February, 2016

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Dynamic Datacenter with Bright Computing

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Katie Kennedy. The video below if from the 2016 Stanford HPC Conference. Robert Stober, the Director of Systems Engineering for Bright Computing, presents Advanced Cluster Management using Bright Cluster Manager. Stober addresses: high performance computing, bursting into the public cloud, adding big data clusters, adding OpenStack, adding "bare metal private cloud", and putting it all together.

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Data Center REIT Stocks Outperform in January While Broader Markets Struggle

Data Center Knowledge

Data center REITs provide a safe haven for investors in the face of China's slowing economy, depressed commodity pricing, and an energy sector reeling from oversupply Read More.

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What is a Digital "Big Idea"?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Do you remember this classic scene from the movie Big? Do you remember Josh sitting in a product review meeting and asking the tough question - "I don't get it. Well what's fun about that?" I love this clip because it illustrates all the complexities of developing products that are both innovative and that customers love. The Product Manager can get it all wrong even when armed.

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5 Things That A CIO Should Never Accept In The IT Department

The Accidental Successful CIO

There are some things that no IT department should ever have Image Credit: Nathan Gibbs. CIOs need to make sure that their IT department is a smoothly running machine. There are many different things that they can do in order to make sure that this happens. Hiring the right employees is a great way to start. Taking steps to keep employee moral high and ensuring that employees are motivated are both important.

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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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The technology debate is usually the wrong debate

Eric D. Brown

Windows vs Mac vs Linux. Android vs iPhone. Nikon vs Canon vs Sony. Spend any time online, with techie friends or with photographers and you’ll run undoubtedly come across arguments about which tech is better. You’ll have people calling others ‘fan boys/girls’ and in some areas you’ll see some downright nasty comments about whichever tech someone doesn’t agree with.

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Google Chrome security tips for the paranoid at heart

Tech Republic Security

If you're a Google Chrome user who loses sleep about online privacy risks, check out these tricks to making your browsing experience more secure.

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Reducing Data Center Risk Through Strategic Infrastructure and Maintenance Decisions

Data Center Knowledge

Learn about the processes that govern best practices for cleaning, airflow, flooring and asset tracking to assist in the security and longevity of IT physical assets Read More.

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Why CRM and BI Stocks Salesforce, Tableau, and Qlik all Tanked

Social, Agile and Transformation

CEOs Mr. Marc Benioff, Mr. Christian Chabot and Mr. Lars Björk Your stocks have tanked the last couple of weeks. Part of the reason is that you've over-promised your shareholders and set financial expectations too high. That was bound to happen at some point given the demands on your business to achieve hockey stick growth quarter to quarter. Your competitors in Microsoft and Oracle are.

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Mastering The Skill Of Public Speaking

The Accidental Successful CIO

Public speaking is a skill that technical leaders need to master Image Credit: Brain POP. One of the most important parts of your job is communicating with the people who are looking to you for guidance. Just exactly how to go about doing this in an effective way is a big challenge that every CIO faces every day. The great thing about living and working in the 21st Century is that we have a number of different ways to accomplish this task: email, phone calls, text messages, and making presentati

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The three roadblocks to big data success

Eric D. Brown

Anne Fisher just published a nice piece titled “ Why Big Data Isn’t Paying Off for Companies (Yet) ” where she describes research from the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA) regarding big data initiatives within organizations around the world. You can jump over to the study itself but Anne does a very good job describing the findings in her article.

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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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How to delete your OK Google Now audio search history

Tech Republic Security

If you're a Google Now power user, you might want to know that Google saves all of your audio searches. You might also want to know how to delete those searches from your account. Jack Wallen shows you how.

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Cognitio Partners Bob Flores and Bob Gourley at RSA Conference

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Bob Gourley. The 2016 RSA conference will be held February 29 - March 4, 2016 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This is the largest gathering of security professionals and vendors in the security ecosystem. Over 30,000 attendees are expected. As providers of strategic advisory services to government and industry, Cognitio's Bob Flores and Bob Gourley will be at the event seeking the latest information on approaches that work against dynamic threats.

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Three Storage Trends Shaking Up the Enterprise

Data Center Knowledge

As storage becomes a larger and larger aspect of an overall IT environment, companies are beginning to not only understand, but witness firsthand the expense of the integrated system model. Read More.

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Lessons From Marissa Mayer, Larry Fink, and the Cloud Selloff on Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

It has been an interesting week of news, especially if you observe it through the lens of digital transformation. The first interesting news item came from a letter Larry Fink, CEO of $4.6 Trillion fund Blackrock sent to CEOs of S&P 500 Companies. In the letter, he states a core issue facing many large public companies, "Many companies continue to engage in practices that may undermine their.

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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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What CIOs Can Learn From Bank of America’s Trip Into The Cloud

The Accidental Successful CIO

Bank Of America is slowly moving into the cloud Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Just imagine if you were David Rilly, chief technology officer at Bank of America. There you are, in charge of the IT infrastructure for one of the biggest banks around when all of a sudden the IT world starts to undergo yet another one of its transformations. What would you do – stand by and stick with the tried and true solution that you have in place or would you dare to change things up?

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Laptop Mandatory Reboot Management

Mick's IT Blog

Managing laptops in certain environments can be daunting. Reboots are a must every now and then, especially for monthly windows updates. With the sleep and hibernate features being enabled, the chances of a user rebooting a laptop become far less. A laptop can go weeks and even months without a reboot. Working in the legal industry, as I do, adds to the complexity of forcing reboots as you have the issue of not causing a reboot during a hearing or during a client meeting for instance.

