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Industry and Government Cybersecurity Professionals Are Gathering In DC 9, 10, 11 Sep

CTOvision

NIST, DHS and NSA are collaborating together and with professionals across industry to hold the Cybersecurity Innovation Forum 9, 10 and 11 Sep in DC. For more and to register see: [link]. The following is from the event invitation: 2015 Cybersecurity Innovation Forum. September 9 - 11, 2015. Washington Convention Center - Washington, DC. The 2015 Cybersecurity Innovation Forum is a three-day event sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology that will be held September 9 - 1

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Evaluating Ongoing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for UPS Systems

Data Center Knowledge

The Total Cost of Ownership with respect to power systems needs to be calculated over the long-term and at different points in their life cycle. Read More.

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What Google’s CIO Can Teach Us About Becoming Better CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

Google’s CIO has some great ideas on how we can become better Image Credit: Robert Scoble. This CIO job never came with any instructions. Now that we have the CIO job, we are expected to know what to do, when to do it, and who to involve in doing it. I can only speak for myself, but I sure would like to have the opportunity to talk with someone who really knew what they were doing.

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“Cloud First” Lesson’s Learned from ViON

Cloud Musings

In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy [1]. In the executive summary he pointed to cloud computing as a key component of the US Federal Government’s information technology modernization efforts: “Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery.

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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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Questions for Government Leaders To Ask About Your Cybersecurity Posture

CTOvision

Cybersecurity is one of the most high-profile topics for organizations today and one of their biggest sources of risk. Numerous recent incidents such as the OPM Breach have heightened awareness of and sensitivity to this risk, and have made it even more critical that organizations assess their cyber readiness. Cognitio has helped some of the nation’s largest, most recognizable companies enhance their cybersecurity posture by ensuring executive leaders better understand the digital risks to their

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How Edge Data Center Providers are Changing the Internet’s Geography

Data Center Knowledge

As online video replaces cable TV and cloud services replace software licenses and hardware boxes, the makeup of the internet changes too Read More.

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Missing Bitlocker Recovery Keys Reporting Tool

Mick's IT Blog

In a perfect environment, GPO forces the bitlocker recovery keys into AD. This doesn't always function correctly. Sometimes a system is bitlockered offline and the key isn't there. Other times, a system might be decrypted and they forget to re-encrypt it. This script is written to generate a report on all systems that have not reported a bitlocker recovery key to AD.

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Good People at @SecureNinja Provide Cyber Kung Fu Certified Ethical Hacker Course Free

CTOvision

SecureNinja has been a force for good in the community for years, providing education and training and contributing to many online and in person events and activities (including FedCyber ). We have always loved these guys. But there is something I totally missed till now that I wish I would have brought to your attention long ago. SecureNinja has made their entire Cyber Kung Fu for the Certified Ethical Hacker available free online.

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How Cloud Redefined Data Center Resource Utilization

Data Center Knowledge

The digitization of the modern business has created a new type of reliance around cloud computing. Here's what you can do to optimize your data center. Read More.

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Congratulations to StartApp, CloudLock and ZoomInfo for 2015 Inc. 5000 Recognition

The Investing Edge

We’d like to express our congratulations to our three current portfolio companies that made the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies list this year: Building a successful company is major challenge to begin with, but sustaining a high growth rate raises the bar even higher. Their ability to achieve continued high growth is a testament to the strong leadership and teams at these three companies.

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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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Tracking Unlicensed Software using PowerShell, SCCM, and Orchestrator

Mick's IT Blog

Keeping track of systems that have unlicensed software installed can be a daunting task, especially when true up comes. We all have encountered systems that have it installed because the user called in screaming and the help desk went ahead with the install to just shut the user up. I decided that using PowerShell, SCCM, and Orchestrator would make this a much easier process.

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Fed Tech Roundup August 27

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Army tries to speed cyber acquisition process - FCW.com. State Dept. IG chides diplomats for using private email. Iowa testing digital driver's licenses - GCN.com. Rebuild Healthy Homes from HUD. HUD’s Switchboard Puts Customer Experience and Customer Service Together.

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Droughts, Heat Waves, and High Data Center Cooling Costs

Data Center Knowledge

An energy management system that helps you understand temperature patterns and correlations in the data center will allow you to turn up the heat and lower costs. Read More.

