Sat.Jun 27, 2015 - Fri.Jul 03, 2015

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The Wisdom Of Carl Sagan On Science, Government, and Even Enterprise IT and Digital Risk

CTOvision

Of course you know Carl Sagan the distinguished astronomer and great explainer of science via best selling books and the TV series Cosmos. One of his last interviews was conducted by Charlie Rose in May 1996. The clip below captures a very important message from this discussion, one I think he really nailed for its relevance to the technological world we live in.

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Defining Best Practices around Data Center Growth Strategies

Data Center Knowledge

Your business is growing; and so is your data center. Find out the best practices around data center growth and how to directly align your ecosystem with your business. Read More.

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Is Big Data Worth It?

Eric D. Brown

I just read an article titled “ Marketers: Is Big Data Worth It? ” In the article, the author, Larisa Bedgood , does a very good job of addressing the question of whether big data is important for organizations to focus on. The author rites that: The moral of the story? It’s about the data, or rather the insights derived from the data.

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Is Social Media Right For Your Small Business?

Cloud Musings

Everyone from pre-teens to granddads, does social media today. With Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and many newer ways to stay in the know popping up every day, picking the right platform can be a difficult task. While the personal value of this modern convenience seems obvious to most, the task of proving the channel’s worth to a business can be very challenging.

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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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The Greatest Danger to Our Infrastructure Might Be Physical

CTOvision

On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, vandals cut three fiber-optic cables in an underground vault In Alameda, CA, near San Francisco, causing a blackout in phone and Internet services for several cities and thousands of businesses and homes that lasted for nearly 19 hours while repairs were made. This was the latest in a string of such attacks; there have been at least 11 over the last year, with the suspected first happening on July 6, 2015.

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Modernizing and Standardizing Data Centers with Converged Infrastructure and Modular Systems

Data Center Knowledge

To modernize and upgrade data center operations to meet the high demand of today’s data-laden world, businesses can look to leverage converged IT infrastructure and the prefabricated physical infrastructure modules to support it. Read More.

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A Fix for Ubuntu Apparently Caching Network Configuration

Scott Lowe

I’ve been wrestling with an Ubuntu network configuration issue over the last couple of weeks (off and on between working on other projects), and today I finally found a fix for the problem. The issue was that Ubuntu wouldn’t pick up changes to network interfaces. The fix is so simple I’m almost embarrassed to talk about it (it seems like something that I should have known), but I’m posting it here in case others run into the same issue.

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How OPM Could Have Avoided the Data Breach

CTOvision

Recently, a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management ( OPM ) demonstrated once again the vulnerability of data and how even when an organization has seemingly deployed the right tools, security holes can be exploited to gain access to highly sensitive information. OPM is the federal organization responsible for maintaining and protecting the federal records for all federal employees and contractors.

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Dispelling Data Security Myths

Data Center Knowledge

Despite the fact that Gartner expects security spending to reach $76.9 billion this year, some IT professionals are letting three common myths sway their approach to protection. Read More.

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EMCworld 2015 How Do You Want Your Storage Wrapped?

Storage IO Blog

Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. Keep in mind that there is the known, there is the unknown (or assumed or speculated) and in between there are NDA’s, nuff said on that. EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that’s a disclosure btw ;) and here is a synopsis of various EMCworld 2015 announcements.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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How to Lead Through Constant Change

Future of CIO

The vision for long-term transformation is required for the change to be effective and lasting. Change becomes new normal because of the "VUCA" characteristics of the digital dynamic. Traditional step-by-step Change Management as a one-time initiative or isolated approach might not work any longer for constant and multitude of change. Companies need to embed a changeable mindset in their culture and build change capabilities among all staff, not only managers in a continuous way.

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Coca-Cola Names Alan Boehme CTO, Replacing Jim Scholefield

CTOvision

The Wall Street Journal reported that Coca-Cola has named Alan Boehme as CTO: Mr. Boehme has led Coke’s enterprise architecture, innovation and emerging technologies for the past four years. During that time, he has guided the company’s strategy “to arm Coca-Cola for the future, including new platforms, cloud-based solutions and an aggressive yet flexible approach to enterprise security to position our company for growth,” according to a memo from CIO Ed Steinike, reviewed by CIO Journal.

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How to Move Data Restoration to the Top of the To-Do List

Data Center Knowledge

When developing a strategy for restoring data in the event of an emergency, IT managers must train employees, make sure they practice over and over, and be sure to utilize easy-to-use yet effective technology. Read More.

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May and June 2015 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

In terms of what have I been working on (or with)? Clouds (OpenStack, vCloud Air, AWS, Azure, GCS among others), virtual and containers, flash SSD devices (drives, cards), software defining, content servers, NVMe, databases, data protection items, servers, cache and micro-tiering among other things.

