December, 2012

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DoD Conference Guidance ? The Definition of Insanity - CTOvision

CTOvision

'When a handful of people from GSA became famous for waste and fraud in a lavish conference in Las Vegas, DoD was forced to peer inside a can of worms. As we grappled with providing support to two simultaneous war.

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What Is Big Data? The Real Challenges Beyond Volume, Velocity.

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, December 11, 2012. What Is Big Data? The Real Challenges Beyond Volume, Velocity and Variety.

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Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Creating a better world through apps: the power of mobile in catalyzing networks for good

Trends in the Living Networks

I was recently invited to attend the presentations and awards for the Vodafone App Aid competition and to interview Guy Kawasaki, who was one of the event’s judges. App Aid selected 10 charities who saw the need for a mobile app. App developers signed up for teams that developed apps from scratch in 48 hours for each of the charities. The winning teams received prizes to help them complete and launch their apps.

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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 Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. I have since returned and am now in New York City enjoying a few days of winding down the last activities of the year before spending the holidays here with family.

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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Giveaway

Scott Lowe

'It’s no secret that I’ve been spending time over the last few months working with a number of open source technologies like KVM, Open vSwitch (OVS), and libvirt, all building up to a focus on how these pieces fit together as part of OpenStack. To help strengthen my OpenStack skills, I picked up a copy (actually my wife Crystal bought me a copy) of Kevin Jackson’s OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook , a book that I’ve been working my way through.

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Big Data, Agile, CIO - 2012 in Review

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Big Data, Agile, CIO - 2012 in Review.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: GovTech Innovator: Kevin.

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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IT And Business: How Risky Is Too Risky? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'In the end, it takes both the business and IT to be successful… Image Credit. In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology.

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My Best Christmas Present ? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My Best Christmas Present â?? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it.

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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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How to make friends with and influence Sydney’s entrepreneurial and self-employed community

Trends in the Living Networks

This year we celebrate the 14th annual Entrepreneurs and Self-Employed Xmas Party in Sydney. As every year, the intention is to provide an opportunity for entrepreneurs and self-employed people, primarily from the technology and creative sectors, to celebrate the end of a great year with their peers. While corporate employees have someone to put on their Christmas party for them, those making it happen for themselves don’t have that luxury.

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Thetus Savanna: Powerful but easy to learn analytic tools - CTOvision

CTOvision

'thetus Savanna by Thetus is a powerful suite of tools that let you work through the lifecycle of analytical issues, including some very complex, knotty problems.

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Why a CLI for Dropbox on Mac OS X

Scott Lowe

'I was thinking about a command-line interface (CLI) for Dropbox , and how I personally would take advantage of such a feature. So, after failing to find any indication that the Mac OS X Dropbox client contained a CLI, tonight on Twitter I made this comment : Too bad the #Mac version of @Dropbox doesn’t have a CLI. Shortly thereafter, I received this response : @scott_lowe @Dropbox What would you do with it if you did?

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Mick's IT Blogs: Multiple Naming Schemas in the customsettings.ini file

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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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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IT And Business: Where Is All That IT Money Going? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'In the end, it takes both the business and IT to be successful… Image Credit. In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology.

Strategy 100
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Infographic: ClickFox Finds Shoppers Get Better Customer Service Online

The Investing Edge

'Last week Ascent portfolio company ClickFox published the below infographic, which shows two major trends at work simultaneously: how Big Data insights can illuminate consumer behavior and how retail is evolving from bricks-and-mortar to multi-channel commerce, which Ascent calls “More clicks, less bricks.” ClickFox leveraged more than 500 million consumer behaviors across their customer base to reveal that shoppers are abandoning storefronts for better service online.

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An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life." The challenge has two restrictions: only one album per year and there can be no repeats of artists.

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Hold The Date: 30 Jan Cloudera is sponsoring a federal Big Data.

