CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

'By Michael Johnson. CTOvision is a proud media sponsor of the 2015 STEM Symposium, which will be held on March 7th at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Va from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. This year''s theme. The Parent Factor: How to Engage your Kids in STEM. There are many exciting activities for the day, including a drone demonstration, flight stimulators, robotics, medical research showcases and cyber security demonstrations.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

'Vendors have extended longstanding OEM relationship, with the announcement of new Brocade VCS Ethernet fabric solutions for EMC''s Connectrix family of network switches Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

'CIOs know that they need to be strategic, but where is the time? Image Credit: catd_mitchell. 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.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'Over the last decade I''ve had the privilege of working with several IT teams that transformed themselves from minimal credibility with the business to delivering award winning customer facing products while improving other IT business services. Different groups with different issues and opportunities, but what stands out with all of them is their willingness to change and improve their own.

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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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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'Mark Thiele published a post recently titled “ Why we Value IT Incorrectly – Innovation vs Cost Center. ” You should go read it. If you don’t follow Mark’s writing on his blog or twitter , you should…he has some great insights into IT , IT leadership, the data center and many other aspects of the IT group. While Mark’s entire post is great, I wanted to point out one particular paragraph from Mark’s post and make a few comments about it.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

'Every place I have worked, there has been the issue of systems being in SCCM, AD, and antivirus that no longer existed. The is often caused by systems being overlooked when a user departs the company, a laptop that gets put in a desk and not turned on forever, and a lot of other similar scenarios. While I was in the process of upgrading SCCM 2007 to 2012, I finally became fed up over it and wrote this script.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'"Keeping Pace with an Accelerated Environment" is the theme of AFCOM''s Data Center World event, which convenes April 19-23 at The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'Digital cowboys are the next CIO management challenge Image Credit: anyjazz65. In the modern IT department, CIOs are called upon to perform many different tasks. I believe that we can all agree that one of the most important of these tasks is managing and mentoring the next generation of IT leaders. Today’s new arrivals seem to be so different from when we joined the firm that a lot of us simply don’t know where to start when it comes to showing them the way.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'Reviewing some of my latest DevOps posts. I''ve covered why DevOps is important, asked the question Who Owns DevOps and answered that the CIO needs to own transformation initiatives. In my last post, I stated that agile development teams should stick to owning the practices tied to Development like automating testing and standardizing deployments so that they stay aligned and focused on.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'If you’ve spent any time within IT over the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘cloud’ more than you really wanted to. The cloud has become something of a buzzword over the years. Buzzwords are created when a term is overused, and the cloud has been overused quite a bit in many organizations. It seems that any time a problem arises, the first solution is to use ‘the cloud’.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'This script will import and apply a local GPO using the local GPO utility, ImportRegPol.exe, located here. The script is a wrapper that makes implementing this utility a snap. All that has to be done is to use the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager to export the desired local GPO. I wrote this script for use mainly in the MDT build. I realize there is the GPO Pack built into MDT, but what happens when you want to deploy a local GPO to machines already built or multiple local GPOs at differen

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. I just got off the phone with Adam Vincent of ThreatConnect. What a great leader and technologist. I have watched as he and a team of very smart, mission focused technologists turned his company into a provider of capabilities in demand by a growing number of Fortune 500 companies. ThreatConnect provides a product of note, a platform for cyber intelligence.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'The flowers have come and gone for Kip and Gary and their next adventure awaits. Help us figure out what they''re getting into now by submitting your caption today! Read More.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

'By Melvin Greer Managing Director, Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation Without question, the rise in cyberleaks, nation-state cyber terrorism and the beach of consumer data across multiple industry domains has led to a heightened awareness of the enterprise and personal responsibilities associated with cybersecurity. The consumerization of IT and the adoption of cloud, mobile and social media by enterprise organizations is opening a new threat landscape and new threat vectors.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

'Thanks to Ramon Monteiro @ivisualize for developing this cool visual depicting my last post on The Key to aligning Agile Dev and Stable Ops to a Successful DevOps Transformation. While agile development teams continue to iterate and improve applications for the Business, and Ops insures that systems are stable and reliable, the CIO leads the entire IT organization through a DevOps transformation.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'In what might be the best titled article I’ve read in a while, Vince Kellen writes about the dangers of confirmation bias (or ‘finding what we want to find’) when working with big data. The article, titled “ Big Data and the Mirror of Erised “, Kellen writes: Being human beings with a tendency to confirm what we so want to have happen or to relive what felt so good in the past, managers often drift into self-sealing and circular analysis that at first doesn’t seem

