Sat.Jun 20, 2015 - Fri.Jun 26, 2015

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Google, like Samsung, is eavesdropping on your private conversations

CTOvision

If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. Ostensibly, this is part of the " Google Now " voice activation feature of Chrome. Privacy campaigners and some developers think it's more nefarious.

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380V DC Power: Shaping the Future of Data Center Energy Efficiency

Data Center Knowledge

Deploying DC power distribution in the data center instead of using the traditional AC design is one way to reduce power loss, eliminate unnecessary conversions and, ultimately, lower energy costs. Read More.

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Big Data, Big Analytics and You

Eric D. Brown

Big data has been a popular topic over the last few years. Many organizations have been studying big data systems and processes as well as the science behind capturing, storing, analyzing and using large amounts of data within their businesses. Many organizations that I’ve worked with over the years have done a very thorough job of understanding the technology requirements of big data.

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The Most Important and Often Underinvested IT Function

Social, Agile and Transformation

If you're practicing agile development without QA team members, a reasonably defined testing process, and sufficient criteria to help define "done", then at some point your development process will go off the cliff of complexity. That's right. No QA, off the cliff you go without a parachute. The size of your development team, the number of technologies used in the development stack, and the.

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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 Digital Risk Reduction Act of 2015

CTOvision

Are you looking for ideas on how to improve the security of federal systems? Cognitio’s founders have been responsible for guarding some of the world’s hardest-to-penetrate networks, including the classified systems that lets case officers in hostile countries communicate with headquarters in the United States, and the networks that provide real-time information to battlefield commanders so they can help save lives in conflict zones.

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Disaster Preparedness Strategies for Recovery Assurance and Peace of Mind

Data Center Knowledge

When making a disaster recovery plan, make sure it ensures the safety of your mission-critical technology and staff, then test it so you know it will work when you need it most. Read More.

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Amazon announces the Alexa Skills Kit, Enabling Developers to Create New Voice Capabilities

All Things Distributed

Today, Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) , a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for developers to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. With a few lines of code, developers can easily integrate existing web services with Alexa or, in just a few hours, they can build entirely new experiences designed around voice.

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Oracle’s Big Data Integration Now Certified on Hortonworks HDP 2.2

CTOvision

In late 2014, Hortonworks and Oracle teamed up to provide comprehensive data integration capabilities and technologies. Together, they deliver on the promise of big data for customers of all sizes and scale. Oracle and Hortonworks are continuing to work together to bring the latest ETL and real-time transactional data streaming capabilities to the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).

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Five Real-World Tips for Creating Corporate Cloud Policies

Data Center Knowledge

Are you creating a new cloud initiative? Want to start migrating users, apps. and workloads? It's time to make some new policies. Read More.

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Rob Davies, ViON SVP, Talks about Government Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

ViON solves complex enterprise problems by combining passion and agility to deliver the most effective, innovative solutions because commitment to mission success is in their DNA. One of the ways they deliver success is through ViON on Demand™ , which delivers highly secure compute, network and storage capabilities delivered through on-premise private clouds.

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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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CTO Advisor Chat Episode 1 – SD-WAN The killer SDN app

Virtualized Greek

I struggled to find the killer application for Software-Defined Networking. The PacketPushers who are the geekiest of networking geeks don’t feel Cisco ACI or VMware NSX are mature enough for the average enterprise. I am however intrigued by SD WAN. I struggled to find the killer application for Software-Defined Networking. The PacketPushers who are the geekiest of networking geeks don't feel Cisco ACI or VMware NSX are mature enough for the average enterprise.

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Cyber Security in Aviation

CTOvision

With the public inundated with reports of an alarming number of computer hacks, the question in everyone’s mind is “what is next?” The aviation industry was the center of media attention when Chris Roberts, a controversial computer researcher, was detained by FBI agents after boasting that he had hacked systems while a passenger and took control of key aircraft systems.

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Storage, Compliance, and Regulations in the Age of Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

There are new services and evolving models which now support a more compliance-oriented infrastructure Read More.

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Rob Davies, ViON SVP, Talks about Government Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

ViON solves complex enterprise problems by combining passion and agility to deliver the most effective, innovative solutions because commitment to mission success is in their DNA. One of the ways they deliver success is through ViON on Demand™ , which delivers highly secure compute, network and storage capabilities delivered through on-premise private clouds.

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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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DockerCon Vendor Briefings

Scott Lowe

At DockerCon 2015 in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to meet with a few vendors in the Docker ecosystem. Here are some notes from my vendor briefings. StackEngine. StackEngine describes themselves as enterprise-grade container application management. They tout features like being able to compose Docker applications using a drag-and-drop interface, deploy containers across multiple hosts, and provide automation—all with the sort of controls that enterprise IT groups are seeking.