CTOvision

'Friends at Cloudera are lead sponsors and coordinators of a new Big Data Forum focused on Apache Hadoop. The first, which will be held 30 January 2013 in Columbia Maryland, will be focused on lessons learned of use to.

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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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Presentation from Midwest Regional VMUG

Scott Lowe

'Today I had the opportunity to speak at the Midwest Regional/Kansas City VMUG User Conference in Overland Park, KS. Below is the presentation I delivered, as hosted by SpeakerDeck. If you’d like a PDF version of the deck for direct download, it is available here. As always, courteous comments are both welcomed and encouraged! Feel free to speak up below.

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Where's Waldo? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Where’s Waldo? by Brian Katz on December 12, 2012 · 5 comments. I had some very spirited conversations today due to the post this morning about herding kangaroos. The post was basically about the ever-changing business of EMM and how IT has ended up where it currently is. For most people that means they’ve ended up with MDM as a product.

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Lessons That CIOs Can Learn From The Energy Business (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Energy Biz CIOs know how to get to where they want to go to… Image Credit. As a CIO you are going to want to learn from what other CIOs are doing. What this means is that you are going to have to keep your eyes open and look around at different industries to find CIOs who are both facing and solving challenges that you may one day have to face yourself.

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Why do you need a degree if you are already successful in IT?

Virtualized Greek

'I had an interesting conversation with a colleague about the value of a college degree in the IT workforce. He has achieved an impressive level of his success in his career without a degree. I can relate. I broke into the IT field in the late 90’s when a combination of the Internet bubble and Y2K projects soaked up as much IT talent as the market could provide.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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The CIO’s Tough Choice: Be Proactive or Reactive, and When?

Future of CIO

CIOs' proactive in trying new things shall not get confused with spontaneity or do things without a plan. Organizations large or small on the journey to digital transformation, IT plays a critical role as an enabler to drive changes. From IT leadership perspective, why are some CIOs reactive, rather than proactive in trying new technologies? Are they just reluctant to change a working system, or are they not empowered enough?

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Ready to work on something that matters? See NGA Senior.

CTOvision

'A friend at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency mentioned that they have a search underway for a critically important new position on their leadership team. Details are at the USAjobs.com job listing and are also.

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Update on Markdown and BoxCryptor on iOS - Scott Lowe

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Donkeys, Horses and Zebras, Oh my! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Donkeys, Horses and Zebras, Oh my! by Brian Katz on December 19, 2012 · 0 comments. In the last week there have been a bunch of posts talking about mobile and whether it is here yet and if it is really needed in work. On the one side you have the Editor/Publisher/blogger, Henry Blodget , who shows the cubicle photo with desktops and laptops and big screen monitors (to be fair it is a newsroom) who complains that Mobile screens are t

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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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Lessons from the Road

Nutanix

I’d like to start my first blog post with a small introduction. I come from a family of pilots and teachers. We enjoy technology and travel, and are naturally comfortable speaking to an audience.

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Is VMware headed the slow painful death of Novell

Virtualized Greek

'If you’ve spent any time reading my blog you know I’m a big fan of VMware’s virtualization platform and the entire management suite vSphere/vCloud and vETC. I believe it is by far the best technical solution for x86 virtualization. Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) is a compelling feature and a huge value on its own. The ability for vCenter to automatically adjust workloads across server clusters is unparalleled.

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The CIO’s Five Leadership Traits

Future of CIO

Being Authentic is Influential. Like any other senior executives, CIOs have varies of personalities and unique leadership strength, no matter you are character-based leader or charismatic executive ; a transformational strategist or a transactional manager, effective CIOs should share some common leadership traits, these traits of CIOs have a significant effect on culture, mood, motivation, aggressiveness, innovation, helpfulness, business mindset, creativity, tech depth, skills, emerging tech u

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A week with the Nexus 4 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'After numerous disappointments attempting to order the Nexus 4 (on the launch day I was one of the many ready and waiting and unable to get my order processed, on the next launch day it took me hours to finally get an.

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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.