CTOvision
JANUARY 31, 2016
Bob Gourley. One of CTOvision's features is our curated list of the most relevant events of interest to enterprise technologists (see our Technology Events Calendar. This carefully selected list contains events we believe to be of high interest to our readers (many are events we will be at ourselves). With this post we would like to ask your assistance in pointing us to events of interest.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 11, 2016
The other common approach to extending mobile access comes from the enterprise storage players. For these vendors, security, compliance and control are second nature. Read More.
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Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 28, 2016
Over my career, I’ve hired over 50 direct reports and been involved in the hiring process for over 150 other people. For the most part, all of these hires ended up being good people and great employees. Sure, there were a couple bad hires in there but I’d like to think my track record is pretty good mostly because I approached each interview as a conversation rather than a list of questions.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 27, 2016
Twitter has a problem on their hands and they think that they need a Chief Safety Officer Image Credit: Twitter. As more and more companies create online communities for our customers to interact with us and each other in, CIOs are starting to see a need for a new type of employee. In any online community, there are a lot of things that can happen. I can’t quite explain why some people behave like they do, but the anonymity of being online and not having to confront people face-to-face see
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.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 24, 2016
I am now one year into my third CIO role where digital transformation was a top priority. It's hard enough to jump into an organization as a new CIO and make an impact in year one and much harder to either lead or be a team member in a transformation program. Bu that's exactly what I've been tasked to do, and my last several posts come from insights across all three organizations.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
JANUARY 26, 2016
Security and privacy debates are highly nuanced, allowing for much interpretation, balancing acts and differences of opinion. For that reason, I try and be tolerant of a wide range of views on the subject. Every so often, though, some executive says something so divorced from logic and reality that silence is not an option. Enter AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and his attack on Apple's encryption efforts.
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Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 26, 2016
To help avoid future power balance issues, engineers need to understand the circuit capacities of their data centers and design rack power loads to fall within the de-rated power capacities. Read More.
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 20, 2016
Every so often I run across a story that leaves me in awe. A story out of Scotland about a photography who has spent years trying to make the ‘perfect’ picture is one of those stories. In “ A Perfect Photo of a Kingfisher, 720K Pictures in the Making “, the story of Alan McFadyen’s attempt to capture the ‘perfect’ photo of a kingfisher diving a mirror-like water surface is described.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 20, 2016
Even gold mines need an IT infrastructure Image Credit: Nicolas Emmanuel-Emile. As the person with the CIO job, you have a challenging job. It is your responsibility to understand that importance of information technology and to keep watch over your IT department as it works to service the rest of the company. If there is an issue, then you deal with it.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 10, 2016
You are not going to transform overnight by developing a strategy in PowerPoint and communicating a master plan. You're going to have to take baby steps to get there. I'm showing a memorable scene from a classic movie. Bob's got issues, and psych Leo Marvin introduces him to the baby step framework. Baby steps to the door, out the office and into the elevator for the very first time.
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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.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
JANUARY 12, 2016
Small businesses that use Kronos workforce-management software will soon be able to tap familiar Google tools in their HR efforts thanks to a new integration project now under way. Kronos and Google have teamed up to integrate Google Apps for Work with the Kronos Workforce Ready cloud suite for small and midsize businesses, Kronos announced Tuesday, giving SMBs new ability to engage office employees and remote workers via familiar Google Apps and mobile devices.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The article below was produced by Hosting Facts. The total number of websites is expected to exceed 1 billion in the coming year. At the time of this writing, the number was estimated at around 970,864,745, and increasing by about 2 websites per second (Source: [link] /). According to Internet research company Netcraft , as of this past spring there were around 177 million active websites among the hundreds of millions of existing hostnames.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 26, 2016
After a less-than-stellar performance in second half of 2015, the service provider's stock has seen a big drop so far this year, making it a more attractive acquisition target Read More.
Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 29, 2016
NOTE: I used Sapien's PowerShell Studio to write this script that significantly simplified the process! During the build process, I execute the Dell Command Update to make sure the latest drivers and BIOS version are installed. I use the script below so that it can disable the BIOS password and execute the dcu-cli.exe in either a 32-bit or 64-bit system.
