CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Leon Panetta spoke today at the Symantec government conference in DC. No matter what your politics are, I hope you see this man as a great American who always puts country above himself. I believe that. He has spent his entire adult life proving that. He is a fantastic speaker. He held the attention of an audience of 2000 with a great overview of the state of national security, including threats, and as far as I can tell did that perfectly.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 11, 2014

'Colocation provider Switch has formed a joint venture to launch an international expansion, teaming with Accelero Capital Holdings and Orascom TMT Investments (OTMTI) to build SUPERNAP data centers around the world.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 10, 2014

'Big Data Platforms for Marketing Technologists and CIOs looking for businesses partners to invest in Big Data platforms should begin their hunt with their Marketing departments and CMOs. As I''ve been covering in this blog, CMOs looking to become more data driven as they perform multiple digital marketing experiments and are likely to select a marketing automation platform.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 11, 2014

'Over on the Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality blog, Jim Harris recently wrote : While organizations of all sizes are rightfully excited about the business potential of using big data, this excitement needs to be balanced by acknowledging the business risks associated with not governing the ways big data is used. Well said. Many organizations have been caught up in the ‘hype’ of big data.

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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

MARCH 11, 2014

'By Bob Gourley If you follow federal IT you more than likely already read Steve O’Keefe. But if you are new to this world you can find him at [link]. Last week he treated his followers to a nicely written piece which used metaphors from the Titanic (but in this case, the USS ITanic ).This is a great overview of some key leadership challenges in federal IT.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 10, 2014

'Yahoo has notified its landlord in Ashburn, DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT), that it plans to sublease 24 megawatts of data center space. Will this move disrupt the market for "wholesale" third-party space in northern Virginia?

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 9, 2014

'Three Steps to Improving Business-IT Alignment. Quote : Whether we call it business-IT alignment or not, the desired state for a CIO is to be respected and valued for his or her knowledge and ability to contribute to meeting organizational goals. We want our peers to know that we understand their challenges and have ideas about how to solve them. In order to get that respect, to have that seat at the table, you must communicate in the words of your business.

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2014

'Everyone knows it can be very hard to do business with the government. But you can take steps to make it easier to serve. The most important thing to do, in my opinion, is to be informed on government mission needs. How else can you determine if you have what the government really wants from you? It is also critically important to know if the government agency with a need has a budget or if they are just hoping for a future budget.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 9, 2014

'The Week in Review: Facebook''s IKEA-style data center, Masters degree in Data Centers now available, immersion cooling for 100kW racks, New owners for 401 North Broad, COPT''s growing data center business.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

'If you’ve been following trends in the “cloud” world, you’ve probably heard of Docker. In this post I’m going to provide a quick introduction to Docker, which might be helpful if you’re wondering what Docker is and why it’s garnered so much attention. The best way to describe Docker is to use the phrase from the Docker web site—Docker is “an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.” The idea

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 10, 2014

'Today PerspecSys announced the results of a survey conducted at the 2014 RSA Conference concerning the attitudes and policies of organizations towards cloud-based security. After polling 130 security professionals on the show floor of the RSA Conference , PerspecSys found that “an overwhelming 74 percent believe security for cloud-based data in 2014 will be a bigger concern than securing data on-premise.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2014

'Applications are core to the enterprise; they drive nearly every aspect of the business. The typical F1000 CIO completed 46 application projects in 2013, and on average, 28 of these 46 projects were over budget and behind schedule. That CIO also spends an average of 40% of her annual budget on applications. To address this, CIOs look at private and public clouds, SAAS, and outsourcing as ways to avoid the pain and risk of application projects.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 13, 2014

'What''s the relationship between data centers and the environment? Considering many unusual data center locations - such as near the Arctic circle or underground caves and bunkers - locations selected demonstrates some of the challenges posed to building and maintaining data centers as a response.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

'Welcome to part 11 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I provide a high-level overview of the basics on integrating VMware NSX into an OpenStack deployment using OpenStack Neutron. In case you’re just now catching up on this blog series, I encourage you to visit my Learning NVP/NSX page , which has a brief summary of all the posts in the series.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 12, 2014

'In response to growing demand for formal software risk and quality management tools, the nations’ most respected standards bodies and IT communities of practice have joined forces to advance the state of the practice in software quality management. Hosted by the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ), and in cooperation with Object Management Group, Software Engineering Institute, Interoperability Clearinghouse, IT Acquisition Advisory Council, a leadership forum will be held on March 26th i

