CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'CTOs should consider having their development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software – known as freemium software – to test out the functions of commercial products. From the perspective of Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at reporting and analytics leader Actuate, freemium software is a resource that can really help the enterprise.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 31, 2014

'The data center has gone a long way in Hollywood. We look at 10 data centers that play pivotal roles in blockbusters and the evolution from abstract concept to full-fledged future data center. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'If you''ve read this blog or have seen me speak at a conference, then you know I am a strong proponent of self-service BI programs. I''ve posted on principles of self-service BI programs, attributes of data driven organizations, and how to avoid data landfills among many other big data topics all aimed to get business teams successful competing and driving decisions with data.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Mobile disruptions can happen at any time Image Credit. As CIO, because of the importance of information technology, you need to get ready to deal with the disruptions that that arrival of even more mobile technology is going to create. The customers that your company serves are going to expect to be able to interact with the company using their mobile phones more and more.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The Recorded Future Special Intelligence Desk has just released a new Threat Intelligence Report we found to be full of important context and actionable information for enterprise cyber defenders. The report, titled The Fortune 500’s Unfortunate 221, is available for download here. This report is important for two key reasons: It shows a clear example of the strategic benefit of cyber intelligence to enterprise cyber defense.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 31, 2014

'OpenStack powered by IBM cloud on SoftLayer infrastructure brings OpenStack closer to enterprises. IBM also anounced a new data center in Mumbai, India as part of $1.2bn global data center expansion. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 27, 2014

'My wife made an intriguing statement as we were discussing my job search. Specifically, we were discussing the process of using my community contacts and blogging platform vs. the traditional method of applying for jobs via websites and waiting or.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This quote summarizes the importance of online encryption policy and hands-on implementation within an organization. Though you may have the best IT department in the world and advanced computing resources, if there are no written methodical steps that will serve as guidelines or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for computing and data storage, then all these hiring-sprees of IT talents and investments are doomed to fail.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The company is building a series of local Internet on-ramps and off-ramps, tapping dark fiber and modular data centers to bring the core of the Internet closer to the edge of the network. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Often I hear people talk about scaling only in the context of space capacity. However there are aspects including performance, availability as well as scaling-up or scaling-out. Scaling from application workloads perspectives include four main group themes which are performance, availability, capacity and economics (as well as energy).

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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.

Applications

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A Bridging-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, has the gut to innovate fearlessly; has the strategy to lead wisely and has the skill to move progressively. Most of the C-level executives including CIOs are transactional leaders who keep the light on and focus on the short term quarterly result. Now we are approaching the inflection point in which businesses are facing accelerating changes and can be disrupted even overnight, which CIO shall you become the transactional

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'I love and respect NIST and I just want to come right out with that so you know where I am coming from. Now add on top of that the fact that they have just issued a draft document that discusses items at the intersection of three of my passions, Cyber Security, Technology and Intelligence, and you can see why I am so excited. So, with my bias in mind, I report the following: NIST has just produced a draft special publication that I believe is the best thing I have ever read from their organiza

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Mainframe applications are one of the most mission-critical aspects of a business’ technology infrastructure, writes Rick Oppedisano of Modern Systems. However, companies are currently facing serious challenges around their mainframe stack. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'I often get asked, or, told that computer data storage is complex with so many options to choose from, apples to oranges comparison among other things.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Diversity is the engine for creativity and a facilitator for merging building blocks of new ideas. The world is hyper-connected, there's nothing in the universe that exists in isolation from everything else, and certainly not a culture in particular. Cultures, as collective mindset and habit, are mainly shaped by the “mainstream” mindset at the particular time, need to be reprogrammed when it lags the era we live in, only creative and transformative leadership can make such shift.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'On September 30 th Sierra Ventures hosted their 9th CIO summit in Palo Alto, CA. One of the many topics coved at the event was software defined perimeter and cloud security alliance. Coca-Cola was used as a case study. Alan Boehme , the acting CISO at Coca-Cola. Ed Steinike , the CIO at Coca-Cola, and Bob Flores , the former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a partner at our parent firm Cognitio were the key presenters.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 31, 2014

'Existing "super-wholesale" customer takes entire 13 megawatts vacated by Yahoo; CEO succession plans on fast track Read More.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 26, 2014

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

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In business, complexity both drives innovation and also hinders it. Complexity is like energy. In the biosphere, for example, the "life potential" of a species is proportional to its complexity. Its fitness is proportional to its complexity. This is why the biological evolution is equivalent to an increase in complexity because this means an increase in functionality, which, in turn, means the ability to better cope with the uncertainties of a constantly changing environment, however, simplicity

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

'These are some of the hot technology stories we are following… The Mysterious Company That Has Tech Giants Dropping 2 Million. Magic Leap, a Hollywood, Florida, based start-up announced today it received a $ 542 million round of funding led by Google, along with Qualcomm Ventures, venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz and a slew of other top technology investors.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'What do you do when there are just too many cloud options? Even though you have your head in the clouds, don''t forget about ground control! Read More.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2014

'This is part 17 of the Learning NSX blog series. In this post, I’ll show you how to add layer 2 (L2) connectivity to your NSX environment, and how to leverage that L2 connectivity in an NSX-powered OpenStack implementation. This will allow you, as an operator of an NSX-powered OpenStack cloud, to offer L2/bridged connectivity to your tenants as an additional option.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein Positive is just so natural when you feel the Sun hitting your face, hear the trees blowing in the wind, Wake up and take a breath to start the other day. Let go of the negative feeling and feel the positive all around you. Everything, whether tangible or intangible, in the manifested universe, has two poles – the positive and the negative.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 30, 2014

'The following are some of the tech news stories we are tracking: . HP Extends Benefits of ARM Architecture Into the Datacenter With New Servers. PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwired) — Sep 29, 2014 — HP ( NYSE : HPQ) today announced two ARM®-based servers, including the first enterprise-class 64-bit ARM-based server, for customers that value choice in their compute strategy.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 27, 2014

'The impending depletion of IPv4 addressing space and the recent surge in acceptance of IPv6 means that organizations handling their own route exchanges may need to reexamine their environments, writes Ryan Smith of Cervalis. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Have you ever gotten a call from a friend to help them move? When you arrive no packing has been completed, and they’ve rented a truck that’s much too small to make a single trip or even just three trips?

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The genius factors and a ppreciation touch all things. The life we live is choreographed by grace which is flowing from our heart into our mind. Life is still full of inquiries: Doesn't energy follow the path of least resistance? Doesn't nature tend to leverage the flow while people more often than not endeavor to harness the flow to serve their own ends?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 30, 2014

'There is a famous TED video by author Matt Ridley called “ When Ideas Have Sex.” Paraphrased, the line that I love goes, “When ideas are having sex, innovation happens.” While these three fast-paced technologies (social, cloud and mobile) are themselves children of many years of progress, they are here to stay, evolve and generate much needed changes in our healthcare system.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 31, 2014

'Happy Halloween, goblins and ghouls, let''s get into the spooky spirit! Help us complete our Kip and Gary cartoon by submitting your caption below. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 27, 2014

'With Canonical support already in place, another server OS heavyweight coming on board would boost adoption of ARM in data centers Read More.

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