June, 2013

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Author of Microsoft Business Intelligence End-user Tools Provides.

CTOvision

'Editor's note: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen is the author of Microsoft Business Tools, and is well positioned to provide context on ways users can better leverage these tools. -bg.

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Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang

SPF13

'Nitro. Quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. Overview. Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing A/B against different drafts of functions or different functions. Implementing Nitro. Using Nitro is simple. First use go get to install the latest version of the library. $ go get github.com/spf13/nitro.

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Say Goodbye To The Old CIO and Hello To The New CIO

The Accidental Successful CIO

'It’s time for the technology CIO to leave the building… Image Credit. I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but it turns out that it’s time for all of the old school CIOs to get up and get out. I’m talking about those CIOs who are in love with technology for technology’s sake. Yep, their time is now officially up and they need to gather their things and get out.

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The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Data's Promise

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. Monday, June 17, 2013. The Internet of Things Will Deliver Big Datas Promise.

Big Data 167
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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Keynote slides: Crowds and the future of creativity and innovation

Trends in the Living Networks

'Earlier this month I gave the opening keynote at Crowdsourcing Week on Connecting the Crowd: The Future of Creativity and Innovation. Here are the slides for my keynote. As always, be aware that my slides are intended as visual support to my presentation, and are not designed to be meaningful on their own. However they may still be useful or of interest to those who did not attend the keynote.

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Fountainhead: Differentiate or Die: Why MSPs and Hosters Need to.

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Differentiate or Die: Why MSPs and Hosters Need to Change their Game. I admit, I’ve borrowed the title from an excellent presentation given by Dr. Joseph Williams, Managing Director, Microsoft WW SaaS Channel.

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Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang

SPF13

'Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing A/B against different drafts of functions or different functions. Building on the standard pprof library, Nitro provides a very high level view of your application performance to help identify areas to investigate further. It also provides an easy metric to compare as you revise and improve each part of your application.

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Big Data Means Big Headaches For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Too much data is enough to make any CIO’s head hurt. Image Credit. One of the things that makes having the CIO job different today from how it was in the past, besides the growing awareness of the importance of information technology, is the arrival of so-called “big data” We’re talking about terabytes or even petabytes of data and all of the headaches that come along with it.

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Big Data: Love the Mission, Hate the Moniker

The Investing Edge

'I enjoyed speaking on a big data panel at the E2 Conference on Wednesday in Boston, but the more I participate in these events, the more I agree that “big data” is a silly marketing term , a meaningless catch-all that provides answers to nothing. Perhaps it is needed to make a distinction from traditional data analytics – as people have formed their own perceptions of what that means – but there are a lot of misconceptions about what big data can provide, and how it can provide it.

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Crowdsourcing and building models for sharing value from intellectual property creation

Trends in the Living Networks

'I’m currently at Crowdsourcing Week where I gave the opening keynote and have been participating in and moderating a number of panel discussions. One of the panels was written up in ZDNet as Crowdsourcing faces ethical, legal risks. The article is well worth a read, capturing part of what was a very rich discussion on the challenges and opportunities from crowdsourcing.

Network 155
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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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Fountainhead: How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, June 5, 2013. How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market? Without question, “How big is the hosted desktop market” is the top inquiry I get from our Citrix Service Provider ( CSP ) partners. Our thousands of global partners are constantly making investments in infrastructure, marketing, business operations and sales.

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DoD's New Air Sea Battle Concept: An overview - CTOvision

CTOvision

'airseabattle The recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats.

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Go Go Hugo blog

SPF13

After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of spf13.com.

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Why CIOs Need To Win At Gameification (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Who wouldn’t want to turn an IT task into a game? "> Image Credit. Nobody ever promised you that the CIO job was going to be fun, right? I can’t make what is a hard job any easier, but I just might be able to help out with that fun thing. CIOs everywhere are discovering that there is a new movement sweeping through IT that is going to change how we do everything.

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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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Why We Should All Learn to Code

The Investing Edge

'For years the tech community has been concerned about worker shortages , especially programmers and engineers. Fast-growing software companies always bemoan the challenges of finding skilled workers, and have tried to fill the gap by recruiting from abroad, and even by offering significant signing bonuses (see Hubspot’s $30,000 offer for someone who refers a developer).

