Sat.Jan 10, 2015 - Fri.Jan 16, 2015

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”. ? Margaret Mead. Editor''s note: I''ve been in the position to observe both NGA and DigitalGlobe as organizations and have also been honored to meet both the two leaders referenced in this release, and I consider their work to be proof yet again that small teams of committed people can work wonders in the world.

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Switch Plans Massive $1 Billion SUPERNAP Data Center in Reno

Data Center Knowledge

'Colocation provider Switch has unveiled plans for its largest SUPERNAP project yet, a $1 billion, 3 million square foot data center campus on 1,000 acres of land near Reno, Nevada. Read More.

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Best Data Vizualization and Dashboard Management Practices in Self Service BI Programs

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I''ve seen many organizations run into difficulty defining governance and best practices managing the lifecycle of BI dashboards. Perhaps you have deployed a self service BI program - data scientists have access to tools, IT has deployed severs to publish completed dashboards, and employees are anxious to leverage visualizations and become more data driven.

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CIOs Need To Plan Their Move Into The Cloud In Order To Avoid “Cloud Stall”

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Even the best laid plans can run into a stall if you don’t plan correctly Image Credit: roger g1. Every CIO has heard about the Cloud by now – computing services provided by a vendor that your company can lease and access via the Internet. All of the articles sure seem to indicate that moving enterprise applications into the cloud makes good economic sense and can enhance the importance of information technology to the company.

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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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Simplifying The Overwhelming Cyber Security World For Boards of Directors

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously reported on the great, community coordinated and extensively vetted work on cyber risks and governance by organizations like The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA ), The Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA ),The Internet Security Alliance ( ISA ), and The National Association of Corporate Directors ( NACD ).

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4 Steps to a Successful Data Center Migration

Data Center Knowledge

'Over time, and for various reasons, the need will arise to migrate your data center equipment to a new facility, writes Art Salazar of Green House Data. Whether you colocate or operate a company-owned data center, keep these best practices in mind when planning your migration. Read More.

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Cloud Security: Understanding the Cloud Computing Threat Landscape

Cloud Musings

'In the last two years, IT security breaches have hit the White House, the State Department, the top federal intelligence agency, the largest American bank, the top hospital operator, energy companies, retailers and even the Postal Service. Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist Lockheed Martin , and author of numerous publications will detail the new cloud computing threat landscape.

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Big Data Cyber Security Architect Eddie Garcia Discusses Best Practices at 27 Jan Breakfast in DC

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Eddie Garcia is regarded as one of the nation''s greatest Big Data security architects. At Gazzang he led engineering teams through successful fielding of secure hadoop deployments where security was provided without sacrificing performance. Now a security engineer with Cloudera, Eddie continues to work directly with clients from enterprises across multiple sectors of the economy.

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Preparing for the Data Center of the Future

Data Center Knowledge

'There are ways to future-proof the data center without having to make costly investments, while still ensuring that IT infrastructure can adapt and change over time to meet evolving business needs – even in a rapidly changing, unpredictable landscape. Read more from Steve Carlini and Soeren Jensen.

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IT vendors aren’t management consultants

Virtualized Greek

'One of my observations during my job search is that IT vendors are trying to move up the consulting stack. They want enterprise customers to know that they have both the technical chops and business acumen to solve customer problems.

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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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Fear Hackers? First invest in an IT security culture change

Cloud Musings

'by Kevin L.Jackson With all the news these days about cyberterrorism and hacking the cloud may seem like the last place you would want to put your precious information. Pew Research has even suggested that cyber-attacks are likely to increase. Some 61% of over 1600 security expert respondents to a recent survey said “yes” that a major attack causing widespread harm would occur by 2025 , according to the Pew Research study.

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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP): An online community with a virtuous goal

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. One of our CTOvision Pro subscribers requested we provide more context on web based and mobile application security and referenced the good work underway by OWASP. Over the next few weeks we will be publishing more on this topic, but wanted to start with an introduction to OWASP itself. It is an open community we hold in the highest regard and you may want to consider contributing to their efforts yourself (or perhaps ensuring the right people in your enterprise are engaged with

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What the Bitcoin Shakeout Means for Data Center Providers

Data Center Knowledge

'Some bitcoin mining firms are shutting down or halting payouts to customers, while others are shifting their business models. The fallout is being felt by data center operators who leased space to large mining operations. Read More.

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Virtual SDN (vSDN) will be a thing

Virtualized Greek

'A recent post by Joe Onisick highlighted VMware NSX’s inability to control physical bits. As a result, he positioned NSX as a Network Function Virtualization solution vs. a full SDN product. VMware may remind you that through VTEP and partnerships with their.

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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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Agile is not the absence of ITIL!

Cloud Musings

'by Jodi Kohut ITIL (formerlyknown as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library) has been the best management practices framework of choice for world class IT Operations organizations. The 5 stage framework: Service Strategy, Design, Transition, Operation, and Continual Service improvement allows for structured processes that support Enterprise Architecture, Service Delivery, and Security initiatives.

