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The Megatrend of Cloud Computing: An update for technology decision-makers

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.

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Achieving Cloud-Ready Data Center Scale Securely, Rapidly, and Inexpensively

Data Center Knowledge

Your business is evolving. How well can your data center keep up? Find out how to create cloud-ready scalability by utilizing colocation partnerships. Most of all, learn how to incorporate cloud securely and inexpensively! Read More.

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Don’t focus on the data, focus on what the data tells you

Eric D. Brown

In a recent post on O’Reilly Radar titled “ Turning big data into actionable insights “, Ben Lorica provides some highlights of an interview with Evangelos Simoudis regarding big data. One of the highlights is extremely important. It relates to the importance of finding actionable insights from big data and sharing those insights in a way that the organization can use.

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Six Critical Strategies For Selecting Breakthrough Digital Transformation Platforms

Social, Agile and Transformation

What criteria are you, your business stakeholders, influential technologists, and executives using to evaluate a new software application or SaaS platform? Are you concerned about features and functionality? Is it the design of the user interface that grabs your attention? Perhaps you go deeper to understand how much of the platform can be configured or customized to meet specific business.

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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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How Tamr is Helping Toyota Motor Europe (TME) “Plumb Differently”

CTOvision

Toyota Motor Europe’s Wouter Dullaert explains Tamr’s features and benefits in the video below. We like this video because it is another great example of how a technologist in an enterprise can make a huge impact on the business of an organization. It is also good because it underscores why Tamr is unique. Dullaert underscores that tapping into the full value of customer information is key, “with ‘roughly 270 different databases that have customer data in them — and that’s before we actually get

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DuPont Fabros Sees Data Center Leasing Momentum in Virginia

Data Center Knowledge

While the third quarter wasn’t stellar for DuPont Fabros Technology in terms of signing new leases, the period immediately after the quarter’s last day saw a series of major deals.

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CIOs Know That If They Can’t Find That Email, They’re In Trouble

The Accidental Successful CIO

Be careful before you hit the email delete button Image Credit: Mixy Lorenzo. Sure, as the person with the CIO job, there are a lot of different things that you could be doing. However, have you ever spent any time thinking about the things that you should be doing? It turns out that given the importance of information technology it just might be what you and your IT team is not doing that may end up causing both you and your company the most trouble.

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: Great Science Fiction Full of Thought Provoking Visions Of Our Near Future

CTOvision

Ready Player One is great science fiction set in the very near future. It is well done drama that leverages totally realistic visions of what technology is rapidly evolving to. Imagine a world where virtual reality and global connectivity enables universal access to high quality education. Incredible. Awesome. And achievable by us if we put our minds to it.

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Six Data Disasters That Could Happen Anytime

Data Center Knowledge

When your company suffers a data breach, you're responsible for keeping employees' private information safe plus you must protect your customers, employees, partners and any other individuals who have interacted with your organization. Read More.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. Customers can choose between 11 regions around the world today and, in addition to Korea, we are adding regions in India, a second region in China, and Ohio in 2016. Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list!

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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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Net Framework 4.5.x Error 0x80004005

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, I had to deploy.Net Framework 4.5.2 to all systems, as it was a requirement for a software update. I first deployed it through software updates in SCCM 2012. The status showed up as compliant. I thought nothing more of it. I went to deploy the application and it failed on many machines. SCCM was reporting back false data, which is part of my other blog posting.

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ThreatBrief: Strategic Cyber Intelligence Delivered Daily

CTOvision

The Daily Threat Brief provides strategic insights into threats. This is an open source intelligence report modeled after the concept of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB). Every day the analysts of Cognitio succinctly provide insights into global risk and security issues in ways that can reduce your personal and business risks and inform your strategic decision making.

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Data Center Network Traffic Four Years from Now: 10 Key Figures

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud traffic growth will outpace data center traffic growth, according to Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index Read More.

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Toronto schools back BYOD (to class) with $14M Wi-Fi network

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The largest school district in Canada is rolling out a $14 million Wi-Fi network that embraces a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach for students. The Wi-Fi rollout to 562 schools and other buildings in metropolitan Toronto, based primarily on Cisco gear and software, is expected to be complete next year and serve all 246,000 students, plus staff.

