CTOvision

AUGUST 17, 2015

In 2011 the US Federal Government issued a Cloud First policy mandating that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. Cloud computing is a design style that allows for efficient use of compute, storage, and memory in order to decrease cycle time for mission delivery and promises to change the way that agencies deliver services to citizens for the next twenty years.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 17, 2015

As more users utilize content delivered directly from cloud resources, the data center will need to be able to handle the influx of new demand Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 19, 2015

You’ll need a bridge to move from providing a service to being a partnerbr /> Image Credit: JOHN LLOYD. So here’s a question for you: based on the importance of information technology, what is IT’s role in your company? If you are like most people with the CIO job, your answer will consist of you listing a number of different things that the IT department does for the company: keeps its servers up, installs new applications, protects the network, etc.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 16, 2015

It's the most common question I get when discussing agile development as a CIO with a team of developers that are enthusiastic about maturing their practice. How do you get the Product Owner to prioritize fixing technical debt above new features, enhancements, special requests for customers, and improvements to internal tools? How do you get business stakeholders interested in seeing.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2015

Thanks to Amazon.com we are able to provide our readers with a free copy of the Kindle version of our book on The Cyber Threat during a special three day promotion running 20-21 August 2015. The book was written to provide actionable insights into the cyber threat specially aimed towards the leader who should know more about threats to protect business objectives.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 19, 2015

In addition to bulking up its government business, the deal added major managed hosting capabilities and made QTS an international player Read More.

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The Investing Edge

AUGUST 19, 2015

Congratulations to enterprise security industry leader Blue Coat Systems on their acquisition of PerspecSys. Our portfolio company PerspecSys , an early leader in the rapidly emerging cloud data protection market, was recently acquired by security gateway leader Blue Coat Systems. This was a very savvy move by Blue Coat and it positions them well in the cloud gateway/cloud access security broker (CASB) market which is projected to grow rapidly by numerous industry analysts.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 20, 2015

Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) are pre-competed vehicles that enable any government agency to buy cost-effective, innovative solutions to meet information technology requirements. These vehicles are easy and fast for government to use, offering quick access to qualified IT service providers via streamlined contracting. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ) Chief Information Officer- Commodities and Solutions ( CI

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 18, 2015

Prior to the rapid growth of virtualization, applications were easily configured because a company’s web server, database server and middleware were all in one place. That's no longer the case today, and automation is key for managing the complexity. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

The question is not if NVM is in your future, it is! Instead the questions are what type of NVM including NAND flash among other mediums will be deployed where, using what type of packaging or solutions (drives, cards, systems, appliances, cloud) for what role (as storage, primary memory, persistent cache) along with how much among others.

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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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Mick's IT Blog

AUGUST 21, 2015

Here is a cheat sheet that is a list of all PowerShell approved verbs. You can download cheat sheet from here.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2015

See the video at this link and embedded below: Im a huge fan of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and so many other related applications of advanced enterprise tech. But watching this video is giving me pause. It very clearly shows that current SDN implementations are full of weaknesses that could shift the SDN Utopia into a nightmare.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 19, 2015

Combining intelligent controls with data center thermal management systems can yield up to 50 percent higher cooling energy savings and achieve annual mechanical PUEs under 1.2. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

This months feature topic theme is Non Volatile Memory (NVM) which includes technologies such as NAND flash commonly used in Solid State Devices (SSDs) storage today, as well as in USB thumb drive, mobile and hand-held devices among many other uses. NVM spans servers, storage, I/O devices along with mobile and handheld among many other technologies.

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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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Future of CIO

AUGUST 17, 2015

Change Management = the human side of change! Change for all of us is inevitable, some of us get it quicker than others. So the challenge for organizations is to recognize who their people are and where these talented professionals can contribute to the business success and feel valued along the way. From change management perspective, what's the psychology behind the change?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 19, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. NASA Taps 5 Institutions to Promote STEM Education at Minority-Serving Colleges. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. Mission-driven data visualization - GCN.com. New York to deploy statewide emergency management software - GCN.com.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 20, 2015

Intelligent PDUs help create intelligent architecture that can resolve some of today's most pressing data center control challenges Read More.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds.

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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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Future of CIO

AUGUST 21, 2015

Wisdom in the workplace is to have positive mindsets and build an innovative culture. People spend significant time in the workplace. However, statistically, more than two-thirds of employees don’t feel engaged, what’re the negative feeling employees have, but they might never tell their managers? How to build a high engaging, high innovative and high productive working environment?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 20, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. How to Get Ahead of 2016: Ensuring Federal IT Can Adapt to Leadership Transitions - Nextgov. Homeland Security Today: Invincea Addresses Billion Dollar Malvertising Problem. OPM: CDM will offer baseline security - FCW.com. 6 hidden costs of continuing resolutions - FCW.com.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 17, 2015

Integration of Vapor Chamber with Bloom fuel cells aims to create low-carbon data center solution Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 21, 2015

I captured this photo at Lookout Point on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs Arkansas. Captured with Canon 5D and Canon 24-105L with the camera sitting at almost water level. 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.

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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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Future of CIO

AUGUST 20, 2015

People tend to have a high expectation of digital flow, very little patience with technology issues. It is a thorny journey for IT to transform from a back-office function and cost center to a digital champion and value creator. What’s the reality of your IT organization? How do you get the non-IT stakeholders to recognize and support the notion that IT and Business are not separate or independent departments?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 20, 2015

Founded in 1989, CMA is a value added reseller of information technology solutions and a leading provider of marketing, business development, and managed contract services in the government marketplace. CMA is a small business prime contractor holder of GSA Schedule 70, NASA SEWP V, and NIH CIO-CS contract vehicles, and has relationships with partners who hold a diverse portfolio of contracts and BPAs.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 19, 2015

Four successive lighting strikes on data center infrastructure knock cloud storage servers offline Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 18, 2015

A recent article by Christian McMahon titled “ Open Data – How Far Do We Go? ” got me thinking about the idea of ‘open data.’ Christian’s article discusses the idea of open data in general where entire data sets are freely available to anyone that wants to access and use that data for whatever reason. Christian’s idea of open data is a great one and it can be re-defined as an idea that can be used within organizations.

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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.

Future of CIO

AUGUST 19, 2015

Systems thinking is about reaching a shared understanding through studying, knowledge and experimenting. As some saying goes: It is not what we don’t know that is a problem; it is what we know that is not so, that is a big problem. The world becomes overly complex and paradoxical, does every problem have solutions? How can you leverage Systems Thinking in problem-solving?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 17, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. The Cyber Threat: Paperback and Kindle Edition Both Updated For 2015. XLA Unveils New Systems Delivery Solution BCAT (Business Capability Analysis and Training). Keep plugging away. A virtual community of cyber talent - FCW.com.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 21, 2015

At least one firm’s data center went dark; portion of One Wilshire briefly switched to generator power Read More.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 20, 2015

The video here is another production by the great folks at SiliconAngle , here Paul Gillin and Dave Velante have a conversation with Michael Stonebreaker of Tamr covering topics of data and issues of integration, a problem everyone we know has. I really enjoyed hearing Michael's context on the technical challenges that face us and the incredible societal good that can be accomplished by meeting these challenges.

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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.