CTOvision

AUGUST 14, 2015

When I'm researching my own books, I always turn to Bob Gourley. I make diasasters up. Download the kindle edition or order your paperback version at: The Cyber Threat. Title: The Cyber Threat. Author: Bob Gourley. Genre: True Crime. Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub. Release Date: 2014-09-23. He's seen them for real.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 4, 2015

It’s taken quite a while, but I’ve finally managed to migrate the over 1,600 posts from my original WordPress installation over to Jekyll hosted on GitHub Pages. I’ll have another post later that goes into more detail on the process that I followed (and why) as well as some of the tools that I used in the migration.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 7, 2015

Today I am especially proud and honored to publicly announce my appointment to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Editorial Board ! I am truly appreciative to Dr. Alan Sill and Dr. Masin Yousif for their trust and confidence in nominating me to this position. This content is being syndicated through multiple channels.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 12, 2015

Obviously, I’ve already adopted podcasting. I’ve settled on a 3 episode a week release schedule. I think there are topics best served by long form text. I'm shifting to a living page format that is more of a running blog post that changes as my information and the industry changes. However, I'll be adjusting.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This 152-page document outlines the security requirements that Department of Defense (DOD) mission owners must adhere to when procuring cloud-based services. Expanding on the last point I made: Everything you put in a CSP environment is not automatically compliant. To learn more about tech news and analysis visit Tech Page One.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

I hold this contrarian view, because when you pull back the curtain on many of the recent breaches, you’ll likely see a mirror! What I am describing is the need for a cultural change. To learn more about tech news and analysis visit Tech Page One. Many of which have gone through multiple iterations over the years.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 8, 2015

In my post about the story behind the migration , I mentioned that I made extensive use of regular expressions (“regexes”) to help reformat portions of the Markdown documents that are used by Jekyll to build this site. First, let me clarify what I mean by Jekyll references.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 30, 2015

When I founded GovCloud Network over a year and a half ago, using social media for marketing and opportunity identification was one of my strategic planks. After reading this study though, I began to second guess both the money and time investments. Do these numbers represent a business “social media gap”?

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2015

I was a fortunate witness to the launch of these initiatives during Digital World 2015 last month in Dhaka and, boy, was I impressed! To learn more about tech news and analysis visit Tech Page One. This policy also aims at making Bangladesh a mid-income nation by 2021 and a developed nation by 2041.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 12, 2015

After careful consideration, I suggest there are three reasons why a “both and” approach will provide more benefit to the organization: 1.) To learn more about tech news and analysis visit Tech Page One. I’ve heard more than one of my colleagues speculate that this shift signals a move away from ITIL.

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CTOvision

MARCH 12, 2015

Knowing when a cluster of services that provides, for example, an identity service is out of capacity is critical, but getting paged in the middle of the night because you lost one server in a cluster of 20 is asinine. How should I think about scaling my systems if my user base were to double?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 22, 2015

Back in the day (say 5 years ago), I had my data and you had yours. Based on discussions that I’ve had with other CIOs, if you start to mine the data streams that are provided by the popular social media tools (e.g. However, have you ever considered using your data mining skills to get information about the competition?

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 19, 2015

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, I share more information on the issue and potential solutions. I also profile women technology trailblazers who have made significant contributions to STEM and our global society. I invited her, her parents and several of my STEM girlfriends over for lunch. percent male and 50.8

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All Things Distributed

MAY 27, 2015

It became a great success; every time when I visit the loft there is a great buzz with people getting advice from our solution architects, getting training or attending talks and demos. Visit their web pages for more details and to sign up. I hope to see you there! Entrance is on a first come, first serve basis.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For more detailed descriptions of the activities, I encourage you to visit the Spousetivities site. When you’re ready to get signed up, head on over to the registration page. These are some pretty great activities!

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 9, 2015

I don''t usually publish break/fix stuff here, but I couldn''t find ANYTHING on the Internet that helped me solve this one, and I think I''ve nailed it. I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.x, x, I am on the Rogers network in Canada. Time to call support I called Apple. So here goes.

