CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision is very proud to be a media sponsor of the 4th annual Cloudera Federal Forum. 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. The Cloudera Federal Forum, now in its 4th year, has always been filled with lessons learned, best practices and informative glimpses into what is coming from the big data tech community.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

'How to approach cloud and make the most of cloud services is one of the continuing issues faced by data center managers and operations, and the spring Data Center World event has several sessions on cloud and cloud options. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

'If you ask any business leader whether they’d prefer that their organization be thought of as ‘slow moving’ or ‘agile’, most would respond with ‘agile’ as their preference. Those that don’t respond in the affirmative toward agility are most likely running a dying business or are just out of sync with their industry and their organization. While everyone most likely knows what agility means, let me take as second to define the term and set the stage for the discussion.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

'So who does own DevOps? I left readers with this cliffhanger after my last post and my intro post on The What, Why and How of DevOps. If an organization is embarking on a DevOps transformation, how should it be led so that Dev and Ops teams are likely to collaborate more and battle less in adapting and maturing new practices? To answer this question, I would suggest we get back to basics.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. We previously posted on the Feb 17-20 Strata Hadoop World in San Jose (see here for a 20% discount off registration fees ). Today we learned of three interesting SAS and Hadoop sessions we believe will be of use to anyone seeking enhanced predictive models at scale. From the SAS site they are : Two-Day Training: Machine Learning and Exploratory Modeling With SAS ® and Hadoop.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'There are a spectrum of sourcing options to consider when selecting a data center, writes Laura Cunningham of HP Technology Consulting. And while each option has advantages and disadvantages, there are three key components that influence which solution is the best fit. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “ Don’t Ask for New Ideas If You’re Not Ready to Act on Them ”, Ron Ashkenas provides an example of a company wanting to do the ‘right’ thing but not having the processes or systems in place to pull it off. The example provided by Ashkenas is one that I’ve heard and experienced many times myself. One of his clients implemented a ‘crowdsourcing’ approach to gathering innovation ideas from people throughout their business.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. Elizabeth Holmes decided in 2003 at Stanford University to drop out of college and pursue her dream: revolutionizing healthcare. Holmes has made medical history with her technology that makes blood tests easier. Holmes has created hardware and software that allow for blood tests to be done by pricking someone’s finger and storing the blood in a tiny vial called a nanotainer.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

'Although hybrid cloud can be seen as a buzzword, it is the future of IT, writes Toby Owen of Peer 1 Hosting. In fact, Gartner predicts half of enterprises will adopt a hybrid model by 2017. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

'Recent security breaches have heightened our awareness of cybersecurity issues. The hack and other security breaches have resulted in unprecedented damages. However, the majority of mobile device users have yet to be sensitized to their personal and corporate security risks. Staples For example, a security study found that 69 percent of users store sensitive personal information on their mobile devices.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'CMTrace makes reading.log files much easier. Deploying it though can be somewhat tricky. I have written this PowerShell script that will install CMTrace and associates.log with the application. The association portion of this only works if the user has not manually associated a.log file. I have also written this to be compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The Washington Business Journal has published an article based on an interview of Yanev Suissa, a former venture fellow with Washington D.C. based New Enterprise Associates which indicates a new venture firm is being launched with a focus on companies doing business with the public sector. Here is some of what they had to say: Yanev Suissa, formerly a venture capitalist with New Enterprise Associates and a senior investment officer in the Bush and Obama administrations, is launc

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

'As your IT team determines how to best map out and adopt hybrid cloud strategies, you should look first and foremost at your own requirements, rather than seeking out one-size-fits-all solutions for highly individualized needs, writes Lief Morin of Key Information Systems, Inc. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'Cybersecurity breaches are seemingly making headline news every day. Recent cases have highlighted identity theft, the loss of personal financial data, and the disclosure of sensitive national security information. The executive in the hot seat for preventing these failures is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In order to better understand the challenges and concerns of this critical professional community, the 2015 National CISO Survey is now being conducted.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

'This is a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources on server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.

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Lundberg Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

'I’ve saved the best for last in this series of posts on responsive IT. In our survey of 750 business and technology leaders (around 200 from IT and the remaining 550 from other parts of the business), 42% of respondents believe the CIO is the best suited member of the C-suite to lead digital transformation. […].

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

'Today’s data centers are built to be bigger, stronger and more resilient. Yet not a month goes by without news of a commercial or private data center failure, writes Pete Mastin of Cedexis. Overcoming downtime means keeping a close eye on best practices for critical application deployment. Read.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

'As a follow-up to my recent #vBrownBag session on “Docker and Friends,” I wanted to provide a quick and relatively easy way for VMware administrators to experiment with some of the technologies I demonstrated. Since not everyone has their own OpenStack cloud running in their basement, Vagrant seemed like a reasonable solution. So, in this post, I’ll show you how to use Vagrant to experiment with some of the technologies I demonstrated in the #vBrownBag session.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

'VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence tools.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

A customer-centric mind is to put customers at the center of what you do, to expand the thinking angle and to keep the end in mind. How to become a customer-centric business is in every forward-thinking organization’s agenda, it requires not only management but each digital professional to shape such a customer-centric mind, think from the lenses of customers, outside-in, instead of inside-out, more specifically, what’s the thought processes evolve: Insightful thinking about customers: The custo

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

'Edge data center specialist races to build out capacity to bring content close to users Read More.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

'When I shared the story behind migrating the blog to Jekyll and GitHub , I mentioned that one of the reasons for the migration was to embrace Git as a part of my regular workflow. I’d been recommending to folks that they learn and use Git, and now I needed to “walk the walk” as well as “talk the talk.” This post describes another step in my effort to “walk the walk.”.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

'There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Sure you can go to a manufactures website and look at the speeds and feeds (technical performance numbers) however are those metrics applicable to your environments applications or workload?

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Reflection is an underlining theme of design thinking. In the history of innovation methods, you can find reference to Wallas (1926) distinguished between four stages of the creative process: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) illumination, and (4) verification. This division was generally accepted by the subsequent research, sometimes with some variations of the name or number of the stages.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

'Developers can now tap into Watson''s speech recognition, visual recognition, and trade-off analysis capabilities Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'I captured this Great White in South Carolina. While I like the setup and photo in of itself, I was intrigued to see the water reflections on the Egret. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 400 mm 5.6 L handheld. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 400 mm 5.6 L handheld. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my 500px portfolio.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

'Microsoft Diskspd is a synthetic workload generation (e.g. benchmark) tool that runs on various Windows systems as an alternative to Iometer, vdbench, iozone, iorate, fio, sqlio among other tools. Diskspd is a command line tool which means it can easily be scripted to do reads and writes of various I/O size including random as well as sequential activity.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Structure and behavior are two elements co-working in every organism in nature and in every system designed by human culture. Digital means flow; digital organizations have to adapt to the continuous changes and business dynamic in striving as digital master. Within system engineering, self-adaptive concepts are applied in order to control system risks that evolve due to dynamics and variation.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'New proposal would make it illegal for Internet Service Providers to block or slow down web traffic, or strike deals with content providers like Amazon, Google or Netflix to have faster delivery. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

'For reasons that (hopefully) will become clear in the relatively near future, I decided I needed to take a look at Consul , a distributed service discovery tool and key value store. I know Consul’s description sounds like a mouthful of buzzwords, but it’s pretty accurate. This post provides a quick introduction to Consul, in which I’ll break down what Consul does and how it works (at a high level).

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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.