Sat.May 09, 2015 - Fri.May 15, 2015

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Cybersecurity Standards and Your Enterprise

CTOvision

As we have noted in the past, “The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from” teaches Andrew S. Tanebaum in his classic text on Computer Networks. This adage is especially true when it comes to cybersecurity. We encounter so many standards in the corporate world that in so many cases they become totally ineffective. This is an area requiring continued technical leadership or it will have little impact.

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How Cloud is Getting Security Right

Data Center Knowledge

We take a look at the modern cloud architecture and have to understand the underlying security that supports it. The good news is that cloud security has become a lot better. Now, find out where cloud is getting security right and how you benefit. Read More.

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33 Bad Behaviors of Agile Developers and IT Operations

Social, Agile and Transformation

I recently published 20 Bad Behaviors of Agile Product Owners and decided not to leave this subject one sided. In trying to improve the organizational culture and more specifically, the culture in IT, the CIO and IT leadership must consider, review, and improve on its own behaviors. So this week I'm itemizing some of the bad behaviors in IT. Like my previous most, I haven't seen these.

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To Be Successful, CIOs Need To Implement Simplicity

The Accidental Successful CIO

Complexity Is Something That IT Can Do Without Image Credit: nerovivo. I don’t know about you, but whenever I see something that looks complicated, I am impressed. I mean, somebody took the time to make that and so based on the importance of information technology it must do something complicated very well. Well, it turns out that I’m wrong.

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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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Review Lessons Learned in Big Data 21 May: SAS and Apache Hadoop Architecture Review

CTOvision

SAS and Hadoop work together in ways supportive to enterprise missions. Analysts are able to leverage comprehensive enterprise data stores by use of familiar interfaces and methods and with the well engineered SAS and Hadoop architecture can dramatically improve their results for mission. SAS Business Analytics software is focused on delivering actionable value from enterprise data holdings.

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Virtualization – A Look to the Future

Data Center Knowledge

The data center industry has moved way beyond simple server virtualization, and is exploring new avenues to make virtualization an even more powerful platform. Let’s take a look at some of these newer approaches to virtualization. Read More.

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Modernizing Data Protection = Using new and old things in new ways

Storage IO Blog

Keep in mind that a fundamental goal of an Information Technology (IT) organization is to protect, preserve and serve data and information in a cost-effective as well as productive way when needed. There is no such thing as an information recession with more data being generated and processed. In addition to more of it, data is also getting larger, having more dependencies on it being available as well as living longer (e.g. retention).

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Bright Computing: Advanced Linux Cluster Management

CTOvision

With this post we are initiating coverage of Bright Computing. Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and managing HPC clusters, Hadoop clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in your data center or in the cloud. Bright's platform, the Bright Cluster Manager, was designed by a highly regarded team of cluster specialists with first-hand experience in the need for new approaches to cluster management.

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5 Tips for Securing Your Cloud Computing System

Data Center Knowledge

As much as cloud computing has helped with the storage of data, it has created the need for increased security. Without testing, backups and proper access permissions, data can be easily hacked or stolen. Here are five tips for ensuring your data is protected. Read More.

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Migration vs. Transformation – Know which project you are running

Virtualized Greek

It can be tempting to make improvements to the design and service model of you data center during a migration. It’s a fine line between data center migrations and data center transformations. Both carry different business goals and risk profiles.

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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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Using PXE with virt-install

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’ll just share a quick command that can be used to build and install a KVM guest using PXE instead of an ISO image. There’s nothing new here; this is just me documenting a command so that it’s easier for me (and potentially others) to find next time I need it. I shared how to use the virt-install command to build KVM guest domains in a blog post talking about working with KVM guests.

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Datameer CEO Stefan Groschupf on the topic of Big Data

CTOvision

In the video below and at this link , Datameer's CEO Stefan Groschupf highlights the evolving nature of the Big Data landscape, drawing historical parallels and lessons worth thinking through. A key point: there are risks we must mitigate as the Hadoop ecosystem evolves. For more information and context on data in the enterprise read Stefan Groschupf's blog here.

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Microsoft Invests In Several Submarine Cables In Support Of Cloud Services

Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft is investing in several submarine cables to better connect its data centers and boost its cloud services connectivity worldwide. Read More.

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TechTalk Episode 4 – Does EMC or enterprise IT get open source?

Virtualized Greek

During EMCWorld 2015, EMC announced the open source of ViPR. The reactions have been mixed and the question has been asked if EMC or for that matter general enterprises get open source. Show Notes Juku.IT post on failed open source approaches During EMCWorld 2015, EMC announced the open source of ViPR. The reactions have been mixed and the question has been asked if EMC or for that matter general enterprises get open source.

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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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Three Perspectives of Human Wisdom

Future of CIO

The world only needs what it has always needed - wisdom. There are lots of smarts, lots of ability, and lots of attitudes - very, very little wisdom. "But how do I get wisdom?" You ask. People have asked that for millennia. You've been hearing the answer for millennia, too - you just flatly refuse to acknowledge it. What wisdom does humanity need to develop in the present day situations?

