CTOvision
JUNE 30, 2015
Recently, a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management ( OPM ) demonstrated once again the vulnerability of data and how even when an organization has seemingly deployed the right tools, security holes can be exploited to gain access to highly sensitive information. OPM is the federal organization responsible for maintaining and protecting the federal records for all federal employees and contractors.
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 30, 2015
Your business is growing; and so is your data center. Find out the best practices around data center growth and how to directly align your ecosystem with your business. Read More.
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Eric D. Brown
JUNE 24, 2015
Big data has been a popular topic over the last few years. Many organizations have been studying big data systems and processes as well as the science behind capturing, storing, analyzing and using large amounts of data within their businesses. Many organizations that I’ve worked with over the years have done a very thorough job of understanding the technology requirements of big data.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 24, 2015
CIOs need to find ways to teach their department staff new skills Image Credit: Peter Dutton. Staffing an IT department is easily a full-time job in of itself. As the person with the CIO job, you’ve probably already realized this. However, in addition to staying on top of the importance of information technology, just filling all of the open spots in your IT department is not the only task that you have to accomplish.
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.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 21, 2015
If you're practicing agile development without QA team members, a reasonably defined testing process, and sufficient criteria to help define "done", then at some point your development process will go off the cliff of complexity. That's right. No QA, off the cliff you go without a parachute. The size of your development team, the number of technologies used in the development stack, and the.
Mick's IT Blog
JUNE 16, 2015
Deloying Workshare Professsional is by no means an easy task for configuring the installation if you try and edit the MSI with ORCA. When configuring the MSI to customize the installation of Workshare for office and document management integration, I found the easiest way is to set specific registry keys before the install takes place. If the keys are set first, the MSI will read those keys and configure the app during the installation.
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Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 12, 2015
Company hits peering milestone. These agreements have added significance in the cloud age as cloud application providers often try to target specific geographic markets Read More.
Eric D. Brown
JUNE 10, 2015
More is always better right? More feedback from clients can help you improve your service. More money can help you build better products and teams. More data can help you make better decisions. Better resolution can make your photos better. More is always better isn’t it? Well. No. More isn’t always better. Seth Godin recently said that “Too much resolution stops giving you information and becomes merely noise, which actually gets in the way of the accuracy you seek.” T
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 17, 2015
CIOs need to know how to use their soft skills to connect with their department Image Credit: aiesecgermany. Nobody ever told you that being the CIO was going to be easy. What they also failed to tell you was just exactly how hard it was going to be! Sure, you have the challenge of mastering the importance of information technology and trying to stay on top of all of the changes that are going on in the world of IT, but there’s more to this job than just that.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 14, 2015
Does the IT department and the applications development team have to own and lead all application development efforts? Over my last couple of posts, I've been exploring how Citizen Developers - developers using light weight, often low code development platforms can help their business functions automate tasks, analyze data, develop knowledge repositories, and connect data across applications.
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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.
Cloud Musings
JUNE 30, 2015
Everyone from pre-teens to granddads, does social media today. With Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and many newer ways to stay in the know popping up every day, picking the right platform can be a difficult task. While the personal value of this modern convenience seems obvious to most, the task of proving the channel’s worth to a business can be very challenging.
CTOvision
JUNE 25, 2015
Verisign's Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report reveals some interesting trends we should all be aware of. The report captures analysis and insights from Verisign including information derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and with cooperation with, customers of Verisign's DDoS Protection Services. Key contributing analysts include the security research team at Verisign’s iDefense.
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 30, 2015
To modernize and upgrade data center operations to meet the high demand of today’s data-laden world, businesses can look to leverage converged IT infrastructure and the prefabricated physical infrastructure modules to support it. Read More.
The Investing Edge
JUNE 11, 2015
I’m thrilled today to welcome Peter Lee as the new CEO of RapidMiner. When we invested in RapidMiner in February of this year, we enthusiastically backed founder Ingo Mierswa and his vision to bring powerful, predictive analytics to the business analyst. Under Ingo’s leadership, the RapidMiner team developed the leading next generation predictive analytics platform (placed in the Leaders Quadrant for Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms) with over 250,000 active users w
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 10, 2015
Online worker complaints have to be handled carefully by CIOs Image Credit: Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL). As the person with the CIO job, how can you tell if you are doing a good job? Sure, there should be all of the standard business indicators – your IT budget is operating within its budget, you are meeting the needs of the rest of the company, the network is secure, etc.
