September, 2015

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Bright Computing and Curtiss-Wright Working Together

CTOvision

This month, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that its Defense Solutions division is collaborating with the leading High Performance Computing (HPC) software vendor Bright Computing. Bright Computing has brought their supercomputing software tools to the embedded Aerospace & Defense market to be a part of Curtiss-Wright’s OpenHPEC TM Accelerator Suite TM.

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Optimizing Cloud Resources: the Requirements and the User

Data Center Knowledge

Your applications, your users, and your business all rely on your data center and your cloud architecture. Here are a few good ways to optimize these critical resources. Read More.

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Cut Costs Or Grow Profits: What Should A CIO Do?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What is more important to a CIO: costs or profits? Image Credit: Susy Morris. Here’s a quick question for you: what is more important for a CIO to do – cut costs or boost revenues? I think that it’s fair to say that because of the importance of information technology, we are called on to do both at the same time; however, they can’t both be of equal value.

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Two Questions To Ask Before Kicking Off a Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Take a look around and you'll find plenty of articles on Digital Transformation by the media, consulting services, and software companies. A recent articles by Steven Andriole suggest that it is more than just business process re-engineering while Scott Anthony sites examples of one Bank CEO deciding to lead by example and learned to code a mobile app.

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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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IBM tackles 'shadow IT' with a new cloud security tool for enterprises

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

If there's one thing that can strike terror into a CIO's heart, it's the security implications of the cloud. If there's another, it's the "bring your own" technology trend. Combine the two, and you've got the motivation behind IBM's new Cloud Security Enforcer. Thanks to having set up used a private email server while U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has become a poster child for "Shadow IT," or the phenomenon by which employees bring their own technologies into the workplace, but there'

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Font Installation Script

Mick's IT Blog

I had a bunch of fonts that need to be installed during the build of the golden image. I wrote this script to install them as a task sequence, but also to be able to deploy the fonts easily through SCCM. This script will install all fonts of the specified font type from the specified directory location. All of the fonts you want installed are to be placed in the specified directory location.

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Data Center World: Stanley Cup Winner Bill Clement on Successful Leadership

Data Center Knowledge

Being a successful leader has nothing to do with a job title and everything to do with the choices we make that lead to earning respect and trust from those around us. Read More.

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CIOs And The Art Of Succession Planning

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs Need To Plan For Who Comes Next Image Credit: Xiaojun Deng. Wow – it sure was hard to get the CIO job. Just think for a moment about all of the various positions you had to rise through in order to finally obtain the top spot in IT. You do realize that you are not the last CIO that your company is ever going to have – because of the importance of information technology there will be others who follow behind you.

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How To Handle Difficult Agile Product Owners

Social, Agile and Transformation

There are many product owners that understand agile practices, enjoy collaborating with technologists and leverage data to make sound prioritization choices. But if you've practiced agile long enough you've probably experienced a dark product owner who's exhibited some of the bad behaviors of product owners that I posted a couple of months ago. At the extreme, these product owners only care.

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Apple watchOS 2 release date is finally here (it's about time)

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

The Apple watchOS 2 release date is here. You can finally download the real thing, after the GM build was pulled due to unspecified bugginess. The new update adds native apps, new faces, a sideways "nightstand" mode, and a few other features. Apparently, it also tells the time. But don't be in a hurry, K? Reports from early installers say it's slow to update.

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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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John Mayer At Dell World 2015!! (Oh, I'll be there too.)

Cloud Musings

An artist who defies all boundaries, John Mayer has won seven Grammy Awards and sold more than 17 million albums worldwide. The singer, songwriter and guitarist’s skills have been widely acknowledged by some of the world’s greatest musicians. Mayer has collaborated with an extraordinary range of artists from the worlds of rock, blues, hip-hop, jazz, and country including Eric Clapton, BB King, Buddy Guy, Dixie Chicks, Jay Z, Alicia Keys and many more.

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Fed Tech Roundup September 29

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. DHA Vet Allen Middleton Heads to Booz Allen; Andrea Inserra Comments. Mike Petters Receives ‘Lone Sailor’ Award From Navy Memorial Foundation. Hurd on the Hill - FCW.com. Shutdown guide, CTO study, US/UK cyber ties and more - FCW.com.

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Cloud v. On-Premise: The Battle for Corporate ERP

Data Center Knowledge

Both on-premise and cloud have their advantages. Most companies should be able to get the best of both worlds by implementing a hybrid or co-existence cloud strategy. Read More.

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How CIOs Can Avoid Being Fired

The Accidental Successful CIO

In order to hold on to their jobs, CIOs need to know how to not get fired. Image Credit: Bill Alldredge. During my career, I’ve been fired twice. I can tell you from personal experience, it’s never a good feeling. As CIO, you have a highly visible position within the company and there is a lot riding on you. If you are not able to deliver what the company needs from you, there is a very good chance they are going to end up getting rid of you and replacing you with someone who can do

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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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Are You A Wolf CIO?

Social, Agile and Transformation

About four months ago, I attended a Gartner dinner and received a copy of The Wolf in CIO's Clothing from author Tina Nunno. I took the quiz right away (won't tell you my scoring, but let's just say I am not a lamb) but it's taken me awhile to finally read the book. If you're a CIO or aspire to be one, I suggest you download a copy. It's a quick read packed with key insights on managing.