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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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Deploying Microsoft Endpoint

Mick's IT Blog

I recently converted my firm to Microsoft Endpoint. Part of the process is including endpoint in the golden image. I wrote this powershell script that will install endpoint and then remove the necessary registry keys so it will set itself back up when the golden image is laid down on a new machine. You may wonder why I have an uninstall first. I do this in all of my installation scripts in the event something is wrong with the currently installed app and it needs to be reinstalled.

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Tech Entrepreneurs: Here is what you need to know about growing a federal practice

CTOvision

One of our most important lines of business at Cognitio is helping high tech firms that can solve big problems for the federal government succeed in doing that. We are firm believers that advanced technologies, smartly tailored to address federal agency missions, are key to a better future. As realists we also know that many startup CEOs really wonder whether they should pursue the federal market.

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Debunking Unfounded Cloud Security Fears

Data Center Knowledge

The scale of security breaches today is unprecedented, but how many of them happen to the biggest cloud providers? Read More.

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Ohhh snap: Dropbox dropkicked by Box CEO in fight for enterprise cash

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

Dropbox launches new Enterprise edition at its Dropbox Open conflab. But rival Box, Inc. is throwing shade with fighting talk. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says his company is about more than just B2C cloud sync now. But Box CEO Aaron Levie is trying to spoil Drew's party, with his cruel, hurtful words. Children, children. Please. Play nice, would ya? In IT Blogwatch , bloggers remember-remember.

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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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Packaging EverMap Redaction for Adobe Acrobat XI

Mick's IT Blog

To easily deploy Redaction for Adobe Acrobat XI, I created an MSI file using the AppDeploy Repackager. There are a total of 8 files it packages up. My firm has an enterprise license, which gets written to the AutoRedact.LIC file. To properly package this up, you can download the attached XML file I have made available that will generate the MSI using AppDeploy Repackager.

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Fed Tech Roundup November 6

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Northrop Grumman Statement on Boeing's Protest of the Long-Range Strike Bomber Program. What Federal Cybersecurity Can Learn from Football - Nextgov. MacAulay-Brown Inc. Promotes Five to Leadership Positions.

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Realizing the Potential of the Software-Defined Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

The future promises a location-agnostic “data center” in which capacity is managed fluidly and securely across an ecosystem that includes on-premise data centers and micro data centers, associated colocation facilities, and multiple clouds. Read More.

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Spirent – VFD 6 Preview

Virtualized Greek

Next up on my Virtualization Field Day 6 previews is Spirent. I’m familiar with Spirent from their load generating solutions. I wrote up my experience trying to troubleshoot an distributed IP multicast webcast system. One of the outstanding questions we needed.

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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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Calling All Switchers

Scott Lowe

Are you a switcher ? That is, are you someone who has transitioned from one IT discipline to an entirely new IT discipline? Perhaps you were a storage gal for a long time, and now you’ve successfully transitioned into a networking career. Maybe you used to be a Windows admin, and now Linux is your thing. Or perhaps you were a networking guy, and now you’re coding like a madman.

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Fed Tech Roundup November 5th

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Northrop Grumman Highlights Global Defence and Security Capabilities at 2015 Dubai Airshow. What Technology Should Be Un-Invented? - Nextgov. Hiring astronauts on USAJobs, undersea cable worries and more - FCW.com.

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Why CenturyLink Doesn’t Want to Own Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Colo business stagnating, the company wants to focus investment on more profitable businesses Read More.

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Leaders as Coaches

Future of CIO

A good leader manage, but not manipulate; participate, but not micromanage; delegate, but also guide through. Substantially, leadership is all about future and change; direction and dedication; influence and innovation; methodically, there are authoritarian, delegation, and participation leadership styles. With organizations are transforming from mechanical industrial mode to organic digital mode, the command, and control authoritarian leadership style is less effective to manage today’s multi-g

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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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Nutanix and Lenovo

Nutanix

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

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Igniting the Spark Curiosity; 3-Part Vodcast Series

CTOvision

Check out Bright's three part vodcast series on Apache Spark™ and how it can be used for large-scale data processing: In Part I , a Bright expert will discuss Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data and walk you through the fully integrated support for Apache Spark now included. The vodcast highlights how the integration with Spark can directly help end users, for instance the flexibility offered by running Apache Spark with or without the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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CenturyLink Wants to Sell its Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Hires advisors to explore alternatives to data center ownership Read More.

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Three Levels of Impact in Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Digital Transformation for businesses intends to achieve the new level of efficiency and lead to the next level of innovation. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today.

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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.