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2014

'By Bob Gourley The Security Analysis and Risk Management Association (SARMA) and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) are partnering to help advance the body of knowledge around global supply chain risk management on 5 and 6 May. Please see the details below and click here to register. Please join us for a two day workshop Global Supply Chain Risk Assessment on Monday and Tuesday 5 & 6 May 2014.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 13, 2014

'Microsoft is seeking tax breaks for a planned $250 million investment in San Antonio, Texas. The company already has a 470,000 square foot facility there.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

'The current calendar which continues to be updated includes a mix of webinars (playback are available), and live events covering data infrastructure topics from cloud, virtual, physical and software defined across servers, storage I/O networking, SSD, performance, object storage and data protection among other related themes.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 14, 2014

'Portable, cloud-based virtual data centers? Sure, why not? I contributed this piece over on TechTarget. I’ve been formulating my own concept of SDDC and what the impact would be on IaaS. There’s an inflection point where the abstracted DC will impact IaaS to a point where cloud management solutions will not need heavy integration with the underlying physical infrastructure. .

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2014

'By Michael Johnson For enterprise technology decision-makers, functionality, interoperability, scalability security and agility are key factors in evaluating technologies. Another that is also very important to consider is the health of the community around the technology. This includes the firm stewarding the technology as well as the developers in the ecosystem.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 12, 2014

'anuary''s Open Compute Summit led to the creation of a new concept known as Adaptive Storage, in which compute and storage resources would be loosely coupled over a network and scale independently to optimize big data platforms.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 13, 2014

It is both the art and science to know when to say YES, and when to say NO to the customers. Modern IT needs to both take care of internal customers by meeting their needs, and to delight end customer by optimizing digital touch points; it has to both map out the strategic projects, but also to keep the light on. How should CIOs prioritize the limited time and resources to ascend IT maturity, and how should CIOs respond to endless internal customer demand for IT solutions?

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 11, 2014

'Both VSAN and NSX are big deals to VMware. Not just because of the new markets for VMware. Both solutions are important indicators of where VMware sees the role of the hypervisor. .

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2014

'By Bob Gourley It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world. No doubt you are already tracking the construct many are calling the “Internet of Things” and you may have been pondering what this connected world might look like. Now you have an opportunity to help shape this coming age by participating with other thought leaders to build the future.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 11, 2014

'There are many differences between service provider and data center optical networks, but the main areas where data centers can drive efficiency and innovation fall into a few categories. Scott Wilkinson of MRV Communications outlines the areas of significance when building a network that delivers.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 12, 2014

IT is a Holistic 'Digital Brain' of Organization. 3/12 is the World Wide Web’s 25 th birthday, now about half of world citizens are also ‘net citizens’ to connect, create and share content online, it becomes the very foundation of all digital activities and the very fabric of digital business and world. As an IT leader, what’s your perspective on the future of Information Technology, is digital IT extraordinary or ordinary?

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 14, 2014

'Portable, cloud-based virtual data centers? Sure, why not? I contributed this piece over on TechTarget. I’ve been formulating my own concept of SDDC and what the impact would be on IaaS. There’s an inflection point where the abstracted DC will impact IaaS to a point where cloud management solutions will not need heavy integration with the underlying physical infrastructure. .

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CTOvision

MARCH 12, 2014

'We are all sick of hearing about the budget cuts and woes of DoD. Let’s focus on the good news: some really great things will continue to be funded as Navy continues to invest in innovation. Last week, Secretary of Defense released the details of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and the FY15 Budget Requests. Secretary of Defense Hagel is cautiously optimistic that we can maintain our strategic advantage and make the cuts required by Congre.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 14, 2014

'The U.S. Navy is shifting large amounts of data to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and expects the move to produce huge savings.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

'FirstNet’s First Gear. The First Responder Network Authority, charged with building a $7 billion nationwide network for responders and now two years old, moved into first gear this week. In fairness, FirstNet was never stalled or stopped, although it appeared that way when I wrote “Is FirstNet Stalled?” on its two-year birthday, February 22. Work was going on behind the scenes, and it burst out onto the stage this week: A new website appeared, www.firstnet.gov , freed of the clunky Na

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