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Microsoft extends Azure Active Directory to support Facebook, Google

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory identity management platform now allows businesses to authenticate customers using popular consumer applications, such as Facebook and Google’s suite of services. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD : 11 Reasons you should upgrade to iPhone 6s +. Research firm Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant named Azure AD one of the leading products for businesses to verify the identity of their employees.

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IEEE Cloud Computing: Legal Clouds

Cloud Musings

The new issue of IEEE Cloud Computing is now available! This special issue looks at how to balance privacy with legitimate surveillance and lawful data access. Some of the specific areas covered are: Balancing Privacy and Surveillance in the Cloud; Data Flow Management and Compliance in Cloud Computing; Anonymous Credential-Based Access Control Scheme for Clouds; and End-to-End Privacy for Open Big Data Markets.

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Fed Tech Roundup September 28

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. GAO: Small businesses working with DoD need cybersecurity guidance. Technology One making inroads into Federal Govt - Delimiter. ACLU Argues for Right to Sue NSA for “Upstream” Surveillance - Nextgov. Can the US Trust China to Stop Stealing Business Secrets?

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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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Mega Data Center Design: What DuPont Fabros Learned from Building Its Biggest Facility Yet

Data Center Knowledge

About one year ago, DuPont Fabros Technology, whose business is building massive data centers and leasing wholesale space to companies on a long-term basis, brought online its biggest facility yet: ACC7 in Ashburn, Virginia.

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The Startup Experience at AWS re:Invent

All Things Distributed

AWS re:Invent is just over one week away—as I prepare to head to Vegas, I’m pumped up about the chance to interact with AWS-powered startups from around the world. One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM]. In this session, I’ll moderate a diverse panel of technology experts who’ll discuss emerging trends all startups should be aware of, including how local governme

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Using Vagrant with OpenStack

Scott Lowe

In my earlier post on using Docker Machine with OpenStack, I talked about combining technologies in a “provider/consumer” model. In this post, I’m going to talk about creating this provider/consumer model using a different combination of technologies: OpenStack as the infrastructure provider and Vagrant for consuming that infrastructure. If you’re unfamiliar with Vagrant, I recommend you first read this introduction to Vagrant (after that you can dig into all the other Vagrant-tagged posts ).

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Is a lack of enterprise apps killing BYOD?

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

As BYOD hangs on as an acceptable way to arm your employees with their own technology, companies need to make sure that employees can work seamlessly on those devices. One way to do that – and give employers some control of where their data goes – is through enterprise apps.

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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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Cloud hosting: Look beyond cost savings and weigh pros, cons

Cloud Musings

Is your company struggling with the idea of using “cloud hosting” in order to save money? Truth be known, using cost savings as the primary reason for moving to cloud will almost guarantee failure. Some reasons that typically lead to cloud computing costing more include: Building and migrating to a private cloud, which will almost always cost more than staying in a traditional data center; Migrating legacy applications that weren’t designed to operate in a virtualized environment or are tied to

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The Impact of Cloud Robotics on Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Look at any science-fiction vision of our technological future and you’ll find a world dominated by artificial intelligence. Some of these visions may go for the more dystopian angle, where humanity has been displaced by self-aware robots that now rule the world. Other, more optimistic views look at AI as a great benefit to our species, helping us in exploration and furthering the advances of scientific endeavors.

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The Dawn of a New Era for Data Center Interconnect

Data Center Knowledge

The phenomenal growth in Internet traffic and the fierce migration to cloud-based services in recent years are combining to force a dramatic rethink of how data centers are connected. Read More.

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The AWS Pop-up Lofts are opening in London and Berlin

All Things Distributed

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. We have grown substantially in that time and today more than two thirds of the UK’s startups with valuations of over a billion dollars , including Skyscanner, JustEat, Powa, Fanduel and Shazam, are all leveraging our platform to deliver innovative services to customers around the world.

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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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Using Docker Machine with OpenStack

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Docker Machine with OpenStack. This is something I’ve been interested in testing for a while, and now that I finally have my test lab back up and running, I was able to spend some time on this. I’ll spend some time later in the post covering my reasons for wanting to look at this, but I’ll start with the technical content of how it works.

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The Opposite of Critical Thinking

Future of CIO

The opposite of critical thinking is mindless thinking. There are many types of thinking. Many of them overlap with each other. They are all happening in the same sphere of influence of an individual human or groups of humans, or humans interacting with knowledge of the past, or connection with some "super-conscious" field. Critical Thinking is the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclu

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Google updates productivity suite with dictation, integrated search and more

Computerworld Vertical IT

Google rolled out a big set of updates to its productivity suite today aimed primarily at enhancing its capabilities for students and teachers. The updates include a new tool that lets users search for content to add to a document on Android, and support for dictating documents to their computer using Google's voice recognition capabilities. Voice Typing is only available for the desktop version of Chrome at the moment, and allows users to speak into their computer and get a transcription in rea

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Fed Tech Roundup September 25

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Another Great Example Of Pattern Analysis Over Hacker Activity. Oceus Networks' Michael Wheeless Receives FCW 2015 Rising Star Award - Business Wire (press release). Federal grant will help Eugene police get body cameras - The San Luis Obispo Tribune.

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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.