CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. In what could be a very virtuous trend, four of the cyber security industry’s leading tech vendors (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec) have established a consortium focused on the furtherance of the art and science of cyber threat intelligence. This alliance, started in May and expanded in September, aims to help industry entities coordinate and collaborate in new ways against the high end adversaries attacking the corporate world.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

'We talk with Derek Odegard, president and founder of CentricsIT, about aligning business and technology strategies to deliver value and ROI. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'Knowing what you are looking for is the key to finding innovation Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are probably under a lot of pressure to have your IT department be more innovative. CEOs everywhere are telling the press that in order for their company to be successful, innovation is going to have to happen within the company. This is all fine and good, I mean who doesn’t want to be more innovative?

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'According to the Gartner IT Glossary, "Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage". The value of these brokerage services are fueling a major debate in industry and this month in BriefingsDirect, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor So

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. For the next two days in DC over 1000 key leaders from the national security community will be converging in a dynamic examination of intelligence and national security issues at the Intelligence and National Security Summit. This event, a collaboration of the intelligence committee of AFCEA and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a first of its kind session that brings together over 70 national thought leaders from public, private and academic sectors to e

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

'One of New York''s premier data center addresses is getting a power-up. DataGryd is upgrading the power infrastructure at 60 Hudson Street, adding generators and additional capacity from ConEd. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

'How do I install Hadoop, and on what platforms? What are the differences between versions of Hadoop? How do I Extract, Transform and Load in Hadoop? The answers to these questions are available at. In the video below, Dr. Bill Appelbe (High Performance Computing consultant, Georgia Tech and University of California faculty member and Learning Tree instructor) gives you a taste of the expertise available when you take a Learning Tree course.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'In its largest renewables investment ever, utility commits to building three solar farms, signs five large solar power purchase agreements. Read More.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Modern CIOs are the excellent leaders, thinkers, and visionaries. Today's CIOs are both business strategist and technology visionary, they are always ready to understand new technologies impacting business, and make effective decisions in strategy execution or talent management. So what are the top skills that are most important in being a CIO? CIOs have to be the business strategists who can make tactical delivery as well: When IT organizations think only from the technical aspect, not from ult

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Nutanix

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. Here is more on this activity: The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'As AMS-IX Bay Area launches in San Francisco, Internet giants now have a peering option outside of Equinix data centers Read More.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Not every leader is a philosopher, but each leader shall cultivate such philosophic mindset. D ue to the digital new normal such as complexity and uncertainty, the philosophic mind is in high demand to provide abstract thinking for reducing the complexity; and providing multi-dimensional lenses to navigate through uncertainty. And the philosophic mind can make a questioning reflection about knowledge, the value of philosophic thinking is in the questions, and the value of scientific thinking is

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Nutanix

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below was produced by PBS’ NOVA. The video does a great job explaining some very complex topics in an easy to understand way. It is the kind of video that I recommend sharing broadly, especially with people who do not yet realize that there is no such thing as a 100% risk-free or secure computer.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

'Matt Parker, the artist whose audio project using samples recorded inside a Birmingham City University in England we wrote about in May, is back with a much more ambitious data center art project. Parker has produced a three-part site-specific audiovisual installation on display at the Birmingham.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Be humble to learn; be hungry for the insight, be skillful to frame the right questions and behold to the metrics. Senior business leaders have a significant responsibility to steer their organization in the right direction, however, what’re their management blind spots result in decreasing business productivity and lowering organizational maturity and how to deal with these blind spots more effectively?

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

'Silos. One of my biggest frustrations with government organizations is their “silos of excellence” approach. Somehow each and every government department or organization thinks it is a business unto itself, with little relationship to other departments within the same government, much less other nearby such as cities, counties, states, and fire districts.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'Seventy percent of data center outages are directly attributed to human error, writes Charles Browning of vXchnge. Focusing on the people behind the maintenance, power and communication in your data center can help lessen the risk of downtime. Read More.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

CIO is a leadership role who shall practice thought leadership to make the positive influence and steer the business in the right direction. Modern CIOs play different roles in their organizations, they are both business strategist and IT manager; process innovator and governance champion; customer advocate and talent master; Overall speaking, the CIO is a leadership role who shall practice thought leadership and steer their organizations in the right direction and makes positive influence; the

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“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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

'Five years ago, the Navy made the bold move of merging their N2 (Intelligence) and their N6 (Communications). At the time, it seemed like such a radical idea and many rice bowls were threatened. They put an Intelligence Officer (VADM Dorsett) in charge! Good grief! Was nothing sacred? Since that time, the Navy has been rapidly merging more and more of their functions to create the new Information Dominance Corps, combining assured command and control, batt.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Paying close attention to awards for mission-focused big data solutions is a great way to learn what works in the real world. Reviewing award winners and nominees provides insights into challenges addressed and solutions that are very likely repeatable across sectors of the economy. One of the great award activities to track is the Pentaho Excellence Awards.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

'Data center provider joins Facebook''s Open Compute project, hoping to convince mid-size enterprises they will benefit from OCP hardware. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'Enterprises rely on their providers to ensure availability and ultimately protection against DDoS attacks and cyber threats, writes Dave Larson of Corero Network Security. Here are three key steps providers should consider in order to protect their own infrastructure and that of their customers.

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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'The thought of international data center expansion can be potentially overwhelming, writes Callum Wallace of Berwick Partners. However, done right, it can also be immensely rewarding. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'Head of new U.S. Digital Services department (former Googler) recalls nightmare of trying to bring the site back up, calls on country''s web engineers to consider government work. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'City Council approves plans to use waste heat from Westin building data centers Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

'After scrapping original data center plans in favor of a hotel, the developer resurrects original plan in a different, but nearby, location. 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.