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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

I haven't been this excited about MicroSoft in forever. Their thought leadership, investment in R&D and incredible technical chops has turned what was recently science fiction into a deployable reality. The innovation is called the HoloLens. Its power and potential is perhaps best seen vice described. For an overview see the video at this link : In the three months since that video has been released Microsoft has continued to develop this capability and now have plans to role this out to the

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

There are many product owners that understand agile practices, enjoy collaborating with technologists and leverage data to make sound prioritization choices. But if you've practiced agile long enough you've probably experienced a dark product owner who's exhibited some of the bad behaviors of product owners that I posted a couple of months ago. At the extreme, these product owners only care.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Virtualization giant promises OpenStack that just works, but will it coexist with the cloud framework in enterprise data centers of the future? Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In order to hold on to their jobs, CIOs need to know how to not get fired. Image Credit: Bill Alldredge. During my career, I’ve been fired twice. I can tell you from personal experience, it’s never a good feeling. As CIO, you have a highly visible position within the company and there is a lot riding on you. If you are not able to deliver what the company needs from you, there is a very good chance they are going to end up getting rid of you and replacing you with someone who can do

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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.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

On August 28, the United States admitted to carrying out an airstrike, widely reported to have come from a drone, which killed an ISIS hacker by the name of Junaid Hussain. He was killed in Syria four days earlier on August 24. This strike represents the latest escalation in the United States’ evolving response to cyber attacks. Hussain was primarily engaged in online recruitment and propaganda.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory identity management platform now allows businesses to authenticate customers using popular consumer applications, such as Facebook and Google’s suite of services. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD : 11 Reasons you should upgrade to iPhone 6s +. Research firm Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant named Azure AD one of the leading products for businesses to verify the identity of their employees.

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Mick's IT Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

I had a bunch of fonts that need to be installed during the build of the golden image. I wrote this script to install them as a task sequence, but also to be able to deploy the fonts easily through SCCM. This script will install all fonts of the specified font type from the specified directory location. All of the fonts you want installed are to be placed in the specified directory location.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The video at this link and embedded below captures insights by Verge reporter Adi Robertson, who brought cameras into USC's experimental VR lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies : This clip really gets the imagination going. Innovations have been coming out of this lab for decades and with more and more making it into real world capabilities we can expect the innovation will continue.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about making a positive influence, and providing direction, both for oneself and others. The reason the great leadership being so rare is that people are more often conditioned throughout education to be followers, to conform, only one right answer, etc. The industrial age required followers, those, including some being put in a leadership position, that would just do their jobs and not to question.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Susan Blocher is VP of Global Marketing for HP’s Servers Business Unit. If there’s a defining characteristic of business in this millennium, it’s that failure comes faster. Don’t take my word for it; ask the 60,000 or so people who were working in Blockbuster’s 9,000-plus retail.

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Advertiser: GEP

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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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

As a business communications tool, email is the dominant option, and many corporations have policies that allow the use of personal email on corporate computers. In a recent Adobe Systems commissioned online survey of 400 U.S. white-collar, adult workers, more than 90 percent of them admitted checking personal emails at work. The workers questioned in the poll estimated they spend 6.3 hours a day checking emails, with 3.2 hours devoted to work emails and 3.1 hours to personal messages.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Security Information and Event Management, SIEM, is a term used for software products and services, combining security information management (SIM) and security management (SEM). A significant investment has been made in SIEM to automate and scale data analysis, to improve security and ensure regulatory compliance. However, SIEM has the constant struggle to fully deliver on the promise of data-driven security processes and organization.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

You must be clear about balancing the "Thinking & Doing" to improve quality, creativity, and productivity, etc. Today’s business world is fast-paced and hyper-competitive, many business professionals keep their hands full all the times. Overall speaking, hard work is a good attitude, however, keeping “busyness” doesn’t mean one should just do what is being told without thinking; or take actions without a strategy.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Both on-premise and cloud have their advantages. Most companies should be able to get the best of both worlds by implementing a hybrid or co-existence cloud strategy. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Mount Grinnell from the Swift Current Lake Boat. Captured with a Canon 7D Mark II and Sigma 8-16mm. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear. Or, if you are interested in renting gear before buying, try out my favorite camera, lens and gear rental site – Borrowlenses.com (affiliate link) – the folks at Borrowlenses are awe

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The agenda for the 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo has now been posted at events.FedCyber.com. Please reserve your seat today by registering here (as always, the FedCyber Summit is free for federal government employees). Every year this summit brings together thought leaders who know the cyber mission in a venue designed to enhance our collective understanding of the threat, build on existing strategies to mitigate challenges, and leverage the nation's greatest technologies to enhan

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The best people are the superglue of the best team, and the best team are the effective vehicle for the best people. The variety of research shows that the foundation of business success is innovation, but if you trace the history of innovations, were they the result of teamwork or individual genius? With the increasing speed of changes and over-complexity of business and society, do you need best people or best team?

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New Haven, CT, Device42 creates software for the Data Center and IT Infrastructure Management (DCIM) market. Their software, also named Device42, is includes comprehensive functionality from asset management to energy control. At the helm is their founder and.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Previously untapped data sources are now accessible to derive business value, through Big Data projects that promise a flexible and cost-effective data architecture. Integrating the new sources such as: Internet of Things, semi or un-structured data with the traditional structured data, which is typically found in business applications or data warehouses, is the key.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Will Subdrones Cause World War III? - Nextgov. AREA ROUNDUP: FCW falls to No. 3 Tri-Valley - MyWebTimes.com. Time To Spread The Word on Internet of Things Dangers: Read what FBI and DHS Cyber Centers Need Us All To Know.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Under the Hood: Building a New College Scorecard with Students. Executive Profile: Sarah St. Clair, People Services VP at Booz Allen Hamilton. Success Spotlight: Challenge Takes Students, Biomedicine to Next Level.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. New report outlines 'panic cycle' of hyped privacy fears over new technologies. Agenda Announced For 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo. Series on Big Data Integration with Oracle. IG Cites Lax Oversight of HealthCare.gov Contractors - Nextgov.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Joining the party of all-flash storage arrays Oracle announced an all-flash version of its FS1 Flash Storage System, engineered expressly for Oracle software Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

May build 150,000-square-foot neighbor to Apple data center in Reno Technology Park Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Jason Taylor replaces Frank Frankovsky, chair since OCP’s creation Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Says existing capacity in 18-month-old facility almost sold out Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Wants to give service providers and enterprises secure and scalable application-independent IoT security and control platform Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Service uses open source Big Data tech to create real-time processing engine on top of microservices architectures Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Emerson pushes addition of refrigerant-based economizers to Title 24 code Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Agencies, except a handful, remain slow to optimize infrastructure and realize savings Read More.

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