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The Combination of Cloud & Mobile and its Grip on B2B Automation – Part 1

The Investing Edge

Mention the words “cloud computing” to anyone outside the tech industry just five years ago and chances are you’d have been met with a blank stare. Today, everyone has some level of knowledge of the cloud, even if it’s just to understand that it’s where our smartphone stores our pictures. Cloud computing has come a LONG way since its birth in 2000. While it took time to pick up steam, today the volume of computing processed in the cloud is enormous and growing rapidly.

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Tech News Roundup February 24

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Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. ‘X-Files’ climax shines alien spotlight on CRISPR gene-editing technology. Feds Extend 18F's Silicon Valley Expertise to Cities, States - Government Technology. OMB chief tries to sell appropriators on IT upgrades - FCW.com. UW to Assist With Federal Pilot Program - KOWB.

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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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The New Business Relationship Manager

Data Center Knowledge

IT departments can look to hire or promote from within a business relationship manager (BRM) who can effectively bring business requirements and goals back to the IT department for prioritization and delivery. Read More.

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Four Critical Product Management Responsibilities in Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last year I posted on 20 bad behaviors of agile product owners and separately on how to handle difficult product owners. The product owner and management roles may be the most difficult ones in the organization when facing the need to transform, develop multi-mode customer experiences, leverage new technologies, match capabilities against growing customer expectations, and insure against.

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The Problem That CIOs Have With Windows Software

The Accidental Successful CIO

Windows software can be a gateway for bad people to gain access to your company Image Credit: Alexander Popov. How much Microsoft windows software is being used at your company? If you are like most of us, the answer to this question is “a lot” Microsoft not only does a very good job with most of their software (think Office), but they have also been doing it for a long time – they are a key part of the importance of information technology at most firms.

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MDT Build Reporting Tool

Mick's IT Blog

I have been wishing for a reporting system to which MDT would automatically email IT staff when a build is finished. I began investigating how to access MDT using PowerShell and found this great resource. I used their information and function to expand the process into a full fledged reporting tool. This tool will email the appropriate IT staff when a build successfully completes, fails, unknown error, or continues running over a designated time frame.

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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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Cancer, cloud and privacy shield

Cloud Musings

(Originally published in Dell PowerMore) For more than 10 years, the rapid rise of cloud computing has enabled an even more rapid application of cloud to genomic medicine. In fact, since the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) lifted a 2007 ban on uploading their genomic data into cloud storage, the explosion in cloud use has accelerated. Some of the most impressive accomplishments in this field have included the: • Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project, that brings together

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The Framework for Resilient Cybersecurity Webinar with Verisign

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Katie Kennedy. Join Verisign for their webinar on the " Framework for Resilient Cybersecurity ". Date : Thursday, February 25, 2016. Time : 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. Duration : 1 hour. Register Here. . Abstract : Cyberattacks are a threat to businesses worldwide, and they are getting larger and more sophisticated. The industry’s approach to protecting against these threats must change fundamentally to stay ahead of this growing threat.

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The Hybrid Cloud: Your Cloud, Your Way

Data Center Knowledge

Every organization’s cloud is a unique reflection of its business strategies, priorities and needs; and this is why there is a great variation in how companies go about implementing their own specific clouds. Read More.

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Skyport eases the pain of deploying and securing remote servers

Network World

Skyport does one thing, and it does it well. Skyport offers SkySecure Server, a remotely deployable platform for Windows and/or Linux virtual machines in a fortress-like environment. You can rent one for $2,500 per month, or less. Skyport SkySecure Servers solve a major pain point for IT execs looking for control over their remote servers. Skyport provides a hardened server that can be safely deployed to off-premises locations with little to no pre-configuration headaches.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Talking Containers, Virtualization, and Interop

Scott Lowe

Last year, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at Interop for the very first time. (I did some liveblogging while I was there; here’s a list of the liveblogs published from last year’s Interop.) Fortunately, I was invited back again this year (very excited about that!), and as a returning speaker I recently had the opportunity to do a podcast with Technology Advice about SDN, virtualization, containers, and Interop.

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PowerShell MSI Uninstaller By Application Name

Mick's IT Blog

Here is a function that will uninstall an MSI installed application by the name of the app. You do not need to input the entire name either. For instance, say you are uninstalling all previous versions of Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is always labeled Adobe Reader X, Adobe Reader XI, and so forth. This script allows you to do this without having to find out every version that is installed throughout a network and then enter an uninstaller line for each version.

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Hybrid Cloud Versus Hybrid IT: What’s the Hype?

Cloud Musings

(Originally posted on Point B and Beyond ) Once again, the boardroom is in a bitter battle over what edict its members will now levy on their hapless IT organization. On one hand, hybrid cloud is all the rage. Adopting this option promises all the cost savings of public cloud with the security and comfort of private cloud. This environment would not only check the box for meeting the cloud computing mandate, but also position the organization as innovative and industry-leading.

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Federal Agencies Now Have Access to “Fast Start” Cybersecurity Assessments Via Pre-Competed GWAC

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Katie Kennedy. Government agencies face continuing challenges in enhancing service to citizens and critical functions of support to the economy, law enforcement and national security. And now every agency also faces new challenges in serving those missions in an age of cyber conflict. Organizations and even other nations have demonstrated an unrelenting focus on their attempts to gain unauthorized access to government systems.

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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.