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The Emerging Science of Human-Data Interaction (HDI)

CTOvision

'By Kord Davis. MIT Technology Review recently published a paper on an emerging discipline called "Human-Data Interaction (HDI). A nascent field of study, this paper can provide individuals and organizations a solid introductory framework to motivate discussion and action around the relationship between people and data. Summarizing the full paper, MIT comments: " The rapidly evolving ecosystems associated with personal data is creating an entirely new field of scientific study, say computer scie

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“Just When You Thought”: How Predictive Analytics Will Impact the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'In the last few years, the value of predictive analytics has become clear, and businesses are clamoring for rapid adoption and deployment, writes Bill Jacobs of Revolution Analytics. Read More.

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Looking Ahead: My 2015 Projects

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I’m going to discuss some projects that I’ve set out for myself in the upcoming year. I’ve done this in years past, and the feedback that I’ve gotten from readers is that they found these posts to be quite helpful. I first started posting annual project lists in January 2012, when I posted a list of some projects for 2012. In January 2013, I graded myself on my progress (spoiler alert: I didn’t do very well), followed by a new 2013 project list in early February.

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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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CloudCamp Bangladesh In Dhaka! - February 11, 2015

Cloud Musings

'Did you know that. Goldman Sachs recognized Bangladesh as one of the Next Eleven (N-11) - a list of eleven countries having strong potential for becoming the world''s largest economies along with BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China)? JP Morgan named Bangladesh as one of the `Frontier Five’ (along with Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Nigeria), a group of selected emerging countries having promising macroeconomic performance and demographic trends?

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Federal Government and Private Sector Enterprise Ramifications for a Samsung Purchase of Blackberry

CTOvision

'By Randy Siegel. On January 14 th , Reuters broke an exclusive story purporting to have information that Samsung Electronics was in advanced talks to purchase Blackberry for ~$.75B. If true, such a deal would surely represent a game-changer for mobile security conscious government and private sector enterprises. Samsung has a strong impetus for purchasing Blackberry.

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The Data Centers Behind Datto’s Backup for Everything

Data Center Knowledge

'The company''s goal to back up anything and everything for anybody creates some specific data center considerations Read More.

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A Non-Programmer's Introduction to Git

Scott Lowe

'Git is a distributed version control system that is widely used by a number of open source projects. In this post, I’m going to provide a quick non-programmer’s introduction to Git, and encourage readers to spend some time getting familiar with Git. I think it is a time investment that will pay off down the road. First, I’m going to provide some definitions/brief explanations in order to establish a foundation upon which you can build your Git knowledge.

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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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Linear Thinking vs non-Linear Thinking

Future of CIO

In the real, physical world or business world, most relationships are nonlinear. The digital business and the world has become over-complex and hyperconnected, some thought linear thinking is a type of logical thinking and nonlinear thinking is an out-of-the-box thinking. But dig deeper, nonlinear thinking is an emerging type of systems thinking to understand such complexity and craft a good strategy.

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Sony’s Smart Eyeglasses

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. The video below and at this link was produced by The Verge to highlight one of the most interesting gadgets presented at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is a proof of concept not available for sale yet, but a developer kit has been built and will be released in March. Related articles. Sony''s $1,100 Walkman, Smart Homes, Highlight Consumer Electronics Show (mega949.com).

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Demand in Secondary Data Center Markets Spurs Birth of New Players

Data Center Knowledge

'Several new providers have emerged over the past few years to tackle what they say is pent-up demand in non-core markets Read More.

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Citrix Acquires Sanbolic

Scott Lowe

'I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. (TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.) Early this year, Sanbolic announced their storage virtualization product, completing a pivot from offering a Windows-only solution (file system and volume manager) to a multi-platform solution that encompasses multiple storage tiers, multiple operating systems, and multiple hypervisors.

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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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Digital Innovation and the CIO

Lundberg Media

'Business leaders anticipate dramatic change in all aspects of their operations over the next three years, according to recent research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (you can download a copy of the report I authored, Business Transformation and the CIO Role, at the HBR website). Some companies are accelerating this change by committing to […].

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One Thing All Successful Enterprise CTOs Have In Common

CTOvision

'By Bob Flores. We have just released another CTOvision Pro piece, this one titled: One Thing All Successful Enterprise CTOs Have In Common. I wanted to write this for a couple key reasons: 1) Technologists at mid-grade levels who are thinking through the pros and cons of a CTO career path can benefit from these observations, and 2) CTOvision Pro readers of all experience levels may find this thought provoking.

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Which IaaS Provider is Cheapest? Which One Has More Configurations, Locations?

Data Center Knowledge

'Clouds often have an advantage over competitors with specific use cases. Cloud Spectator attempts a cost comparison keeping the use case in mind Read More.

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The “Digital Way” of an Organizational Structure and Beyond

Future of CIO

The future belongs to those fast learners who can test and run, walk the talk, and ultimately become a digital master. Organizations large or small are on the journey to digital transformation, and there are different theories of organizational structure evolution and continuous brainstorming about the concept of self-management, the format of future of the organization etc.

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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.