CTOvision

JULY 25, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Stories are starting to make it into the tech media about what appears to be a massive melt-down of one of the nation’s most important IT systems. This system is not be as widely known as healthcare.gov, but it should be, because it is every bit as important. The system is the IT behind the critical missions of the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2014

'When you announce your next project, will it be greeted with praise or protest? A recent controversy surrounding a project in Newark, Delaware offers lessons for data center developers. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 21, 2014

'This post isn''t about code reuse or developing web services. Surely, you and your development organization understand the benefits of developing modular code, packing it in libraries, developing APIs and web services, insuring that test cases are automated, and hopefully starting to enable continuous delivery. Hopefully you have the architectural practices that recognize build once, leverage.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 23, 2014

'If only picking the right cloud vendor was this easy… Image Credit. Face it, we are all going to move our company’s IT applications into the cloud eventually. The importance of information technology demands that we do this. Just exactly where that cloud is going to be located and who will be running it for us is another question. What questions does a CIO need to ask when you are trying to select the right cloud vendor for your company?

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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

JULY 19, 2014

'By ChrisScott. Last month I was approached by one of my favorite DoD colleagues, inquiring about opportunities “out there” in Industry. This guy is one of the smartest Civil Servants I know. He has been a mover and shaker for decades. You know, one of those rare technically inclined individuals who can also manage big programs, get funding, and motivate teams.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2014

'Ed Healy says value of the data the company''s solutions collect far outweighs the value of its RFID tags for data center asset management Read More.

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Mick's IT Blog

JULY 25, 2014

'This error in my case was being caused because the MSI was being executed through SCCM. The MSI file had to be executed locally and not from a network source. It would install with no issues if you double-clicked on the MSI. It only happened when SCCM tried to install it. During my troubleshooting, I tried a few different alternatives: I use a PowerShell script to install the package.

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CTOvision

JULY 19, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. RESTON, Va., Jul 18, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Software AG was among the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc., a leading independent research firm, invited to participate in its report, “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Streaming Analytics Platforms, Q3 2014 1 ”. In this evaluation, Software AG received top scores in the Current Offering and Strategy Categories, and among the highest scores in the Market Presence Category.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2014

'First phase of unique partnership, where CenturyLink takes over Phoenix data center as the provider, is complete. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

JULY 21, 2014

'I’ve always felt the current flavors of hyper-converged bricks are incomplete. The focus is on storage and compute with no solid consideration for networking. In my opinion to be considered a converged infrastructure you have to offer storage, compute and.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2014

'Long-time readers know that since VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas, my wife Crystal has been organizing spouse activities—aka “Spousetivities”—for spouses, partners, family members, and friends traveling with VMworld conference attendees. This is a true labor of love for Crystal; she works tirelessly to gather sponsors, organize activities, and handle the logistics for the events.

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CTOvision

JULY 24, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. The uproar surrounding last year’s data breach at Target Corporation did more than simply tarnish Target’s reputation. The breach hit the company’s bottom line – and hit it hard. In its 4 th quarter (the period in which the breach was exposed), Target’s profits declined by hundreds of millions of dollars, compared with the same period from 2012.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2014

'Chessington data center is a step toward the plan to light up 10 vCloud Hybrid Service data centers by the year''s end. Read More.

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SPF13

JULY 20, 2014

'This presentation was given as a Workshop at OSCON 2014. Description. New to Go? This tutorial will give developers an introduction and practical experience in building applications with the Go language. Gopher Steve Francia, Author of Hugo , Cobra , and many other popular Go packages breaks it down step by step as you build your own full featured Go application.

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Nutanix

JULY 25, 2014

Protected Trust is a service provider that offers a variety of services ranging from secure email and collaborations to secure private cloud offerings.

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CTOvision

JULY 24, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On 30 July 2014 in Reston Virginia some of the greatest minds in analytics for business outcomes and mission impact will be gathering at the Hyatt Regency Reston. This event, the Analytics 2014 Forum, is being pulled together by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF ) and our team at Analyst One. We are collaborating to provide a full venue of interactive sessions designed to extract and share lessons learned.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2014

'You have high-density servers, lots of users connecting to your cloud. Now, find out why your high-efficiency data center needs good PDUs. Read More.

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SPF13

JULY 20, 2014

'This presentation was given as a Workshop at OSCON 2014. Description. New to Go? This tutorial will give developers an introduction and practical experience in building applications with the Go language. Gopher Steve Francia, Author of Hugo , Cobra , and many other popular Go packages breaks it down step by step as you build your own full featured Go application.

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Licensing .Net Applications Government 202

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 24, 2014

'I received an email this week pointing me to a nice article over on The Enterprisers Project titled “ CIO’s: Stay Relevant With This Advice From 7 Veteran IT Executives “ The article leads to a downloadable PDF that describes a roundtable discussion between the following IT veterans: Cynthia Stoddard, NetApp CIO. John Marcante, Vanguard CIO and Managing Director.

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CTOvision

JULY 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Enterprises everywhere have been seeking improved ways to make use of their data. Federal agencies have in many ways been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2014

'Having data in the wrong place eats into company resources, can add up to millions in unnecessary expenses and creates a considerable legal risk, writes Jim McGann of Index Engines. Now is the time to manage, tier, remediate, encrypt and archive that data. Read More.

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SPF13

JULY 23, 2014

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go. As an emerging language Go is able to start fresh without years of relational database dependencies.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 25, 2014

'I pulled this one from the archives. My first attempt at Light Painting. We set up some old cameras and did some light painting with an LED light. Played around with Lightroom Levels to get the “grunge’ look. Captured with Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105L on a Gitzo tripod. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images).

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CTOvision

JULY 19, 2014

'Troux Technologies provides enterprise intelligence and planning solutions into some of the world''s most widely respected organizations. Troux provides business leaders, CIOs and their teams with information and tools that enable the successful evolution of their Enterprise Architecture (EA) functions into a powerful Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) discipline.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2014

'Suresh Sathyamurthy of EMC Isilon shares five ways that wearable technology could impact your storage infrastructure along with suggestions on how to prepare. Read More.

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SPF13

JULY 23, 2014

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go. As an emerging language Go is able to start fresh without years of relational database dependencies.

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CTOvision

JULY 23, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. In the last few years, the potential for mobile productivity has increased dramatically. Sending emails, checking calendars, receiving important notifications, and surfing the web are no longer impressive mobile feats – they are commonplace. For most, the inability to conduct such tasks is more surprising than the ability to do so.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “ Net Threats ”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study targeted thousands of Internet experts to measure their thoughts and concerns about the future of the Internet.

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CTOvision

JULY 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Threat actors are increasingly automating their attacks, making defense harder and overwhelming incident response teams. Defenders have long looked to automated discovery as a means to mitigate this threat, but until recently, mass automation and response/threat removal hasn’t been a viable option. With changes in technology, enterprise cyber security professionals can now leverage automated in-line response and recovery to enhance security.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2014

'Company says it has figured out a way to substantially lower the cost of fuel cells. Read More.

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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.