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Verisign’s Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report: Mitigating More DDoS Attacks This Quarter than in 2014

CTOvision

Verisign's Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report reveals some interesting trends we should all be aware of. The report captures analysis and insights from Verisign including information derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and with cooperation with, customers of Verisign's DDoS Protection Services. Key contributing analysts include the security research team at Verisign’s iDefense.

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Understanding DCIM and Process Ownership

Data Center Knowledge

The challenge to ensuring that a data center is cost-efficient and effectively managed is how to empower the people managing it all. Now, find out how to align DCIM ownership and tie it to the business process. Read More.

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Video: Nested VM Mania – VMware Workstation

Virtualized Greek

Virtualigeek is all speeds and feeds now. So, break out the old school nested virtualization video. Running Windows 10, Windows 8.1 inside of Windows 8.1 VirtualBox host which is running in VMware Workstation 11 on a Windows 7 host. Can.

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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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Liveblog: Scaling New Services

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the DockerCon 2015 session titled “Scaling New Services: From Container Creation to Automated Deployments”. This session is being led by the Disney Systems Engineering team and will feature a discussion/demo involving Docker, Mesos, Chef, Consul, and HAProxy. The session starts with an introduction by Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, who quickly turns it over to the Disney staff—Brian Scott and Patrick O’Connor.

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Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) and the International Spy Museum announce a joint presentation: Tracking the Elusive Pueblo

CTOvision

Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) and the International Spy Museum announce a joint presentation: Tracking the Elusive Pueblo, on Wednesday 1 July 2015 at 630pm. Location is the International Spy Museum, 800 F St NW, Washington DC. Here is more on the event: In January 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, North Korea captured the USS Pueblo.

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Commodity Data Center Storage: Building Your Own

Data Center Knowledge

New storage solutions allow any organization to deploy custom commodity storage architectures. But how do you go about it? Read More.

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How to Integrate the Art and Science of Creativity into Corporate Culture

Future of CIO

Culture is HOW people think and do things there! Culture is the beating heart of an organization. It determines what the place feels like, how people behave, whether people feel empowered or not etc. The ideal culture is one of vision-driven leadership coupled with the empathetic listening of valued employees. So the question is that, “How can you effectively integrate the art and science of creativity and innovation into your teams and organizations?

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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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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 2 General Session

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog from the day 2 general session at DockerCon 2015. I was running late from some early morning meetings (sorry folks), so I wasn’t able to catch the first part of the general session (about the first 15 minutes or so). Here’s what I was able to capture. Chris Buckley, Director of DevOps at Business Insider, took the stage to provide an overview of how Business Insider (BI) started using Docker.

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ThreatBrief: Daily context on cyber threats to enterprise mission needs

CTOvision

There are threats to your business and mission needs. Tracking them can give you insights that drive your decisions. This is the operating thesis behind ThreatBrief , our daily report on business risks (with a focus on cyber risks). Our analysts and experienced executives are collaborating to ensure this newsletter captures the insights you need. Our goal is to make this product your most anticipated read of the day.

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Startup Translates All Data to Data Hadoop Can Use

Data Center Knowledge

BlueData converts data from disparate sources for use by virtual Hadoop clusters built on OpenStack and KVM Read More.

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How to Assess and Develop Wise Leaders

Future of CIO

Wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment! Due to the increasing rate of change and over-complex business dynamic, organizations are desperately hunting for wise leaders. How can one individual with raw intelligence accumulates knowledge and learn so that wisdom develops? If an organization is looking for wise leaders, how would they be able to choose?

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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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Liveblog: Docker Networking

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Docker Networking breakout session. This session is led by Madhu Venugopal and Jana Radhakrishnan, both formerly of Socketplane (and now with Docker following the acquisition). They are introduced by John Willis, also formerly of Socketplane and well-known within the DevOps community. Some display issues plague the session at the beginning, so it appears that Murphy’s Law is back with a vengeance.

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Bright Computing Introduces New Cluster Manager with Ceph Integration

CTOvision

There have been a few announcements on Bright Computing the past few weeks; in this post I highlight two of the most important ones. During the Hadoop Summit last week, Bright Computing unveiled their latest version of Apache Hadoop cluster manager, Version 7.1. This version broadens and deepens the functionality of Hadoop and makes it easier to manage.

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HP and CommScope Partner to Blend DCIM and ITSM

Data Center Knowledge

Aim in integration of HP's Converged Management and iTRACS is to improve data center capacity management Read More.

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How to make Change Management Tangible rather than Fluffy

Future of CIO

Change management as a competency needs to reside in all areas of business where change happens. Change is the only constant, and Change Management is no longer just a one-time project or business initiative, but an ongoing business capability. However, more than two-thirds of Change efforts fail to achieve the expected result, especially for the large, legacy companies, what’re the causes of failure, and how to make Change Management tangible rather than fluffy?

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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.