014, Jeanne G. Harris (coauthor of Analytics at Work, Harvard Business Press, 2010) and Vijay Mehrotra (Professor of Business Analytics and Information Systems at the University of San Francisco) published their research on the emerging role data scientists and data analysts play in organizations.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 22, 2015

'The demand for undifferentiated or unsupported IaaS seems to be waning, writes Keao Caindec of 365 Data Centers, with cloud-savvy businesses seeking a combination of managed cloud services, private cloud or colocation. Read More.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 22, 2015

'In the beginning there were Military Engineers who built bridges and designed fortifications. When peacetime came, some headed to dig in the mines and others to build roads, canals and cities. For the first 50 years of the 19th century, engineers came in five basic flavors: Military, Mining, and Civil, and with the rise of steam, Naval and Railroad.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

'One of the challenges I’ve faced with learning more about OpenDayLight is the lack of documentation available on the project’s homepage. As an infrastructure guy, one frustrating aspect of the open source community is the insistence that code is just.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. If you are into technology and government and want to find ways to enhance your ability to serve big missions you need to be at this event, 25 Feb at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. Register here. Here are the details: Interact with your colleagues at the 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum. This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 23, 2015

'Delaware Superior Court ruled in favor of three consultants that sued The Data Centers for unpaid fees and interest, leaving TDC liable for $1.4 million total, Delaware Online reported. TDC was the developer behind the failed data center construction project planned in Newark, Delaware, that.

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Lundberg Media

JANUARY 20, 2015

'In a digital age, business survival depends on responsive IT. That is one of three key findings from a recent global survey of 750 business and technology leaders that I led for HBR Analytic Services (“The Leadership Edge in Digital Transformation”). Almost half of respondents (47%) said their organization had missed opportunities because IT was […].

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 21, 2015

The foundation for innovation has to be grounded in one’s “vision;” which has to be linked to “hope,” and seeking justice or, discovering"truth." Historically, innovation would seem to have emerged with an instinct for survival. Basic tools for hunting and gathering. So there's a connection, with emotional equivalents, with surviving each day. Greater leaps are found with agriculturally based societies; whereas, nomadic groups seem to have remained static, having adapted through trading.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

'By Charles Hall. Cyber threats are becoming more advanced, persistent, and focused. The threat landscape is rapidly changing, and evolving faster than ever. Today it is difficult to determine who is winning: either those behind the cyber threats, or those fighting to prevent and remediate the threats. The strategy against cyber threats has been to throw more and more technology at the problem, in an attempt to keep up, and it is not working.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 20, 2015

'Joint venture betwen 1547 Critical Systems and AlohaNAP, 10,000 square feet of turnkey space online on Oahu Read More.

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Tech Republic

JANUARY 19, 2015

Remote work, flextime, career sabbaticals, and zero-hours contracts are all types of flexible work. But it's remote work that's disrupting the traditional tech industry 9-to-5 grind. Here's why.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 23, 2015

Go back to the old chestnut of "people, process, and technology" to address business issues and it works in the GRC as well. Digital technologies bring significant opportunities and risks in today’s businesses. Hence, GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) plays a more important role in running an effective organization. GRC methodology vs. technology, how to balance them right in improving organizational agility and maturity?

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CTOvision

JANUARY 19, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. This year''s STEM symposium focuses on the "parent factor" when it comes to STEM education. Many sessions will help parents learn more ways to engage kids in the field. The 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium is a free, exciting and all-day forum that equally engages children, parents, and teachers, coupled with corporate, government, academia and non-profit executives alike from the STEM fields.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 20, 2015

'With the expanding number of converged solutions in the market, chances are you will find one that comfortably matches your needs, writes Janae Lee of Quantum. Here are three tips to consider when evaluating converged storage offerings. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 23, 2015

'I captured this Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron (I think…ID check?) at the Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 400 mm 5.6 L handheld. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 23, 2015

An effective leader with a witty mind can create positive energy to lighten up the surrounding. Being today’s digital leader is a tough challenge; some say, because the world becomes more open and transparent, people also turn to be more “picky.” On one hand, a good leader always needs to be authentic, unique and “imperfect” (nobody is perfect though); on the other hand, how shall you handle “subconscious” judgment, stereotypical thinking or over-analyzing cognition.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 20, 2015

'By Kord Davis. Open Humans Network is launching soon. Led by Jason Bobe and Madeleine Ball of PersonalGenomes.org , OHN attempts to break down health data silos through an online portal that will connect participants willing to share data about themselves publicly with researchers who are interested in using that public data and contributing their analyses and insight to it.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 23, 2015

'Another busy work week is nearing its end and we''ve got that Friday Funny feeling! Help us celebrate the weekend''s arrival with our Data Center Knowledge Caption Contest! Read More.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 20, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. CTOvision.com''s publisher and a co-founder of Cognitio Bob Gourley was interviewed by Federal News Radio in a broadcast that aired on 20 January 2015. Gourley discussed open data and new approaches to bringing it all together to meet enterprise missions, data security, the cloud and big data. Federal Tech Talk host John Gilroy pulled insights from Bob on firms like Cloudera, Intel, Pentaho, Tableau, Pixar, Ford, Microsoft and of course our own Cognitio.

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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.