May, 2013

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Tech Trends To Watch In May 2013 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'The following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being.

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, May 13, 2013. A Tour of Switchs SuperNAP. I have to admit that I was prepared to be underwhelmed when I toured the Switch SuperNap in Las Vegas. After all, how impressive can a co-location facility be? Just slab, cooling, ping, pipe and power.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 3 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 26, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 3. Employee First Amendment Protection & Employer Discipline.

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5 Secrets A CIO Needs To Know In Order To Create A Social Media Plan

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to find social media secrets. Image Credit. Darn that social media stuff! Just when you thought that the job of being a CIO couldn’t get any tougher , along comes this whole new way for the world to communicate. The arrival of social media has just boosted the importance of information technology. What makes things even tougher is that the rest of the company is waiting for you to tell them what the rules for using social media at work is….

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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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Transforming to a Big Data Organization

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. Thursday, May 16, 2013. Transforming to a Big Data Organization.

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We are on track for 518% global economic growth this half-century

Trends in the Living Networks

'Yesterday I gave an executive briefing to a senior team tasked with generating major new revenue opportunities for their organization. My presentation delved into the drivers of change in economic structure, individual and societal behaviours, the shape of cities, the role of government, and the implications for the elderly of demographic change. However to kick off I wanted to put the group into a bigger mental frame than they would usually think in, so I ran through the following chart: This

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Financing News: PerspecSys and the Cloud Data Security Opportunity

The Investing Edge

'Last week PerspecSys announced a new financing round that we participated in, alongside Paladin and Intel. We are very excited to be working with the team and our co-investors, and see tremendous potential for this company. Over the last 12 to 18 months, we have witnessed an almost seismic shift in the posture of large enterprise customers toward cloud-based applications.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 26, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2. Internet Availability.

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Why BYOD Spells DOOM For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

'BYOD just might be a trap that has been set to snare a CIO Image Credit. Have you heard about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) craze that is sweeping companies worldwide? Employees have invested so much money along with time and effort into customizing their smartphones, tablets, etc. that they want to bring them to work and use them to do work. This is opening the door to a whole new world of problems for the person who has the CIO job….

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What Data Scientists Can Learn From Moneyball

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. Wednesday, May 08, 2013. What Data Scientists Can Learn From Moneyball.

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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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Economic structural change is NOT industry compositional change

Trends in the Living Networks

'I am currently preparing a number of keynotes for senior business audiences over coming weeks. In preliminary conversations with one group I encountered a very common and deeply misleading view of how business is changing today. We engaged in discussions on “economic structural change”, that were in fact only about changes in industry composition.

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Would you like the truth about the NSA? Watch this one minute.

CTOvision

'Everyone in the national security establishment knows of NSA's Deputy Director, John C Inglis. He is without a doubt one of the most professional, competent, courageous leaders in the federal government. Like the vast.

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Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture

Scott Lowe

'This blog post kicks off a new series of posts describing my journey to become more knowledgeable about the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is, in my opinion, an awesome platform, but there hasn’t been a great deal of information shared about the product, how it works, how you configure it, etc. That’s something I’m going to try to address in this series of posts.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 1 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 12, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 1. Note: I recently completed a class for my Masters degree on personnel management which required a paper.

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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 Google Can Teach CIOs About Finding Inner Peace (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Inner peace is what all CIOs are really looking for. So CIO, what is your life like these days? Are you dealing with long hours at work, demanding peers and customers? An IT department who doesn’t want to talk to you let alone do what you need them to do? Unfortunately all of these things seem to be part of the modern definition of information technology.

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DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!) - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!). By Werner Vogels on 15 May 2013 06:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We love getting feedback so we can deliver the improvements and new features that really matter to our customers. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously.

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Can cyber-crime result in global financial systemic risk?

Trends in the Living Networks

'On Saturday I was interviewed on SBS World News about the ATM heist that netted $45 million from 40,000 withdrawals over 26 countries. The video of the TV news segment (start at 09:05) is available online until 19 May. It was an extremely sophisticated attack, involving not just hacking credit card payment processors and banks, but also eliminating the limits on prepaid debit cards before creating thousands of copies.

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DOD confirms China's cyberwar strategy, White House unveils open.

CTOvision

'DoD Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Department of Labor website hack highlights advanced attack trends ? The recent attack at the Department of Labor is bringing to the forefront advanced tactics and.

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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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Potential Fix for Kerberos, SSH, LDAP, and Active Directory Issue

Scott Lowe

'I had a reader contact me with a question on using Kerberos and LDAP for authentication into Active Directory, based on Active Directory integration work I did many years ago. I was unable to help him, but he did find the solution to the problem, and I wanted to share it here in case it might help others. The issue was that he was experiencing a problem using native Kerberos authentication against Active Directory with SSH.

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Smartphones & Fitness Apps - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Smartphones & Fitness Apps. Chesterfield County VA has a real commitment to the health and well being of our employees.

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CIO’s Need To Know How To Attract The Best IT Talent

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to attract (and keep) the best IT talent Image Credit. Who is responsible for making sure that your IT department has enough IT workers do everything that is expected of it? Lots of CIOs would like to think that given the importance of information technology, this task is something that the Human Resources (HR) department needs to take care of.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Join Me at the Gartner IT.

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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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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Future Creative Drinks in Sydney on 31 May – hope to see you there!

Trends in the Living Networks

'A good while ago now I used to run Party Alert Network, a series of events, drinks, and parties that were open to all. In the spirit of bringing together interesting people I am organizing a drinks on 31 May in Sydney, with the theme of Future Creative, since I expect pretty much all of the people there to match that description. Friday 31 May, 6-9pm.

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A guide to Rooting your Android phone - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Root One of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should ?root.? Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs ?superuser? access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the.

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Very Early Thoughts about EMC ViPR

Scott Lowe

'EMC announced ViPR today, the culmination of the not-so-secret Project Bourne and its lesser-known predecessor, Project Orion. Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed.

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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Itâ??s been a few months since I last wrote about Amazon Redshift and I thought Iâ??d update you on some of the things we are hearing from customers.

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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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Mick's IT Blogs: Porting NMEA Data to the iPhone and iPad

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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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Guest Blog: Sequestration and.

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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The future of analogue people in a digital world

Trends in the Living Networks

'I recently gave the keynote at Bridge Point Forum on Future Directions in the Digital Age , the title riffing off the conference’s theme of The Rise of the Digital Age. I opened by making the critical point that, while the digital world is rising around us at an extraordinary pace, humans are completely analogue. Nothing about humans is digital.

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Invincea: An update for the enterprise technology professional.

CTOvision

'For disclosure: I am on the Invincea advisory board. I'm incredibly proud of to be associated with those guys and I'm hoping my pleasure with them comes through in this post. Invincea delivers an enterprise grade breach.

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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.