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New ISACA Guide Explores Turbulent Cybersecurity Environment For Industrial Control Systems

CTOvision

ISACA, a global professional association serving 140,000 professionals, has published a new guide about the current cybersecurity threat for industrial control systems (ICS). Titled “ Industrial Control Systems: A Primer for the Rest of Us ” the guide takes a deeper look at ICS and why security practitioners face a daunting challenge in defending an infrastructure that is often full of antiquated technology.

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Learn About a New Next-Gen Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

As an integral part of its 25-year expansion plan, premier anti-aging company Nu Skin needed a new next-gen data center to expand its global headquarters and provide a unique interactive experience. Its existing data center was showing signs of aging (which didn’t seem right for an anti-aging.

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Answer to the same old boring vendor conference sessions

Virtualized Greek

I don’t attend many sessions at conferences like VMWorld. Mainly because it’s some lightweight messaging that I’ve heard at other conferences. Lisa Caywood (Brocade) had an interesting post on the cancer that’s vendor sponsorship at conferences. She asked for an.

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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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How does Storytelling Promote Systems Thinking ?

Future of CIO

Storytelling is not necessarily the best path for explaining ST but may be a good way to promote it. Storytelling is an ancient method for communicating important information of all kinds and for promoting ideas. In the case of Systems Thinking (ST), how does storytelling, narratives enhance, enable, explain and promote Systems Thinking? The narrative, story-telling - is a fundamental building block to a complete understanding of the complex interactions.

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Datameer and Cloudera Webinar 19 May: Finding Fraud, Waste, and Abuse through Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

At 11am EDT Carahsoft is hosting a webinar featuring Datameer and Cloudera diving into ways to find waste, fraud and abuse through big data analytics. From the webinar page: Finding Fraud, Waste, and Abuse through Big Data Analytics with Cloudera and Datameer. Cloudera and Datameer invite you to attend a complimentary webinar, hosted by Carahsoft, on how to use Apache Hadoop for Big Data discovery of fraud, waste, and abuse.

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Zynga Ditches Data Center Plans For AWS

Data Center Knowledge

The casual gaming company spent over $100 million on data centers as it shifted away from Amazon Web Services. The company has come full circle, back to relying on AWS Read More.

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TechTalk 8: Beware of online backup

Virtualized Greek

I’m not a fan of enterprise online backup. I constantly get requests from PR people asking me to review online backup solutions. I share why I’m hesitant to embrace the category. I'm not a fan of enterprise online backup. I constantly get requests from PR people asking me to review online backup solutions. I share why I'm hesitant to embrace the category.

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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.

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An Understanding Mind

Future of CIO

An understandable mind is a step closer to innovation, and two inches deeper to wisdom. Knowledge is attaining facts, information, and skills by an individual gained through experience, education or a combination of both. Knowledge and wisdom have a long history of philosophy and philosophers. From Aristotle to Descartes to Nozick have defended theories of wisdom that require a "wise person" to have knowledge of some sort.

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Haystax: A new kind of analytics and cybersecurity company

CTOvision

This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Haystax is a new kind of analytics and cybersecurity company. They are mature enough to have proven technologies, but new enough to create cutting edge products and deliver one-of-a kind services to their customers. Their solutions are used every day to enable and protect mission critical systems and by people to make informed high consequence decisions within organizations of all s

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CommScope’s iTRACS

Data Center Knowledge

HEADLINE: CommScope’s iTRACS iTRACS, originally founded as an independent company, has been focused on infrastructure management since the 1980s. With the launch of the iTRACS DCIM platform in October of 2009, iTRACS decided to focus specifically on the data center market.

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TechTalk 7 – Venom and containers spreading some FUD

Virtualized Greek

I’m here today to spread some Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) about containers. While Venom has made some headlines about a vulnerability within some open source hypervisors, I’m more interested in the disucsion around container security. Download and listen to I'm here today to spread some Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) about containers.

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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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Should Managers Focus on Performance or Engagement?

Future of CIO

Performance is a by-product of engagement. The speed of change is accelerating, organizations are shifting from industrial speed to digital speed; from the inside out - operation driven to the outside in - people-centric. With unprecedented opportunities and many pitfalls on the journey of digital transformation, should leaders or managers focus on operation performance or employee engagement, short term quick win or long term business excellence?

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Firemon: The Proactive Security Intelligence Platform

CTOvision

This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Firemon has been a leader in security management technology for over a decade. Their security manager 8.0 monitors and validates compliance throughout your network, cleans up hidden, unused and outdated rules, and manages policy changes in real time.

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Optimizing Cloud and Virtualization – With the End-User in Mind

Data Center Knowledge

There's clear growth within data center and cloud services. However, where does the end-user come in? Today, find out how to optimize your cloud and virtualization architecture while still focusing on the end-user! Read More.

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TechTalk Episode 6 – Nutanix Community Edition

Virtualized Greek

Nutanix announced their Community Edition (CE) which allows prospective customers or practitioners to get their hands on the platform without an expensive POC. CE has been in the works for a long time. I thought it had already been in Nutanix announced ([link] their Community Edition (CE) which allows prospective customers or practitioners to get their hands on the platform without an expensive POC.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.