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'I encountered an issue with SCCM 2012 R2 when deploying the client to systems that were being upgraded from SCCM 2007. What would happen was that I pushed the client to the system through the console using the Install Client option. The client cleanly uninstalled the 2007 client and installed the 2012 client with no issues. Upon the first reboot of the system, the client would be completely uninstalled.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The O''Reilly Software Architecture Conference is a new event designed to provide the in-depth professional training that software architects and people working on software architecture need to support the success of their businesses. Happening March 16-19 in Boston, it covers the full scope of a software architecture, from IT to leadership and business skills.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

'As sharing data gets easier, users subject themselves to greater information security risks, writes Vijay Krishna of SysCloud. So, when do the risks of sharing information over the Web outweigh the costs? Read More.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

'By Sandra K. Johnson Technology leadership is driven by the innovation and creativity of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. S TEM careers offer some of the highest-paying jobs and the potential for a high quality of life. However, the realization of such promises has not benefited all segments of the U.S. population, including African-Americans.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

'Over the last few days, I’ve been experimenting with Docker , Registrator , and Consul in an effort to explore some of the challenges involved in building a robust containerized infrastructure. While I haven’t finished fully exploring the idea (and documenting what I’ve learned), I did discover one interesting—and unexpected—interaction. Here’s a quick overview of my testing environment: I used two OpenStack Heat templates to spin up two clusters of 5 instances each.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

'Several problems in Distributed Systems can be seen as the challenge to determine a global state. In the classical " Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System " Lamport had laid out the principles and mechanisms to solve such problems, and the Distributed Snapshots algorithm, popularly know as the Chandy-Lamport algorithm, is an application of that work.

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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.

Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

'I wrote this script to generate a list of local administrators on a PC. It saves the output to a text file at a central repository. The text file is named the computer name and contains a listing of all the local administrators. It can be pushed out to run as a package in SCCM. The second script will read all of the text files and create a csv file with all of the combined data.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. 68-year-old Allen Zderad lost his career as a chemist due to a degenerative eye disease. This week he was able to see again with a "bionic eye" implant. [The] “bionic eye” implant , [is] a chip with electrodes implanted in [Zderad''s] retina that interacts with a camera in Zderad’s glasses. The camera and wearable computer pack sends information to the electrodes, which then send the information on to the optic nerve.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

'The hybrid cloud offers enormous advantages for companies seeking the best of private and public clouds, writes Eddie Cole of Scribe Software. When choosing a hybrid approach, integration professionals must take four new considerations into account. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'By Jodi Kohut Those watching federal cloud security in the defense space were pleased to learn the Defense DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (v1) (SRG) last month. This 152-page document outlines the security requirements that Department of Defense (DOD) mission owners must adhere to when procuring cloud-based services. While the document is very thorough and is required reading if you currently, or intend to provide, cloud-based services to the DOD, I wanted to cover some of the

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'Over the past couple of years, Markdown has become an important part of my computing landscape. I’ve transitioned almost all of my text-based content creation, including this blog, over to Markdown. I’d also been looking for ways that I might be able to extend my use of Markdown into creating presentations as well, but hadn’t—until recently—found a tool that fit into my workflow.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'One of our guiding principles at AWS is to listen closely to our customers and the feedback that I am getting about our training and certification program is very positive. Many architects and engineers know the Cloud is the future of development and IT and the are gearing up to be as succesful as possible in this new normal. This is why I’m excited to announce the availability of a new Professional level certification from AWS that has been high on the list of our customers.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'This script will generate a clean list of Microsoft updates that were installed during a system build, making it drastically easier than having to parse through the log file. You open the powershell script up and update the $File variable to point to the location of the BDD.log file. You can download the script from here. cls $File = Get-Content -Path "C:UsersMickDesktopBDD.log" -Force Foreach ($Entry in $File) { If (($Entry -like ''*INSTALL - *'') -and ($Entry -like ''*ZTIWindowsUpdate*'')) {

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. Please SAVE THE DATE for the 1st Annual Cognitio/ CTOvision Synergy Conference. EVENT: The CTOvision Synergy Conference. WHEN: 30 Apr 2015. WHERE: Ritz Carlton, Tysons Corner. The 2015 Synergy Forum will bring together government and industry practitioners driving our collective technology futures. This is a multi-disciplinary event examining the emerging mashup of physical and digital worlds.

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