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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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What are the most Important Knowledge Management Skills

Future of CIO

Digital Knowledge Management is not managing knowledge as an object, it enables knowledge flow, transcends into wisdom. Knowledge is power! Today’s forward-looking organizations all claim they are in the information management business because the information is the lifeblood, knowledge, and insight are the true competitive advantage. Today’s digital workforce has to learn, de-learn and re-learn all the time, as on one hand, information is only a few clicks away; on the other hand, the knowledge

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The CTOvision Mobile App: Enterprise content on any mobile device

CTOvision

An upgrade for The CTOvision Mobile Application is available for iPhone , iPad and Android users. The app began as a way to serve our readers with content from CTOvision and that remains a key capability. But we now include feeds from all other major tech blogs, letting you use our mobile app to track all the technology news, analysis and context you need.

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Answering the Mobile Data Deluge With Flash

Data Center Knowledge

As data grows and companies become more reliant on faster internet speeds, flash storage is disrupting three industries in particular: mobile payments, mobile healthcare and mobile retail. Read More.

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Baremetalcloud.com 1st Look

Virtualized Greek

A 4:00 min look at Baremetalcloud.com and provisioning a machine to run ESXi 5.5. Interesting option for a home lab.

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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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What’s Your "Central Point" of Innovation

Future of CIO

The central point of Innovation means to have the right angle to oversee all different dimensions. Innovation is to transform the novel ideas and achieve its commercial values. It is the market acceptance and utilization of a novel way of doing something that is 'at the very least' perceived to be superior to the old product and approach, etc. Statistically, innovation has very low success rate, if “central point” means the most crucial aspects of innovation management and the top priorities to

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA Now Available on AWS

CTOvision

Just announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA has expanded their availability to Amazon Web Services (AWS). What this now allows is more deployment options for customer’s big data workloads, adding more choices to an ecosystem of hardware and cloud configurations. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers an open, integrated and highly available platform.

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Survey: Enterprises Plan to Spend More on Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Despite worries that cloud will replace enterprise data centers, IT budgets are growing Read More.

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Can Police BodyCam Video be Public while protecting Privacy?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray launches bodycam Workshop. You have a serious car accident. The police arrive and investigate. They issue a citation and write a report. The officers are wearing body-worn video cameras and their cars have dashcam video. At the end of the event the officer gives you a code. The next day you go online to the police department’s website, key in the code and all the materials regarding the collision are available to you – the videos, with a written transcript, the offi

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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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A Hybrid CIO

Future of CIO

A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical and abstract thinking traits. Nowadays information is the lifeblood, and technology is often the disruption behind the changes. CIO as an IT leader is also faced with significant skill shift; in order to transform IT from a cost center to a value generator; from the back-office support function to the business’s innovation engine.

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CTOvision Pro: A Subscription Based Research and Analysis Service

CTOvision

CTOvision Pro is our subscription based research and analysis service. CTOvision Pro provides subscribers with more in-depth research, analysis and reporting on topics that matter to enterprise IT. Subscribers receive a weekly newsletter with up to date context and analysis, as well as logins to our market research, technology assessments and special reports.

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Myths and Realities of Data Center Certification

Data Center Knowledge

Under what circumstances is it actually worth making the effort to gain Tier III or Tier IV certification? Read More.

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VLAN Trunking with Mikrotik RouterOS

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to show you how to configure VLAN trunking with Mikrotik RouterOS, and along the way provide a brief introduction to this software and some of the functionality it offers. While it is Linux-based, RouterOS operates quite a bit differently than a lot of the other network operating systems with which I’ve worked, and so I hope that this post will help ease the learning curve a bit for others who decide to take the same path.

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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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What are the Best/Next Practices to Keep Innovation Alive in a Company?

Future of CIO

Innovation is about moving forward. In any business, if you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. Innovation is to transform novel ideas to achieve its business value. It is very important to recognize that innovation is an essential factor for a company’s long-term success. However, becoming a truly innovative company is difficult, due to the risks involved and management skills needed.

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The Dawn of the Jetpack Age

CTOvision

Growing up, jetpacks were viewed as a thing of the future. Today, they have finally become a reality. Martin Aircraft has developed personal jetpacks that can either be controlled remotely or be piloted. The jetpacks can reach speeds of 45 mph and travel as long at 30 min. Speaking to CNBC earlier this week, Martin Aircraft CEO Peter Coker said that his company’s jetpack will initially be of interest to and useful for first responders in emergency situations.

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??Oracle Launches Cloud-based Online Storefront Solution

Data Center Knowledge

Oracle positions its solution as different than the “cookie-cutter” solutions that are limited in terms of design and functionality Read More.

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Foto Friday – Towhee in the tree

Eric D. Brown

Captured with Canon 7D Mark II and Canon 100-400 L Mark II handheld. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear. Or, if you are interested in renting gear before buying, try out my favorite camera, lens and gear rental site – Borrowlenses.com (affiliate link) – the folks at Borrowlenses are awesome.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.