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CTOvision

JULY 13, 2015

Why the OPM Hack Will Be a National Security Threat for Decades to Come - Gizmodo Google News on Fed (Today) - GizmodoWhy the OPM Hack Will Be a National Security Threat for Decades to ComeGizmodo“I don't think there is recovery from what was lost,” said former CIA Director Michael Hayden, in.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In my earlier post on using Docker Machine with OpenStack, I talked about combining technologies in a “provider/consumer” model. If you’re unfamiliar with Vagrant, I recommend you first read this introduction to Vagrant (after that you can dig into all the other Vagrant-tagged posts ). I was using version 0.7.0 More Details.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

To learn more about tech news and analysis visit Tech Page One. By Jodi Kohut Government Cloud Computing Professional By Jodi Kohut Government Cloud Computing Professional March is Women’s History Month. Dell sponsored this article, but the opinions are my own and don’t necessarily represent Dell’s positions or strategies. ) ?

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

In order to get us all on the same page, could you please tell us how your US Federal customers view data center consolidation and cloud computing? Keith: I agree with that observation. Kevin: Rich and Keith, thank you very much for taking the time to participate in this interview.

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Database Star

AUGUST 5, 2015

In this article, I’ll explain what formatting SQL is, and how to find the SQL Developer Format SQL options. By this, I mean that the SQL statement will execute if the syntax is correct and the formatting is terrible. Why Should I Format SQL Code? What Is SQL Formatting? We’ll discuss them in this article. Thanks!

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2015

million page views with about 2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. Digital IT is also shifting from “T” oriented support center to “I” driven value creator. Information is the processed data, and knowledge is processed information.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2015

One thing I learned as a young all source intelligence analyst was to never rely on a single source on any topic of importance. Look for the RSS icon at the bottom of the page. Since we are driven to provide our readers with the most relevant insights possible we scour the top tech sites every day.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 5, 2015

A number of people have asked me why I migrated from WordPress—which powered my blog for 9 years—to Jekyll and GitHub Pages. Now that the migration is finally complete, I can share with you the story behind the migration: why I migrated, the process I followed, and some of the tools I used. Why I Migrated.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. I have highlighted only some of the key innovations behind QuickSight in this post.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2015

In this post, I’m going to walk through this workflow (as I understand it—I’m constantly learning), with a focus toward helping those that are new to this sort of thing. If you’re new to Git and/or GitHub and haven’t yet read the earlier posts on Git and using Git with GitHub, I strongly recommend you read those first. Adding a Remote.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

I have quite a bit of information to share this time around, so buckle up and let’s get started! Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 26, 2015

Building on my earlier non-programmer’s introduction to Git , I wanted to talk a little bit about using Git with GitHub , a very popular service for hosting Git repositories. If you aren’t familiar with Git and haven’t yet read the earlier introductory post, I strongly recommend reading that post first.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 2, 2015

While it is Linux-based, RouterOS operates quite a bit differently than a lot of the other network operating systems with which I’ve worked, and so I hope that this post will help ease the learning curve a bit for others who decide to take the same path. This is one of those cases where you need to use the edit command, as I described above.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

As I wrote last week machine learning is becoming an increasingly important tool to build advanced data driven applications. To learn more, visit the AWS Mobile SDK page. Today was a big day for the Amazon Web Services teams as a whole range of new services and functionality was delivered to our customers.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2015

million page views with about 2300 blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. Digital Flavored IT helps business to build a competitive set of capability and improve business agility. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.1

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. As I wrote in the past, I believe DynamoDB is a natural choice for such needs, providing developers flexibility and minimal operational overhead without compromising scale, availability, durability, or performance.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 27, 2015

Performance rises on many fronts based on managers and leaders being on the same page: O f course, both of these groups need to buy into the high-performance culture as well and doing several things consistently. It's a philosophy that informs everything you do.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As the Washington State Point of Contact (SPOC) for the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) my team and I from the state capital, Olympia, visit first responders around Washington to inform them about and involve them with developing plans for the nationwide public safety wireless network. FirstNet and OneNet.

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