CTOvision
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'By Bob Gourley No doubt you have a lot on your mind right now. But there is a video you need to stop and watch right away. This could have an impact on just about any analysis you are doing, especially if you are analyzing the net assessment of our military vs others. It may also impact assessments about the future of humanity, perhaps not in a good way, unfortunately.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 16, 2013
'Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage.
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SPF13
OCTOBER 6, 2013
'I’ve recently been getting into go. I’ve built a few packages and libraries. For this post, let’s explore the ‘gofmt’ or ‘go fmt’ tool further. Go ships with a basic set of tools common to most languages and development environments. Like most things with go, the tools are simple in design, but powerful in function. go build – compile the code. go install – install (and build) a package. go get – download and install packages including dependencies. go
CIO Musings
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'We all have to deal with it. We all loathe it. We all complain about it. We all get through it. We are talking about the budget cycle. How many of us actually use it to our advantage? Fiscal years fall on different boundaries for different organizations. Budget approaches vary widely and cost-plus, to zero-based and others. I have worked in places where the budget never changed from year to year and I have worked in places where every year we prepared 5%, 10% and 15% cut scenarios for the consi
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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.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'If Self-Service BI is the practice, then part of the goal should be to become a Data Driven Organization? The Economist completed some key research on data driven organizations, Eleven percent of respondents state that, in comparison to peers, their organization makes “substantially” better use of data. But top-performing companies comprise more than a third of this group, demonstrating the. organizational change data scientist executive presentations enterprise 2.
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Earlier in March I penned a blog titled A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies and observed the two opposing cloud strategies of VMware vs. AWS. VMware, with its strength in the enterprise, building presence in the public cloud -- and AWS with de facto dominance in the public cloud, working inroads into the enterprise. In my closing paragraph I noted These will be extraordinary strategies to observe over time.
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Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Could barges stacked with containers and spotted in San Francisco and Portland, ME waterways be the Google floating data center projects? Or is it another practical joke from the Googlers? Data Center Knowledge examines the mystery.
SPF13
OCTOBER 6, 2013
'I’ve recently been getting into go. I’ve built a few packages and libraries. For this post, let’s explore the ‘gofmt’ or ‘go fmt’ tool further. Go ships with a basic set of tools common to most languages and development environments. Like most things with go, the tools are simple in design, but powerful in function. go build – compile the code. go install – install (and build) a package. go get – download and install packages including dependencies. go
CIO Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'I have always been fascinated by phones. My dad worked for the phone company, so some of my earliest memories are of him going to work with his tool belt and tester set hanging from it. Needle nose pliers, punch down tools and four conductor low voltage cable were staples in my house. Fast forward 40 years, and I am still fascinated by phones. Smartphones to be exact.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 2, 2013
'Risk management is something that you do every day Image Credit. How much time every day do you spend thinking about risk? No matter what your answer was, I’m willing to bet that considering the importance of information technology you are not spending enough time on this important subject. Every person who has the CIO job knows that there are risks all around us each and every day.
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Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'I just finished reading Big Data for Small and Medium Businesses on IBM’s Forward View. In the article, IBM VP Paul Zikopoulos talks about big data and its importance to the small and medium business today. Paul describes big data thusly: I want to start out by noting that big data isn’t only about the volume of data, it’s about bringing data together that hasn’t been correlated in the past.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 18, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This list first appeared on our site Analyst One. -bg. In March 2011 Businessweek quoted Cloudera’s Mike Olson describing a “Cambrian explosion” of corporate analytical technology. Mike really nailed it with that one. With the continuous development of advanced infrastructure based around Apache Hadoop there has been an incredible amount of innovation around enterprise “Big Data” technologies, including in the analytical tool sp
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'Will Iceland become a growth market for data centers? In this special report we examine Iceland''s advantages and challenges as a data center destination, and provide an inside look at the power resources that are central to its ambitions.