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 13, 2016
CIOs know that they need to be strategic, but where is the time? Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. Pick up any IT trade journal and you’ll probably find an article that is telling CIOs that because of the importance of information technology they need to get a seat at the company’s planning table. In order to do this, they need to become more strategic.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 5, 2016
At the end of last year, I asked a fundamentally simple question that's difficult to answer, Should You Try Calculating ROI on Digital Transformation. My answer is yes, but the question is when, to what level of investment, and to what extent. It's a difficult issue for those driving transformation because the first questions normally asked by seasoned business executives are around costs and.
The Investing Edge
JANUARY 25, 2016
We’d like to recognize the many successes and accomplishments our portfolio companies achieved in 2015. From impressive rounds of funding to key acquisitions, these companies continue to be leaders in their sectors. While we won’t attempt to capture them all, below are some representative highlights: CloudLock , a leading cloud cybersecurity and CASB provider, had a rewarding year filled with impressive rankings and revenue growth.
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2016
Bob Gourley. As savvy, informed technology professionals you possess something that could be of a huge help to research underway at Carnegie Mellon's Human Computer Interaction Institute. They are developing what looks to be a very interesting approach to automated analysis to some types of cyber threat intelligence. You have the knowledge that can ensure their research stays as focused as possible on what matters most.
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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.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 21, 2016
Welcome to the digital era. Is your data center keeping up? Find out what you can do to create better resource, environmental, and data center controls to evolve into a digital state! Read More.
Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 28, 2016
NOTE: I used Sapien's PowerStudio to write this script that significantly simplified the process! I have wrestled with the issue of encrypting a system using Bitlocker during a build. The issue I have had is that not all of the process can be automated. The steps of turning on the TPM, and activating it can be automated. The portion where the TPM is cleared is a forced, manual process.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 6, 2016
Software Defined Networking is going to change everything for CIOs Image Credit: Cisco. Guess what CIO: there is a revolution that is just starting in the world of computer networking. Sure, you know about the importance of information technology but are you going to be ready for this? For the longest time, we’ve all been building our networks in pretty much the same way: we go to a big equipment vendor such as Cisco, Juniper, HP, IBM, etc. and buy a bunch of boxes.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 1, 2016
In case you missed my end of year countdown, here is the top 5 posts of 2015 on Social, Agile, and Transformation. You can review the longer list and a full year recap on my last post, 2015 Digital Transformation Formula := Agile + DevOps + Data Science = Culture Changes. Happy 2016 to all my readers. More to come this year on all these topics and maybe a couple of more!
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.
Cloud Musings
JANUARY 4, 2016
According to a study, 82 percent of federal IT professional respondents reported that they were using the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) cybersecurity framework to improve their security stance. The survey also demonstrated that the document is being used as a stepping stone to a more secure government. When I first read this, my immediate reaction was a resounding, “So what!
CTOvision
JANUARY 28, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation has released the largest study of its kind on corporate cybersecurity, the result of the study is: The State of Cyber Security Report. The study was under written by Ballard Spahr. The report highlights cybersecurity issues for more than 1,000 corporate lawyers at 887 organizations worldwide.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 21, 2016
Because of the centralized management capabilities of hyperconvergence, IT can manage and operate activities at remote sites via centralized management, making data backups, transfers and recovery simple. Read More.
Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 25, 2016
This error is very annoying when running through a build. I Googled and found this fix to it by Kyle Beckman. The trick is delaying the LiteTouch.wsf from trying to execute the next task before network connectivity is available. Kyle's fix is putting a simple timed delay in the LiteTouch.wsf. I decided to enhance this fix by using PowerShell. Instead of having to guess at how long to wait, why not use the Test-Connection commandlet and delay the script until connectivity is available?
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
Welcome to Technology Short Take #60. As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy! Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 6, 2016
In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS
Future of CIO
JANUARY 12, 2016
Digital is about outside-in, customer centricity. Organizations large or small are on the journey to digital transformation, there are different theories of organizational structure evolution, continuous brainstorming about the concept of digital management methodology or tools, and the format of future of the organization. Ultimately, what's the digital management style to run a highly effective business and build a Digital Master ?
CTOvision
JANUARY 27, 2016
Katie Kennedy. Friday, January 22, Bright Computing announced their Bright Cluster Manager 7.2. After their announcement, they posted the video below, where Bright Computing’s Mark Sargeant talks about the functionality that has been added to this latest product release. In the video , Mark looks at each of our solution areas in turn, highlighting the key enhancements in Bright 7.2 for HPC, Big Data, and OpenStack.
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