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How technologies will expand and replace human work

Trends in the Living Networks

'The Australian Financial Review is today running a special feature on the world to 2100, including an article on technology trends titled Connecting to a rising tide of data. The article covers a number of themes, including the expansion of connectivity, data, and devices, and the impact of technology on healthcare, drawing on interviews with a wide range of experts including Australian of the Year Dr Fiona Wood.

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The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering

Scott Lowe

'A little while ago Steve Beaver wrote a post titled “Is Automation Killing The Engineering?” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.

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Congress Impressed by Mobile Medical Apps - CTOvision

CTOvision

'As more mobile medical apps are developed, they are finding their way into our government. Recently, the House of Representative's Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Health and Technology held a hearing.

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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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Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang

SPF13

'Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing A/B against different drafts of functions or different functions. Building on the standard pprof library, Nitro provides a very high level view of your application performance to help identify areas to investigate further. It also provides an easy metric to compare as you revise and improve each part of your application.

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Cybercrime Is The Other Guys Problem, Right CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Do CIOs have to worry about the other guy when it comes to cybercrime? Image Credit. Whew! Your IT department staff who are in charge of securing the company’s network have just reported to you that all patches are up-to-date and so the latest worm / trojan / virus that everyone is talking about shouldn’t affect you. However, when you stop for a moment and think about all of the companies that you do business with , maybe it will affect you….

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Mick's IT Blogs: Apply all Microsoft Office Updates within a folder

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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Passion and the future of work

Trends in the Living Networks

'Earlier today I spoke in the keynote session of the Richmond Financial Industry Forum in Interlaken, Switzerland. Three of us – Jean Claude Biver, Chairman of watchmaker Hublot, Zeno Staub, CEO of Bank Vontobel, and myself – gave 10 minute presentations, followed by a panel discussion between us. I spoke on Passion and the Future of Work.

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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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If Your Board Were “The Avengers”

The Investing Edge

'Eric Schultz , HubCast Chairman and a Venture Partner at Ascent, clearly has been studying his superhero movies closely. Here Eric shares his thoughts on the similarities between Board of Directors dynamics and The Avengers. Read more of Eric’s work on the Ascent blog and on his personal blog, The Occasional CEO. F or the half-dozen of you global citizens who missed their latest movie, “The Avengers” are a group of quirky superheroes who come together on a regular basis to save the world.

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SDN and NFV: Survey of Articles Comparing and Contrasting.

CTOvision

'This blog provides a brief survey of these articles comparing and contrasting SDN and NFV, including a synopsis and rating for each.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: CNBC Closing Bell: Bob.

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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What’s In a Name? Plenty if you think about it…

A CIO's Voice

'Like all parents my wife and I had the very lengthy discussions on what to name our son when we found out he was a boy. This was a very arduous task both opposing opinions and armies. So we had to compromise and compromise we did. First we eliminated all outside influences – family and friends. They all had their own agenda and we wanted this to be personal and in our control.

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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: How to extract the iOS 7 ipsw file from the dmg on a.

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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Crowdsourcing for social development and economic opportunity: Case study of Malaysia

Trends in the Living Networks

'I am at the Digital Malaysia National Crowdsourcing Conference in Kuala Lumpur, where I gave the keynote this morning on the global crowdsourcing landscape and the opportunities for Malaysia. . It is fantastic to see what Malaysia is doing. Digital Malaysia is the government agency tasked with developing Malaysia as a digital nation towards 2020. One of its 8 current major initiatives is in using crowdsourcing to give work and opportunities to the least advantaged 40% of the population.

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All you need to know about SDN in 14 Minutes

Virtualized Greek

'Everything you need to know about the basics of SDN in (the first) 14 Minutes of this video from Scott Shenker of Berkley. Scott delivers a brilliant talk at Stanford on SDN and why Network Virtualization is the killer app. This is a must watch video for learning the basics and beyond of SDN. Thanks to Lennie for finding this gem for me. Related Posts.

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An Interview with IO's CISO, Bob Butler, on Logical and Physical.

CTOvision

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I interviewed Bob Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at IO.

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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.