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How to Define, Evaluate and Implement Innovation

Future of CIO

Innovation means something new and valuable. Innovation is relative and has a context. Innovation has different meanings depends on the industry, but the basic concept must be the same. In a nutshell, business innovations include new business models, work processes optimization, and new products/services design and delivery, a new marketing methodology, or a new organizational experiment in business practices, workplace structure or external relations.

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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 do Tapas, Sangria and Nutanix Have in Common?

Nutanix

We are excited to be a Gold Sponsor again at VMworld Barcelona. It’s going to be a great venue to continue the discussions we’ve had with the numerous IT professionals who are on their journey to invisible infrastructure.

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Fed Tech Roundup August 25

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Scott Frohman Joins SAS as Federal Sales Director; Karen Terrell Comments. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms CIO Announces Exit - Nextgov. NASA Extends Contract for Training Facility Support at Johnson Space Center.

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Lenovo to Fold Smartphone Business Into Motorola

Data Center Knowledge

When Lenovo bought Motorola’s smartphone business from Google in early 2014, the move had investors questioning the decision to sink $2.91 billion into a flailing company. After all, even under the direction of the Internet behemoth, Motorola experienced several consecutive quarters in the.

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How to Improve Digital Fitness via Breaking down Bureaucracies

Future of CIO

We need to choose to continue to learn, grow and empower people to learn and grow as well. Digital is about changes, closer to reality is that 'change' is continuously happening in such a dynamic environment of a company. The desires of stakeholders, clients, and employees are evolving naturally, not to mention that many organizations today are facing a more radical digital transformation.

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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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Making It All Work Together: Nutanix Elevate Alliance Partners at VMworld 2015

Nutanix

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

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4th Annual SAP NS2 Solutions Summit

CTOvision

SAP's annual Solutions Summit is an opportunity to engage and lead the dialogue that is grounded in perspectives from national security leaders such as yourself, on critical issues facing the U.S. national security community. The theme this year is “ Human Critical: Empowering the People that Drive U.S. National Security ,” and the objective is to honor the men and women who power the U.S. national security mission are essential to its success.

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How to Build Your Own Hybrid Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

When done right, a hybrid cloud becomes an extremely powerful extension of your existing infrastructure Read More.

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Are You a System Thinking Master

Future of CIO

Systems Thinking is a holistic, balanced and often an abstract thinking to understand things profoundly. People are all a bundle of assumptions, a collection of cause-and-effect, and a limited ability to put all this together to create the sense of reality. We use our sense of reality to try to understand our world and solve the problems it presents us with, making decisions as to how to interact with our environment.

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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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Invisible Infrastructure and the ability to add Invisible Security

Nutanix

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

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Collaborating in a shared service management environment

CTOvision

The processes for IT, facilities and human resources (HR) are broadly similar and do overlap, such as with commencement and exit procedures, and can easily be brought together in a single tool to manage. However, even when doing so and when supporting departments have their own tools and processes, it is not always clear to end users where they should turn for support.

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The Challenges of IT Maintenance

Data Center Knowledge

The employment of an Independent Service Organization (ISO) allows organizations to operate their data centers with equipment from any number of different vendors. Read More.

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Digital Tuning: How to Innovate Boardroom

Future of CIO

The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management. The primary role of the Director is to provide strategic oversight, setting governance principles, and making the judgment on an assurance of corporate action within a framework of practical knowledge. If they do their jobs right, the executives and management team can do their jobs in a well-orchestrated fashion as well.

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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.

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Invisible Infrastructure and the ability to add Invisible Security

Nutanix

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

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Anthony Spiteri, who works at an Australian service provider running NSX, has some in-depth articles discussing vShield Edge and NSX Edge ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ).

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Assessing the State of the Cloud and Containers at OpenStack Silicon Valley

Data Center Knowledge

This article originally appeared at The WHIR At the OpenStack Silicon Valley event this week, cloud professionals are discussing an OpenStack ecosystem that’s drastically different than when the event first launched five years ago. The software has considerably matured, but it’s also taking on even.

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Three Aspects on How to Groom a Digital CIO

Future of CIO

Digital CIOs are the business strategists and innovation evangelists, talent masters, and customer champions. Due to the abundance of information and fast changing technology trends, CIOs have so much more on their plate now than before, and in most circumstances, it would be excellent for the job. It's also a role of the CIO to participate in the preparation of the company's strategies that reinforce its competencies in both digital and global vision of the business.

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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.