CTOvision

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'For those of us who work in and around the enterprise security domain something unique has just happened. The U.S. Government has just approved a commercial consumer device, the Samsung Galaxy family of devices, for classified info. This means government organizations can establish new, smarter, more scalable mechanisms to get classified information to mobile users.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 16, 2014

'In one of the largest colocation deals ever, photo editing and sharing service Shutterfly Inc. is deploying 1,000 cabinets at the SUPERNAP data center campus in Las Vegas. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'If you''ve read this blog or have seen me speak at a conference, then you know I am a strong proponent of self-service BI programs. I''ve posted on principles of self-service BI programs, attributes of data driven organizations, and how to avoid data landfills among many other big data topics all aimed to get business teams successful competing and driving decisions with data.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'In his 1982 book Megatrends, John Naisbitt wrote “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” While written over 30 years ago, that line is as very true today…but I might change it a bit to match the current state of affairs. Today, we are drowning in data and starved for information. Every organization has a great deal of data and more data is being collected every day.

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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 Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2014

'Technology That Every CIO Needs To Know About. As the CIO of your company, it’s your job to stay on top of all of the different forms of technology that the company uses to accomplish its business goals. This task is made even harder by all of the changes that are always occurring in the various technology fields. As the CIO you need to understand how to pick the correct type of database to be used on projects.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

'"The next generation of technology solutions will transform lives, businesses and economies." This is the theme at this year''s Dell World opening keynote and this view is supported by Gartner''s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 : C omputing Everywhere - As mobile devices continue to proliferate, Gartner predicts an increased emphasis on serving the needs of the mobile user in diverse contexts and environments, as opposed to focusing on devices alone.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 31, 2014

'The data center has gone a long way in Hollywood. We look at 10 data centers that play pivotal roles in blockbusters and the evolution from abstract concept to full-fledged future data center. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'Last week I attended M|Enterprise Boston, a conference that brought together technologists ahead of the curve in mobile application development, IT executives looking for best practices on mobile device management in large enterprises, and leaders looking to help their business gain a competitive edge by developing differentiating mobile capabilities.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 13, 2014

'“This post is brought to you by End-to-End Solutions for IT Pros and Dell.”. When I talk to clients about the technology and systems challenges being faced within their organization, I tend to hear a wide variety of responses. Challenges within the data center seem to exist in just about every client discussion. These challenges revolve around a myriad of issues but most can be categorized into areas like efficiency, energy usage, management, agility and utilization.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2014

'Do CIOs and CMO really have to fight? Image Credit. If there is one fact of life that everyone who has the CIO job has had to learn to deal with, it’s that our IT budgets never seem to be big enough. However, it turns out that there is someone else in the company who does not have the same problem: the CMO. In fact, the CMO has so much money to spend, they are starting to build their own IT department.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2014

'Cloud Musings, a GovCloud Network Property, is proud and honored to announce that we will now be serving over 3 Million Dell Community online daily viewers. Our content will focus on Cloud Computing for Business and will continue to provide independent and vendor neutral information on how business, government and non-profit organizations can better leverage the global and parallel nature of cloud computing.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'CTOs should consider having their development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software – known as freemium software – to test out the functions of commercial products. From the perspective of Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at reporting and analytics leader Actuate, freemium software is a resource that can really help the enterprise.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 1, 2014

'Over the years, some industry pundits have expressed frustration with Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System for being confusing, writes Matt Stansberry of Uptime Institute. But in many cases, these individuals have misrepresented the purpose and purview of the program. Fundamentally, it is.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS region in Frankfurt, Germany. This is our 11th infrastructure region and was built to support the strong demand we are seeing in Europe and to give our customers the option to run infrastructure located in Germany. The new Frankfurt region provides low millisecond latencies to major cities in continental Europe and is also run with carbon neutral power.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

'In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today. For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