Scott Lowe
JUNE 30, 2015
I’ve been wrestling with an Ubuntu network configuration issue over the last couple of weeks (off and on between working on other projects), and today I finally found a fix for the problem. The issue was that Ubuntu wouldn’t pick up changes to network interfaces. The fix is so simple I’m almost embarrassed to talk about it (it seems like something that I should have known), but I’m posting it here in case others run into the same issue.
Cloud Musings
JUNE 22, 2015
ViON solves complex enterprise problems by combining passion and agility to deliver the most effective, innovative solutions because commitment to mission success is in their DNA. One of the ways they deliver success is through ViON on Demand™ , which delivers highly secure compute, network and storage capabilities delivered through on-premise private clouds.
CTOvision
JUNE 24, 2015
Are you looking for ideas on how to improve the security of federal systems? Cognitio’s founders have been responsible for guarding some of the world’s hardest-to-penetrate networks, including the classified systems that lets case officers in hostile countries communicate with headquarters in the United States, and the networks that provide real-time information to battlefield commanders so they can help save lives in conflict zones.
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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.
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 29, 2015
As data grows and companies become more reliant on faster internet speeds, flash storage is disrupting three industries in particular: mobile payments, mobile healthcare and mobile retail. Read More.
The Investing Edge
JUNE 9, 2015
We love when our partners succeed. And today, we’re very pleased to offer congratulations to our portfolio company CloudLock , the leading provider of cloud cybersecurity solutions, and highlight their exemplary award recognition in the last couple weeks. Yesterday, co-founder and CEO Gil Zimmermann, was publicly named as EY Entrepreneur of the Year in New England, recognizing his excellence and extraordinary success in innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to the local comm
All Things Distributed
JUNE 25, 2015
Today, Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) , a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for developers to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. With a few lines of code, developers can easily integrate existing web services with Alexa or, in just a few hours, they can build entirely new experiences designed around voice.
Scott Lowe
JUNE 24, 2015
At DockerCon 2015 in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to meet with a few vendors in the Docker ecosystem. Here are some notes from my vendor briefings. StackEngine. StackEngine describes themselves as enterprise-grade container application management. They tout features like being able to compose Docker applications using a drag-and-drop interface, deploy containers across multiple hosts, and provide automation—all with the sort of controls that enterprise IT groups are seeking.
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.
Cloud Musings
JUNE 22, 2015
ViON solves complex enterprise problems by combining passion and agility to deliver the most effective, innovative solutions because commitment to mission success is in their DNA. One of the ways they deliver success is through ViON on Demand™ , which delivers highly secure compute, network and storage capabilities delivered through on-premise private clouds.
CTOvision
JUNE 24, 2015
If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. Ostensibly, this is part of the " Google Now " voice activation feature of Chrome. Privacy campaigners and some developers think it's more nefarious.
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 25, 2015
Deploying DC power distribution in the data center instead of using the traditional AC design is one way to reduce power loss, eliminate unnecessary conversions and, ultimately, lower energy costs. Read More.
Future of CIO
JUNE 26, 2015
Culture is HOW people think and do things there! Culture is the beating heart of an organization. It determines what the place feels like, how people behave, whether people feel empowered or not etc. The ideal culture is one of vision-driven leadership coupled with the empathetic listening of valued employees. So the question is that, “How can you effectively integrate the art and science of creativity and innovation into your teams and organizations?
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
All Things Distributed
JUNE 12, 2015
This weekend we go back in time all the way to the beginning of operating systems research. In the first SOSP conference in 1967 there were several papers that laid the foundation for the development of structured operating systems. There was the of course the lauded paper on the THE operating system by Dijkstra but for this weekend I picked the paper on memory locality by Peter Denning as this work laid the groundwork for the development of virtual memory systems.
Scott Lowe
JUNE 23, 2015
This is a liveblog for the DockerCon 2015 session titled “Scaling New Services: From Container Creation to Automated Deployments”. This session is being led by the Disney Systems Engineering team and will feature a discussion/demo involving Docker, Mesos, Chef, Consul, and HAProxy. The session starts with an introduction by Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, who quickly turns it over to the Disney staff—Brian Scott and Patrick O’Connor.
CTOvision
JUNE 24, 2015
Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) and the International Spy Museum announce a joint presentation: Tracking the Elusive Pueblo, on Wednesday 1 July 2015 at 630pm. Location is the International Spy Museum, 800 F St NW, Washington DC. Here is more on the event: In January 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, North Korea captured the USS Pueblo.
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