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 15, 2013
'New Entrant VMware Will Raise Awareness If you look at Gartner Research''s 2013 Hype Cycle for IT Infrastructure and Outsourcing Services , you''ll find Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVDs) at the very peak of hype this year, outdistancing all other technologies. For years HVDs were considered a niche technology, where an outsourcing provider (typically a Managed Service Provider or MSP) delivers virtualized desktops from an external source.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Put between fifty and one hundred CIOs in a room, put an agenda together on the latest topics, and let them speak about their wins, expertise, and losses. That''s the basic format of today''s CIO summit plus or minus the pitches, sponsored talks, or vendor booths. T''is the season to attend a session and there are many to choose from. I myself only have time to attend a couple and you can learn.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 16, 2013
'The Healthcare.gov web site is now almost open…. As CIOs we can always be learning about the importance of information technology by watching what other IT organizations are doing. A fantastic opportunity has just shown up in the U.S. As part of the Obamacare overhaul of how healthcare is provided to U.S. citizens, a new web site has been set up to allow every U.S. citizen an opportunity to register for healthcare insurance coverage.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'There has been a lot of press the last few days about a paper The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? , published by the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology. Almost all the coverage has been on the headline figure that 47% of US employment is at risk. However the paper provides many more interesting insights when you examine the detail.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 17, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Federal Computer Weekly, Government Computing News and SoftwareAG have crafted an event I believe every enterprise technologist in government should be tracking. It is the 21 November 2013 Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit , which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington. If you work in IT security, design, or strategy, or if you are responsible for ensuring technology aligns with business/mission objectives, you will want to be at this event.
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Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 1, 2013
'The acquisition of SoftLayer by IBM was one of the most noteworthy deals of the last year. SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby provides an update on life as an IBMer. "“IBM is hyperfocused on cloud,” says Crosby.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'One of the areas that is receiving a lot of interest from friends and clients is the idea of using the open cloud for projects. There are many misconceptions of the open cloud. For one, people hear the word “open” and immediately think it’s not secure, which is as far from the truth as it can be. Open in this context is similar to the ‘open’ in open source software in that the approach allows multiple vendors and developers to build systems to a particular standard while having the abilit
Fountainhead
OCTOBER 15, 2013
'By now you may have heard of a new entrant into the Desktop-as-a-Service market, with VMware buying Desktone. While I applaud the move that will help mature the market , I have to add some sobriety to their party atmosphere. Technology alone does not sell product - especially where the Managed Service Provider (MSP) channel is involved. Putting it Bluntly - Support the Business!
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'Disruptions can quickly affect your company’s bottom line… Image Credit. Life is full of changes and that is one of the things that makes having the CIO job both so exciting and so challenging. As we spend our time looking inside of our company for ways to make it both more competitive and more efficient, the outside world continues to change at a rapid pace.
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.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Today I was interviewed on ABC Radio National’s ByDesign program on how our expectations of beauty are increasing. You can listen to the interview here. At one point the conversation shifted to how companies could generate the innovation that will meet the soaring expectations of users. Notably through the work of MIT’s Eric von Hippel , companies have grown to recognize the critical importance of co-creation in innovation, and in particular the role of ‘lead users’ Lead
CTOvision
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Our Department of Defense (DoD) focused senior analyst Chris Scott has previously provided succinct summaries of the DISA industry day (see DISA Industry Day: Times have changed ). Her reporting extracts information we hope is of use to any technology vendor or systems integrator seeking to serve the DoD or Intelligence Community.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'The NSA''s massive data center in Utah has been plagued by electrical problems that have delayed the opening of the facility. The Wall Street Journal reports that there have been 10 incidents of arc flash "meltdowns" that have damaged equipment.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 6, 2013
'Not Solving Every Problem | The Enterprising CIO. Quote : Problems exist so that they can be solved. That’s the basis for succeeding as an enterprising CIO. Though it seems counterintuitive to think that problems should be sought out and embraced, that’s exactly what needs to happen in order to move the enterprise forward. It is part of the credo of moving from old to new and from static to fluid.
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Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 25, 2013
'Industry''s transition from custom made, one-of-a-kind IT infrastructures to the standardize, commodity based cloud paradigm is well on it''s way. IBM''s recent " Under Cloud Cover " study highlights the rapidly of this global transformation: "According to our global study of more than 800 cloud decision makers and. users, business leaders of all stripes – Finance, Sales & Marketing, Product.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'Xerox Screwed Up And People Went Hungry Image Credit. I’m hoping that you are not familiar with the U.S. food stamp program. This is a government funded program that provides people who are living below the poverty line with money that can only be spent on food. Clearly it’s a critical program that demonstrates the importance of information technology and the people who are enrolled in it desperately need it.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'After my recent opening keynote at the SAP Australia User Group Summit on Leadership in Enterprise Technology , I did a video interview for Inside SAP magazine, shown below. The full transcript of the interview is available on our new publication CIO of the Future. In response to a question on the impact of technology on organizational culture I said: What is more important today than ever before, is not just technology as the enabler, but how technology relates to the humanity of the organizat
CTOvision
OCTOBER 10, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Cyber practitioners in the federal sector have always needed better ways to collaborate and coordinate and have always been on the lookout for new ways to address challenges. But this year it is especially important. Attacks are up, funds to modernize have been zeroed out, staff has been reduced and now on top of that the shutdown has made things even harder.
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