'Oregon’s Consultation. In February, 2012 the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) was created and funded with $7 billion by Congress to build a nationwide wireless network for responders to daily incidents and larger disasters. I sometimes call it a cellular network to connect the smart phones and tablets of cops and firefighters, but, really, anyone who responds to disasters will probably be able to use it.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'Veteran''s 360 and Rick Collins, Founder & Executive Director of Vets 360, Inc., are being honored at this year''s Champions Leadership, and Research Conference™. This event, November 6th-7th, 2014 at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, NC, is an independent conference, and a component of eMerging Entrepreneurs'' “Veterans Economic Advancement project.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The Recorded Future Special Intelligence Desk has just released a new Threat Intelligence Report we found to be full of important context and actionable information for enterprise cyber defenders. The report, titled The Fortune 500’s Unfortunate 221, is available for download here. This report is important for two key reasons: It shows a clear example of the strategic benefit of cyber intelligence to enterprise cyber defense.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 31, 2014

'OpenStack powered by IBM cloud on SoftLayer infrastructure brings OpenStack closer to enterprises. IBM also anounced a new data center in Mumbai, India as part of $1.2bn global data center expansion. Read More.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. We are introducing native support for document model like JSON into DynamoDB, the ability to add / remove global secondary indexes, adding more flexible scaling options, and increasing the item size limit to 400KB. These improvements have been sought by many applications developers, and we are happy to be bringing them to you.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Hello and welcome to this joint September and October Server and StorageIO update newsletter. Since the August newsletter, things have been busy with a mix of behind the scenes projects, as well as other activities including several webinars, on-line along with in-person events in the US as well as Europe.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 20, 2014

'With Edward Snowden’s revelations, the myriad of recent information breaches at large corporations, and the extraordinary level of digitalization in our country, the American public has never placed a higher value on cyber security. This heightened attention has manifested itself in recent actions by Apple and Google that have provided higher levels of encryption for smartphone data.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Editor’s note: This post by Invincea CEO Anup Ghosh first appeared at LinkedIn. We knew this would be of interest to you and posted it here with the author’s permission.-bg. I’ll say it up front, your security program does not work because it is based on three common myths we hold as unquestionable truths in enterprise security: Myth 1: We can patch our way to security.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This quote summarizes the importance of online encryption policy and hands-on implementation within an organization. Though you may have the best IT department in the world and advanced computing resources, if there are no written methodical steps that will serve as guidelines or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for computing and data storage, then all these hiring-sprees of IT talents and investments are doomed to fail.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'I love and respect NIST and I just want to come right out with that so you know where I am coming from. Now add on top of that the fact that they have just issued a draft document that discusses items at the intersection of three of my passions, Cyber Security, Technology and Intelligence, and you can see why I am so excited. So, with my bias in mind, I report the following: NIST has just produced a draft special publication that I believe is the best thing I have ever read from their organiza

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 24, 2014

'This post is sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. Cyber intelligence is a growing discipline in the cybersecurity community, providing important information for cyber defenders in enterprises large and small. This post reviews key sources of cyber intelligence provided free from governments and academia. Most every enterprise with a mature understanding of the importance of protecting their digital assets has a cyber intelligence program underway.

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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.

CTOvision

OCTOBER 13, 2014

'If you could not make it to Strata-Hadoop World 2014 in NYC you can still watch streaming video of the keynotes. To do that visit our Hadoop World video streaming page here: https://ctovision.com/strata-hadoop-world-2014-watch-live-streaming-here/. Be sure to bookmark it! Here is the schedule of keynotes: Thursday Keynote Welcome. 8:45am–8:55am Thursday, 10/16/2014.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'CTOlabs.com , the research arm of CTOvision.com , has just released a White Paper for the federal technology community titled: Enhancing Functionality and Security of Enterprise Data Holdings: Examining new, mission-enabling design patterns made possible by the Cloudera-Intel partnership. The paper captures design considerations for enterprise technologists that flow from the engineering work both Cloudera and Intel have been putting into both open source technologies and hardware design.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'On September 30 th Sierra Ventures hosted their 9th CIO summit in Palo Alto, CA. One of the many topics coved at the event was software defined perimeter and cloud security alliance. Coca-Cola was used as a case study. Alan Boehme , the acting CISO at Coca-Cola. Ed Steinike , the CIO at Coca-Cola, and Bob Flores , the former CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a partner at our parent firm Cognitio were the key presenters.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 16, 2014

'Editor’s note: Last night Cloudera held the 2014 Data Impact Awards. I was very proud to be a judge and honored to be a presenter. The most interesting part for me was reviewing the many impactful nominations, especially those that are directly tied to saving lives, curing disease, finding fraud, and helping the department of defense and the intelligence community support national security missions.

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